Los Angeles Film Critics Awards Articles

Andrew Garfield, Joseph Mazzello, Jesse Eisenberg, Patrick Maple, The Social Network Even though New York and Los Angeles critics represent a large percentage of the National Society of Film Critics’ voters, only five times in the last 35 years (the Los Angeles Film Critics Association was founded in 1975) have all three major US critics groups agreed on their Best Film winner. The first time [...]

Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg in David Fincher’s The Social Network The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is probably one of the two most influential — Oscarwise — film critics’ groups in the United States. The other being, of course, the New York Film Critics Circle. (The National Society of Film Critics would come in third, chiefly because its choices tend to be less Oscar friendly.) [...]

Colin Firth in Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech Los Angeles Film Critics 2010 Best Actress Prediction: Lesley Manville The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has a number of strong male performances to choose from this year, mostly from well-known actors: James Franco in 127 Hours, Colin Firth in The King’s Speech, Jeff Bridges in True Grit. So, will they go instead for Jim Broadbent in [...]

Lesley Manville in Mike Leigh’s Another Year Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2010 Predictions: THE SOCIAL NETWORK for Best Film? Every so often, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association bestows at least one of their acting awards on performers featured in "unexpected" movies — those non-mainstream, at times foreign-language productions that are off the Hollywood-centric, English-language radar of most U.S.-based pundits. Last year, for instance, [...]