Best Film runner-up Room earned the most prizes (in a tie with Spotlight) with the Indiana journalist taking both acting prizes and the award for Adapted Screenplay. This is the best the film has fared so far among critics. Spotlight won another Best Film award and captured Best Original Screenplay and a first for Mark Ruffalo in Best Supporting Actor. Most of these seem to be fairly standard winners, though the Greta Gerwig triumph is the most left-field of their decisions.

Award Tallies

(3) Room, Spotlight
(2) Anomalisa, Mad Max: Fury Road

The Awards

Best Film

Spotlight (RU: Room)

Other Finalists (Alphabetical):
Anomalisa
The Big Short
Carol
The End of the Tour
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Steve Jobs
Straight Outta Compton

Best Animated Film

Anomalisa (RU: Inside Out)

Best Director

George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road (RU: Tom McCarthy – Spoltight)

Best Actor

Jacob Tremblay – Room (RU: Jason Segel – The End of the Tour)

Best Actress

Brie Larson – Room (RU: Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years)

Best Supporting Actor

Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight (RU: Idris Elba – Beasts of No Nation)

Best Supporting Actress

Greta Gerwig – Mistress America (RU: Elizabeth Banks – Love & Mercy)

Best Original Screenplay

Spotlight (RU: Bridge of Spies)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Room (RU: The Big Short)

Best Musical Score

Mad Max: Fury Road (RU: It Follows)

Best Foreign Language Film

Son of Saul (RU: Goodnight Mommy)

Best Documentary

Amy (RU: Meru)

Best Vocal / Motion Capture Performance

Phyllis Smith – Inside Out (RU: Tom Noonan – Anomalisa)

Original Vision Award

Anomalisa (RU: Chi-Raq)

Indiana Film Journalists Data

First Awards: 2009 (7)