by GISELE DURHAM, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The family drama In the Bedroom and its lead actress Sissy Spacek received top honors Saturday from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
In Todd Field's directing debut, Spacek and Tom Wilkinson portray a grieving Maine couple whose marriage nearly collapses under the strain of their son's murder.
The awards were announced Saturday and will be presented Jan. 22.
David Lynch received directing honors for Mulholland Drive, a dark tale of obsession, danger and amnesia in Hollywood. Lynch also was named best director at the Cannes Film Festival and the film was chosen as best 2001 movie by the New York Film Critics Circle.
Actor Denzel Washington was named best actor for Training Day, in which he plays a rogue cop who initiates co-star Ethan Hawke to the darker side of crime fighting.
The supporting actor nod went to Jim Broadbent for the musical Moulin Rouge and Iris, about the life of novelist Iris Murdoch whose career was cut short by Alzheimer's disease.
Kate Winslet was named best supporting actress for her role as the young Murdoch.
Other selections:
Screenplay - Christopher Nolan, Memento
Foreign Film - Danis Tanovic, No Man's Land (Bosnia)
Documentary - Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I
Animation - Shrek
Production Design - Catherine Martin, Moulin Rouge
Music/Score - Howard Shore, Lord of the Rings
Cinematography - Roger Deakins, The Man Who Wasn't There
Career Achievement - Ennio Morricone
New Generation Award - John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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