Last week, the New York Film Critics Circle named “Lady Bird” the best film of 2017. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. gave top honors to “Call Me by Your Name.” Times critics Justin Chang and Glenn Whipp, who are members of the L.A. organization, sat down to discuss the results and what they say (or don’t say) about the state of awards season.

JUSTIN CHANG: If the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cared what film critics think, one might assume that both “Lady Bird” and “Call Me by Your Name” are bound for Oscar glory following their big critics’ wins in the past week. The academy, of course, doesn’t care what we think, as its members have proven time and time again. Sometimes there’s overlap, to be sure: In the past two years the L.A. critics gave their top prize to “Spotlight” and “Moonlight,” both of which went on to win best picture Oscars. But the nature of these very occasional overlaps is coincidental rather than predictive.