2015 National Society of Film Critics Awards



50th NSFC Awards

January 3, 2016

Best Film:

 Spotlight 

The 50th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2016, honored the best in film for 2015.

Winners
Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:



Best Picture

 * 1) Spotlight (23)
 * 2) Carol (17)
 * 3) Mad Max: Fury Road (13)

Best Director

 * 1) Todd Haynes – Carol (21)
 * 2) Tom McCarthy – Spotlight (21)
 * 3) George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road (20)

Best Actor

 * 1) Michael B. Jordan – Creed (29)
 * 2) Géza Röhrig – Son of Saul (18)
 * 3) Tom Courtenay – 45 Years (15)

Best Actress

 * 1) Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years (57)
 * 2) Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn (30)
 * 3) Nina Hoss – Phoenix (22)

Best Supporting Actor

 * 1) Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies (56)
 * 2) Michael Shannon – 99 Homes (15)
 * 3) Sylvester Stallone – Creed (14)

Best Supporting Actress

 * 1) Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria (53)
 * 2) Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina (23)
 * 3) Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs / Elizabeth Banks – Love & Mercy (17)

Best Screenplay

 * 1) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer – Spotlight (21)
 * 2) Charlie Kaufman – Anomalisa / Adam McKay and Charles Randolph – The Big Short (15)

Best Cinematography

 * 1) Edward Lachman – Carol (25)
 * 2) Mark Lee Ping-bing – The Assassin (22)
 * 3) John Seale – Mad Max: Fury Road (12)

Best Foreign Language Film

 * 1) Timbuktu – Abderrahmane Sissako (22)
 * 2) Phoenix – Christian Petzold (20)
 * 3) The Assassin – Hou Hsiao-hsien (16)

Best Non-Fiction Film

 * 1) Amy – Asif Kapadia (23)
 * 2) In Jackson Heights – Frederick Wiseman (18)
 * 3) Seymour: An Introduction – Ethan Hawke (15)

Film Heritage Awards

 * 1) Film Society of Lincoln Center and the programmers Jake Perlin and Michelle Materre, for the series Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968–1986.
 * 2) The Criterion Collection and L'Immagine Ritrovata for the restoration and packaging of the reconstructed version of The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray.
 * 3) Lobster Films and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna / L'Immagine Ritrovata for the restoration of Charlie Chaplin's Essanay Films.

Special Citation
One Floor Below, a Romanian film directed by Radu Muntean.

Dedication
As per tradition, the ceremony was dedicated to the late Richard Corliss, longtime critic at TIME magazine.