Precursor: 20th Online Film & Television Nominations (2015)

Mad Max: Fury Road was the big nominee at this year’s OFTA film awards. With a nomination in Best Picture, a clean sweep of the techs and a number of categories in between, the film tops the nearest nominee by 3. Carol finds a boon with the group, securing a massive ten nominations, including a rare double Best Actress nomination. Star Wars: The Force Awakens also received ten nominations, but couldn’t find a spot in the Best Picture slate. The impressive haul was buoyed by two nominations in the Breakthrough Performance categories.

While some of this mirrors the Oscars, notably the Best Picture slate, only a couple of leading Oscar contenders didn’t make it onto this slate. The Big Short was a no show in Best Adapted Screenplay and Rooney Mara’s appearance in Best Actress means the Best Supporting Actress race is clear and while Alicia Vikander didn’t make it for her Oscar-nominated performance in The Danish Girl, she’s still there for her work on Ex Machina.

Nominations Tallies

(13) Mad Max: Fury Road
(10) Carol, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
(9) The Revenant
(8) Brooklyn, The Martian, Room, Spotlight
(7) Inside Out
(6) Bridge of Spies, Sicario
(5) Ex Machina
(3) Anomalisa, The Danish Girl, The Hateful Eight, Jurassic World, Mr. Holmes, Steve Jobs

The Nominations

Best Picture

The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Carol
Inside Out
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

Best Animated Feature

Anomalisa
Inside Out
The Peanuts Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marine Was There

Best Director

Todd Haynes – Carol
Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott – The Martian

Best Actor

Matt Damon – The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
Ian McKellen – Mr. Holmes
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Carol
Brie Larson – Room
Rooney Mara – Carol
Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn

Best Supporting Actor

Benicio Del Toro – Sicario
Tom Hardy – The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone – Creed

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Rachel McAdams – Spotlight
Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria
Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

Best Original Screenplay

Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Sicario
Spotlight

Best Adapted Screenplay

Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room
Steve Jobs

Best Original Score

Bridge of Spies
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Original Song

“Feels Like Summer” – Shaun the Sheep Movie
“One Kind of Love” – Love & Mercy
“See You Again” – Furious 7
“Til It Happens to You” – The Hunting Ground
“Writing’s on the Wall” – Spectre

Best Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Cinematography

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

Best Production Design

Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian

Best Costume Design

Brooklyn
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Black Mass
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mr. Holmes
The Revenant

Best Sound

Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Sound Effects

Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Visual Effects

Ex Machina
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Foreign Language Film

The Assassin – Taiwan
Goodnight Mommy – Austria
Labyrinth of Lies – Germany
Mustang – France
Son of Saul – Hungary

Best Documentary Feature

Amy
Best of Enemies
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Listen to Me Marlon
The Look of Silence

Best Youth Performance

Abraham Attah – Beasts of No Nation
Raffey Cassidy – Tomorrowland
Ed Oxenbould – The Visit
Milo Parker – Mr. Holmes
Jacob Tremblay – Room

Best Breakthrough Performance: Male

Abraham Attah – Beasts of No Nation
John Boyega – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Emory Cohen – Brooklyn
Jason Mitchell – Straight Outta Compton
Jacob Tremblay – Room

Best Breakthrough Performance: Female

Olivia Cooke – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Rebecca Ferguson – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Amy Schumer – Trainwreck
Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina

Best Voice-Over Performance

Richard Kind – Inside Out
Jennifer Jason Leigh – Anomalisa
Lupita Nyong’o – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Amy Poehler – Inside Out
Phyllis Smith – Inside Out

Best Ensemble

The Big Short
Brooklyn
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Straight Outta Compton

Best Casting

Brooklyn
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
Room
Spotlight

Best Feature Debut

Alex Garland – Ex Machina (Writer / Director)
Joel Edgerton – The Gift (Director)
Marielle Heller – The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Writer / Director)
Laszlo Nemes – Son of Saul (Director)
Taylor Sheridan – Sicario (Writer)

Best Adapted Song

“Big Rock Candy Mountain” – Room
“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” – Anomalisa
“God Only Knows” – Love & Mercy
“Good Vibrations” – Love & Mercy
“My Love Will Not Let You Down” – Ricki and the Flash

Best Stunt Coordination

Furious 7
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Titles Sequence

Ant-Man – End Titles
Jupiter Ascending – End Titles
Spectre – Opening Titles
Spy – Opening Titles
The Peanuts Movie

Most Cinematic Moment

Creed – One Fight: A Single Take
Inside Out – Bing Bong’s Rocket Sled Ride
Mad Max: Fury Road – The Sandstorm
Room – The Escape
The Walk – The Walk Between the Twin Towers