San Diego Film Critics Name "Mad Max: Fury Road" Best Picture of 2015

The members of the San Diego Film Critics Society write and/or broadcast for a San Diego County based outlet. The society’s mission statement is “to provide diverse critical opinion about movies, advance film education and awareness, and recognize excellence in cinema.”

2015 San Diego Film Critics Award winners were announced December 14, 2015.

San Diego Film Critics Society Top Films of 2015 awards:

Best Picture: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Runner Up: EX MACHINA

Best Director: George Miller, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Runner Up: Lenny Abrahamson, ROOM

Best Actor, Male: Leonardo DiCaprio, THE REVENANT

Runner Up: Jason Segel, THE END OF THE TOUR

Best Actor, Female: Brie Larson, ROOM

Runner Up: Charlize Theron, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Supporting Actor, Male: Tom Noonan, ANOMALISA

Runner Up: Oscar Isaac, EX MACHINA

Best Supporting Actor, Female: Jennifer Jason Leigh, THE HATEFUL EIGHT

Runner Up: Kristen Stewart, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA

Best Original Screenplay: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS

Runner Up: Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, MISTRESS AMERICA

Best Adapted Screenplay: Emma Donoghue, ROOM

Runner Up: Donald Margulies, THE END OF THE TOUR

Best Documentary: CARTEL LAND

Runner Up: AMY

Best Animated Film: ANOMALISA

Runner Up: INSIDE OUT

Best Foreign Language Film: TAXI (Iran)

Runner Up: WHITE GOD (Hungary)

Best Editing: Margaret Sixel, Jason Ballantine MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Runner Up: Joe Walker, SICARIO

Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins, SICARIO

Runner Up: Emmanuel Lubezki, THE REVENANT

Best Production Design: Francois Seguin, BROOKLYN

Runner Up: Colin Gibson, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Sound Design: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Runner Up: LOVE & MERCY

Best Visual Effects: THE WALK

Runner Up: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Use Of Music In A Film: THE HATEFUL EIGHT

Runner Up: LOVE & MERCY

Breakthrough Artist: Jacob Tremblay, ROOM

Runner Up: Alicia Vikander, THE DANISH GIRL, EX MACHINA

Best Ensemble: WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS

Runner Up: THE HATEFUL EIGHT

Body of Work: Alicia Vikander, THE DANISH GIRL, EX MACHINA, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., BURNT

Kyle Counts: Ralph DeLauro

[Kyle Counts was a San Diego film critic, and the award named for him is given to a person for contributions made to film in San Diego.]

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