Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Lead Performance | |
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Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor or an Actress in a Leading Role |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Los Angeles Film Critics Association |
First awarded | Cate Blanchett – Tár Bill Nighy – Living (2022) |
Currently held by | Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest Emma Stone – Poor Things (2023) |
Website | lafca |
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Lead Performance is an award given annually by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It was first introduced in 2022, after it was announced that the four acting categories would be retired and replaced with two gender neutral categories, with both Best Actor and Best Actress merging into the Best Lead Performance category. Two awards for Best Lead Performance and two awards for Best Supporting Performance, each with two winners and two runners-up, are handed out. [1] [2] [3]
Year | Winner(s) | Film(s) | Role(s) |
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2022 [4] | Cate Blanchett | Tár | Lydia Tár ‡ |
Bill Nighy | Living | Mr. Williams ‡ | |
Danielle Deadwyler | Till | Mamie Till-Mobley | |
Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Evelyn Wang † | |
2023 [5] | Sandra Hüller | Anatomy of a Fall | Sandra Voyter ‡ |
The Zone of Interest | Hedwig Höss | ||
Emma Stone | Poor Things | Bella Baxter † | |
Andrew Scott | All of Us Strangers | Adam | |
Jeffrey Wright | American Fiction | Thelonious "Monk" Ellison ‡ |
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