COLCOA Critics Awards 2016

 

COLCOA CINEMA :

 

- Critics Award: COME WHAT MAY (En Mai fais ce qu’il te plait)

- Critics Special Prize: THE FIRST, THE LAST (Les Premiers, les derniers)

- Critics Special Mentions:  FATIMA, THE INNOCENTS (Les Innocentes), Actor Nicolas Duvauchelle for his performance in A DECENT MAN (Je ne suis pas un héros)

- First Feature Award: NEATHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH (Ni le ciel, ni la terre)

 

COLCOA is proud to partner with LAFCA for the COLCOA Critics Awards. The 2015 LAFCA Jury gave a Critics Award, a First Feature Award, a Special Prize, and Special Mentions. 

LAFCA is a professional organization of Los Angeles-based film critics working in the Los Angeles print and electronic media. Each year since its creation in 1975, LAFCA members honor outstanding cinematic achievements during their annual Achievement Awards ceremony in January. LAFCA also sponsors film events and donates funds to various Los Angeles film organizations. 

2015 LAFCA CRITICS JURY 

Lael Loewenstein 

 

Lael Loewenstein recently marked her twelfth year as a critic on Film Week, heard locally on NPR station KPCC. Her film reviews and features have appeared in Variety, DGA Quarterly, Time Out New York, USA Today, New York Daily News, and the Los Angeles Times. She has been a jury member and panelist at film festivals from Palm Springs to Sarajevo and served two terms as president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. A graduate of Wesleyan’s film program and UCLA’s critical studies program, she’s a lifelong Francophile who spent a year in Paris devouring baguettes and cinema. 

 

 

Michael Nordine

 

Michael Nordine is a regular contributor to LA Weekly, the Village Voice, and VICE. His work has also appeared in Cinema Scope, Indiewire, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Mubi, and Reverse Shot. His admiration for French culture began during a trip to France as a teenager, and he longs to return to the Loire Valley. A member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and native Angeleno, he holds a B.A. in literature from Bennington College and an M.A. in film studies from Chapman University.

 

 

Jean Oppenheimer

 

Jean Oppenheimer has been a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for two decades, serving three terms as president. Her reviews currently appear on Writersblocpresents.com. Prior to that she reviewed for The Village Voice, LA Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, Screen International and on KPCC’s FilmWeek (NPR).  Jean is also a Los Angeles correspondent for American Cinematographer magazine, an association that began in 1991. Her work has appeared in Premiere, The New York Times syndicate and Variety; she has moderated panel discussions on cinematography and other film-related topics at Academy, guild and studio screenings, as well as the Sundance, AFI and COL-COA film festivals; and has served on the jury of the AFI, COL-COA, Slamdance and CineVegas Film Festivals.  Jean’s other passion, aside from film, is world politics, which explains why she is depressed 99% of the time. Her beloved dog Theo does his best to keep up her spirits.

 

Alynda Wheat

 

Alynda Wheat is a senior writer at People, and the magazine's former movie critic. She’s also written for Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, Essence, Salon, and many other publications. She began reviewing film in graduate school, at U.C. Berkeley, after earning her Bachelor’s from Harvard. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, animator/illustrator David Savage, and their son, Jackson.

 

Chuck Wilson

 

Chuck Wilson has been a freelance film critic for the L.A. Weekly and the Village Voice for nearly 20 years.  A member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Chuck was born in Florida, raised in Atlanta, and has lived in Los Angeles for over 30 years—which makes him an L.A. native (or so he likes to think).

PAST JURIES 

 

2014 

Andrew Barker

Tim Cogshell

Ann Lee Ellingson

Robert Koehler

Henry Sheehan

2013

Lael Loewenstein (PRESIDENT)

Justin Chang

Wade Major

Jean Oppenheimer

Chuck Wilson

2012

Christy Lemire (PRESIDENT)

Andrew Barker

Annlee Ellingson

Todd Gilchrist

Ella Taylor

 

2011

Peter Debruge (PRESIDENT)

David Ehrenstein

Mark Olsen

Justin Lowe

Henry Sheehan

 

2010

Jean Oppenheimer (PRESIDENT)

Tim Grierson

Sheri Linden

Wade Major

Brent Simon

 

2009

F.X. Feeney (PRESIDENT)

Peter Debruge

Andy Klein

Christy Lemire

Amy Nicholson

 

2008

Wade Major (PRESIDENT)

Scott Foundas

Mike Goodridge

Jean Oppenheimer

Claudia Puig