The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has chosen writer-director John Carpenter as the recipient of this year’s Career Achievement Award.
“John Carpenter is such an ideal choice not only for his ability to spin stylish, prescient, genre-bending features of otherworldly menace and powerful emotion, but also because his glorious career happens to span our group’s 50-year existence,” said LAFCA President Robert Abele. “That strong connection starts with LAFCA recognizing his horror prowess early on with our New Generation award in 1979 for his stone-cold classic Halloween. So it’s only fitting that this longtime Angeleno, whose nightmares always said more than what was on the surface, become our first New Generation recipient to also get our Career Achievement award.”

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