It’s that time again. The Central Ohio Film Critics Association has named its winners for 2015, led by the investigative drama Spotlight. Here is the full list of the 2015 COFCA awards winners:
Best Film
1. Spotlight
2. Inside Out
3. Room
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Ex Machina
6. Sicario
7. Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
8. The Revenant
9. The Big Short
10. The Martian
Best Director
Winner: Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Runner-Up: George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Actor
Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Runner-Up: Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Best Actress
Winner: Brie Larson, Room
Runners-Up: Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn and Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Benicio Del Toro, Sicario
Runner-Up: Oscar Isaac, Ex Machina
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
Runner-Up: Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Best Ensemble
Winner: Spotlight
Runner-Up: The Hateful Eight
Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)
Winner: Alicia Vikander, Burnt, The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Seventh Son, and Testament of Youth
Runner-Up: Domhnall Gleeson, Brooklyn, Ex Machina, The Revenant, and Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
Breakthrough Film Artist
Winner: Alicia Vikander, Burnt, The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Seventh Son, and Testament of Youth (for acting)
Runner-Up: Sean Baker, Tangerine (for producing, directing, screenwriting, film editing, cinematography, camera operation, and casting)
Best Cinematography
Winner: Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
Runner-Up: John Seale, Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Film Editing
Winner: Margaret Sixel, Mad Max: Fury Road
Runner-Up: Joe Walker, Sicario
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short
Runner-Up: Emma Donoghue, Room
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Runner-Up: Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley, Inside Out
Best Score
Winner: Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight
Runner-Up: Junkie XL, Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Documentary
Winner: The Look of Silence
Runner-Up: Amy
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Phoenix
Runner-Up: Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes)
Best Animated Film
Winner: Inside Out
Runner-Up: Anomalisa
Best Overlooked Film
Winner: The Tribe (Plemya)
Runner-Up: The Gift
Previous Best Film winners:
2002: Punch-Drunk Love
2003: Lost in Translation
2004: Million Dollar Baby
2005: A History of Violence
2006: Children of Men
2007: No Country for Old Men
2008: WALL·E
2009: Up in the Air
2010: Inception
2011: Drive
2012: Moonrise Kingdom
2013: Gravity
2014: Selma