The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle

The 2015 SFBAFCC Awards — Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

• Brooklyn
• Carol
• Love & Mercy
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Spotlight — WINNER

Best Director

• Alejandro G. Iñárritu — The Revenant
• George Miller — Mad Max: Fury Road — WINNER
• John Crowley — Brooklyn
• Todd Haynes — Carol
• Tom McCarthy — Spotlight

Best Actor

• Bryan Cranston — Trumbo
• Ian McKellen — Mr. Holmes
• Leonardo DiCaprio — The Revenant
• Michael Fassbender — Steve Jobs
• Paul Dano — Love & Mercy — WINNER

Best Actress

• Amy Adams — Arrival
• Brie Larson — Room
• Cate Blanchett — Carol
• Charlotte Rampling — 45 Years
• Saoirse Ronan — Brooklyn — WINNER

Best Supporting Actor

• Benicio del Toro — Sicario
• Mark Rylance — Bridge of Spies
• Michael Shannon — 99 Homes — WINNER
• Paul Dano — Love & Mercy
• Sylvester Stallone — Creed

Best Supporting Actress

• Alicia Vikander — Ex Machina
• Alicia Vikander — The Danish Girl
• Elizabeth Banks — Love & Mercy
• Helen Mirren — Trumbo
• Mya Taylor — Tangerine — WINNER

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Andrew Haigh — 45 Years
• Drew Goddard — The Martian
• Emma Donoghue — Room
• Marielle Heller — The Diary of a Teenage Girl
• Nick Hornby — Brooklyn — WINNER
• Phyllis Nagy — Carol

Best Original Screenplay

• Alex Garland — Ex Machina
• Michael Alan Lerner, Oren Moverman — Love & Mercy — WINNER
• Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch — Tangerine
• Taylor Sheridan — Sicario
• Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer — Spotlight

Best Cinematography

• Edward Lachman — Carol
• Emmanuel Lubezki — The Revenant
• John Seale — Mad Max: Fury Road — WINNER
• Mark Lee Ping-bing — The Assassin
• Roger Deakins — Sicario

Best Production Design

• Bridge of Spies
• Brooklyn
• Carol — WINNER
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Revenant

Best Original Score

• Alexandre Desplat — Frankenstein
• Bryce Dessner — Train Dreams
• Jonny Greenwood — One Battle After Another
• Ludwig Göransson — Sinners
• Mica Levi — Jackie

Best Editing

• Dino Jonsäter — Love & Mercy
• Hank Corwin — The Big Short
• Joe Walker — Sicario
• Margaret Sixel — Mad Max: Fury Road — WINNER
• Stephen Mirrione — The Revenant

Best Animated Feature

• Anomalisa — WINNER
• Boy and the World
• Inside Out
• Shaun the Sheep Movie
• The Peanuts Movie

Best International Feature Film

• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
• Goodnight Mommy
• Son of Saul — WINNER
• The Assassin
• Timbuktu

Best Documentary Feature

• Amy
• Best of Enemies
• Listen to Me Marlon — WINNER
• Meru
• The Look of Silence