Moonlight dominated the 2016 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (LAFCA) winning four awards including Best Picture, Best Director for Barry Jenkins, Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali, and Best Cinematography for James Laxton,

I Am Not Your Negro won the award for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction, The Handmaiden won Best Best Foreign-Language Film, and The Illinois Parables won the Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Prize

42nd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Best Picture
Winner: Moonlight
Runner-Up: La La Land

Best Director
Winner: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Runner-Up: Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Best Actor
Winner: Adam Driver, Paterson
Runner-Up: Casey Affleck, Manchester By The Sea

Best Actress
Winner: Isabelle Huppert, Elle and Things to Come
Runner-Up: Rebecca Hall, Christine

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Runner-up: Issey Ogata, Silence

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Lily Gladstone, Certain Women
Runner-up: Michelle Williams, Manchester By The Sea

Best Screenplay
Winner: Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster
Runner-Up: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The Sea

Best Production Design
Winner: Ryu Seong-hee, The Handmaiden
Runner-up: David Wasco, La La Land

Best Editing
Winner: Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, Ben Sozanski, OJ: Made In America
Runner-up: Tom Cross, La La Land

Best Cinematography
Winner: James Laxton, Moonlight
Runner-up: Linus Sandgren, La La Land

Best Music/Score
Winner: Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, La La Land
Runner-up: Mica Levi, Jackie

Best Foreign-Language Film
Winner: The Handmaiden
Runner-Up: Toni Erdmann

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction
Winner: I Am Not Your Negro
Runner-up: OJ: Made In America

Best Animation
Winner: Your Name
Runner-Up: The Red Turtle

New Generation
Trey Edward Shults and Krisha Fairchild, Krisha

Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Prize
Winner: The Illinois Parables

Special Citation
Turner Classic Movies, for Preserving Historic Cinema via Filmstruck