This season has been back-and-forth with various films taking turns in the lead and being shafted. Here, Carol‘s back in the lead and The Hateful Eight performs the best to date as does Anomalisa. Meanwhile, The Revenant scores only two nominations. Strangely, Trumbo has only two nominations, one of which is for Best Picture.

Award Tallies

(3) Room
(2) Inside Out, Mad Max: Fury Road

Nominations Tallies

(7) Carol
(5) Ex Machina, The Hateful Eight, Mad Max: Fury Road
(4) Room
(3) Anomalisa, Inside Out, Sicario, Spotlight, Steve Jobs

The Awards

Best Film

Anomalisa
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
Spotlight
Trumbo

Best Animated Film

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

Best Director

Todd Haynes – Carol
Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
Adam McKay – The Big Short
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Quentin Tarantino – The Hateful Eight

Best Actor

Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
Michael B. Jordan – Creed
Jacob Tremblay – Room

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Carol
Brie Larson – Room
Rooney Mara – Carol
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Supporting Actor

Benicio Del Toro – Sicario
Idris Elba – Beasts of No Nation
Oscar Isaac – Ex Machina
Michael Shannon – 99 Homes
Sylvester Stallone – Creed

Best Supporting Actress

Elizabeth Banks – Love & Mercy
Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria
Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

Best Original Screenplay

Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
Sicario
Spotlight

Best Adapted Screenplay

Anomalisa
The Big Short
Carol
Room
Steve Jobs

Best Score

Carol
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
It Follows
Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Cinematography

Carol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario

Best Foreign Language Film

Mustang
Phoenix
Son of Saul
The Tribe
Victoria

Best Documentary

Amy
Best of Enemies
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
Where to Invade Next

Best First Film

Bone Tomahawk
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Ex Machina
Mustang
Son of Saul

Breakthrough Artist

Abraham Attah – Beasts of No Nation
Amy Schumer – Trainwreck
Mya Taylor – Tangerine
Jacob Tremblay – Room
Alicia Vikander – Ex-Machina

Best Austin Film

Arlo and Julie (dir: Steve Mims)
A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story (dir: Sara Hirsh Bordo)
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (dir: David Zellner)
Peace Officer (dir: Brad Barber, Scott Christopherson)
Two Step (dir: Alex R. Johnson)

Austin Film Critics Data

First Awards: 2005 (11)