St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2015



10th SLGFCA Awards December 20, 2015

Best Film: Spotlight

Best Director: '''Tom McCarthy Spotlight''' The nominees for the 12th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 13, 2015.

Best Film

 * Spotlight
 * Runner-up: Inside Out
 * Mad Max: Fury Road
 * The Revenant
 * Room

Best Actor

 * Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
 * Runner-up: Ian McKellen – Mr. Holmes
 * Abraham Attah – Beasts of No Nation
 * Matt Damon – The Martian
 * Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl

Best Supporting Actor

 * Sylvester Stallone – Creed
 * Runner-up: Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
 * Paul Dano – Love & Mercy
 * Idris Elba – Beasts of No Nation
 * Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight

Best Original Screenplay

 * Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
 * Runner-up: Ex Machina – Alex Garland
 * Clouds of Sils Maria – Olivier Assayas
 * The Hateful Eight – Quentin Tarantino
 * Inside Out – Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley

Best Cinematography

 * The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki
 * Runner-up: Carol – Edward Lachman
 * Beasts of No Nation – Cary Fukunaga
 * The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson
 * Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale

Best Editing

 * Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel
 * Runner-up: The Revenant – Stephen Mirrione
 * The Big Short – Hank Corwin
 * The Martian – Pietro Scalia
 * Spotlight – Tom McArdle

Best Music

 * Ennio Morricone – The Hateful Eight
 * Runner-up: Michael Giacchino – Inside Out
 * Carter Burwell – Carol
 * Disasterpeace – It Follows
 * Junkie XL – Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Art Direction

 * Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Runner-up (tie): Brooklyn, Carol, and The Danish Girl
 * Cinderella

Best Foreign Language Film

 * Goodnight Mommy • Austria
 * Runner-up Son of Saul • Hungary
 * The Assassin • Taiwan
 * Phoenix • Germany
 * Wild Tales • Argentina

Best Animated Feature

 * Inside Out
 * Runner-up: Anomalisa
 * The Good Dinosaur
 * The Peanuts Movie
 * Shaun the Sheep Movie

Best Scene
(favorite movie scene or sequence)
 * The Revenant: Hugh mauled by a grizzly
 * Runner-up: The Walk: The walk between the Twin Towers
 * Creed: Creed’s first fight.
 * Furious 7: The farewell scene between Vin Diesel and Paul Walker.
 * Room: Jack’s escape and rescue.

Best Director

 * Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
 * Runner-up: George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Todd Haynes – Carol
 * Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
 * Ridley Scott – The Martian

Best Actress

 * Brie Larson – Room
 * Runner-up: Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
 * Cate Blanchett – Carol
 * Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

Best Supporting Actress

 * Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina
 * Runner-up (tie): Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria and Rooney Mara – Carol
 * Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
 * Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

Best Adapted Screenplay

 * The Martian – Drew Goddard
 * Runner-up: Brooklyn – Nick Hornby
 * Creed – Ryan Coogler and Aaron Covington
 * Room – Emma Donoghue
 * Steve Jobs – Aaron Sorkin

Best Visual Effects

 * Mad Max: Fury Road
 * Runner-up: The Walk
 * Ex Machina
 * The Martian
 * The Revenant

Best Song

 * "Writing's on the Wall" – Spectre
 * Runner-up: "See You Again" – Furious 7
 * "Feels Like Summer" – Shaun the Sheep Movie
 * "Til It Happens to You" – The Hunting Ground
 * "Simple Song #3" – Youth

Best Soundtrack

 * Love & Mercy
 * Runner-up: Straight Outta Compton
 * Amy
 * Dope
 * The Martian

Best Documentary Film

 * Amy
 * Runner-up: The Look of Silence
 * Best of Enemies
 * Cartel Land
 * The Hunting Ground

Best Comedy

 * Trainwreck
 * Runner-up: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
 * Inside Out
 * Spy
 * What We Do in the Shadows

Worst Film

 * Fantastic Four
 * Runner-up: Aloha
 * The Boy Next Door
 * Jem and the Holograms
 * Jupiter Ascending
 * Mortdecai
 * Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
 * The Ridiculous 6
 * Stonewall
 * Strange Magic

SPECIAL RECOGNITION: The stunt work on Mad Max: Fury Road.