Video · LA Film Critics Awards: Angelina Jolie, Wes Anderson Come Out on Big Night for 'Boyhood'

The 40th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were presented on Saturday night at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City. With 18 awards each introduced with explanations for the group’s selections — which were announced on Dec. 7— by one of its group’s 57 members, the ceremony stretched to roughly four hours or so. But for the honorees — and especially the big winner, Boyhood, which also fared well with the critics on the other coast— it could have gone on forever.
The evening kicked off with welcoming remarks by LAFCA president Stephen Farber, a montage of the honorees’ 2014 work and a tribute to LAFCA co-founder Charles Champlin, who passed away last year, by his former Los Angeles Times colleague Kevin Thomas, who noted, “He gave a whole generation of us tremendous opportunities.”