The 40th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2014.^[1]

Winners

• Best Picture:
  • Boyhood
    • Runner-up: The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Best Director:
  • Richard Linklater – Boyhood
    • Runner-up: Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Best Actor:
  • Tom Hardy – Locke
    • Runner-up: Michael Keaton – Birdman
• Best Actress:
  • Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
    • Runner-up: Julianne Moore – Still Alice
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • J. K. Simmons – Whiplash
    • Runner-up: Edward Norton – Birdman
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Agata Kulesza – Ida
    • Runner-up: Rene Russo – Nightcrawler
• Best Screenplay:
  • Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
    • Runner-up: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó – Birdman
• Best Cinematography:
  • Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman
    • Runner-up: Dick Pope – Mr. Turner
• Best Editing:
  • Sandra Adair – Boyhood
    • Runner-up: Barney Pilling – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Best Production Design:
  • Adam Stockhausen – The Grand Budapest Hotel
    • Runner-up: Ondřej Nekvasil – Snowpiercer
• Best Music Score (TIE):
  • Jonny Greenwood – Inherent Vice
  • Mica Levi – Under the Skin
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Ida • Poland
    • Runner-up: Winter Sleep • Turkey
• Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
  • Citizenfour
    • Runner-up: Life Itself
• Best Animation:
  • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
    • Runner-up: The Lego Movie
• New Generation Award:
  • Ava DuVernay
• Career Achievement Award:
  • Gena Rowlands
• The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
  • Walter Reuben – The David Whiting Story