The DC Film Critics have bestowed their nominations with Carol and Mad Max: Fury Road earning the most nominations with 7 each, including the gerrymandered Rooney Mara in support for her co-lead role. Brooklyn had a good day, as did The Revenant, which hadn’t gotten a lot of love before today. Spotlight got a Best Film nomination, but only mustered three other nods while its four other competitors did significantly better with none of its actors being nominated in either lead or support. Alicia Vikander, also a sufferer of category fraud, was double-nominated in Best Supporting Actress.

Nominations Tallies

(7) Carol, Mad Max: Fury Road
(6) Brooklyn, The Revenant
(5) Steve Jobs
(4) The Martian, Sicario
(3) Ex Machina, The Hateful Eight, Room, Spotlight

The Nominations

Best Film

Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario
Spotlight

Best Animated Feature

Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Inside Out
The Peanuts Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie

Best Director

Alex Garland – Ex Machina
Todd Haynes – Carol
Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott – The Martian

Best Actor

Matt Damon – The Martian
Johnny Depp – Black Mass
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Carol
Brie Larson – Room
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Sarah Silverman – I Smile Back
Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Dano – Love & Mercy
Idris Elba – Beasts of No Nation
Tom Hardy – The Revenant
Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone – Creed

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara – Carol
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

Best Original Screenplay

Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Spotlight
Trainwreck

Best Adapted Screenplay

Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room
Steve Jobs

Best Original Score

Brooklyn
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario

Best Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Steve Jobs

Best Cinematography

Brooklyn
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario

Best Production Design

Brooklyn
Carol
Cinderella
Crimson Peak
Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Foreign Language Film

The Assassin
Goodnight Mommy
Mustang
The Second Mother
Son of Saul

Best Documentary

Amy
Best of Enemies
Cartel Land
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
The Look of Silence

Best Ensemble

The Big Short
The Hateful Eight
Spotlight
Steve Jobs
Straight Outta Compton

Best Youth Performance

Abraham Attah – Beasts of No Nation
Raffey Cassidy – Tomorrowland
Oona Laurence – Southpaw
Güneş Şensoy – Mustang
Jacob Tremblay – Room

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Data

Year Founded: 2002
First Awards: 2002 (14)