Best of the Rest of 2015

BEST BREAKTHROUGH: Daisy Ridley


Honorable Mentions: Amy Schumer, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Alicia Vikander, Mya Taylor, Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins, Lola Kirke, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez



BEST ENSEMBLE: The Cast of Straight Outta Compton


Honorable Mentions: What We Do In The Shadows, Inside Out, The Hateful Eight, Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mistress America, Sicario



BEST DIRECTOR: George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road


Honorable Mentions: Denis Villeneuve (Sicario), Alex Garland (Ex Machina), Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight), Pete Docter (Inside Out), Noah Baumbach (Mistress America), J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Sean S. Baker (Tangerine), Paul Feig (Spy), F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton), Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi (What We Do In The Shadows)



BEST SCREENPLAY: Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig - Mistress America


Honorable Mentions: Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve & Josh Cooley (Inside Out); Alex Garland (Ex Machina), Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight), Taylor Sheridan (Sicario), Sean S. Baker & Chris Bergoch (Tangerine)



BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins - Sicario


Honorable Mentions: John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road), Rob Hardy (Ex Machina), Robert Richardson (The Hateful Eight), Mike Gioulakis (It Follows, Laurent Tangy (The Connection)



BEST EDITING: Margaret Sixel - Mad Max: Fury Road


Honorable Mentions: Mary Jo Markey & Maryann Brandon (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Joe Walker (Sicario), Fred Raskin (The Hateful Eight)



BEST SCORE: Disasterpeace - It Follows


Honorable Mentions: Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight), Junkie XL (Mad Max: Fury Road), Joe Walker (Jóhann Jóhannsson)



BEST SONG: "Earned It" by The Weeknd - Fifty Shades of Grey


Honorable Mentions: "Toyland" by Mya Taylor (Tangerine), "Love Me Like You Do" by Ellie Goulding (Fifty Shades of Grey), "Jim Jones At Botany Bay" by Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth (Furious 7)



BEST PREEXISTING SONG: "Get Down Saturday Night" by Oliver Cheatham - Ex Machina


Honorable Mentions: "There Won't Be Many Coming Home" by Roy Orbison (The Hateful Eight), "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel (Trainwreck), "Love Makes The World Go Round" by Barbara Lewis (Focus), "This Bitter Earth/On the Nature of Daylight" by Max Richter & Dinah Washington (The Connection)



BEST OPENING CREDITS: Furious 7


Honorable Mentions: The Lazarus Effect



BEST ENDING CREDITS: American Ultra


Honorable Mentions: Inside Out, Spy, A LEGO Brickumentary, I Am Big Bird, Ex Machina, Pixels



BEST STINGER: Minions


Honorable Mentions: Avengers: Age of Ultron



BEST POSTER ART: The Visit


Honorable Mentions: Inside Out (Teaser), We Are Still Here, Buzzard, Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, Call Me Lucky, Lost River, The Age of Adaline



BEST TRAILER: Creed


Honorable Mentions: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mad Max: Fury Road



BEST ACTION FILM: Mad Max: Fury Road


Honorable Mentions: Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron



BEST ANIMATED FILM: Inside Out


Honorable Mentions: Shaun the Sheep Movie, Minions



BEST COMEDY FILM: Spy


Honorable Mentions: What We Do In The Shadows, Mistress America



BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM: Call Me Lucky


Honorable Mentions: I Am Thor, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau, I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story



BEST HORROR FILM: It Follows


Honorable Mentions: Unfriended



BEST SCI-FI FILM: Ex Machina


Honorable Mentions: Infini



BEST GUILTY PLEASURE: Pixels



FUTURE CULT AND APPRECIATION

Films that I feel will grow on me, beyond my initial expectations and opinions and become the great films that they sought to be.

Bone Tomahawk
Infini
Trainwreck


UNDERRATED AND UNDERAPPRECIATED

Actors and actresses that gave great performances in bad films and/or in roles with little material and screen time.

Sean Bean (Jupiter Ascending)
Zoë Bell (The Hateful Eight)
Jon Bernthal (Sicario)
Brian Bosworth (Do You Believe?)
John Cena (Trainwreck)
George Clooney (Tomorrowland)
Jake Johnson (Jurassic World)
Nathan Jones (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Delroy Lindo (Do You Believe?)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Jupiter Ascending)
James Parks (The Hateful Eight)
Matthias Schoenaerts (The Loft)
Channing Tatum (The Hateful Eight)