Los Angeles Film Critics Association names 'The Zone of Interest' as best film of 2023

"The Zone of Interest", Jonathan Glazer's chilling drama set in Auschwitz, has been named the best movie of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

The critics group, concluding its selections after a day-long meeting on Sunday, awarded prizes for Jonathan Glazer's direction and Mica Levi's score. Sandra Hüller, featured in both "The Zone of Interest" and the French courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Fall," received one of the two lead performance awards.

Differing significantly from their East Coast counterpart, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association presented all four of its acting awards to women, without gender distinctions. In the lead acting category, the honors went to Hüller and Emma Stone, starring in Yorgos Lanthimos' "Poor Things." The supporting performance awards were granted to Rachel McAdams for the Judy Blume adaptation "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," and to Da'Vine Joy Randolph, co-star of the boarding school comedy-drama "The Holdovers."


Last year, "Tár" and "Everything Everywhere All at Once" shared the group's top prize. The awards for this year will be presented at a ceremony on January 13.

Here's a complete list of Los Angeles Film Critics Association's picks:

• Career Achievement Award: Agnieszka Holland
• Best Documentary: "Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros"
• Best Animated Film: "The Boy and the Heron"
• Best Editing: Laurent Sénéchal, "Anatomy of a Fall"
• Best Cinematography: Robbie Ryan, "Poor Things"
• Best Non-English Language Film: "Anatomy of a Fall"
• Best Score: Mica Levi, "The Zone of Interest," with recognition also of sound designer Johnnie Burn
• Best Director: Jonathan Glazer, "The Zone of Interest"
• Best Production Design: Sarah Greenwood, "Barbie"
• Best Screenplay: Andrew Haigh, "All of Us Strangers"
• Best Film: "The Zone of Interest"
• Best Lead Performance: Sandra Hüller, "Anatomy of a Fall" and "The Zone of Interest"; and Emma Stone, "Poor Things"
• Best Supporting Performance: Rachel McAdams, "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret"; and Da'Vine Joy Randolph, "The Holdovers"
• New Generation Award: Celine Song, "Past Lives"
• Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize: "Youth (Spring)"
• New York Film Critics Circle: 'Killers of the Flower Moon' selected 2023's best movie
• Independent Spirit Awards 2023: 'Past Lives,' 'May December' lead nominations