2022 Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) Winners

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The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) names the best films and performances of 2022.

Marking their 48th annual Best Movie Releases recognition, this will also be the first year the group has moved into gender-neutral acting categories, which they announced in October. Instead, they will recognize two leading and two supporting performances for its winners.

As previously announced, filmmaker Claire Denis will receive the association’s 2022 Excellence Award. This year’s winners will be honored alongside Denis at the next ceremony.

Since 2000, only four of LAFCA’s Best Picture nominations have failed to win a Best Picture Oscar – “About Schmidt” (2002), “American Splendor” (2003), “WALL-E” ( 2008) and “Small Axe”. (2020) – the latter of which was not eligible for the Oscars. Remarkable in the same time frame, only four of LAFCA’s selections have won the Best Picture Oscar, and all since the Academy expanded its lineup from five to 10 nominees: “The Hurt Locker” (2009), “Spotlight” (2015), “Moonlight” (2016) and “Parasite” (2019).

Last year, LAFCA awarded Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Japanese drama “Drive My Car” Best Picture, which kicked off its successful awards campaign that resulted in four Academy Award nominations, including the Academy’s Best Category. It won the award for best international feature film.

The precursor season began with the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review naming Todd Field’s “Tár” and Joseph Kosinski’s “Top Gun: Maverick” Best Picture at each of them respectively.

Be sure to bookmark the 2022-2023 awards season calendar for all the key season dates and timelines.

The list of LAFCA winners is below, as announced:

Best Film: Finalist:

Best Director: Finalist:

Better performance:

Support performance:

Best Screenplay: Finalist:

Best Cinematography: “EO” (Janus Films and Sideshow) — Michal DymekRunner: “Nope” (Universal Pictures) — Hoyte van Hoytema

Best Editing: Finalist:

Best Production Design: Finalist:

Best Musical Score: Finalist:

Best foreign language: finalist:

Best documentary/non-fiction film: finalist:

Best Animation: Finalist:

New Generation Award: Finalist:

To see the current rankings for each individual category, visit Variety’s Oscars hub.

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