Chicago Film Critics Chooses "Mad Max: Fury Road" as Best Picture of 2015

The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization that hands out the Chicago Film Critics Awards, hold critics roundtables, and takes on industry and artists’ rights issues. The parent association was founded in 1990 by film critic Sue Kiner after the successful launch of the Chicago Film Critics Awards in 1989.

Now in its 26th year, the CFCA announced the winners of Chicago Film Critics Association Awards during their year-end awards dinner held on the evening of Wednesday, December 16, 2015.

2015 / 26th Annual Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners:

BEST PICTURE
Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST DIRECTOR
George Miller--Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio--The Revenant

BEST ACTRESS
Brie Larson--Room

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Benicio Del Toro--Sicario

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alicia Vikander--Ex Machina

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Spotlight--Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Big Short--Adam McKay & Charles Randolph

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mad Max: Fury Road--John Seale

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Hateful Eight--Ennio Morricone

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST EDITING
Mad Max: Fury Road--Jason Ballantine & Margaret Sixel

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Son of Saul (Hungary)

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Amy

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Inside Out

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Jacob Tremblay--Room

MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
Alex Garland--Ex Machina

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