San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2015

The 20th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 14, 2015.

Best Film
Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Brooklyn
 * Ex Machina
 * Room
 * Spotlight

Best Director
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Lenny Abrahamson – Room
 * John Crowley – Brooklyn
 * Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
 * Tom McCarthy – Spotlight

Best Male Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
 * Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
 * Matt Damon – The Martian
 * Jason Segel – The End of the Tour
 * Jacob Tremblay – Room

Best Female Actor
Brie Larson – Room
 * Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
 * Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
 * Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina

Best Male Supporting Actor
Tom Noonan – Anomalisa
 * RJ Cyler – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
 * Paul Dano – Love & Mercy
 * Oscar Isaac – Ex Machina
 * Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies

Best Female Supporting Actor
Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
 * Olivia Cooke – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
 * Helen Mirren – Trumbo
 * Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria
 * Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

Best Original Screenplay
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi – What We Do in the Shadows
 * Noah Baumbach – Mistress America
 * Alex Garland – Ex Machina
 * Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer – Spotlight
 * Quentin Tarantino – The Hateful Eight

Best Adapted Screenplay
Emma Donoghue – Room
 * Drew Goddard – The Martian
 * Nick Hornby – Brooklyn
 * Charlie Kaufman – Anomalisa
 * Donald Margulies – The End of the Tour

Best Animated Film
Anomalisa
 * The Good Dinosaur
 * Inside Out
 * The Peanuts Movie
 * Shaun the Sheep Movie

Best Documentary
Cartel Land
 * Amy
 * He Named Me Malala
 * Meru
 * The Wrecking Crew

Best Foreign Language Film
Taxi
 * Goodnight Mommy
 * Phoenix
 * A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins – Sicario
 * Yves Bélanger – Brooklyn
 * Emmanuel Lubezki – The Revenant
 * John Seale – Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Dariusz Wolski – The Martian
 * White God

Best Editing
Margaret Sixel and Jason Ballantine – Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Michael Kahn – Bridge of Spies
 * Stephen Mirrione – The Revenant
 * Nathan Nugent – Room
 * Pietro Scalia – The Martian
 * Joe Walker – Sicario

Best Production Design
François Séguin – Brooklyn
 * Mark Digby – Ex Machina
 * Colin Gibson – Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Arthur Max – The Martian
 * Adam Stockhausen – Bridge of Spies

Best Sound Design
Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Ex Machina
 * Love & Mercy
 * The Martian
 * Sicario

Best Visual Effects
The Walk
 * Ex Machina
 * Jurassic World
 * Mad Max: Fury Road
 * The Martian

Best Use of Music in a Film
The Hateful Eight
 * Love & Mercy
 * Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Sicario
 * Straight Outta Compton

Breakthrough Artist
Jacob Tremblay
 * Abraham Attah
 * Sean Baker
 * Emory Cohen
 * Alicia Vikander

Best Ensemble
What We Do in the Shadows
 * The Big Short
 * The Hateful Eight
 * Inside Out
 * Spotlight
 * Straight Outta Compton