There's one thing I greatly appreciate the Las Vegas Film Critics Society for this awards season: championing black cinema. Three of their five Best Picture nominees feature black leads, and two of them almost entirely black ensembles. Otherwise, these are some fairly dire choices, with a near-total absence for Carol and an unusually weak showing for Mad Max: Fury Road - neither film makes it into the LVFCS's top five. Nominations were revealed on the society's Twitter page, in an order that appears to be ranked by number of votes, rather like the San Diego critics did too! Winners are set to be announced on the 18th of December. Have a look at their nominees below:
Best Picture
1. Spotlight
2. Creed
3. Ex
Machina
4. Straight
Outta Compton
5. Beasts
of No Nation
Best Director
1. George
Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)
2. Ridley
Scott (The Martian)
3. Tom
McCarthy (Spotlight)
4. Cary Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation)
5. Ryan
Coogler (Creed)
Best Actor
1. Leonardo
DiCaprio (The Revenant)
2. Bryan
Cranston (Trumbo)
3. Michael
Fassbender (Steve Jobs)
4. Matt
Damon (The Martian)
5. Michael
B. Jordan (Creed)
Best Actress
1. Emily
Blunt (Sicario)
2. Cate
Blanchett (Carol)
3. Brie
Larson (Room)
4. Lily
Tomlin (Grandma)
5. Alicia
Vikander (The Danish Girl)
Best Supporting Actor
1. Sylvester
Stallone (Creed)
2. Mark
Ruffalo (Spotlight)
3. Tom
Hardy (The Revenant)
4. Michael
Shannon (99 Homes)
5. Idris
Elba (Beasts of No Nation)
Best Supporting Actress
1. Elizabeth Banks (Love & Mercy)
2. Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight)
3. Alicia
Vikander (Ex Machina)
4. Kate
Winslet (Steve Jobs)
5. Rachel
McAdams (Spotlight)
Best Screenplay (Original)
1. Ex
Machina
2. Inside
Out
3. Spotlight
4. Trainwreck
5. The
Hateful Eight
Best Screenplay (Adapted)
1. Steve
Jobs
2. The
Martian
3. Room
4. Brooklyn
5. The
Big Short
Best Cinematography
1. Roger
Deakins (Sicario)
2. Emmanuel
Lubezki (The Revenant)
3. John
Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road)
4. Cary
Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation)
5. Robert
Richardson (The Hateful Eight)
Best Film Editing
1. Mad
Max: Fury Road
2. The
Martian
3. Spotlight
4. Steve
Jobs
5. The
Revenant
Best Art Direction
1. The
Hateful Eight
2. Brooklyn
3. The
Danish Girl
4. Mad
Max: Fury Road
5. The
Martian
Best Costume Design
1. The
Hateful Eight
2. Mad
Max: Fury Road
3. The
Danish Girl
4. Carol
5. Cinderella
Best Visual Effects
1. Mad
Max: Fury Road
2. Ex
Machina
3. The
Martian
4. The
Walk
5. In
the Heart of the Sea
Best Score
1. The
Danish Girl
2. The
Revenant
3. Spotlight
4. Sicario
5. The
Hateful Eight
Best Song
1. ‘See
You Again’ (Furious 7)
2. ‘One
Kind of Love’ (Love & Mercy)
3. ‘It’s
My Turn Now’ (Dope)
4. ‘Simple
Song #3’ (Youth)
5. ‘Writing’s
on the Wall’ (Spectre)
Best Ensemble
1. The
Big Short
2. The
Hateful Eight
3. Straight
Outta Compton
4. Trumbo
5. Spotlight
Best Animated Film
1. Anomalisa
2. Inside
Out
3. The
Good Dinosaur
4. Shaun
the Sheep Movie
5. The
Peanuts Movie
Best Documentary
1. Meru
2. Amy
3. Going
Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
4. Cartel
Land
5. Best
of Enemies
Best Foreign Film
1. Goodnight
Mommy
2. Mustang
3. Phoenix
4. Respire
5. Tu
Dors Nicole
Best Action Film
1. Mad
Max: Fury Road
2. Mission:
Impossible – Rogue Nation
3. Kingsman:
The Secret Service
4. Avengers:
Age of Ultron
5. Ant-Man
Best Comedy Film
1. Trainwreck
2. The
Big Short
3. Dope
4. Sisters
5. Spy
Best Family Film
1. Goosebumps
2. Cinderella
3. Pan
4. Ant-Man
5. Tomorrowland
Best Horror / Sci-Fi Film
1. Ex
Machina
2. The
Martian
3. Jurassic
World
4. It
Follows
5. Krampus
Best Breakout Filmmaker
1. Rick
Famuyiwa (Dope)
2. Alex
Garland (Ex Machina)
3. David
Robert Mitchell (It Follows)
4. Marielle
Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl)
Youth in Film Award
1. Abraham
Attah (Beasts of No Nation)
2. Jacob
Tremblay (Room)
3. Milo
Parker (Mr. Holmes)
4. Shameik
Moore (Dope)
5. Imogene
Wolodarsky (Infinitely Polar Bear)
