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2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Feature
Director Ari Folman interviews old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about his own life and about himself during the 1980's war with Lebanon. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images&hellip&hellip…
2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Non-Fiction Film
Documentarian Errol Morris directs THE FOG OF WAR, a captivating look at Robert S. McNamara, who served as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The movie does not exclusively focus on this part of McNamara's career, however, and instead gives a broad overview of the&hellip…
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Best Foreign Language Film
Following up his award-winning martial-arts drama HERO, director Zhang Yimou (JU DOU, RAISE THE RED LANTERN) tells an intricately detailed love story in the swordfighting epic HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, set during the final days of the Tang Dynasty. A mysterious group called the Flying Daggers is a dangerous&hellip…
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2002 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
New Generation Award
The role of the aimless young rebel hiding behind an emotional wall and steely eyes has been monopolized by men in the movies since James Dean. Samantha Morton, one of her generation's most gifted actors, makes the most of her opportunity to embody such a figure in her role as the title character of MORVERN&hellip…
Best Supporting Actress
SUNSHINE STATE, directed and written by John Sayles, takes a close-up and occasionally comic look at the fading community of Delrona Beach, Florida. A dozen local personalities are introduced, each with their own unique challenges. The town's dilapidated houses, its stale Buccaneer Days Festival, its sluggish&hellip…
Best Non-Fiction Film
In 1969 San Francisco, a group of hippies were assembled by a charismatic free spirit known as Hibiscus to create an act to go on before a midnight film festival. They dressed in outlandish and skimpy costumes, danced and sang along to records, and called themselves The Cockettes. They became an overnight&hellip…
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2000 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Film
Focusing on a typical family - parents, two children, and an elderly grandmother - living in a small apartment in Taipei, YI YI (A ONE AND A TWO) is about the patterns of daily life. It includes a wedding, a funeral, a first date, a last date, a birth, and a death. The film follows each member of the Jian family&hellip…
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Best Foreign Film
Focusing on a typical family--parents, two children, and an elderly grandmother--living in a small apartment in Taipei, YI YI (A ONE AND A TWO) is about the patterns of daily life. It includes a wedding, a funeral, a first date, a last date, a birth, and a death. The film follows each member of the Jian family&hellip…
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Best Director
Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem. The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely intersect and overlap, unfurling at a frantic, relentless pace. In the first&hellip…
1999 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Film
Spanish director Pedro Almodvar's tender, intelligent drama follows the emotional journey of Manuela, an organ transplant coordinator who scours the back alleys and gutters of Barcelona in search of her errant ex-husband (a half-transsexual prostitute named Lola), saddled with the devastating news that their&hellip…
1997 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Film
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Roger, a teenage boy, works for his father's construction business, a company that employs illegal immigrants from all over the world. When Hamidu, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, is critically injured in a workplace accident he asks Roger to promise&hellip…
1996 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award
At the beginning of the 1990s, the sampler had become ubiquitous among cutting-edge musicians. Negativland were a small American band signed to the fiercely independent SST label, and had been using unauthorized samples in their work for many years. But when they took a portion of&hellip…
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Best Foreign Film
In Claude Chabrol's LA CEREMONIE, the wealthy Lelievre family live in a grand estate in the calm isolation of the French countryside. All that lacks in their lustrous lifestyle is the perfect maid, who they believe to have found in the shy and recalcitrant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). The match seems to be perfect&hellip…
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Best Actor
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach 3"). Academy Award Nominations&hellip…
1995 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy. CRUMB traces the lives of underground&hellip…
Best Cinematography
A visually dazzling gangster film from director Zhang Yimou. Nightclub singer Xiao Jingbao lives a pampered life as the mistress of Shanghai godfather Mr. Tang. However, she gets in over her head after she begins an affair with Song, Mr. Tang's number two man, who wants to wrench control of the crime dynasty&hellip…
1994 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale, Spike Lee and Bobby Knight. Academy&hellip…
1990 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Film
Drama about the relationship that develops between two people as they put their lives back together in post-World War I France. Major Dellaplane is a stoic soldier given the unenviable task of locating over 300,000 MIA's. Irene is a snobby socialite trying to find her missing husband, who joined the army to escape&hellip…
1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Screenplay
DRUGSTORE COWBOY was one of a group of films that led to the explosion of American independent cinema. Director Gus Van Sant generally maintains his highly stylized vision, regardless of a film's budget. His later films continue to illustrate the dreamlike moments contained in highly disturbing situations. The&hellip…
1987 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Film
Louise Malle's award-winning drama historical drama is a meditative coming of age tale set during the rise of the Nazi Party. Based loosely on Malle's own boyhood at a private boarding school, AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS tells the story of the sad-eyed 12 year old, Julien Quentin (a captivating Gaspard Manesse. Returning&hellip…
1986 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor
Best Director
A deeply shocking and insidiously funny film, David Lynch's offbeat vision uncovers the nasty underside of small-town America. When a young man finds a human ear in a field, he embarks on an investigation into the dark world of a dangerous psychopath, which leads him to a beautiful nightclub&hellip…
Best Foreign Film
Best Actress
A powerful, poignant study of the last few months in the life of a female vagabond, Mona Bergeron, played in an early and coldly powerful performance by Sandrine Bonnaire. After she's discovered frozen to death at the start of the film, the story flashes back to examine Mona's effect on the people&hellip…
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Ex-con George, expecting to be repaid after taking a fall for his crime boss, is reduced to driving classy call girl Simone to her jobs at London's finer hotels. Despite their differences (he's a poorly-educated, unattractive, and unsophisticated bigot; she's a beautiful, elegant, and intelligent&hellip…
1985 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Film
Best Music
For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as "chaos" or "turmoil," is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday&hellip…
Best Foreign Film
An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, however, her students' rejection of the "official" versions of their history leads her to question things herself. Suspecting that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political&hellip…
Best Director
Best Picture
Best Screenplay
3 Disc Set. BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered&hellip…
1982 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award
After working in Hong Kong television, Wayne Wang shot this low-budget 16mm black-and-white feature on the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown. CHAN IS MISSING follows the lives of two Chinese cabdrivers, Jo (Wood Moy), a middle-aged man, and Steve (Marc Hayashi), his young partner&hellip…
1980 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Film
Novelist Günter Grass assisted in this brilliant film adaptation of his groundbreaking novel, which depicts the significant events in German history since the turn of the century as seen through the eyes of a bizarre child. In this allegorical film, a three-year-old boy observes the hypocrisy of the adult world&hellip…
Best Screenplay
Seven friends who were political activists are reunited during a weekend gathering. The changing course of their various lives provides insight into each of their personalities and evolving adult identities&hellip…
1977 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Film
Luis Buñuel's last film is a celebration of the vigor of sexual obsession and the sovereignty of the subconscious. From the instant Mathieu (Fernando Rey) lays eyes on Conchita (played by both Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina), he cannot help but pursue this beautiful and unknowable young woman. She remains&hellip…
Special Award
Harlan County, USA Strike DVD is a Barbara Kopple had made no other film than this documentary account of the 1974 strike of Kentucky mine workers, arguably one of the finest documentaries ever made in the U.S. and possibly the best on the problems of organized labor, her place in film history would be assured. The&hellip…