Denver Film Critics Society Award Nominations

Best Picture
Inside Out
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

Best Director
Lenny Abrahamson, “Room”
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “The Revenant”
Tom McCarthy, “Spotlight”
George Miller, “Mad Max: Fury Road"
Ridley Scott, “The Martian”

Best Actor
Bryan Cranston, “Trumbo”
Matt Damon, “The Martian”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant”
Michael Fassbender, “Steve Jobs”
Will Smith, “Concussion”

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, “Carol”
Brie Larson, “Room”
Saoirse Ronan, “Brooklyn”
Charlize Theron, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl”

Best Supporting Actor
Idris Elba, “Beasts of No Nation”
Tom Hardy, “The Revenant”
Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies”
Michael Shannon, “99 Homes”
Sylvester Stallone, “Creed”

Best Supporting Actress
Elizabeth Banks, “Love and Mercy”
Jennifer Jason Leigh, “The Hateful Eight”
Rachel McAdams, “Spotlight”
Alicia Vikander, “Ex Machina”
Kate Winslet, “Steve Jobs”

Best Animated Film
“Anomalisa“
“The Good Dinosaur”
“Inside Out”
“The Peanuts Movie”
“Shaun the Sheep Movie”

Best Science Fiction/Horror Film“Ex Machina”
“It Follows”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”

Best Comedy
“The Big Short”
“Inside Out”
“Joy”
“Trainwreck”
“What We Do in the Shadows”

Best Original Screenplay
Alex Garland, “Ex Machina”
Quentin Tarantino, “The Hateful Eight”
Pete Docter, Josh Cooley and Meg LeFauve, “Inside Out”
Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer, “Spotlight”
Amy Schumer, “Trainwreck”

Best Adapted Screenplay
Nick Hornby, “Brooklyn”
Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, “The Big Short”
Drew Goddard, “The Martian”
Emma Donoghue, “Room”
Aaron Sorkin, “Steve Jobs”

Best Documentary
“Amy”
“Cartel Land”
“Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief”
“Listen to Me Marlon”
“The Look of Silence”

Best Visual Effects
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Walk

Best Original Song
Wiz Khalifa, “See You Again,” “Furious 7”
Lady Gaga, “Til It Happens to You,” “The Hunting Ground”
Tim Wheeler, “Feels Like Summer,” “Shaun the Sheep Movie”
Sam Smith, “Writing’s on the Wall,” “Spectre”
Sumi Jo, “Simple Song #3,” “Youth”

Best Score
Ennio Morricone, “The Hateful Eight”
Tom Holkenborg AKA Junkie XL, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
​Bryce Dessner, Carsten Nicolai and Ryuichi Sakamoto, “The Revenant”
Howard Shore, “Spotlight”
John Williams, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”

Best Foreign Language Film
“The Assassin”
"The Fencer”
“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”
“Son of Saul”
“Taxi”