Mad Max: Fury Road earned the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Sound Design, and Best Editing awards from the San Diego Film Critics Society. The group met on Monday, December 14th to vote on the best work in films released in 2015, and George Miller’s post-apocalyptic action thriller had a lot of supporters among the group (full disclosure: I’m the president of the SDFCS). Following close on Mad Max: Fury Road‘s heels was Room, the dramatic film based on Emma Donoghue’s bestselling novel. The SDFCS gave Donoghue the Best Adapted Screenplay award and the film’s female star, Brie Larson, beat out the pack of contenders that included Mad Max‘s Charlize Theron to earn the Best Actress award. Room also earned young actor Jacob Tremblay the Breakthrough Artist award. Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, the animated film Anomalisa, and the vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows each earned two awards from the San Diego critics.
San Diego Film Critics Society 2015 Award Winners:
Best Picture
Winner: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Runner Up: EX MACHINA
Best Director
Winner: George Miller, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Runner Up: Lenny Abrahamson, ROOM
Best Actor, Male
Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio, THE REVENANT
Runner Up: Jason Segel, THE END OF THE TOUR
Best Actor, Female
Winner: Brie Larson, ROOM
Runners Up: Saoirse Ronan, BROOKLYN, Charlize Theron, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Best Supporting Actor, Male
Winner: Tom Noonan, ANOMALISA
Runner Up: Paul Dano, LOVE & MERCY
Best Supporting Actor, Female
Winner: Jennifer Jason Leigh, THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Runner Up: Kristen Stewart, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
Runner Up: Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, MISTRESS AMERICA
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Emma Donoghue, ROOM
Runner Up: Donald Margulies, THE END OF THE TOUR
Best Documentary
Winner: CARTEL LAND
Runner Up: AMY
Best Animated Film
Winner: ANOMALISA
Runner Up: INSIDE OUT
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: TAXI
Runner Up: WHITE GOD
Best Editing
Winner: Margaret Sixel, Jason Ballantine MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Runner Up: Joe Walker, SICARIO
Best Cinematography
Winner: Roger Deakins, SICARIO
Runner Up: Emmanuel Lubezki, THE REVENANT
Best Production Design
Winner: Francois Seguin, BROOKLYN
Runner Up: Colin Gibson, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Best Sound Design
Winner: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Runner Up: LOVE & MERCY
Best Visual Effects
Winner: THE WALK
Runner Up: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Best Use Of Music In A Film
Winner: THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Runner Up: LOVE & MERCY
Breakthrough Artist
Winner: Jacob Tremblay, ROOM
Runners Up: Emory Cohen, BROOKLYN and Alicia Vikander, THE DANISH GIRL, EX MACHINA
Best Ensemble
Winner: WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
Runner Up: THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Body of Work:
Winner: Alicia Vikander
Runners Up: Tom Hardy and Domnhall Gleeson
