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

[sandstorm]

Yeah I was kinda confused at seeing Small Axe winning here like....huh well ok get acclaim, John!!

Best Actor: Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (Netflix)
Runner up: Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal” (Amazon Studios)

🥺

[colonel_green]

Even if you think the "Small Axe" installments are films, I really could not justify classifying them as a a film.

With the overall response to Mank being "it's good, not great, but good", I feel like Fincher has faded as a Best Director prospect and Zhao is really out front (for now, at least).

Among the acting categories, I think Boseman and Seyfried are their categories' frontrunners right now; Actress and Supporting Actor are wide open, and the latter feels a bit empty at the moment.

[adaptive_menace]

I think Yuh-joon Youn has more critics wins than Seyfried, but it would be a stretch for her to win the oscar.

I'm just hoping Steven Yeun gets in for Actor -- he was hugely robbed a few years ago with Burning, imo.

I also didn't like Mank? But no one else I know has seen it yet. So... sorry to like, jump onto your post.

[dadom88]

I think Actress is pretty much locked for Davis at this point too. McDormand isn't winning a third so soon after her second, and the only other contender that has winners potential is Andra Day in The US Vs Billie Holiday, but it's a SUPER late release and the only reason people are putting stock in it is because it's a baity biopic, but I'm not sure I buy into it. Lee Daniel's has a super shonky record outside of Precious, and Day is a completely unproven actress.

[colonel_green]

Belated response, but I'm not quite ready to call it for Davis yet. Mulligan and her movie, in particular, are a bit of a wildcard and have been getting critical plaudits; I feel like that could go somewhere. The other reservation I have that's specific to Davis is that I've been debating whether Boseman looking so solid for Best Actor actually hurts her campaign, because a film winning both of the lead acting prizes doesn't happen much (outside of a weird stretch from 1974 to 1981 where it happened four times).

[laminy]

I still have my fingers crossed for Best Actor winner Riz Ahmed.

[chllschse]

I think he’d have a chance if Chadwick hadn’t passed away; but it’s starting to feel like Chadwick is a lock. And he absolutely earned it. If this was any other year, I think CB and RA would be neck and neck and would be trading wins but.........

[laminy]

I agree. Which isn't to say that I don't like Chadwick, but I don't know, I don't like to see deserving people overlooked just because someone else is "due."

[chllschse]

In this case though, I do think Chadwick is just as deserving but dying tragically young will likely give him the edge when in any other year it would have been a toss up.....or both young(ish) actors of color would have been passed up in favor of old white guy.......

[sparklytootsie]

can't bring myself to finish time or the rest of small axe. will say that i didn't enjoy viola's performance in ma rainey's black bottom but she's viola so it's not awful, it just lacks sauce. i'm also very glad that only randoms on twitter are pushing "she gained nearl 100 pounds to play this role" because that + the fat suit are the parts of the performance i disliked