Thanks to Marshall for sending these “herding cats” nominations. The New York Film Critics are a handful of people who mostly aren’t real film critics, except a few names here or there. This list is kind of ridiculous – so take it with a grain of salt. They almost seem like their pre-nominations nominations with so many choices. I almost didn’t post them because this is the kind of thing that makes me really hate film critics or even fake film critics masquerading as real film critics; don’t tell me how your collective minds work because I don’t really want to know! But I guess YOU might like to see their thought processes. They appear to really hate The Martian. They like Trumbo better than The Revenant. So what can you do? Trumbo and not The Revenant or The Martian. Anyway, they will be announcing their winners tomorrow.
Breakthrough Performance
Abraham Attah – Beasts of No Nations
Emory Cohen – Brooklyn
Rebecca Ferguson – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Lola Kirke – Mistress America
Brie Larson – Room
Teyonah Parris – Chi-Raq
Bel Powley – The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Amy Schumer – Trainwreck
Jacob Tremblay – Room
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, etc.
Supporting Actress
Elizabeth Banks – Love and Mercy
Cate Blanchett – Carol
Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Laura Linney – Mr. Holmes
Rooney Mara – Carol
Helen Mirren – Trumbo
Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria
Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina
Julie Walters – Brooklyn
10. Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
Supporting Actor
Paul Dano – Love and Mercy
Benicio Del Toro – Sicario
Idris Elba – Beasts of No Nation
Tom Hardy – The Revenant
Oscar Isaac – Ex Machina
Jason Mitchell – Straight Outta Compton
Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
Michael Shannon – 99 Homes
Sylvester Stallone – Creed
Jacob Tremblay – Room
Screenplay
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga)
Bridge of Spies (Matt Charman, Joel and Ethan Coen)
Brooklyn (Nick Hornby)
Carol (Phyllis Nagy)
End of the Tour (Donald Margulies)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
Mistress America (Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach)
Room (Emma Donoghue)
Spotlight (Josh Singer, Thomas McCarthy)
Steve Jobs (Aaron Sorkin)
Wild Tales (Damian Szifron)
Cinematography
Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga)
Carol (Edward Lachman)
The Danish Girl (Danny Cohen)
Mad Max: Fury Road (John Seale)
The Martian (Dariusz Wolski)
The Revenant (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Sicario(Roger Deakins)
Son of Saul (Mátyás Erdély)
Suffragette (Eduard Grau)
Tangerine (Radium Cheung)
The Walk (Dariusz Wolski)
Youth (Luca Bigazzi)
Use of Music (Credits TBD)
Carol
Chi-Raq
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
It Follows
Love and Mercy
Mad Max: Fury Road
Steve Jobs
Straight Outta Compton
Youth
Debut
Director
Yann Demange – ‘71
Joel Edgerton – The Gift
Deniz Ganz Ezugen – Mustang
Alex Garland – Ex Machina
Marielle Heller – The Diary of a Teenage Girl
John Maclean – Slow West
Josh Mond – James White
Laszlo Nemes – Son of Saul
James Vanderbilt – Truth
Director
Ramin Bahrani – 99 Homes
Danny Boyle – Steve Jobs
Ryan Coogler – Creed
John Crowley – Brooklyn
Cary Joji Fukunaga – Beasts of No Nation
Todd Haynes – Carol
Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Jay Roach – Trumbo
Steven Spielberg – Bridge of Spies
Denis Villeneuve – Sicario
Actress
Cate Blanchett – Carol
Brie Larson – Room
Rooney Mara – Carol
Elisabeth Moss – Queen of Earth
Carey Mulligan –Far from the Madding Crowd
Carey Mulligan – Suffragette
Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road
Lily Tomlin – Grandma
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
Actor
Michael Caine – Youth
2. Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Paul Dano – Love and Mercy
Johnny Depp – Black Mass
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
Andrew Garfield – 99 Homes
Tom Hanks – Bridge of Spies
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl
Geza Rohrig – Son of Saul
Will Smith – Concussion
Ensemble Cast
The Big Short
Black Mass
Brooklyn
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Spotlight
Steve Jobs
Suffragette
Tangerine
Trumbo
Picture
45 Years (IFC Films)
The Big Short (Paramount)
Bridge of Spies (DreamWorks)
Brooklyn (Fox Searchlight)
Carol (The Weinstein Company)
Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros.)
Sicario (Lionsgate)
Spotlight(Open Road)
Steve Jobs(Universal)
Trumbo(Bleecker Street)
Foreign Language
Girlhood (Strand Releasing)
Goodnight Mommy (Radius-TWC)
Labyrinth of Lies (Sony Pictures Classics)
Mustang (Cohen Media Group)
Phoenix (IFC Films)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch… (Magnolia)
The Second Mother (Oscilloscope)
Son of Saul (Sony Pictures Classics)
Timbuktu (Cohen Media Group)
Wild Tales (Sony Pictures Classics)
Documentary
3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets (Participant Media)
Amy (A24)
Best of Enemies (Magnolia)
Going Clear (HBO Documentary Films)
He Named Me Malala (Fox Searchlight)
In Jackson Heights
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (HBO Documentary Films)
The Look of Silence (Drafthouse Pictures)
Meru
Where to Invade Next
The Wolfpack (Magnolia)
Animated Feature
Anomalisa (Paramount)
The Boy and the World (GKIDS)
The Good Dinosaur (Disney-Pixar)
Inside Out (Disney-Pixar)
Minions (Universal)
The Peanuts Movie (20thCentury Fox)
The Prophet (GKIDS)
Shaun the Sheep Movie (Lionsgate)
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (Paramount)
When Marnie Was There (GKIDS)
