Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is to bestow this season’s career achievement award upon Claire Denis and has said it will introduce gender-neutral acting categories in its awards.
Denis won the Berlinale’s directing prize for Both Sides Of The Blade and the Cannes grand prix for Stars At Noon. She began her career working with directors like Jacques Rivette, Costa-Gavras and Wim Wenders and made her 1988 debut on Chocolat, continuing with films like Beau Travail, White Material, 35 Shots Of Rum, Let The Sunshine In, and High Life.
Gender-neutral acting categories will see two awards for best lead performance and two awards for best supporting performance. Other award categories include best picture, best director, best screenplay, best film not in the english language, best documentary/nonfiction film, best animation, best cinematography, best editing, best production design, best music/score, new generation, and the Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award.
LAFCA members will vote on awards on December 11 ahead of their first in-person ceremony in three years on January 14, 2023.
The group is continuing to offer scholarships for aspiring film critics with the support of Rotten Tomatoes. Each year the organisation awards two $3,000 scholarships to Los Angeles-area recipients: one to a woman and another to a person from an underrepresented group or groups.
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