The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. spread the wealth with awards for Jane Campion, Simon Rex, Penélope Cruz and more outstanding work from 2021.
Most of all, we loved “Drive My Car,” our best picture winner, and also “The Power of the Dog,” which won best director. With those two awards, we basically echoed the choices made by our fine colleagues over in the New York Film Critics Circle earlier this month. That doubtless surprised a few awards observer types who speculated that we might go our own way, so as to separate ourselves from the critical pack.
One of the reasons I love our runner-up announcements is that it provides some sense of just how much love there was among our 50 or so voting members for such a wide range of movies. But even those runners-up don’t tell the whole story. You wouldn’t guess that “Passing,” “The Green Knight” and “The Lost Daughter” were three of the most fiercely loved movies of the day, in multiple categories.
That this group continues to propose vital alternatives to the standard movie-industry narratives — like, for example, C.W. Winter and Anders Edström’s “The Works and Days ,” the winner of our Douglas Edwards experimental film award this year — is one of the best reasons for it to exist.I think it’s a promising sign when so many different films inspire passion from critics during deliberations.
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