The Year in Film: 2015

Best Picture

#1: Carol (Todd Haynes)
#2: Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
#3: Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
#4: The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
#5: Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
#6: Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
#7: Son of Saul (László Nemes)
#8: Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
#9: Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
#10: 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)

Honorable mentions: The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin), Tangerine (Sean Baker), Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle), Heaven Knows What (Josh and Benny Safdie), Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner), It Follows (David Robert Mitchell), A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson), James White (Josh Mond), Amy (Asif Kapadia), Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven), Blind (Eskil Vogt), The Martian (Ridley Scott), In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman), Chi-Raq (Spike Lee), Spotlight (Tom McCarthy), Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller), Inside Out (Pete Docter), Taxi (Jafar Panahi), Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson), Youth (Paolo Sorrentino), Mississippi Grind (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck), The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer), The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland), The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Girlhood (Céline Sciamma), The Big Short (Adam McKay), The Tribe (Miroslav Slaboshpitsky), Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon), Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan), Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German), and When Evening Falls on Bucharest, or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu).

Best Director

#1: Todd Haynes (Carol)
#2: Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight)
#3: Xavier Dolan (Mommy)
#4: László Nemes (Son of Saul)
#5: Bruno Dumont (Li’l Quinquin)

Best Actor

#1: Samuel L. Jackson (The Hateful Eight)
#2: Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)
#3: Ben Mendelsohn (Mississippi Grind)
#4: Tom Courtenay (45 Years)
#5: Géza Röhrig (Son of Saul)

Best Actress

#1: Cate Blanchett (Carol)
#2: Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)
#3: Anne Dorval (Mommy)
#4: Juliette Binoche (Clouds of Sils Maria)
#5: Nina Hoss (Phoenix)

Best Supporting Actor

#1: Benicio Del Toro (Sicario)
#2: Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation)
#3: Michael Shannon (99 Homes)
#4: Ronald Zehrfeld (Phoenix)
#5: Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight)

Best Supporting Actress

#1: Kristen Stewart (Clouds of Sils Maria)
#2: Suzanne Clément (Mommy)
#3: Kate Winslett (Steve Jobs)
#4: Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight)
#5: Katherine Waterston (Queen of Earth)

Best Original Screenplay

#1: Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
#2: The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
#3: Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
#4: Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
#5: Sicario (Taylor Sheridan)

Best Adapted Screenplay

#1: Carol (Phyllis Nagy)
#2: 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
#3: Steve Jobs (Aaron Sorkin)
#4: Heaven Knows What (Ronald Bronstein and Joshua Safdie)
#5: Phoenix (Christian Petzold and Harun Farocki)

Best Cinematography

#1: The Hateful Eight (Robert Richardson)
#2: The Assassin (Mark Lee Ping Bin)
#3: Carol (Edward Lachman)
#4: Sicario (Roger Deakins)
#5: Son of Saul (Mátyás Erdély)

Best Film Editing

#1: The Revenant
#2: The Forbidden Room
#3: Mad Max: Fury Road
#4: Sicario
#5: The Hateful Eight

Best Score

#1: It Follows (Disasterpeace)
#2: Carol (Carter Burwell)
#3: Mad Max: Fury Road (Junkie XL)
#4: The Hateful Eight (Ennio Morricone)
#5: Creed (Ludwig Göransson)

Best Song

#1: “Sit Down for This” (Chi-Raq)
#2: “Waiting for My Moment” (Creed)
#3: “Lantern” (Blind)
#4: “It’s My Turn Now” (Dope)
#5: “Simple Song #3” (Youth)

Best Production Design

#1: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
#2: Mad Max: Fury Road
#3: Hard to Be a God
#4: Crimson Peak
#5: The Hateful Eight

Best Costume Design

#1: Chi-Raq
#2: Carol
#3: Mad Max: Fury Road
#4: Crimson Peak
#5: Macbeth

Best Makeup

#1: Mad Max: Fury Road
#2: The Hateful Eight
#3: The Revenant
#4: Crimson Peak
#5: The Duke of Burgundy

Best Sound

#1: Mad Max: Fury Road
#2: The Martian
#3: The Revenant
#4: Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens
#5: The Assassin

Best Visual Effects

#1: Mad Max: Fury Road
#2: The Revenant
#3: Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens
#4: Jurassic World
#5: The Martian

Worst Film of the Year

My Name Is Hmmm… (Agnès B.)

Dishonorable Mentions: Lost River (Ryan Gosling), Max (Boaz Yakin), The Boy Next Door (Rob Cohen), Mortdecai (David Koepp), Cake (Daniel Barnz), Unfinished Business (Ken Scott), The Cobbler (Tom McCarthy), Every Thing Will Be Fine (Wim Wenders), and Reality (Quentin Dupieux)