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{{Short description|American organization}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Los Angeles Film Critics Association
| abbreviation = LAFCA
| formation =   1975
| type = [[Film criticism]]
| location = [[Los Angeles, California]]
| language = English
| website =          {{url|lafca.net}}
}}

The '''Los Angeles Film Critics Association''' ('''LAFCA''') is an American [[film critic]] organization founded in 1975.<ref name="about">{{cite web|url=http://lafca.net/lafca.html|title=About LAFCA|publisher=Los Angeles Film Critics Association|access-date=October 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202100851/http://www.lafca.net/lafca.html|archive-date=December 2, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

==Background==
Its membership comprises film critics from [[Los Angeles]]–based print and electronic media. In December of each year, the organization votes on the '''Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards''', honoring members of the film industry who have excelled in their fields over the calendar year. These awards are presented each January. The LAFCA also honors industry veterans with its annual Career Achievement Award, and promising talent with its annual New Generation Award.<ref name="about"/>

==Award ceremonies==
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!width="180"|Ceremony<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nyfcc.com/awards/|title=New York Film Critics Circle Awards|publisher=New York Film Critics Circle|access-date=November 19, 2015}}</ref>
!width="150"|Date
!width="280"|Best Film Winner
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[1975 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|1st]] || rowspan="2" align="center" | Unknown ||align="center" | ''[[Dog Day Afternoon]]'' (tie)
|-
| align="center" | ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' (tie)
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[1976 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|2nd]] || rowspan="2" align="center" | December 21, 1976||align="center" | ''[[Network (1976 film)|Network]]'' (tie)
|-
| align="center" | ''[[Rocky]]'' (tie)
|-
| [[1977 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|3rd]] || align="center" | 	December 19, 1977 || align="center" | ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]'' 
|-
| [[1978 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|4th]] || align="center" | 	December 16, 1978 || align="center" | ''[[Coming Home (1978 film)|Coming Home]]'' 
|-
| [[1979 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|5th]] || align="center" | 	December 15, 1979 || align="center" | ''[[Kramer vs. Kramer]]'' 
|-
| [[1980 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|6th]] || align="center" | 	December 20, 1980 || align="center" | ''[[Raging Bull]]'' 
|-
| [[1981 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|7th]] || align="center" | 	December 14, 1981 || align="center" | ''[[Atlantic City (1980 film)|Atlantic City]]'' 
|-
| [[1982 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|8th]] || align="center" | 	December 11, 1982 || align="center" | ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'' 
|-
| [[1983 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|9th]] || align="center" | 	December 17, 1983 || align="center" | ''[[Terms of Endearment]]'' 
|-
| [[1984 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|10th]] || align="center" | December 5, 1984 || align="center" | ''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]'' 
|-
| [[1985 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|11th]] || align="center" | December 14, 1985 || align="center" | ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'' 
|-
| [[1986 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|12th]] || align="center" | December 13, 1986 || align="center" | ''[[Hannah and Her Sisters]]'' 
|-
| [[1987 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|13th]] || align="center" | December 19, 1987 || align="center" | ''[[Hope and Glory (film)|Hope and Glory]]'' 
|-
| [[1988 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|14th]] || align="center" | December 10, 1988 || align="center" | ''[[Little Dorrit (1987 film)|Little Dorrit]]'' 
|-
| [[1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|15th]] || align="center" | December 16, 1989 || align="center" | ''[[Do the Right Thing]]'' 
|-
| [[1990 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|16th]] || align="center" | December 16, 1990 || align="center" | ''[[Goodfellas]]'' 
|-
| [[1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|17th]] || align="center" | December 14, 1991 || align="center" | ''[[Bugsy]]'' 
|-
| [[1992 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|18th]] || align="center" | December 12, 1992 || align="center" | ''[[Unforgiven]]'' 
|-
| [[1993 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|19th]] || align="center" | December 11, 1993 || align="center" | ''[[Schindler's List]]'' 
|-
| [[1994 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|20th]] || align="center" | December 10, 1994 || align="center" | ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' 
|-
| [[1995 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|21st]] || align="center" | December 16, 1995 || align="center" | ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]'' 
|-
| [[1996 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|22nd]] || align="center" | December 16, 1996 || align="center" | ''[[Secrets & Lies (film)|Secrets & Lies]]'' 
|-
| [[1997 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|23rd]] || align="center" | December 14, 1997 || align="center" | ''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]'' 
|-
| [[1998 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|24th]] || align="center" | December 13, 1998 || align="center" | ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' 
|-
| [[1999 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|25th]] || align="center" | December 11, 1999 || align="center" | ''[[The Insider (film)|The Insider]]'' 
|-
| [[2000 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|26th]] || align="center" | December 17, 2000 || align="center" | ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' 
|-
| [[2001 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|27th]] || align="center" | December 15, 2001 || align="center" | ''[[In the Bedroom]]'' 
|-
| [[2002 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|28th]] || align="center" | December 15, 2002 || align="center" | ''[[About Schmidt]]'' 
|-
| [[2003 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|29th]] || align="center" | January 7, 2004 || align="center" | ''[[American Splendor (film)|American Splendor]]'' 
|-
| [[2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|30th]] || align="center" | December 11, 2004 || align="center" | ''[[Sideways]]'' 
|-
| [[2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|31st]] || align="center" | December 11, 2005 || align="center" | ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' 
|-
| [[2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|32nd]] || align="center" | December 11, 2006 || align="center" | ''[[Letters from Iwo Jima]]'' 
|-
| [[2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|33rd]] || align="center" | December 9, 2007 || align="center" | ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'' 
|-
| [[2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|34th]] || align="center" | December 9, 2008 || align="center" | ''[[WALL-E]]'' 
|-
| [[2009 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|35th]] || align="center" | December 14, 2009 || align="center" | ''[[The Hurt Locker]]'' 
|-
| [[2010 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|36th]] || align="center" | December 12, 2010 || align="center" | ''[[The Social Network]]'' 
|-
| [[2011 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|37th]] || align="center" | December 11, 2011 || align="center" | ''[[The Descendants]]'' 
|-
| [[2012 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|38th]] || align="center" | December 9, 2012 || align="center" | ''[[Amour (2012 film)|Amour]]'' 
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[2013 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|39th]] || rowspan="2" align="center" | 	December 8, 2013 || align="center" | ''[[Gravity (2013 film)|Gravity]]'' (tie)
|-
| align="center" | ''[[Her (2013 film)|Her]]'' (tie)
|-
| [[2014 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|40th]] || align="center" | December 7, 2014 || align="center" | ''[[Boyhood (2014 film)|Boyhood]]'' 
|-
| [[2015 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|41st]] || align="center" | December 6, 2015 || align="center" | ''[[Spotlight (film)|Spotlight]]'' 
|-
| [[2016 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|42nd]] || align="center" | December 4, 2016 || align="center" | ''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]'' 
|-
| [[2017 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|43rd]] || align="center" | December 3, 2017 || align="center" | ''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]''<ref>{{cite news|title='Call Me by Your Name' Selected as Best Picture by L.A. Film Critics Association|last=Nordyke|first=Kimberly|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/la-film-critics-association-winners-2017-1063801|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|accessdate=4 December 2017|date=3 December 2017}}</ref> 
|-
| [[2018 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|44th]] || align="center" | December 9, 2018 || align="center" | ''[[Roma (2018 film)|Roma]]''<ref>[https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/los-angeles-film-critics-association-2018-awards-winners-1202026715/#! Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2018 Winners|IndieWire]</ref> 
|-
| [[2019 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|45th]] || align="center" | December 8, 2019 || align="center" | ''[[Parasite (2019 film)|Parasite]]''<ref>[https://deadline.com/2019/12/los-angeles-film-critics-2019-winners-awards-list-1202803600/ Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2019 Winners — Full List — Deadline]</ref>  
|-
| [[2020 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|46th]] || align="center" | December 20, 2020 || align="center" | ''[[Small Axe (miniseries)|Small Axe]]''<ref>[https://variety.com/2020/film/awards/lafca-winners-2020-1234867257/#! 'Small Axe' Wins LAFCA Best Picture Despite Not Submitted for Oscars – Variety]</ref>
|-
| [[2021 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|47th]] ||   align="center" | December 18, 2021 || align="center" | ''[[Drive My Car (film)|Drive My Car]]''<ref>[https://variety.com/2021/film/news/lafca-winners-list-2021-1235137273/ Los Angeles Film Critics 2021 Winners List – Variety]</ref>
|-
| rowspan=2|[[2022 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|48th]] ||  rowspan=2, align="center" | December 11, 2022 || align="center" |  ''[[Everything Everywhere All at Once]]'' (tie)
|-
| align="center" |''[[Tár]]'' (tie)
|-
| [[2023 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|49th]] ||   align="center" | December 10, 2023 || align="center" | ''[[The Zone of Interest (film)|The Zone of Interest]]'' <ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2023/12/los-angeles-film-critics-association-awards-2023-winners-1235660801/ |title='The Zone of Interest' is Best Picture at Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards – Complete Winners List |last1=Pedersen |first1=Erik |last2=Haring |first2=Bruce |work=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |date=December 10, 2023 |access-date=December 11, 2023}}</ref>
|-
| [[2024 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|50th]] ||   align="center" | December 8, 2024 || align="center" | ''[[Anora]]'' 
|-
|}

==Awards categories==

* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Lead Performance|Best Lead Performance]]
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Performance|Best Supporting Performance]]
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing|Best Editing]]
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music|Best Music]]
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]]
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film|Best Documentary Film]]
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film|Best Animated Film]]
* New Generation Award
* Career Achievement Award
* The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award

; Former categories
*[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
*[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
*[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
*[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]

==See also==
*[[New York Film Critics Circle]]
*[[National Society of Film Critics]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{Official website|http://www.lafca.net}}
*{{IMDb event|0000407|Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards}}


{{LAFCA Awards Chron}}
{{American film critic org}}


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