‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Dominates The Critics' Choice Awards, But ‘Spotlight’ Is Truly Shiny And Chrome
The Critics' Choice Awards don’talwaysreflect what eventually goes down at theAcademy Awards, but they reflect it just often enough to go under the microscope of hungry awards season analysts. If this year’s winners do predict the big winners at the Oscars next month, it’s awfully hard to argue with these picks.Mad Max: Fury Roadswept through the awards, snatching technical wins left and right. However,Spotlightnabbed a handful of top prizes, including Best Picture.
Let’s dive into some minor analysis before we get to the complete list of winners.
Organized and voted on by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Critics' Choice Awards honor the best in movies and television and they’re often a bit unwieldy. With 54 awards, including genre-specific categories like “Best Action Movie,” they tend to sprawl all over the place and look just a wee bit messy. However, the end result is a wide variety of movies and shows winning all kinds of awards, which is often very fun to see.
While there were many of winners,Mad Max: Fury Road(our favorite movie of 2015) effortlessly led the awards, taking home nine trophies including Best Director forGeorge Miller, Best Action Movie, Best Actor in an Action Movie forTom Hardy, and Best Actress in an Action Movie forCharlize Theron. The rest of its awards were for technical categories, including Production Design, Editing, Costume Design, and Visual Effects.
Still,Spotlightwent home with Best Picture, Best Acting Ensemble, and Best Original Screenplay, which is also hugely impressive. In fact, this could very well be a preview of what goes down at the Academy Awards, withMad Max: Fury Roadsweeping the technical categories whileSpotlightgrabs a handful of key trophies. After all, this is what happened whenGravityfaced12 Years a Slaveat the Oscars a few years ago.
Other winners weren’t too surprising.Leonardo DiCapriowon Best Actor forThe Revenant,Sylvester Stallonetook home Best Supporting Actor forCreed, andBrie Larsonclaimed Best Actress forRoom. Those three are the clear frontrunners in their respective Oscars categories, so those wins aren’t too surprising. However,Alicia Vikanderwinning Best Supporting Actress forThe Danish Girlis certainly interesting and may suggest her pulling ahead in that very crowded category.
Here is the complete list of winners:
FILMBEST PICTURE
BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio
The Revenant
BEST ACTRESS
Brie Larson
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Jacob Tremblay, Room
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
BEST DIRECTOR
George Miller
Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Colin Gibson, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST EDITING
Margaret Sixel, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jenny Beavan, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST HAIR & MAKEUP
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Inside Out
BEST ACTION MOVIE
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Tom Hardy, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST COMEDY
The Big Short
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Christian Bale, The Big Short
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Amy Schumer, Trainwreck
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
Ex Machina
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Son of Saul
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“See You Again”, Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa, Furious 7
BEST SCORE
Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight
TELEVISIONBEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent, Amazon
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Rami Malek, Mr. Robot, USA
BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Idris Elba, Luther, BBC America
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The CW
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Carrie Coon, The Leftovers, HBO
BEST ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Kirsten Dunst, Fargo, FX Networks
BEST COMEDY SERIES
Master of None, Netflix
BEST DRAMA SERIES
Mr. Robot, USA
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Timothy Olyphant, The Grinder, Fox
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Margo Martindale, The Good Wife, CBS
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Fargo, FX Networks
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Fox
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Christian Slater, Mr. Robot, USA
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Jesse Plemons, Fargo, FX Networks
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory, CBS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Constance Zimmer, UnREAL, Lifetime
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
