--- title: 'Boyhood' Wins Top Prize From Los Angeles Film Critics Association description: The association on Sunday awarded 'Boyhood' four prizes, including Best Picture and Best Actress canonical: https://time.com/3622804/boyhood-prizes-los-angeles-film-critics-association/ author: Elizabeth Barber article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-08T04:44:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:38:38.705Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Boyhood' Wins Another Top Prize og:description: The film is cleaning up on the awards circuit. og:url: https://time.com/3622804/boyhood-prizes-los-angeles-film-critics-association/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7b10ce6b4152c1a8/69876d42e53aba820f4d662d/boyhood-movie.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Boyhood, Sundance Film Festival 2014 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Boyhood' Wins Another Top Prize twitter:description: The film is cleaning up on the awards circuit. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7b10ce6b4152c1a8/69876d42e53aba820f4d662d/boyhood-movie.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Boyhood_ Wins Best Picture From the Los Angeles Film Critics Association by [Elizabeth Barber](https://time.com/author/elizabeth-barber/) ## Elizabeth Barber Dec 8, 2014 4:44 AM UTC  BOYHOOD, 2014\. ©Diaphana Films BOYHOOD, 2014\. ©Diaphana FilmsDiaphana Films by [Elizabeth Barber](https://time.com/author/elizabeth-barber/) ## Elizabeth Barber Dec 8, 2014 4:44 AM UTC The Los Angeles Film Critics Association on Sunday awarded _Boyhood_ [four prizes](http://www.lafca.net/years/2014.html), including Best Picture, in the latest coup for the coming-of-age movie. The awards — which also include Best Actress (Patricia Arquette), Best Director (Richard Linklater) and Editing — made the film the association’s standout favorite. Wes Anderson’s _The Grand Budapest Hotel_ was the runner-up for the Best Picture title. > [](https://twitter.com/LAFilmCritics/status/541733418350809089) Just a day earlier, the Boston Society of Film Critics honored _Boyhood_ with five awards, also including Best Picture. The film also last week took the Best Picture prize, plus awards for best director and supporting actress, from the New York Film Critics Circle. _Boyhood_ follows its characters during the youth of protagonist Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who ages from 5 to 18\. It was a favorite for the awards circuit when it was released over the summer to reviews calling it “as real as [magic](http://www.wsj.com/articles/film-review-boyhood-1405014890) gets” and worth “a [thousand](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-boyhood-review-20140711-column.html#page=1) more superlatives.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3622804/boyhood-prizes-los-angeles-film-critics-association/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3622804/boyhood-prizes-los-angeles-film-critics-association/"},"headline":"Boyhood Wins Best Picture From the Los Angeles Film Critics Association","datePublished":"2014-12-08T04:44:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:38:38.705Z","description":"The film is cleaning up on the awards circuit","url":"https://time.com/3622804/boyhood-prizes-los-angeles-film-critics-association/","keywords":["movies","Wes Anderson","The Grand Budapest Hotel","Boyhood","Richard Linklater","Patricia Arquette"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7b10ce6b4152c1a8/69876d42e53aba820f4d662d/boyhood-movie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elizabeth Barber","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/elizabeth-barber/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7b10ce6b4152c1a8/69876d42e53aba820f4d662d/boyhood-movie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Boyhood, Sundance Film Festival 2014","caption":"Boyhood, Sundance Film Festival 2014","creditText":"Diaphana Films","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3622804/boyhood-prizes-los-angeles-film-critics-association/","name":"Boyhood Wins Best Picture From the Los Angeles Film Critics Association"}}]}] ```