Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film explained

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film is an award given annually by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Winners

1970s

Year	Film	Director
1975	Dog Day Afternoon	Sidney Lumet
	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Miloš Forman
1976	Network	Sidney Lumet
	Rocky	John G. Avildsen
1977	Star Wars	George Lucas
1978	Coming Home	Hal Ashby
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton

1980s

Year	Film	Director
1980	Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese
1981	Atlantic City	Louis Malle
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg
1983	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks
1984	Amadeus	Miloš Forman
1985	Brazil	Terry Gilliam
1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	Woody Allen
1987	Hope and Glory	John Boorman
1988	Little Dorrit	Christine Edzard
1989	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee

1990s

Year	Film	Director
1990	Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese
1991	Bugsy	Barry Levinson
1992	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood
1993	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg
1994	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino
1995	Leaving Las Vegas	Mike Figgis
1996	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh
1997	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg
1999	The Insider	Michael Mann

2000s

Year	Film	Director
2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)	Ang Lee
2001	In the Bedroom	Todd Field
2002	About Schmidt	Alexander Payne
2003	American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
2004	Sideways	Alexander Payne
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee
2006	Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood
2007	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson
2008	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
2009	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow

2010s

Year	Film	Director
2010	The Social Network	David Fincher
2011	The Descendants	Alexander Payne
2012	Amour	Michael Haneke
2013	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
	Her	Spike Jonze
2014	Boyhood	Richard Linklater^[1]
2015	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy^[2]
2016	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins^[3]
2017	Call Me by Your Name	Luca Guadagnino^[4]
2018	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón^[5]
2019	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho^[6]

2020s

Year	Film	Director
2020	Small Axe	Steve McQueen^[7]
2021	Drive My Car	Ryusuke Hamaguchi^[8]
2022	Everything Everywhere All At Once	Daniels^[9]
	TÁR	Todd Field
2023	The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer^[10]

Notes and References

1. https://awardswatch.com/los-angeles-film-critics-association-winners-boyhood-birdman-ida-grand-budapest-hotel-locke/ Los Angeles Film Critics Association Winners: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Birdman,’ ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ and more | AwardsWatch
2. https://time.com/4138308/spotlight-mad-max-los-angeles-film-critics-association/ Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Winners|Time
3. https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/l-a-film-critics-awards-2016-winners/ Los Angeles Film Critics Winners: Moonlight Wins Best Picture < < Rotten Tomatoes - Movie and TV News
4. https://deadline.com/2017/12/2017-los-angeles-film-critics-association-awards-winners-full-list-1202219106/ 2017 L.A. Film Critics Association Awards Winners — List — Deadline
5. https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/2018-los-angeles-film-critics-association-awards-winners-1203085176/ ‘Roma’ Named Best Film of 2018 by L.A. Film Critics Association — Variety
6. https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/la-film-critics-2019-winners-1202195434/ LA Film Critics Crown ‘Parasite,’ Bong Joon Ho, Mary Kay Place, and Antonio Banderas|IndieWire
7. https://variety.com/2020/film/awards/lafca-winners-2020-1234867257/#! 'Small Axe' Wins LAFCA Best Picture Despite Not Submitted for Oscars - Variety
8. https://variety.com/2021/film/news/lafca-winners-list-2021-1235137273/ Los Angeles Film Critics 2021 Winners List - Variety
9. https://variety.com/2022/awards/awards/los-angeles-film-critics-lafca-2022-winners-list-1235456657/ Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) 2022 Winners - Variety
10. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-la-film-critics-award-winners-1235732168/ 2023 LA Film Critics Awards Winners List - The Hollywood Reporter