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LAFCA Preview

by Sasha Stone
November 30, 2009
in Critics Awards
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The Los Angeles Film Critics will get together on Tuesday, the 9th, to vote on and choose the best picture of the year. Last year it was There Will Be Blood at a time when No Country was burning down the house. This year? It’s a toss up as to which film they will choose. Let’s take a brief look at LAFCA’s history.

Wait, before we start, take a look at their swanky new website – a total upgrade from their previous bare bones design. Hey, we know that content is king on the net but no one is going to complain if everything looks prettier. Now we’ll just have to see if their site can handle the server clog – the poor NBR was having some trouble yesterday. I don’t think most normal people are prepared for the mania on the web for this sort of thing.

The Los Angeles Film Critics’ top prize, as you can see below, doesn’t often match up with Oscar for Best Picture. But a recent trend reveals that their winner might be a nominee. After a heated exchange with Scott Foundas last year we discovered that the LAFCA chafes at the Oscar comparison and though they, like most groups, would like to be the main influence when it comes to choosing the Best Picture, they don’t really like being compared to, or being associated with Oscar. Poor Oscar. Nobody likes him. He’s like the millionaire uncle everyone hopes will leave them money but garners neither respect nor love.

Looking back over their history, but for a few odd picks, they have great taste. Brokeback, Crouching Tiger, The Insider – these are movies that were all better than the eventual winner for Best Picture (some will argue that Gladiator was better than Crouching Tiger and that’s debatable).

How will they go this year? It’s difficult to say. And though we tend to focus on Best Picture more than the other categories, this is a good time for an actor or actress to be singled out as well.

The LAFCA doesn’t go full indie like the NSFC sometimes do — chances are their choice will be a film that is headed for the Kodak so it shouldn’t come as a total shock. There Will Be Blood was a sort of surprising choice at the time simply because many thought it would be No Country. But they went a different way than most critics groups.

This year, there doesn’t appear to be a consensus emerging, unless it’s Slumdog, and likely the picks from each group will be all over the place.

The other thing to remember is that the LAFCA will be getting together on Tuesday to vote. They haven’t already turned in ballots which then have to be tabulated. They do it in real time.

So what will they choose? Will they opt out of the genre prejudice and vote in The Dark Knight? Will they go for Milk? That’s the safest bet. Or will they choose to ride the Slumdog train? Either way, we’ll find out soon.

Here is how I think this award could help various films.

Revolutionary Road: would transform its position in the race and put the deserving movie in the top five.
Frost/Nixon: Puts it in second place behind Button.
Benjamin Button: helps the momentum from backsliding.
Milk: Confirms already suspected prominence, drives the fight against Prop 8
Slumdog Millionaire: will hold steady but a win from NYFCC as well makes it the probable Best Pic winner.
Defiance: Puts it in the race.
The Dark Knight: will never happen but would transform the race.
The Reader: transforms the race.
Frozen River or The Visitor – probably helps Melissa Leo or Richard Jenkins more than it does the individual film but then again look at how well In the Bedroom did.
Gran Torino or Changeling – would not surprise me, probably puts Clint in contention for Best Director, maybe alters Best Pic race.

Here is a chart breakdown with Best Picture over the years:

2008
2007 There Will Be Blood No Country for Old Men
2006 Letters from Iwo Jima The Departed
2005 Brokeback Mountain Crash
2004 Sideways Million Dollar Baby
2003 American Splendour Return of the King
2002 About Schmidt Chicago
2001 In the Bedroom A Beautiful Mind
2000 Crouching Tiger Gladiator
1999 The Insider American Beauty
1998 Saving Private Ryan Shakespeare in Love
1997 L.A. Confidential Titanic
1996 Secrets & Lies The English Patient
1995 Leaving Las Vegas Braveheart
1994 Pulp Fiction Forrest Gump
1993 Schindler’s List Schindler’s List
1992 Unforgiven Unforgiven
1991 Bugsy Silence of the Lambs
1990 Goodfellas Dances With Wolves
1989 Do the Right Thing Driving Miss Daisy
1988 Little Dorrit Rain Man
1987 Hope and Glory The Last Emperor
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters Platoon
1985 Brazil Out of Africa
1984 Amadeus Amadeus
1983 Terms of Endearment Terms of Endearment
1982 E.T. Gandhi
1981 Atlantic City Chariots of Fire
1980 Raging Bull Ordinary People
1979 Kramer Vs. Kramer Kramer Vs. Kramer
1978 Coming Home The Deer Hunter
1977 Star Wars Annie Hall
1976 Network Rocky
1975 Dog Day Afternoon One Flew Over/Cukoo’s Nest

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