LAFCA. Awards.

"Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, an epic tale of the oil business in early 20th-century California, won four awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association in their year-end voting Sunday including best picture, director and actor honors," announces the Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt. "The other multiple-award winner was Christian Mungiu's Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - the Palme d'Or winner at Cannes this year - which won both best foreign language film honors and best supporting actor in Vlad Ivanov, who played the abortionist in the film."

Updates, 12/10: Scott Foundas "couldn't help but chuckle" as he read some of the blogging Oscar prognosticators yesterday: "If I may, for a moment, part the veil: On a Sunday morning each December, a majority of LAFCA's 50-some-odd members meet at the home of our current group president and spend the next four or five hours hashing out our awards based solely - drum roll please - on the films and performances we consider to be most deserving of those awards. As un-sexy as that may sound compared to some sort of conspiratorial plot or agenda, it is, simply, the way things work."

And Robert Koehler replies to Jeffrey Wells.

Posted by dwhudson at December 9, 2007 4:25 PM