2025 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Ballot

Career Achievement
(3) Sammo Hung
(2) Yuen Woo-ping
(1) Nathaniel Dorsky

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
(3) Afternoons of Solitude
(2) Henry Fonda for President
(1) 7 Walks With Mark Brown

Douglas Edwards Special Award
(3) Nathaniel Dorsky
(2) Thom Andersen
(1) Robert Beavers

Best Cinematography
(3) Grand Tour
(2) Resurrection
(1) Sirāt

Best Music/Score
(3) Sirāt
(2) The Mastermind
(1) The Smashing Machine

Best Production Design
(3) Resurrection
(2) Grand Tour
(1) The Shrouds

Best Editing
(3) Caught by the Tides
(2) Marty Supreme
(1) My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow

Best Animation
(3) The Colors Within
(2) Scarlet
(1) Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

Best Lead Performance
(5) Zhao Tao, Caught by the Tides
(4) Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
(3) Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
(2) Guillaume Marbeck, Nouvelle Vague
(1) Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Best Supporting Performance
(5) Jacques Develay, Misericordia
(4) Michael Cera, The Phoenician Scheme
(3) Andrew Scott, Blue Moon
(2) Diane Kruger, The Shrouds
(1) Tom Waits, Father Mother Sister Brother

Best Screenplay
(3) Blue Moon
(2) By the Stream
(1) It Was Just an Accident

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
(3) Henry Fonda for President
(2) My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow
(1) 7 Walks With Mark Brown

Best Director
(3) Óliver Laxe, Sirāt
(2) Bi Gan, Resurrection
(1) Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Picture
(3) Sirāt
(2) Caught by the Tides
(1) Grand Tour

Best Film Not in the English Language
(3) Sirāt
(2) Caught by the Tides
(1) Grand Tour

New Generation
(3) Philippe Lesage, Who by Fire
(2) Carson Lund, Eephus
(1) Sora Neo, Happyend

2024 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Ballot

Career Achievement
(3) Sammo Hung
(2) Víctor Erice
(1) Nathaniel Dorsky

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
(3) The Human Surge 3
(2) It’s Not Me
(1) We Don’t Talk Like We Used To

Best Cinematography
(3) Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
(2) Here
(1) Nickel Boys

Best Music/Score
(3) Evil Does Not Exist
(2) The Beast
(1) The Brutalist

Best Production Design
(3) Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
(2) The Room Next Door
(1) Blitz

Best Editing
(3) Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
(2) It’s Not Me
(1) Coma

Best Animation
(3) The Colors Within

Best Lead Performance
(5) Léa Seydoux, The Beast
(4) Ilinca Manolache, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
(3) Jason Schwartzman, Between the Temples
(2) Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
(1) Léa Drucker, Last Summer

Best Supporting Performance
(5) Adam Pearson, A Different Man
(4) Adria Arjona, Hit Man
(3) Matt Johnson, Matt and Mara
(2) Yura Borisov, Anora
(1) Sadie LaPointe, Eureka

Best Screenplay
(3) Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
(2) A Traveler’s Needs
(1) The Shadowless Tower

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
(3) Dahomey
(2) Pictures of Ghosts
(1) No Other Land

Best Director
(3) Bertrand Bonello, The Beast
(2) Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Evil Does Not Exist
(1) Angela Schanelec, Music

Best Picture
(3) The Beast
(2) Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
(1) Evil Does Not Exist

Best Film Not in the English Language
(3) Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
(2) Close Your Eyes
(1) All We Imagine as Light

New Generation
(3) Phạm Thiên Ân, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
(2) Bas Devos, Here
(1) Tyler Taormina, Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

2023 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Ballot

Career Achievement
(3) Nathaniel Dorsky
(2) Sammo Hung
(1) Nakadai Tatsuya

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
(3) in water
(2) Youth (Spring)
(1) Where

Best Cinematography
(3) Pacifiction
(2) Limbo
(1) in water

Best Music/Score
(3) Asteroid City
(2) May December
(1) Afire

Best Production Design
(3) Fallen Leaves
(2) Asteroid City
(1) La chimera

Best Editing
(3) Anatomy of a Fall
(2) The Delinquents
(1) Priscilla

Best Animation
(3) The Boy and the Heron

Best Lead Performance
(5) Benoît Magimel, Pacifiction
(4) Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
(3) Michelle Williams, Showing Up
(2) Laura Paredes, Trenque Lauquen
(1) Michael Cera, The Adults

Best Supporting Performance
(5) Hong Chau, Showing Up
(4) Swann Arlaud, Anatomy of a Fall
(3) Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
(2) Pahoa Mahagafanau, Pacifiction
(1) Pom Klementieff, Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One

Best Screenplay
(3) Walk Up
(2) Anatomy of a Fall
(1) May December

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
(3) Occupied City
(2) Menus-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros
(1) Rewind & Play

Best Director
(3) Albert Serra, Pacifiction
(2) Michael Mann, Ferrari
(1) Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall

Best Picture
(3) Walk Up
(2) Pacifiction
(1) Showing Up

Best Film Not in the English Language
(3) Fallen Leaves
(2) Afire
(1) Anatomy of a Fall

New Generation
(3) Ashley McKenzie, Queens of the Qing Dynasty
(2) Dustin Guy Defa, The Adults
(1) Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, Stonewalling

2022 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Ballot

Career Achievement
(3) Paul Vecchiali
(2) Jean-Marie Straub
(1) Claire Denis

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
(3) earthearthearth
(2) The United States of America
(1) EVENTIDE

Best Cinematography
(3) Il buco
(2) EO
(1) The Fabelmans

Best Supporting Performance
(5) Rayan Sarlak, Hit the Road
(4) Kwon Hae-hyo, In Front of Your Face
(3) David Lynch, The Fabelmans
(2) Anne Hathaway, Armageddon Time
(1) Steven Yeun, Nope

Best Music/Score
(3) EO
(2) RRR
(1) Crimes of the Future

Best Production Design
(3) A New Old Play
(2) White Noise
(1) Avatar: The Way of Water

Best Editing
(3) El Gran Movimiento
(2) TÁR
(1) Decision to Leave

Best Animation
(3) Avatar: The Way of Water
(2) Jujutsu Kaisen 0

Best Screenplay
(3) The Novelist’s Film
(2) The Fabelmans
(1) In Front of Your Face

Best Lead Performance
(5) Tang Wei, Decision to Leave
(4) Léa Seydoux, One Fine Morning
(3) Kim Min-hee, The Novelist’s Film
(2) Lee Hye-young, In Front of Your Face
(1) Jack Lowden, Benediction

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
(3) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
(2) Riotsville, U.S.A.
(1) Expedition Content

Best Director
(3) Jerzy Skolimowski, EO
(2) Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave
(1) Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, The Girl and the Spider

Best Picture
(3) The Novelist’s Film
(2) EO
(1) Decision to Leave

Best Film Not in the English Language
(3) The Novelist’s Film
(2) EO
(1) Decision to Leave

New Generation
(3) Alice Diop, Saint Omer
(2) Davy Chou and Park Ji-min, Return to Seoul
(1) Ricky D’Ambrose, The Cathedral

2021 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Ballot

Career Achievement
(3) Paul Vecchiali
(2) Nakadai Tatsuya
(1) Claire Denis

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
(3) The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
(2) Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream
(1) małni — towards the ocean, towards the shore

Best Cinematography
(3) The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
(2) Memoria
(1) West Side Story

Best Music/Score
(3) Drive My Car
(2) What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
(1) The Witches of the Orient

Best Supporting Actress
(3) Park Yu-rim, Drive My Car
(2) Urabe Fusako, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
(1) Reika Kirishima, Drive My Car

Best Production Design
(3) The Tragedy of Macbeth
(2) Wife of a Spy
(1) The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Best Editing
(3) What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
(2) The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
(1) Labyrinth of Cinema

Best Supporting Actor
(3) Elkin Díaz, Memoria
(2) Okada Masaki, Drive My Car
(1) Mike Faist, West Side Story

Best Animation
(3) Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

Best Screenplay
(3) Drive My Car
(2) Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
(1) The Woman Who Ran

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
(3) Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream
(2) Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
(1) Procession

Best Actress
(3) Tilda Swinton, Memoria
(2) Miura Toko, Drive My Car
(1) Léa Seydoux, France

Best Actor
(3) Nishijima Hidetoshi, Drive My Car
(2) Lee Kang-sheng, Days
(1) Adam Driver, Annette

Best Director
(3) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memoria
(2) Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, Drive My Car
(1) Tsai Ming-liang, Days

Best Picture
(3) Drive My Car
(2) Memoria
(1) Days

Best Film Not in the English Language
(3) Memoria
(2) Days
(1) What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

New Generation Award
(3) Alexandre Koberidze, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
(2) Déa Kulumbegashvili, Beginning
(1) Alana Haim & Cooper Hoffman, Licorice Pizza