Los Angeles Film Critics Association
LOS ANGELES. Sideways was voted Best Picture of the Year, it was announced tonight by Henry Sheehan, President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA). The runner up was Million Dollar Baby.
LAFCA’s 30th annual achievement awards ceremony will be held Thursday, January 13 at the St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles.
Best Picture
Sideways
Runner-up: Million Dollar Baby
Best Director
Alexander Payne, Sideways
Runner-up: Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Best Actor
Liam Neeson, Kinsey
Runner-up: Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Best Actress
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Runner-up: Julie Delpy, Before Sunset
Best Supporting Actor
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Runner-up: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
Best Supporting Actress
Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Runner-up: Cate Blanchett, Coffee & Cigarettes & The Aviator
Best Screenplay
Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor, Sideways
Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Cinematography
Dion Beebe & Paul Cameron, Collateral
Runner-up: Xiaoding Zhao, House of Flying Daggers
Best Production Design
Dante Ferretti, The Aviator
Runner-up: Huo Tingxiao, House of Flying Daggers
Best Music Score
Michael Giacchino, The Incredibles
Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat, Birth
Best Foreign-Language Film
House of Flying Daggers, directed by Zhang Yimou
Runner-up: The Motorcycle Diaries directed by Walter Salles
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
Born into Brothels written and directed by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski
Runner-up: Fahrenheit 9/11 directed by Michael Moore
Best Animation
Brad Bird, The Incredibles
The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
Star-Spangled to Death by Ken Jacobs
New Generation Award
Joshua Marston, writer/director, Maria Full of Grace
and Catalina Sandino Moreno, actress, Maria Full of Grace
Career Achievement Award
Jerry Lewis
Special Citation
Brian Jamieson of Warner Brothers and Richard Schickel for the reconstruction of Samuel Fuller’s The Big Red One