The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has bucked early awards season trends by naming the French film “Amour” as best picture and showering “The Master” with a slew of prizes, including runner-up for best picture, helmer Paul Thomas Anderson as best director, star Joaquin Phoenix as best actor, Amy Adams as best supporting actress, and David Frank and Jack Fisk for production design.
Another surprise, LAFCA anointed Dwight Henry of “Beasts of the Southern Wild” as best supporting actor, while ignoring his costar, the young Q-Wallis as she has become known. The actor had worked in a bakery before being cast in the film and has been largely left on the sidelines by other critics groups.
Here is a look at the award winners, who will pick up their prices on January 12, 2013 in Los Angeles:
Best director: Paul Thomas Anderson, “The Master.”
Runner-up: Kathryn Bigelow, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Best actor: Joaquin Phoenix, “The Master”
Runner-up: Denis Lavant, “Holy Motors”
Best actress (Tie): Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook” and Emmanuelle Riva, “Amour”
Best supporting actor: Dwight Henry, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
Runner-up: Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained”
Best supporting actress: Amy Adams, “The Master”
Runner-up: Anne Hathaway, “The Dark Knight Rises” and “Les Miserables”
Best animation: “Frankenweenie”
Runner-up: “It’s Such a Beautiful Day”
Best documentary: “The Gatekeepers”
Runner-up: “Searching for Sugar Man”
Best foreign film: “Holy Motors”
Runner-up: “Footnote”
Best cinematography: Roger Deakins, “Skyfall”
Runner-up: Mihai Malaimare Jr., “The Master”
Best screenplay: Chris Terrio, “Argo”
Runner-up: David O. Russell, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Best editing: Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Runner-up: William Goldenberg, “Argo”
Best music score: Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
Runner-up: Jonny Greenwood, “The Master”
Production design: David Crank, Jack Fisk, “The Master”
Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen, “Moonrise Kingdom”
