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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

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    LAFCA Award

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    Best Actor

    • F. Murray Abraham
      Winner
      • F. Murray Abraham
      • Amadeus
      Tied with Albert Finney for Under the Volcano (1984).
    • Albert Finney at an event for Erin Brockovich (2000)
      Winner
      • Albert Finney
      • Under the Volcano
      Tied with F. Murray Abraham for Amadeus (1984).

    Best Actress

    • Kathleen Turner at an event for Youth Without Youth (2007)
      Winner
      • Kathleen Turner
      • Crimes of Passion
      • Romancing the Stone
    • Vanessa Redgrave at an event for Milk (2008)
      • Vanessa Redgrave
      • The Bostonians

    Best Cinematography

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Killing Fields

      7.8 (62K)
      Chris Menges
    • Emilio Estevez, Olivia Barash, Harry Dean Stanton, and Jennifer Balgobin in Repo Man (1984)
      Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dean Stanton, and Hunter Carson in Paris, Texas (1984)
      • Repo Man
      • Paris, Texas
      Robby Müller

    Best Director

    • Director Milos Forman attends the The Film Society of Lincoln Center's 37th Annual Chaplin Award gala at Alice Tully Hall on May 24, 2010 in New York City.
      Winner
      • Milos Forman
      • Amadeus
    • Sergio Leone in Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
      • Sergio Leone
      • Once Upon a Time in America

    Best Foreign Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The 4th Man

      7.1 (9K)
      Paul Verhoeven
    • [object Object]

      The Gods Must Be Crazy

      7.3 (62K)
      Jamie Uys

    Best Music

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Once Upon a Time in America

      8.3 (399K)
      Ennio Morricone
    • [object Object]

      Amadeus

      8.4 (453K)
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
      Posthumously.

    Best Picture

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Amadeus

      8.4 (453K)
    • [object Object]

      Once Upon a Time in America

      8.3 (399K)

    Best Screenplay

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Amadeus

      8.4 (453K)
      Peter Shaffer
    • [object Object]

      Choose Me

      6.7 (3.4K)
      Alan Rudolph

    Best Supporting Actor

    • Adolph Caesar in The Color Purple (1985)
      Winner
      • Adolph Caesar
      • A Soldier's Story
    • John Malkovich at an event for Beowulf (2007)
      • John Malkovich
      • Places in the Heart
      • The Killing Fields

    Best Supporting Actress

    • Peggy Ashcroft
      Winner
      • Peggy Ashcroft
      • A Passage to India
    • Christine Lahti in Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
      • Christine Lahti
      • Swing Shift

    New Generation Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Choose Me

      6.7 (3.4K)
      Alan Rudolph

    Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award

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    • George Kuchar and Mike Kuchar
      Winner
      • George Kuchar
      For the body of his works.

    Career Achievement Award

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    • "Love me Tonight" Rouben Mamaoulian 1932 Paramount **I.V.
      Winner
      • Rouben Mamoulian

    Special Award

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    • Andrew Sarris
      Winner
      • Andrew Sarris
    • François Truffaut
      Winner
      • François Truffaut

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    Event date

    January 24, 1984

    Event location

    Los Angeles, California, USA

    Event links

    • http://www.lafca.net/

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