Showing posts with label George Miller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Miller. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

CAHIERS DU CINEMA CROWNS TONI ERDMANN THE BEST FILM OF 2016


The leak was correct! Cahiers du Cinema, that most prestigious of centres of film criticism, has unveiled its choices for its ever-anticipated year-end poll, and they're precisely as yesterday's leaked list suggested. It looks like failing to win over George Miller's Cannes jury might have been the best thing to happen to Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, as it can add first place on this poll to its already-hefty roster of accolades, including a FIPRESCI Grand Prix. Indeed, the entire top seven here is comprised of Cannes competition entries, not one of which claimed a jury award at the festival in May. Check it all out below, and, if you haven't seen any (or even some) of the films in this top ten, make sure to check them out too!

1. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
2. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
3. The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)
4. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonca Filho)
5. Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont)
6. Julieta (Pedro Almodovar)
7. Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
8. La Loi de la Jungle (Antonin Peretjatko)
9. Carol (Todd Haynes)
10. The Woods Dreams Are Made Of (Claire Simon)

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

LFF 2016 PREVIEW: ELLE


'Verhoeven is now the same age as Bunuel when he directed That Obscure Object of Desire. May his French period last even longer'
Fernando F. Croce, MUBI's Notebook

'Paul Verhoeven at the height of his artistic powers'
Kenji Fujishima, Movie Mezzanine

'A tour de force turn from Isabelle Huppert'
Lisa Nesselson, Screen Daily

Now how did this happen? Having convinced us all that the Paul Verhoeven we all used to love (or hate) was nowhere to be found, with 2006's Black Book his only credit since 2000's Hollow Man save 2012's low-budget curio Tricked, which itself only arrived in US theatres this February, Paul Verhoeven teams up with David Birke, the writer of such classics as Freeway Killer and 13 Sins for Elle, one of the unexpected critical hits of 2016. Isabelle Huppert stars as a woman who uses her experience of being raped to turn her life around in strange, provocative ways. Huppert received raves when the film opened in Cannes, and it shot to the top of many lists as the frontrunner for the Palme d'Or; its exclusion from the jury awards was just one of several highly controversial decisions reached by George Miller's panel that day. The reception was so strong that Sony Pictures Classics picked the film up in order to give it an awards season run in the US, where it opens on the 11th of November. Its UK theatrical release arrives on the 24th of February, but not after it has screened at the London Film Festival next month, and you can bet it's on my programme!

Sunday, 22 May 2016

I, DANIEL BLAKE SHOCKS TO WIN A SECOND PALME D'OR FOR KEN LOACH


And, with that, the best chance in over 20 years of a woman winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival just died. Maren Ade's universally acclaimed Toni Erdmann had already won the FIPRESCI Prize and was the overwhelming favourite to win the whole shebang; a pre-ceremony rumour suggested that jury president George Miller hadn't liked the German director's comedy, however, and that it might go home empty-handed... as indeed it did. Instead, the Palme went to Ken Loach for his film I, Daniel Blake, permitting Loach to join the esteemed ranks of the few directors to have won two Palmes, after his win ten years ago for The Wind That Shakes the Barley. And there were plenty more surprises among the awards this evening, as you can see below:

Palme d'Or
I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)

Grand Prix
It's Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan)

Prix du Jury
American Honey (Andrea Arnold)

Prix de la Mise-en-Scene
Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper)
Cristian Mungiu (Graduation)

Prix d'Interpretation Feminine
Jaclyn Jose (Ma' Rosa)

Prix d'Interpretation Masculine
Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman)

Prix du Scenario
Asghar Farhadi (The Salesman)

Camera d'Or
Divines (Houda Benyamina)

Short Film Palme d'Or
Timecode (Juanjo Gimenez)

Short Film Special Mention
The Girl Who Danced with the Devil (Joao Paulo Miranda Maria)

Palme d'Honneur
Jean-Pierre Leaud

Monday, 29 February 2016

SPOTLIGHT SHINES ON A NIGHT OF SHOCKS: THE 88TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS


Nobody thought it was possible: win the Best Picture Oscar with only one other win? And at that, the first award of the night? Half way through, it looked like even The Revenant wasn't going to be able to pull off the big win, as its tally was being depleted by an astonishing surge by Mad Max: Fury Road - six wins for George Miller's film! The later awards favoured Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's western, however, and indeed both he and Leonardo DiCaprio won their expected trophies. But the gasps and cheers that greeted Morgan Freeman's announcement of Spotlight as the surprise Best Picture winner - and with only one other award won, Original Screenplay, to The Revenant's three and Mad Max's six - were confirmation: not only was this our Best Picture winner for 2015, it was also our most surprising winner since 2005's Crash, after our most unpredictable race in who knows how long.
     And there were even bigger shocks in other categories: Sylvester Stallone's widely predicted victory in Supporting Actor failed to materialise, as BAFTA champ Mark Rylance won instead. The Visual Effects award went to perhaps the most left-field winner in memory: Ex Machina, only the second time a Best Picture nominee has failed to win that award (when nominated) in history, and a choice utterly no-one had predicted. And Best Original Song went to 'Writing's on the Wall' from Spectre - the night's most reviled decision by a clear distance, and featuring the most mocked (and inaccurate) acceptance speech statement from singer Sam Smith, who claimed to be the first openly gay man to win an Oscar (he's not). Check out the nominations at this link, and grin gleefully over the award winners in full, below:

Best Picture
Spotlight (Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar)

Best Directing
Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant)

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Brie Larson (Room)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)

Best Writing – Original Screenplay
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight)

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (The Big Short)

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant)

Best Film Editing
Margaret Sixel (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Production Design
Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Costume Design
Jenny Beavan (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Sound Mixing
Chris Jenkins, Ben Osmo and Gregg Rudloff (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Sound Editing
Mark A. Mangini and David White (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Visual Effects
Mark Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris and Andrew Whitehurst (Ex Machina)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Damian Martin, Lesley Vanderwalt and Elka Wardega (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Music (Original Score)
Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight)

Best Music (Original Song)
Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith – ‘Writing’s on the Wall’ (Spectre)

Best Animated Feature Film
Inside Out (Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera)

Best Documentary Feature
Amy (James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia)

Best Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul – Hungary (Nemes László)

Best Short Film (Live Action)
Stutterer (Serena Armitage and Benjamin Cleary)

Best Short Film (Animated)
Bear Story (Pato Escala and Gabriel Osorio)

Best Documentary Short
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy)

Monday, 18 January 2016

2015 INTERNET FILM CRITIC SOCIETY AWARDS


You likely haven't heard of the Internet Film Critic Society, but then they likely haven't heard of you either, so it's cool. They've chosen Spotlight as their Best Drama of 2015, which looks kinda like a Best Picture prize, until you see all the other awards which also look like Best Picture prizes. These aren't exactly the most radical choices from IFCS. Check them out:

Best Director
George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Actor
Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)

Best Actress
Brie Larson (Room)

Best Action Film
Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Comedy
The Big Short

Best Drama
Spotlight

Best Experimental Film
Anomalisa

Best Horror or Science Fiction
Ex Machina

Most Underrated Film
Chi-Raq

Worst Film
The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

GONZALEZ INARRITU, MCCARTHY, MCKAY, MILLER, SCOTT - DGA NOMINATIONS


In the 2015 Boys' Club nominations, five big boys got nominations for their big boy films. There's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for his angsty big-boy Western The Revenant! There's Tom McCarthy for his working-boys drama Spotlight! There's Adam McKay for his banker-boy comedy-drama The Big Short! There's Ridley Scott for his space-boy thriller The Martian! And there's George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road, which isn't rly a boys' movie, and that's why PLZ MOVIE GODS LET IT WIN! But look: a new category, for debut directors, and the movie gods are already at work, nominating a w-, a wo-, a... w-o-m-a-n? Is that what they're called? Winners announced at the ceremony on the 6th of February. Noms, including for the Documentary category, can be viewed below:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant)
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)
Adam McKay (The Big Short)
George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Ridley Scott (The Martian)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Meru)
Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?)
Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief)
Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land)
Asif Kapadia (Amy)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director
Fernando Coimbra (A Wolf at the Door)
Joel Edgerton (The Gift)
Alex Garland (Ex Machina)
Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl)
Nemes Laszlo (Son of Saul)

Friday, 1 January 2016

THE FILM STAGE PUBLISHES ITS BEST OF 2015 LISTS


The Film Stage has been gradually rolling out its Best Of lists for the year over the past few weeks. With the addition of a Best Film top 50, the full slate of categories is now ready for posting here! Some are ranked, others are not, but the diversity among their choices is impressive, their tastes laudable as ever. Have a look below:

Best Film
1. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
2. Carol (Todd Haynes)
3. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
4. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
5. Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
6. Son of Saul (Nemes László)
7. Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
8. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
9. Chi-Raq (Spike Lee)
10. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
11. Inside Out (Pete Docter)
12. Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
13. World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)
14. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)
15. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
16. Heaven Knows What (Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie)
17. The Mend (John Magary)
18. Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
19. The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
20. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
21. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
22. Tangerine (Sean Baker)
23. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
24. Anomalisa (Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman)
25. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
26. In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
27. Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
28. Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
29. Arabian Nights: Volume 1 – The Restless One / Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One / Arabian Nights: Volume 3 – The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes)
30. 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
31. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang Soo)
32. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
33. Shaun the Sheep Movie (Mark Burton and Richard Stanczak)
34. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Spike Lee)
35/ Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
36. Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
37. Youth (Paolo Sorrentino)
38. Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
39. Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan)
40. Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
41. Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler)
42. The Forbidden Room (Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin)
43. Creed (Ryan Coogler)
44. James White (Josh Mond)
45. Ballet 422 (Jody Lee Lipes)
46. Amy (Asif Kapadia)
47. Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
48. The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers)
49. Mississippi Grind (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck)
50. The Big Short (Adam McKay)

Best Cinematography
Adam Arkapaw (Macbeth)
Sean Baker and Radium Cheung (Tangerine)
Christian Berger (By the Sea)
Charlotte Bruus Christensen (Far from the Madding Crowd)
Roger Deakins (Sicario)
Stuart Dryburgh (Blackhat)
Sofian el Fani (Timbuktu)
Erdély Mátyá (Son of Saul)
Martin Gschlacht (Amour Fou)
Vladimir Ilin and Yuriy Klimenko (Hard to Be a God)
Benjamin Kasulke and Stéphanie Anne Weber Biron (The Forbidden Room)
Nicholas D. Knowland (The Duke of Burgundy)
Edward Lachman (Carol)
Lee Ping Bin (The Assassin)
Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant)
Sean Porter (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter)
Robert Richardson (The Hateful Eight)
Robbie Ryan (Slow West)
Timo Salminen (Jauja)
John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Sebastian Schipper (Victoria)
André Turpin (Tom at the Farm)

Best Score / Soundtrack
1. Carter Burwell (Carol)
2. Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight)
3. Shye Ben Tzur and Jonny Greenwood (Junun)
4. Rich Vreeland (It Follows)
5. Eden
6. Keegan DeWitt (Queen of Earth)
7. Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario)
8. Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham (Mistress America)
9. Tom Holkenborg (Mad Max: Fury Road)
10. Chi-Raq
11. Jed Kurzel (Slow West)
12. Michael Giacchino (Inside Out)
13. Daniel Pemberton (Steve Jobs)
14. Atticus Ross and Brian Wilson (Love & Mercy)
15. John Williams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
16. 17. Michael Brook (Brooklyn)
18. Michael Giacchino (Jupiter Ascending)
19. Carter Burwell (Anomalisa)
20. Faris Badwan and Rachel Zeffira (The Duke of Burgundy)
21. Magic Mike XXL
22. Jed Kurzel (Macbeth)
23. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
24. Dan Romer (Beasts of No Nation)
25. Howard Shore (Spotlight)
26. Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury (Ex Machina)
27. Bryce Dessner, Carsten Nicolai and Sakamoto Ryûichi (The Revenant)
28. Ryan Figg, Josh Lambert, Yvonne Lambert, Toto Miranda and Dominique Preyer (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter)
29. Johnny Jewel (Lost River)
30. Tangerine
31. Joe Kraemer (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation)
32. Craig Armstrong (Far from the Madding Crowd)
33. Michael Giacchino (Tomorrowland)
34. Entertainment
35. Patrick Doyle (Cinderella)
Daniel Pemberton (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)

Best Ensemble
The Assassin
Carol
Chi-Raq
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Magic Mike XXL
Mistress America
Mustang
Sicario
Spotlight

Best Documentary
Amy (Asif Kapadia)
Ballet 422 (Jody Lee Lipes)
Best of Enemies (Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville)
Call Me Lucky (Bobcat Goldthwait)
Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman)
Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen)
Democrats (Camilla Nielsson)
Finders Keepers (Bryan Carberry and J. Clay Tweel)
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Alex Gibney)
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones)
The Hunting Ground (Kirby Dick)
In My Father’s House (Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg)
Iris (Albert Maysles)
Junun (Paul Thomas Anderson)
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
The Pearl Button (Patricio Guzmán)
The Russian Woodpecker (Chad Gracia)
The Salt of the Earth (Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders)
Stray Dog (Debra Granik)
We Come as Friends (Hubert Sauper)
Welcome to Leith (Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker)
What Happened, Miss Simone? (Liz Garbus)
The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle)

Most Overlooked Film
10,000km (Carlos Marques)
Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)
Appropriate Behaviour (Desiree Akhavan)
Arabian Nights: Volume 1 – The Restless One / Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One / Arabian Nights: Volume 3 – The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler)
Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
Christmas, Again (Charles Poekel)
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Spike Lee)
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Entertainment (Rick Alverson)
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda)
Faults (Riley Stearns)
The Forbidden Room (Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin)
Gangs of Wasseypur (Anurag Kashyap)
Girlhood (Céline Sciamma)
Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
Heaven Knows What (Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
James White (Josh Mond)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner)
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
Man from Reno (Dave Boyle)
The Mend (John Magary)
Mississippi Grind (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck)
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry)
Respire (Mélanie Laurent)
Results (Andrew Bujalski)
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
She’s Funny That Way (Peter Bogdanovich)
Sleeping with Other People (Leslye Headland)
Slow West (John MacLean)
The Summer of Sangaile (Alanté Kavaïté)
Spring (Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead)
Tangerine (Sean Baker)
Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman)
Tokyo Tribe (Sono Sion)
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy)
Tu Dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur)
Unexpected (Kris Swanberg)
Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
The Voices (Marjane Satrapi)
When Marnie Was There (Yonebayashi Hiromasa)

Best Directorial Debut
’71 (Yann Demange)
Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler)
Christmas, Again (Charles Poekel)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
Faults (Riley Stearns)
The Gift (Joel Edgerton)
Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
James White (Josh Mond)
The Mend (John Magary)
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
Partisan (Ariel Kleiman)
Son of Saul (Nemes László)
Slow West (John MacLean)
Uncle John (Steven Piet)

Best Breakthrough Performance
Christopher Abbott (James White)
Abraham Attah (Beasts of No Nation)
Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation)
Arielle Holmes (Heaven Knows What)
Teyonah Parris (Chi-Raq)
Bel Powley (The Diary of a Teenage Girl)
Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Kitana Kiki Rodriguez (Tangerine)
Röhrig Géza (Son of Saul)
Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
Mya Taylor (Tangerine)
Jacob Tremblay (Room)

Best Double Feature
99 Homes / The Big Short
Amour Fou / A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Arabian Nights: Volume 1 – The Restless One / Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One / Arabian Nights: Volume 3 – The Enchanted One / Li’l Quinquin
Bone Tomahawk / The Hateful Eight
Cartel Land / Sicario
Chi-Raq / Tokyo Tribe
Hard to Be a God / Mad Max: Fury Road
Heaven Knows What / Time Out of Mind
Room / The Wolfpack
Shaun the Sheep Movie / The Tribe

Best Poster
1. Shelter (CHIPS)
2. Cop Car
3. It Follows (Palaceworks)
4. Wild Canaries (Corey Holms)
5. The Revenant
6. Carol
7. Sicario (LA)
8. Tangerine (P+A)
9. The Forbidden Room (Galen Johnson)
10. Magic Mike XXL (Concept Arts)
11. Welcome to Me
12. The Hateful Eight
13. By the Sea
14. Far from the Madding Crowd
15. Hyena
16. Love
17. Horse Money
18. Brooklyn
19. Felt
20. Focus
21. The Age of Adaline
22. The Seventh Fire
23. The Assassin
24. Freeheld
25. The Visit

Wednesday, 30 December 2015

CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR TOPS LA INTERNACIONAL CINEFILA'S FILMS OF 2015 LIST


La Internacional Cinefila has chosen Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendour as the best film of the year! The Thai director's final film in his homeland has impressed critics the world over, and this is only the latest in an already long list of honours the film has received. Other international arthouse hits populate the seven-strong list, plus George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road.

1. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
3. Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - The Restless One / Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One / Arabian Nights: Volume 3 - The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes)
=  Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (Abbas Fahdel)
5. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang Soo)
6. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
=  Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhang Ke)

Tuesday, 22 December 2015

SCI-FI SUCCESSES WITH UTAH FILM CRITICS AWARDS


Another critics group, another Best Picture win for Mad Max: Fury Road. The action epic beat out its sci-fi companion The Martian to the top award with the Utah Film Critics Association, also winning two others. The Martian could only bag one award, claiming the runner-up position in a further three categories. And there's a particularly inspired choice for Best Supporting Actress! Take a look at the UFCA's Spotlight-less winners, and their runners-up, below:

Best Picture
1. Mad Max Fury Road
2. The Martian

Best Directing
1. George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)
2. Ridley Scott (The Martian)

Best Actor, Male
1. Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
2. Matt Damon (The Martian)

Best Actor, Female
1. Brie Larson (Room)
2. Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)

Best Supporting Actor, Male
1. Sylvester Stallone (Creed)
2. Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina)

Best Supporting Actor, Female
1. Rose Byrne (Spy)
2. Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)

Best Original Screenplay
1. Inside Out
2. Spotlight

Best Adapted Screenplay
1. The Martian
2. Brooklyn

Best Cinematography
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Revenant

Best Animated
1. Inside Out
2. Shaun the Sheep Movie

Best Documentary
1. The Hunting Ground
2. Amy

Best Non-English
1. Timbuktu
2. Son of Saul