Half a century into his directorial career, John Carpenter will be honored by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The legendary horror director has been selected to receive LAFCA‘s Career Achievement Award during the organization’s 50th annual awards show this year, which will take place January 11, 2025 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. “The LA Film Critics Association was one of the very first groups to present me an award, so I’m truly honored by this recognition,” said Carpenter in a statement. “For a horror guy like me, this really warms my heart, and it also shows just how important horror is as a genre, which the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has known for decades.” Carpenter previously received the New Generation Award for his horror breakthrough Halloween (1978), starring Jamie Lee Curtis. “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,” LAFCA President Robert Abele said. “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.” In addition to Halloween, Carpenter’s iconic horror repertoire includes such titles as The Fog (1980), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), They Live (1988) and Village of the Damned (1995).
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