By Matt Neglia
As stated a few days ago, one of the newest group of film critics on the block, the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society (LAOFCS), have now announced their first ever winners for end of year awards.
Click below to see their winners.
BEST PICTURE
The Big Sick
Colossal
Call Me By Your Name
Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
Molly’s Game
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR
Dee Rees – Mudbound
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Kathryn Bigelow – Detroit
Patty Jenkins – Wonder Woman
Sofia Coppola – The Beguiled
BEST MALE DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Luca Guadagnino – Call Me By Your Name
Steven Spielberg – The Post
BEST ANIMATED / VISUAL EFFECT PERFORMANCE
Andy Serkis – War for the Planet of the Apes
Doug Jones – The Shape of Water
Dan Stevens – Beauty and the Beast
BEST EDITING
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Post
The Shape of Water
BEST SCORE
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
War for the Planet of the Apes
BEST STUNT WORK
Atomic Blonde
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
John Wick: Chapter 2
Wonder Woman
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR OR ACTRESS UNDER 23 YEARS OLD
Brooklynn Prince – The Florida Project
Dafne Keen – Logan
Jacob Tremblay – Wonder
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name
BEST SCI-FI/ HORROR
Blade Runner 2049
Get Out
It
It Comes at Night
The Shape of Water
BEST ACTION/WAR
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
Logan
War for the Planet of the Apes
Wonder Woman
BEST COMEDY/MUSICAL
The Big Sick
The Disaster Artist
Girls Trip
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Aaron Sorkin – Molly’s Game
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Kogonada – Columbus
Geremy Jasper – Patti Cake$
Jordan Peele – Get Out
BEST INDEPENDENT FILM
The Big Sick
Colossal
A Ghost Story
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
BEST BLOCKBUSTER
Beauty and the Beast
Dunkirk
Logan
War for the Planet of the Apes
Wonder Woman
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Bruno Delbonnel – Darkest Hour
Dan Laustsen – The Shape of Water
Hoyte van Hoytema – Dunkirk
Rachel Morrison – Mudbound
Roger Deakins – Blade Runner 2049
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
War for the Planet of the Apes
Wonder Woman
BEST DOCUMENTARY
An Inconvenient Sequel
Jane (TIE)
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (TIE)
Step
Whose Streets?
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BPM
First They Killed My Father
In the Fade
The Square
Thelma
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Breadwinner
Coco
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
The LEGO Batman Movie
Loving Vincent
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor – The Shape of Water
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Aaron Sorkin – Molly’s Game
James Ivory – Call Me by Your Name
Michael H. Weber & Scott Neustadter – The Disaster Artist
Scott Frank, James Mangold, & Michael Green – Logan
Virgil Williams & Dee Rees – Mudbound
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water
Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Idris Elba – Molly’s Game
Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name (TIE)
Patrick Stewart – Logan (TIE)
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
BEST ACTRESS
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Jessica Chastain – Molly’s Game
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
Tom Hanks – The Post
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