\n\tOne Battle After Another was named best picture by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which voted Sunday this year\u2019s best films, performances and technical achievements.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Secret Agent was the runner-up, and also nabbed the award for best film not in the English language.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn addition, Paul Thomas Anderson won best director for One Battle After Another, with Ryan Coogler as the runner-up for Sinners.<\/p>\n
\n\tFor best lead performance, Ethan Hawke and Rose Byrne won for Blue Moon and If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You, respectively, and for best supporting performance, Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd and Teyana Taylor won for Sentimental Value and One Battle After Another, respectively. <\/p>\n
\n\tBest cinematography was the first award revealed on Sunday, with Adolpho Veloso for Train Dreams being named the winner. Hannah Beachler later won best production design for Sinners, and Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie won best editing for Marty Supreme.<\/p>\n
\n\tAs for best animation, Little Am\u00e9lie or the Character of Rain took home the award, while KPop Demon Hunters was the runner-up.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe association previously announced in October that filmmaker and screenwriter Philip Kaufman as the recipient of this year\u2019s Career Achievement Award. \u201cIntrepid doesn\u2019t even begin to describe a director who, among his many considerable achievements, gave\u00a0Indiana Jones\u00a0his first assignment and inspired the NC-17 rating,\u201d said LAFCA president Robert Abele of Kaufman.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cA criminally underappreciated director, Philip Kaufman could never be pigeonholed, from his early days absorbing the independent spirit of homegrown DIY-ers and the European New Wave, to his cool, vivid command of genre in the \u201970s, followed by a handful of uncompromising historical epics, including\u00a0The Right Stuff\u00a0and\u00a0The Unbearable Lightness of Being, that belied anybody\u2019s notion that American filmmakers couldn\u2019t be versatile, intelligent and entertaining about big ideas,\u201d Abele continued. \u201cThe L.A. Film Critics Association is immensely proud to be honoring this dyed-in-the-wool iconoclast.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tLast year, Anora was voted best picture<\/a> by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.<\/p>\n