2015: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Carol (dir: Todd Haynes)

2. The Duke of Burgundy (dir: Peter Strickland; US Release Date)

3. Mad Max: Fury Road (dir: George Miller)

4. Mistress America (dir: Noah Baumbach)

5. Taxi (dir: Jafar Pahani)

6. Phoenix (dir: Christian Petzold; US Release Date)

7. Clouds of Sils Maria (dir: Olivier Assayas; US release date)

8. Creed (dir: Ryan Coogler)

9. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (dir: Marielle Heller)

10. Magic Mike XXL (dir: Gregory Jacobs)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 45 Years (dir: Andrew Haigh), American Ultra (dir: Nima Nourizadeh), The Big Short (dir: Adam McKay), Bone Tomahawk (dir: S. Craig Zahler), Eden (dir: Mia Hansen Love; US Release Date), The End of the Tour (dir: James Ponsoldt), Iris (dir: Albert Maysles), It Follows (dir: David Robert Mitchell; US Release Date), The Look of Silence (dir: Joshua Oppenheimer), Mustang (dir: Deniz Gamze Ergüven), Room (dir: Lenny Abrahamson), , Sicario (dir: Denis Villeneuve), Son of Saul (dir: Lazlo Nemes), Spotlight (dir: Tom McCarthy), Tangerine (dir: Sean Baker), Timbuktu (dir: Abderrahmane Sissako) and While We're Young (dir: Noah Baumbach)

Best Film of the Year: Carol
Director: Todd Haynes Producers: Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley
US Distributor: The Weinstein Company

Best Director
Todd Haynes, Carol
2. George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Peter Strickland, The Duke of Burgundy
4. Ryan Coogler, Creed
5. Jafar Pahani, Taxi

Best Actor
Geza Röhrig, Son of Saul
2. Tom Courtenay, 45 Years
3. Jason Segel, The End of the Tour
4. Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
5. Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight

Best Actress
Rooney Mara, Carol
2. Juliette Binoche, Clouds of Sils Maria 
3. Cate Blanchett, Carol
4. Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
5. Anne Dorval, Mommy

Best Supporting Actor
Michael Keaton, Spotlight
2. Richard Jenkins, Bone Tomahawk
3. Alexander Skarsgard, The Diary of a Teenage Girl
4.  Benicio Del Toro, Sicario
5. Jason Mitchell, Straight Outta Compton

Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
2. Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria
3. Jada Pinkett Smith, Magic Mike XXL
4. Katherine Waterston, Queen of Earth
5. Rose Byrne, Spy

Best Original Screenplay
Mistress America — Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig
2. The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
3. Spotlight — Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
4. Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
5. Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako and Kessen Tall

Best Adapted Screenplay
Phoenix — Christian Petzold and Harun Farocki
2. Carol — Phyllis Nagy
3. The Diary of a Teenage Girl — Marielle Heller
4. 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
5. The Big Short — Adam McKay and Charles Rudolph

Best Cinematography
Carol — Ed Lachman
2. The Revenant — Emmanuel Lubezki
3. Mad Max: Fury Road — John Seale
4. Sicario — Roger Deakins
5. The Duke of Burgundy — Nic Knowland

Best Original Score
The Duke of Burgundy — Cat’s Eyes (Rachel Zeffira and Faris Badwan)
2. It Follows — Disasterpiece (Rich Vreeland)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road — Junkie XL (Tom Holkenborg)
4. Carol — Carter Burwell
5. The Hateful Eight — Ennio Morricone

Best Film Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road — Jason Ballantine and Margaret Sixel
2. Carol — Affonso Gonçalves
3. Beasts of No Nation — Pete Beaudreau and Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
4. The Revenant — Stephen Mirrione
5. Tangerine — Sean Baker

Best Production Design
Carol — Judy Becker and Heather Loeffler
2. The Duke of Burgundy — Pater Sparrow and Zsuzsa Mihalek
3. Mad Max: Fury Road — Colin Gibson, Katie Sharrock and Lisa Thompson
4. Crimson Peak — Thomas Sanders, Jeffrey Melvin and Shane Vieau
5. The Martian — Arthur Max and Janty Yates

Best Costume Design
Carol — Sandy Powell
2. Chi-Raq — Ruth E. Carter
3. Crimson Peak — Kate Hawley
4. Mad Max: Fury Road — Jenny Beavan
5. The Revenant — Jacqueline West

Best Visual Effects
Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Ex Machina
3. The Martian

Best Sound
The Duke of Burgundy
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. The Revenant

Best Makeup
Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Revenant
3. The Duke of Burgundy

Best Documentary Feature:
Western — Bill Ross and Turner Ross
2. The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
3. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck — Brett Morgen

Best Animated Feature:
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck — Brett Morgen
2. The Boy and the Beast — Mamoru Hosoda
3. Inside Out — Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen

Best Limited Series:
Arabian Nights — Miguel Gomes, Telmo Churro, and Mariana Ricardo
2. Show Me a Hero — David Simon, Paul Haggis, William F. Zorzi, and Gail Mutrux
3. Wolf Hall — Peter Kosminsky, Peter Straughan, and Mark Pybus

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Best Documentary Series
1. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst — Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, and Zachary Stuart-Pontier
2. Making of a Murderer – Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos
3. Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies — Barak Goodman

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Magic Mike XXL

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Marielle Heller, Diary of a Teenage Girl

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Gregory Jacobs; in alphabetical order): Elizabeth Banks, Matt Bomer, Stephen "tWitch" Boss, Donald Glover, Amber Heard, Gabriel Iglesias, Andie MacDowell, Joe Manganiello (pictured), Kevin Nash, Adam Rodríguez, Jada Pinkett Smith (pictured) and Channing Tatum

Best First Feature: Madeleine Waters and Bel Powley (pictured) in Marielle Heller’s Diary of a Teenage Girl

RECAP

W I N S :

Carol — 4,
Mad Max: Fury Road — 3, The Duke of Burgundy — 2, Arabian Nights — 1, The Diary of a Teenage Girl — 1, Ex Machina — 1, The Jinx — 1, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck — 1, Magic Mike XXL — 1, Mistress America — 1, Phoenix — 1, Son of Saul — 1, Spotlight — 1, Western — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Carol — 10, Mad Max: Fury Road — 10,
The Duke of Burgundy — 7, The Revenant — 5, Clouds of Sils Maria — 4, The Diary of a Teenage Girl — 4, 45 Years — 3, Magic Mike XXL — 3, Spotlight – 3, Cobain: Montage of Heck —2, Crimson Peak — 2, Creed— 2, Ex Machina — 2, The Hateful Eight – 2, The Martian — 2, Mistress America — 2, Phoenix — 2, Sicario — 2, Taxi — 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s