Boyhood, the film that was 12 years in the making, took home the LA Film Critic's highest award, winning Best Picture for the tale that followed the life of a young boy named Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from age five to eighteen.
The film also starred Patricia Arquette as Mason's single mother. She won the award for Best Actress, while the film's Director, Richard Linklater won Best Director, as well as Best Editing.
Boyhood has been greeted with critical acclaim at all the film festival circuits. When it was first released over the summer, reviewers praised it, "calling it 'as real as magic gets' and worth 'a thousand more superlatives.'"
Director Richard Linklater certainly took a leap of faith when he embarked to film this 12 year story, but the gamble has proven to have paid off, with Boyhood also taking home five awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics as well as more honors from the New York Film Critics Circle.
The editing team must also be commended for their work in the film making process for Boyhood. Every year, Linklater would meet with his actors and film for a few days on 35mm film by Cinematographers Lee Daniel and Shane Kelly.
The footage would then be processed and put away for another year. After more than a decade, they had the painstaking task of piecing together the story from 12 years of takes.
The end result is the masterpiece that has film lovers buzzing.
Other films which took home honors at the LA Film Critics were Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was the runner up for Best Picture; Ida, Best Foreign Language Film; The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Best Animation; and Citizenfour for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction, among other critically acclaimed movies and performances.
