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