Austin Film Critics Association Award Winners

Best Film 

Mad Max: Fury Road 

Best Director

George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Actor

Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs

Best Actress

Brie Larson, Room

Best Supporting Actor

Sylvester Stallone, Creed

Best Supporting Actress

Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina

Best Original Screenplay

Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Inside Out

Best Adapted Screenplay

Emma Donoghue, Room

Best Cinematography

Edward Lachman, Carol

Best Score

Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight

Best Foreign-Language Film

Son of Saul

Best Documentary

The Look of Silence

Best Animated Film

Inside Out

Best First Film

Ex Machina 

The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award 

Jacob Tremblay, Room

Austin Film Award

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter 

Special Honorary Award

Austin-based writer/animator Don Hertzfeldt in celebration of a career of remarkable short filmmaking and contributions to animation spanning two decades, with 2015’s award-winning “World of Tomorrow” being recognized as his best work to date

AFCA 2015 Top Ten Films

1. Mad Max: Fury Road

2. Spotlight

3. Carol

4. Anomalisa

5. Room

6. TIE: Ex Machina and Inside Out

8. Creed

9. The Big Short

10. Sicario