- Winners
- References
- External links
{{Infobox film award
| name = 23rd LAFCA Awards
| image =
| date = December 1997
| award1_type = Best Picture
| award1_winner = L.A. Confidential
| previous = 22nd
| main = LAFCA Awards
| next = 24th
}}The 23rd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1997, were voted on in December 1997.[1][2] Winners- Best Picture:
- L.A. Confidential
- Runner-up: The Sweet Hereafter
- Best Director:
- Curtis Hanson – L.A. Confidential
- Runner-up: Atom Egoyan – The Sweet Hereafter
- Best Actor:
- Robert Duvall – The Apostle
- Runner-up: Jack Nicholson – As Good as It Gets
- Best Actress:
- Helena Bonham Carter – The Wings of the Dove
- Runner-up: Jodie Foster – Contact
- Best Supporting Actor:
- Burt Reynolds – Boogie Nights
- Runner-up: Kevin Spacey – L.A. Confidential
- Best Supporting Actress:
- Julianne Moore – Boogie Nights
- Runner-up: Gloria Stuart – Titanic
- Best Screenplay:
- Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland – L.A. Confidential
- Runner-up: Kevin Smith – Chasing Amy
- Best Cinematography:
- Dante Spinotti – L.A. Confidential
- Runner-up: Paul Sarossy – The Sweet Hereafter
- Best Production Design:
- Peter Lamont – Titanic
- Runner-up: Jeannine Oppewall – The Sweet Hereafter
- Best Music Score:
- Philip Glass – Kundun
- Runner-up: James Horner – Titanic
- Best Foreign-Language Film:
- La Promesse • Belgium/France/Luxembourg
- Runner-up: Shall We Dance? (Shall we dansu?) • Japan
- Best Non-Fiction Film:
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120017/ Riding the Rails]
- Runner-up: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
- Best Animation (tie):
- Hercules
- The Spirit of Christmas
- The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116307/ Finished]
- New Generation Award:
- Paul Thomas Anderson – Boogie Nights and Hard Eight
- Special Citation:
References1. ^{{cite news|last1=Kronke|first1=David|title='L.A. Confidential' Gets L.A. Critics' Top Award|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1997/dec/14/local/me-64021|accessdate=28 December 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=14 December 1997}}
2. ^{{cite news|title='L.A. Confidential' voted best film by L.A. critics|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3G1XAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fPEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2571,7243058&dq|via=Google News Archive|accessdate=28 December 2017|work=The Spokesman-Review|date=16 December 1997}}
External links- 23rd Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
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