The 20th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 14, 2015.^[1][2]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Mad Max: Fury Road

• Brooklyn
• Ex Machina
• Room
• Spotlight

Best Director

George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road

• Lenny Abrahamson – Room
• John Crowley – Brooklyn
• Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
• Tom McCarthy – Spotlight

Best Male Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant

• Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
• Matt Damon – The Martian
• Jason Segel – The End of the Tour
• Jacob Tremblay – Room

Best Female Actor

Brie Larson – Room

• Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
• Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
• Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road
• Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina

Best Male Supporting Actor

Tom Noonan – Anomalisa

• RJ Cyler – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• Paul Dano – Love & Mercy
• Oscar Isaac – Ex Machina
• Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies

Best Female Supporting Actor

Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight

• Olivia Cooke – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• Helen Mirren – Trumbo
• Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria
• Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

Best Original Screenplay

Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi – What We Do in the Shadows

• Noah Baumbach – Mistress America
• Alex Garland – Ex Machina
• Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer – Spotlight
• Quentin Tarantino – The Hateful Eight

Best Adapted Screenplay

Emma Donoghue – Room

• Drew Goddard – The Martian
• Nick Hornby – Brooklyn
• Charlie Kaufman – Anomalisa
• Donald Margulies – The End of the Tour

Best Animated Film

Anomalisa

• The Good Dinosaur
• Inside Out
• The Peanuts Movie
• Shaun the Sheep Movie

Best Documentary

Cartel Land

• Amy
• He Named Me Malala
• Meru
• The Wrecking Crew

Best Foreign Language Film

Taxi

• Goodnight Mommy
• Phoenix
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins – Sicario

• Yves Bélanger – Brooklyn
• Emmanuel Lubezki – The Revenant
• John Seale – Mad Max: Fury Road
• Dariusz Wolski – The Martian
• White God

Best Editing

Margaret Sixel and Jason Ballantine – Mad Max: Fury Road

• Michael Kahn – Bridge of Spies
• Stephen Mirrione – The Revenant
• Nathan Nugent – Room
• Pietro Scalia – The Martian
• Joe Walker – Sicario

Best Production Design

François Séguin – Brooklyn

• Mark Digby – Ex Machina
• Colin Gibson – Mad Max: Fury Road
• Arthur Max – The Martian
• Adam Stockhausen – Bridge of Spies

Best Sound Design

Mad Max: Fury Road

• Ex Machina
• Love & Mercy
• The Martian
• Sicario

Best Visual Effects

The Walk

• Ex Machina
• Jurassic World
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian

Best Use of Music in a Film

The Hateful Eight

• Love & Mercy
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Sicario
• Straight Outta Compton

Breakthrough Artist

Jacob Tremblay

• Abraham Attah
• Sean Baker
• Emory Cohen
• Alicia Vikander

Best Ensemble

What We Do in the Shadows

• The Big Short
• The Hateful Eight
• Inside Out
• Spotlight
• Straight Outta Compton