The 36th London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2015, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 17 January 2016.^[1][2]

Winners and nominees

Film of the Year

Mad Max: Fury Road

• 45 Years
• Amy
• Carol
• Inside Out
• The Look of Silence
• The Martian
• The Revenant
• Room
• Spotlight

Foreign Language Film of the Year

The Look of Silence

• Eden
• Hard to Be a God
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
• The Tribe

British/Irish Film of the Year

45 Years

• Amy
• Brooklyn
• The Lobster
• London Road

Documentary of the Year

Amy

• Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
• The Look of Silence
• Palio
• A Syrian Love Story

Actor of the Year

Tom Courtenay – 45 Years

• Paul Dano – Love & Mercy
• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
• Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
• Tom Hardy – Legend

Actress of the Year

Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years

• Cate Blanchett – Carol
• Brie Larson – Room
• Rooney Mara – Carol
• Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn

Supporting Actor of the Year

Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies

• Benicio del Toro – Sicario
• Tom Hardy – The Revenant
• Oscar Isaac – Ex Machina
• Michael Keaton – Spotlight

Supporting Actress of the Year

Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

• Olivia Colman – The Lobster
• Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria
• Tilda Swinton – Trainwreck
• Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina

British/Irish Actor of the Year

Tom Hardy – Legend, London Road, Mad Max: Fury Road, and The Revenant

• Michael Caine – Kingsman: The Secret Service and Youth
• Idris Elba – Beasts of No Nation and Second Coming
• Colin Farrell – The Lobster and Miss Julie
• Michael Fassbender – Macbeth, Slow West, and Steve Jobs

British/Irish Actress of the Year

Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn and Lost River

• Emily Blunt – Sicario
• Carey Mulligan – Far From the Madding Crowd and Suffragette
• Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years and The Forbidden Room
• Kate Winslet – The Dressmaker, A Little Chaos, and Steve Jobs

Young British/Irish Performer of the Year

Maisie Williams – The Falling

• Asa Butterfield – X+Y
• Milo Parker – Mr. Holmes and Robot Overlords
• Florence Pugh – The Falling
• Liam Walpole – The Goob

Director of the Year

George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road

• Andrew Haigh – 45 Years
• Todd Haynes – Carol
• Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
• Ridley Scott – The Martian

Screenwriter of the Year

Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer – Spotlight

• Emma Donoghue – Room
• Nick Hornby – Brooklyn
• Phyllis Nagy – Carol
• Aaron Sorkin – Steve Jobs

Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker

John Maclean – Slow West

• Tom Browne – Radiator
• Mark Burton and Richard Starzak – Shaun the Sheep Movie
• Emma Donoghue – Room
• Alex Garland – Ex Machina

British/Irish Short Film

Benjamin Cleary – Stutterer

• Fyzal Boulifa – Rate Me
• Jorn Threlfall – Over
• Simon Mesa Soto – Leidi
• Duncan Cowles – Directed by Tweedie

Technical Achievement

Carol – Edward Lachman, cinematography

• Carol – Carter Burwell, music
• Cinderella – Sandy Powell, costumes
• Ex Machina – Andrew Whitehurst, visual effects
• Macbeth – Alistair Sirkett and Markus Stemler, sound design
• Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson, production design
• Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale, cinematography
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – Wade Eastwood, stunts
• Sicario – Tom Ozanich, sound design
• Steve Jobs – Elliot Graham, editing

Dilys Powell Award

• Kenneth Branagh