National Board of Review:

Best Film: Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Director: Ridley Scott – The Martian
Best Actor: Matt Damon – The Martian
Best Actress: Brie Larson – Room
Best Supporting Actor: Sylvester Stallone – Creed
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino – The Hateful Eight
Best Adapted Screenplay: Drew Goddard – The Martian
Best Animated Feature: Inside Out
Breakthrough Performance: Abraham Attah – Beasts of No Nation & Jacob Tremblay – Room
Best Directorial Debut: Jonas Carpignano – Mediterranea
Best Foreign Language Film: Son of Saul
Best Documentary: Amy
William K. Everson Film History Award: Cecilia De Mille Presley
Best Ensemble: The Big Short
Spotlight Award: Sicario, for Outstanding Collaborative Vision
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Beasts of No Nation & Mustang

Top Films
Bridge of Spies
Creed
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
Spotlight
The Martian
Room
Sicario
Straight Outta Compton

Top 5 Foreign Language Films
Goodnight Mommy
Mediterranea
Phoenix
The Second Mother
The Tribe

Top 5 Documentaries
Best of Enemies
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Diplomat
Listen to Me Marlon
The Look of Silence

Top 10 Independent Films
’71
45 Years
Cop Car
Ex Machina
Grandma
It Follows
James White
Mississippi Grind
Welcome to Me
While We’re Young

Steve Jobs getting jobbed. Have not seen, but isn't that a snub?

Gotham Awards:

Best Feature: “Spotlight”

Best Actress: Bel Powley, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl”

Best Actor: Paul Dano, “Love and Mercy”

Best Screenplay: Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, “Spotlight”

Special Jury Award: the cast of “Spotlight”

Best Documentary: “The Look of Silence”

Audience Award: “Tangerine”

I liked Inside Out. Pixar did good making it.

How good was the Martian btw?

not very

Martian overrated, Inside Out best movie of the year so far.

Los Angeles Film Critics:

Best Film: “Spotlight”
Runner-up: “Mad Max: Fury Road” Best


Director: George Miller, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Runner-up: Todd Haynes, “Carol”

Best Actor: Michael Fassbender, “Steve Jobs“
Runner-up: Geza Rohrig, “Son of Saul”

Best Actress: Charlotte Rampling, “45 Years”
Runner-up: Saoirse Ronan, “Brooklyn”

Best Supporting Actor: Michael Shannon, “99 Homes”
Runner-up: Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies”

Best Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander, “Ex Machina”
Runner-up: Kristen Stewart, “Clouds of Sils Maria”

Best Documentary: “Amy” Runner-up: “The Look of Silence”
Best Animated Film: “Anomalisa” Runner-up: “Inside Out”
Best Foreign Language Film: “Son of Saul” Runner-up: “The Tribe”

Best Screenplay: Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, “Spotlight” Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman, “Anomalisa”

Best Cinematography: John Seale, “Mad Max: Fury Road” Runner-up: Edward Lachman, “Carol”

Best Editing: Hank Corwin, “The Big Short” Runner-up: Margaret Sixel, “Mad Max: Fury Road”

Best Musical Score: Carter Burwell, “Anomalisa” and “Carol” Runner-up: Ennio Morricone, “The Hateful Eight”

Best Production Design: Colin Gibson, “Mad Max: Fury Road” Runner-up: Judy Becker, “Carol”

New Generation Award: Ryan Coogler, “Creed”

New York Film Critics:

Best Film: “Carol”
Best Director: Todd Haynes, “Carol”
Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan, “Brooklyn”
Best Actor: Michael Keaton, “Spotlight”
Best Supporting Actor: Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies”
Best Supporting Actress: Kristen Stewart, “Clouds of Sils Maria”
Best Animated Film: “Inside Out”
Best Screenplay: Phyllis Nagy, “Carol”
Best Cinematography: Edward Lachman, “Carol”
Best Nonfiction Film: “In Jackson Heights”
Best First Film: “Son of Saul”
Best Foreign Film: “Timbuktu”
Special Awards: Composer Ennio Morricone, posthumous honor for William Becker and Janus Films

Boston Film Critics:

Best Picture: “Spotlight”
Best Foreign Film: “The Look of Silence”
Best Actor: *Tie, Paul Dano in “Love & Mercy,” Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Revenant”
Best Supporting Actor: Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies”
Best Supporting Actress: Kristen Stewart, “Clouds of Sils Maria”
Best Screenplay: Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, “Spotlight”
Best New Filmmaker: Marielle Heller, “Diary of a Teenage Girl”
Best Editing: “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Best Use of Music: “Love & Mercy”

Not posting the Golden Globe moms because they're, like, 80 old ladies who just want to job nob with movie stars and don't care about art.

lol.

Bring a tear to me jaded eye why don't you, White Way.

Srstho, give me a bit of cred:

[standardChaimopener] ain't it tho.

Best of 2015: Film Awards & Nominations Scorecard

Best of 2015: Film Critic Top Ten Lists

Oscar noms out.

Revenant with 12, Mad Max with 10. I think they are nominated in every single category with the exception of the two extra acting noms for Hardy and Leo.

Seems like noms were pretty...mainstream? Not many off the beaten path choices. Happy to see Hardy get a nomination.

****ing lol at Straight Outta Compton getting Best Original Screenplay nod

Sicario getting shut out of all the main categories is as big as a snub as it gets. laughable actually

noms were pretty boring. I mean, McCarthy, McKay and The Room director all getting nominated, but Ridley Scott doesn't? WTF?

Yeah I would say based on all the awards buildup that the biggest snubs probably are Carol for picture, Scott for director, and Sorkin for writing. I am kind of happy Tarantino got kind of shut out this year.

Will feel weird though if Revenant cleans house. I liked it a lot but I can't call it like a six+ Oscar winner.

Golden Globe screenplay winner (where adapted and original are combined) doesn't get a nomination in the appropriate Oscar category. Has that happened before?

Of course. The Golden Globes don't matter. they aren't like the various guild awards, where the same people vote for the Oscars.

It's funny how the Oscar noms are simultaneously bland and controversial. A predictably safe list of best picture noms, but apparently the Academy thinks that the Martian magically directed itself. Under what circumstances can it make sense for a film to get nominated for best picture yet not best director? (not a rhetorical question).

best director nominations are determined by their peers (the director branch)

best picture nominations are determined by the entire membership

There are more slots for best picture nominees than for best director now so they have to leave some out.

The Oscars are the least fraudulent of the four major award shows. Well, the Tony's might be better but who the hell actually watches that.