Call Me By Your Name wows L.A. critics
Wins three awards including best film of 2017
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association voted Call Me By Your Name the best film of the year, bestowing three awards on Luca Guadagnino’s erotic coming-of-age tale.
The critics, who announced their awards Sunday on Twitter, also named the film’s breakout star, Timothee Chalamet, best actor. Guadagnino shared in the award for best director with Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water. Del Toro’s Cold War-era fairy tale also came away with three awards, including best actress for Sally Hawkins.
The wins further solidified Call Me By Your Name as an Oscar favourite. The movie also won best feature at last week’s Gotham Awards. Chalamet, though just 21, has won three awards just in the past week, besting veteran names including Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) and Tom Hanks (The Post).
Greta Gerwig ’s Lady Bird, which the New York Film Critics Circle named best film, landed one award from the Los Angeles critics: Laurie Metcalf for best supporting actress.
The Los Angeles critics also gave Gerwig, whose film is her first solo directorial effort, its “new generation” award.
The Los Angeles critics matched in some categories with their New York counterparts. Both selected Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) for best supporting actor and Agnes Varda’s Faces Places for best documentary.
But, as usual, they deviated in most other ways. Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, which is considered an Oscar favourite though it has won little in the early going, took best editing for Lee Smith.
The group also opted not for Pixar’s Coco as best animated film, but The Breadwinner, an international production about a girl in Afghanistan. Best screenplay went to Jordan Peele for Get Out.
Other awards included Dennis Gassner for the production design of Blade Runner 2049.
The critics earlier chose actor Max von Sydow for its career achievement award.