DUBLIN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE: I, DANIEL BLAKE WINS BEST FILM OF 2016

You can rely on the Irish! Ken Loach's Cannes Palme d'Or winner I, Daniel Blake is the Dublin Film Critics Circle's favourite film of the year. If you're going to think outside the box, and I recommend it wholeheartedly, this is the kind of thinking you ought to be doing. Nice work, DFCC!

Best Film

1. I, Daniel Blake

2. Arrival

3. Hell or High Water

4. Spotlight

5. Anomalisa

6. Captain Fantastic

=  Paterson

=  The Revenant

=  Room

=  Son of Saul

=  Train to Busan

=  The Witch

Best Director

1. Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)

2. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant)

3. Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake)

4. Lenny Abrahamson (Room)

5. Tom Ford (Nocturnal Animals)

=  Lucile Hadzihalilovic (Evolution)

Best Actress

1. Amy Adams (Arrival)

2. Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake)

3. Brie Larson (Room)

4. Kate Beckinsale (Love & Friendship)

=  Seana Kerslake (A Date for Mad Mary)

6. Isabelle Huppert (Things to Come)

Best Actor

1. Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake)

2. Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)

3. Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)

=  Adam Driver (Paterson)

5. Rohrig Geza (Son of Saul)

=  Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight)

7. Vincent Lindon (The Measure of a Man)

=  Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)

Best Screenplay

1. Eric Heisserer (Arrival)

2. Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight)

3. Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water)

4. Whit Stillman (Love & Friendship)

5. Emma Donoghue (Room)

=  Matt Ross (Captain Fantastic)

=  S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk)

Best Cinematography

1. Seamus McGarvey (Nocturnal Animals)

2. Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant)

3. Bradford Young (Arrival)

4. Jarin Blaschke (The Witch)

5. Natasha Braier (The Neon Demon)

=  Erdely Matyas (Son of Saul)

Best Documentary

1. Mattress Men

=  Weiner

3. 66 Days: Bobby Sands

4. Life, Animated

5. Atlantic

=  The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

=  Magnus

8. Crash and Burn

Best Irish Film

1. A Date for Mad Mary

2. Sing Street

3. Room

4. Viva

=  The Young Offenders

6. Mammal

=  The Survivalist

Best International Breakthrough

Hayley Squires

Best Irish Breakthrough

Seana Kerslake

DUBLIN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE DECLARES INSIDE OUT THE BEST FILM OF 2015

Prepare yourselves for some time-travelling with the 2015 Dublin Film Critics Circle award. What with precisely-calibrated awards season releases in important international territories like the UK and Ireland, a lot of one season's contenders must wait until the next to be recognised by a group like the DFCC, which sticks closely to its calendar release dates and pretty much dgaf about its North American counterparts. Good for them! They've made some excellent choices this year, including picking Inside Out as Best Film, showing some love for The Tribe and mentioning Peter Strickland for The Duke of Burgundy in their Best Director list. And there's a fucking heap of female-led movies in their top nine, with more female leads than male. Good job, Dublin critics! Have a look below:

Best Film

1. Inside Out

2. Mad Max: Fury Road

3. Carol

4. The Tribe

5. Birdman

=  Ex Machina

=  A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

=  Star Wars: The Force Awakens

=  Tangerine

Best Director

1. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)

2. Todd Haynes (Carol)

3. Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (The Tribe)

=  Peter Strickland (The Duke of Burgundy)

5. Sean Baker (Tangerine)

6. J. J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

=  John Crowley (Brooklyn)

Best Actor

1. Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)

2. Oscar Isaac (A Most Violent Year)

3. Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)

4. Tom Courtenay (45 Years)

=  Matt Damon (The Martian)

=  Paul Dano (Love & Mercy)

=  Michael Keaton (Birdman)

8. Colin Farrell (The Lobster)

=  Viggo Mortensen (Jauja)

=  J. K. Simmons (Whiplash)

Best Actress

1. Julianne Moore (Still Alice)

2. Rooney Mara (Carol)

3. Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)

4. Emily Blunt (Sicario)

=  Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road)

=  Lily Tomlin (Grandma)

7. Nina Hoss (Phoenix)

Best Documentary

1. The Queen of Ireland

2. Amy

3. Red Army

4. Best of Enemies

5. The Look of Silence

=  The Wolfpack

Best Irish

1. Brooklyn

=  The Queen of Ireland

3. Song of the Sea

4. Older Than Ireland

5. I Used to Live Here

6. The Lobster

Breakthrough International Award

Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Kitana Kiki Rodriguez (Tangerine)

Mya Taylor (Tangerine)

Breakthrough Irish Award

Jordanne Jones (I Used to Live Here)