38th Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. Awards: Complete List of Winners

On Sunday, the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. went their own way, naming "Amour" as the Best Picture of the year. Earlier in the day, the New York Online Film Critics and Boston film critics had echoed the Gotham print critics and National Board of Review, both of whom went with "Zero Dark Thirty" last week.

The LA group picked "The Master" as their runner-up. They had already shown their love for this film, giving it four awards: Best Director (Paul Thomas Anderson), Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix), Best Supporting Actress (Amy Adams) and Production Design.

"ZD30" director Kathryn Bigelow had to be content with being named runner-up in her race while her cutters Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg claimed the group's first-ever Editing award. Goldenberg was the runner-up for his solo work on "Argo."

In a surprise, "Amour" did not win Best Foreign Film; instead that prize went to "Holy Motors," whose star, Denis Lavant, was the runner-up for Best Actor. However, "Amour" leading lady Emmanuelle Riva did share the Best Actress award with Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings Playbook").

"Beasts of the Southern Wild" had a good showing after being blanked by the NYFCC, winning Supporting Actor (Dwight Henry) and Score (writer/director Benh Zeitlin shared this with Dan Romer) .

LAFCA's love for "The Master" denied Daniel Day-Lewis his fourth Best Actor prize from this group for his performance as America's 16th president in "Lincoln." He previously prevailed for "My Left Foot" (1989); "Gangs of New York" (2002); and "There Will Be Blood" (2007) and went on to win the Oscar for the first and last of these.

Roger Deakins won his third Best Cinematography award from LAFCA for "Skyfall." The lenser is still without an Oscar despite nine nominations.

Tim Burton picked up a bookend for his NYFCC prize with another win for his animated feature "Frankenweenie."

"The Gatekeepers" edged out another of the Oscar semi-finalists, "Searching for Sugar Man," for Best Documentary. "Searching" won the top prize from the International Documentary Assn. on Friday.

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Winners of the 38th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. Awards were announced Sunday. Winners will be feted at a ceremony in the City of Angels on Jan. 13.

BEST PICTURE
"Amour"
Runner-up: "The Master"

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson ("The Master")
Runner-up: Kathryn Bigelow ("Zero Dark Thirty")

BEST ACTOR
Joaquin Phoenix ("The Master")
Runner-up: Denis Lavant ("Holy Motors")

BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings Playbook")
Emmanuelle Riva ("Amour")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Dwight Henry ("Beasts of the Southern Wild")
Runner-up: Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams ("The Master")
Runner-up: Anne Hathaway ("The Dark Knight Rises"; "Les Miserables")

BEST SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio ("Argo")
Runner-up: David O. Russell ("Silver Linings Playbook")

BEST EDITING
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg ("Zero Dark Thirty")
William Goldenberg ("Argo")

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins ("Skyfall")
Runner-up: Mihai Malaimare Jr. ("The Master")

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
"The Master"
Runner-up: "Moonrise Kingdom"

BEST MUSIC/SCORE
Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild")
Runner-up: Johnny Greenwood ("The Master")

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
"Holy Motors"
Runner-up: "Footnote"

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
"Frankenweenie"
Runner-up: "It's Such a Beautiful Day"

BEST DOCUMENTARY/NONFICTION FILM
"The Gatekeepers"
Runner-up: "Searching for Sugar Man"

I want to see The Master. I don't know too much about Amour. would have been cool had Anne won but glad Amy got it. Congrats to the winners.

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