Los Angeles Film Critics Announce 2020 Winners

[just444]

#LAFCA: #SmallAxe wins best picture. #Nomadland is the runner-up https://t.co/aY9gPiuCgr pic.twitter.com/LndMzEJemC
- Variety (@Variety) December 20, 2020

sourceThe Los Angeles Film Critics just announced their winners, and their best picture choice has people confused

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[la_petite_singe]

IT'S A TV SERIIIIEEEESSS GDI

man this is gonna be OJ: Made in America all over again. So good & deserving, but total category fraud. 😱 Like how does the whole thing win as a unit but then Lovers Rock win individually??

But yay for these choices otherwise! I can't freakin wait to see PYW.

[sparklytootsie]

small axe is not a tv series. none of the stories interconnect at all except being about the experiences of the same community? now, if you wanna say why isn't it just mangrove or just lover's rock then fine. it's not the same as oj: made in america which is literally one story that has four parts

[la_petite_singe]

Anthology series exist, though? It's not about if the stories are connected, it's about how people saw it first, and it aired on the BBC. (Yes, it was also @ NYFF, but they've showed TV stuff before, that alone doesn't make it movies.)

[sparklytootsie]

anthology series still have one story per series though. in 2020, something being available to watch on tv means nothing

[colonel_green]

No, they don’t. Anthologies can be standalone stories (and were, for most of TV history, e.g., The Twilight Zone).

[syvlie0o0]

No one considers any black mirror episodes movies and this is the exact same thing.

If it was anyone besides Steve McQueen was involved they probably would’ve scoffed at the mere suggestion of labeling every episode a single movie.

[sparklytootsie]

bandersnach counted as a movie

[dadom88]

...A TV movie/special, and was only ever nominated in television categories and fields. It even WON Outstanding TV Movie at the Emmy's. It never competed in any film categories and was never even so much as discussed as such.

[sparklytootsie]

yes. bandersnatch had interactive elements that could only work for home viewing. small axe did not have that. steve mcqueen says they're films, they played them at film festivals, they're films.