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Best Picture
Amour; runner-up: The Master

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, "The Master"; runner-up: Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty"

Best Actor
Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"; runner-up: Denis Lavant, "Holy Motors"

Best Actress
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook" and Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"

Best Supporting Actor
Dwight Henry, "Beasts of the Southern Wild."; runner-up: Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained."

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, "The Master"; runner-up: Anne Hathaway, "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Les Miserables"

Best Screenplay
Argo; runner-up: Silver Linings Playbook

Best Foreign Language Film
Holy Motors; runner-up: Footnote

Best Documentary
The Gatekeepers; runner-up: Searching for Sugar Man

Best Animation
Frankenweenie; runner-up: It's Such a Beautiful Day

Best Editing
Zero Dark Thirty; runner-up: Argo

Best Cinematography
Skyfall; runner-up: The Master

Best Production Design
David Crank and Jack Fisk, "The Master."; runner-up: Adam Stockhausen, "Moonrise Kingdom."

Best Music Score
Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild."; runner-up: Jonny Greenwood, "The Master."

New Generation Award
Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild."

Django Unchained has so many damn contenders in the same category. Critics groups obviously do not agree with the Weinsteins' decision to push Christoph Waltz as a co-lead.

Best Production Design: The Master, with Moonrise Kingdom as the runner-up

Painful Anna Karenina snub.

I bet they go Beasts as their "Not NY" BP

Hathaway even being a runner-up with the LA critics and their propensity for picking obscure choices is a very good sign for her.

Even if Les Mis' overall reception is more muted than expected, she's going to Renee Zellweger/Jennifer Hudson her way to the Oscar and sweep everything televised.

Amy Adams? Love her but that performance was whatever. Interesting Supporting Actor pick though.

I believe people are more in love with the against-type idea of Amy Adams' performance--the charming Enchanted/Julie & Julia starlet playing Lady Macbeth to L. Ron Hubbard--than her performance itself. She is fine and holds the screen, but I do not find it revelatory. But to each their own.

Adams is excellent as usual in The Master. I just wish she had more to do.

Yeah, she's totally deserving of accolades for the performance, even if it is somewhat small.

The Beasts wins are my favorites so far. I hope this isn't the last we see of Henry this season!

BEST DIRECTOR, Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, "The Master."

Best Picture: Amour

Best Picture Runner-Up: The Master

Best Actress TIE: Jennifer Lawrence/Emmanuelle Riva

Best Actor. Joaquin Phoenix, Runner-Up: Denis Lavant (Holy Motors)

Lawrence's first critics win, I believe. She tied Riva and all, but her winning (like Hathaway) is a good sign for the future because L.A. often goes with more obscure choices.

The biggest winner here is obviously Amour, and I do think it's now firmly in contention for a BP nom, if it weren't before.

I dunno about Amour. I think it was always going to be a popular critics' choice. It's exactly the reason why Emmanuelle Riva is still not a lock for a nomination despite her wins today (although she is definitely the film's likeliest nomination at this point). We'll see tho.

Winning Best Actress from LAFCA doesn't mean much as they tend to pick some surprises here, but winning Best Picture here is a big deal. The last film that won LAFCA but didn't get a BP nomination is Wall-E, and that has obvious reason. For a non-animated film, you will have to go all the way back to 2003 with American Splendor.

Umm, I just realzed that every single LAFCA Best Director winner since 1990 went on to be nominated for an Oscar in that category with the exception of Oliver Assayas (Carlos) - but there was a tie in that year, David Fincher won as well.

May be a coincidence, but they have predicted such interesting Director noms as Paul Greengrass (United 93), Pedro Almodovar (Talk to Her) and David Lynch (Mullholland Drive).

Could The Master pull a The Tree of Life afterall?