Seemingly earlier than ever this year, major critics groups have begun announcing their year-end awards. So far, three films have emerged as critical favorites: Damien Chazelle’s Los Angeles musical fantasia La La Land, Kenneth Lonergan’s New England drama Manchester by the Sea and Barry Jenkins’ Miami coming-out tale Moonlight.

The National Board of Review named Manchester by the Sea Best Film. The New York Film Critics Circle gave its Best Film award to La La Land, while Moonlight took the Best Picture award at the Gotham Awards. And now the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) has announced its choices as well.

LAFCA announced Sunday that Moonlight is its pick for Best Picture, followed by La La Land as runner-up, as reported by EW (LAFCA announnces one winner and one runner-up for each award). Jenkins also took home the group’s Best Director award, with Chazelle picked as the runner-up. Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali won Best Supporting Actor, while Moonlight was also named winner of the Best Cinematography award, with James Laxton beating out La La Land’s Linus Sandgren.

Read the full list of winners below:

Best Picture

WINNER: Moonlight

RUNNER-UP: La La Land

Best Director

WINNER: Barry Jenkins - Moonlight

RUNNER-UP: Damien Chazelle - La La Land

Best Actor

WINNER: Adam Driver - Paterson

RUNNER-UP: Casey Affleck - Manchester by the Sea

Best Actress

WINNER: Isabelle Huppert - Elle

RUNNER-UP: Rebecca Hall - Christine

Best Supporting Actor

WINNER: Mahershala Ali - Moonlight

RUNNER-UP: Issy Ogata - Silence

Best Supporting Actress

WINNER: Lily Gladstone - Certain Women

RUNNER-UP: Michelle Williams - Manchester by the Sea

Best Animation

WINNER: Your Name.

RUNNER-UP: The Red Turtle

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER: The Handmaiden

RUNNER-UP: Toni Erdmann

Best Documentary

WINNER: I Am Not Your Negro

RUNNER-UP: OJ: Made in America

Best Screenplay

WINNER: Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos - The Lobster

RUNNER-UP: Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea

Best Editing

WINNER: Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, Ben Sozanski - OJ: Made in America

RUNNER-UP: Tom Cross - La La Land

Best Production Design

WINNER: Ryu Seong-hee - The Handmaiden

RUNNER-UP: David Wasco - La La Land

Best Music Score

WINNER: Justin Hurwitz - La La Land

RUNNER-UP: Mica Levi - Jackie

Best Cinematography

WINNER: James Laxton - Moonlight

RUNNER-UP: Linus Sandgren - La La Land

New Generation Award

WINNER: Trey Edward Shults and Krisha Fairchild - Krisha

It’s still very early, of course, but the awards bode very well for Moonlight, the urban drama that has gained nearly universal praise since its release in October. It figures to compete across numerous Oscar categories, from Best Picture to Best Director to even more technical categories like cinematography. And since the film’s cast is split among three different eras, it’s more good news for Moonlight that Ali managed to win an acting award. Jenkins, should he win, would become the first-ever African-American Best Director winner.

But don’t count out the other films yet – La La Land and Manchester by the Sea remain top contenders, while a pair of films not yet seen by most critics – Denzel Washington’s Fences and Martin Scorsese’s Silence – may still catch on later in awards season. It is, after all, still only the first week in December.

Source: LAFCA/EW