FILE - This representation released by Janus Films and Sideshow shows Hidetoshi Nishijima, left, and Toko Miura successful a country from "Drive My Car." (Janus Films and Sideshow via AP, File)

LOS ANGELES – It was a showdown betwixt Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” and Jane Campion’s “ The Power of the Dog ” for members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, but the radical managed to springiness apical honors to some connected Saturday.

The Japanese movie “Drive My Car” was named champion representation and “The Power of the Dog,” a Western play acceptable successful 1925, got runner up. Campion, meanwhile, received champion manager with Hamaguchi arsenic her runner up.

Simon Rex took champion histrion for his crook arsenic an ex porn prima successful Sean Baker’s “ Red Rocket,” and Penelope Cruz was named champion histrion for playing a lensman and caller parent successful Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers.”

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Supporting histrion went to Ariana DeBose, who plays Anita successful “West Side Story,” portion supporting histrion was a necktie betwixt Vincent London for “Titane” and Kodi Smit-McPhee for “The Power of the Dog.”

The nonfiction movie “ Flee, " astir an Afghan refugee, got champion animated film, portion the documentary grant went to Questlove's “ Summer of Soul," which chronicles a mostly forgotten euphony festival successful the summertime of 1969.

“Our awards screen a batch of crushed and genres and they besides span the globe,” said Claudia Puig, the president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. “We are thrilled to dispersed our emotion and appreciation for this breadth of outstanding films.”

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The LA radical isn’t the archetypal to azygous retired “Drive My Car,” astir a widowed histrion and manager and the narration helium develops with his chauffeur, which debuted astatine the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. The New York Film Critics Circle and the Boston Society of Film Critics awarded “Drive My Car” champion representation honors arsenic well. It besides took champion planetary diagnostic astatine the Gotham Independent Film Awards.

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