Detroit Film Critics Society Loves La La Land, Emma Stone, Casey Affleck and 20th Century Women

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The Detroit Film Critics Society has announced their winners for 2016. La La Land picked up their top award along with Damien Chazelle for Best Director and Emma Stone’s 2nd Best Actress win in as many days.

Here is the full list of winners:

BEST PICTURE
LA LA LAND

BEST DIRECTOR
DAMIEN CHAZELLE – LA LA LAND

BEST ACTOR
CASEY AFFLECK – MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

BEST ACTRESS
EMMA STONE – LA LA LAND

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
JEFF BRIDGES – HELL OR HIGH WATER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (tie)
VIOLA DAVIS – FENCES
and
GRETA GERWIG – 20TH CENTURY WOMEN

BEST ENSEMBLE
20TH CENTURY WOMEN

BEST BREAKTHROUGH
KELLY FREMON CRAIG – THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN – DIRECTOR/WRITER

BEST SCREENPLAY
DAMIEN CHAZELLE – LA LA LAND

BEST DOCUMENTARY
O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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