The L.A. Film Critics Association (LAFCA) convened Sunday evening to weigh in on their best pics of 2020, and black creatives walked away with quite a few honors.
Steve McQueen’s anthology series, Small Axe, receive Best Picture while McQueen was the runner up for Best Director. Chadwick Boseman won Best Actor for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom while Radha Blank won the New Generation award for her Netflix series The 40-Year-Old Version. In the Best Documentary category; Garrett Bradley’s, Time, took the award. Hollywood veteran, Harry Belafonte, was honored with the Career Acheivment Award. More black films and artists won at LAFCA awards, keep scrolling to review the list of winners as reported by Deadline.
Best Picture
Winner: SMALL AXE
Runner-up: NOMADLAND
Best Director
Winner: Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
Runner-up: Steve McQueen, SMALL AXE
Best Actress
Winner: Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Runner-up: Viola Davis, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Actor
Winner: Chadwick Boseman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Runner-up: Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL
Best Documentary
Winner: TIME
Runner-up: COLLECTIVE
Best Animation
Winner: WOLFWALKERS
Runner-up: SOUL
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Winner: Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI
Runner-up: Amanda Seyfried, MANK
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Glynn Turman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Runner-up: Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Editing
Winner: Yorgos Lamprinos, THE FATHER
Runner-up: Gabriel Rhodes, TIME
Best Production Design
Winner: Donald Graham Burt, MANK
Runner-up: Sergey Ivanov, BEANPOLE
Best Music/Score
Winner: SOUL
Runner-up: LOVERS ROCK
Best Cinematography
Winner: SMALL AXE, Shabier Kirchner
Runner-up: NOMADLAND, Joshua James Richards
Best Foreign-Language Film
Winner: BEANPOLE
Runner-up: MARTIN EDEN
The Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award
Winner: John Gianvito’s HER SOCIALIST SMILE
New Generation Award
Winner: Radha Blank, THE 40-YEAR-OLD-VERSION
Career Achievement Award
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Harry Belafonte
Legacy Award
Norman Lloyd
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