title: 2019 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
text: # 2019 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
  
  The 45th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2019.
  
  ## Winners
  
  * Best Film:
     * Parasite
        * Runner-up: The Irishman
  * Best Director:
     * Bong Joon-ho – Parasite
        * Runner-up: Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
  * Best Actor:
     * Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory
        * Runner-up: Adam Driver – Marriage Story
  * Best Actress:
     * Mary Kay Place – Diane
        * Runner-up: Lupita Nyong'o – Us
  * Best Supporting Actor:
     * Song Kang-ho – Parasite
        * Runner-up: Joe Pesci – The Irishman
  * Best Supporting Actress:
     * Jennifer Lopez – Hustlers
        * Runner-up: Zhao Shu-zhen – The Farewell
  * Best Screenplay:
     * Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story
        * Runner-up: Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won – Parasite
  * Best Cinematography:
     * Claire Mathon – Atlantics and Portrait of a Lady on Fire
        * Runner-up: Roger Deakins – 1917
  * Best Editing:
     * Todd Douglas Miller – Apollo 11
        * Runner-up: Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie – Uncut Gems
  * Best Production Design:
     * Barbara Ling – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
        * Runner-up: Ha-jun Lee – Parasite
  * Best Music Score:
     * Dan Levy – I Lost My Body
        * Runner-up: Thomas Newman – 1917
  * Best Foreign Language Film:
     * Pain and Glory • Spain
        * Runner-up: Portrait of a Lady on Fire • France
  * Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
     * American Factory
        * Runner-up: Apollo 11
  * Best Animation:
     * I Lost My Body
        * Runner-up: Toy Story 4
  * New Generation Award:
     * Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, and Joe Talbot – The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  * Career Achievement Award:
     * Elaine May
  * The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
     * Ja'Tovia Gary – The Giverny Document
  