The Broadcast Film Critics Association have put forth their awards for 2015 picking Spotlight as Best Picture, giving it two other awards for Best Ensemble and Best Original Screenplay. It tied The Big Short for second place among the year’s winners. That film took two prizes from the Comedy segment on top of Best Adapted Screenplay. However, topping all others, with 9 awards (3 of which were from the Action categories), Mad Max: Fury Road crushed the competition, taking all but one tech award (it lost Cinematography to The Revenant) along with the award for Best Director.

The awards weren’t terribly unpredictable on the film side, which is clear from our excellent prediction jobs. Out of 28 categories, I (Wesley) managed to predict 23 correct categories and pick the correct runner-up in the remaining 5. Tripp came in second for our contributors picking 22 correct categories with two accurate runner-up selections. Third place went to Thomas who only got 18 correct predictions, but managed 7 additional runners-up predictions. Peter was fourth with 16 correct selections with 6 accurate runners-up.

Whether these winners carry over to Oscar remains to be seen, but there’s a lot of likelihood that a large number of them will.

Award Tallies

(9) Mad Max: Fury Road (3 in Action)
(3) The Big Short (2 in Comedy), Spotlight
(2) The Revenant, Room
(1) Amy, Creed, The Danish Girl, Ex Machina (Sci-Fi), Furious 7, The Hateful Eight, Inside Out, Son of Saul, Trainwreck

The Awards

Best Picture

Spotlight (Wesley, Tripp)

Best Animated Feature

Inside Out (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Director

George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road (Wesley, RU:Peter, RU:Thomas)

Best Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Actress

Brie Larson – Room (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Supporting Actor

Sylvester Stallone – Creed (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, RU:Thomas)

Best Supporting Actress

Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl (Tripp, Thomas, RU:Wesley, RU:Peter)

Best Original Screenplay

Spotlight (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Big Short (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, RU:Thomas)

Best Score

The Hateful Eight (Wesley, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Song

“See You Again” – Furious 7 (RU:Wesley)

Best Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road (Wesley, Tripp, Thomas, RU:Peter)

Best Cinematography

The Revenant (Peter, Tripp, Thomas, RU:Wesley)

Best Art Direction

Mad Max: Fury Road (Wesley, Tripp, RU:Thomas)

Best Costume Design

Mad Max: Fury Road (RU:Wesley, RU:Tripp)

Best Makeup

Mad Max: Fury Road (Wesley, Tripp, Thomas, RU:Peter)

Best Visual Effects

Mad Max: Fury Road (Wesley, Thomas, RU:Peter)

Best Foreign Language Film

Son of Saul (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Documentary Feature

Amy (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Young Actor/Actress

Jacob Tremblay – Room (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Acting Ensemble

Spotlight (Wesley, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Action Movie

Mad Max: Fury Road (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Actor in an Action Movie

Tom Hardy – Mad Max: Fury Road (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Actress in an Action Movie

Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, RU:Thomas)

Best Comedy

The Big Short (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Actor in a Comedy

Christian Bale – The Big Short (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Actress in a Comedy

Amy Schumer – Trainwreck (RU:Wesley, RU:Peter, RU:Tripp, RU:Thomas)

Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie

Ex Machina (Wesley, Peter, RU:Thomas)

Broadcast Film Critics Association Data

Year Founded: 1995
First Awards: 1995 (21)