Best Picture
“Spotlight”
Best Director
George Miller, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Best Original Screenplay
Oren Moverman; Michael Alan Lerner, “Love & Mercy”
Best Adapted Screenplay
Nick Hornby, “Brooklyn”
Best Actor
Paul Dano, “Love & Mercy”
Best Actress
Saoirse Ronan, “Brooklyn”
Best Supporting Actor
Michael Shannon, “99 Homes”
Best Supporting Actress
Mya Taylor, “Tangerine”
Best Animated Feature
“Anomalisa”
Best Foreign Language Film
“Son of Saul”
Best Documentary
“Listen to Me Marlon”
Best Cinematography
John Seale, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Best Production Design
Judy Becker; Heather Loeffler, “Carol”
Best Film Editing
Margaret Sixel, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Special Citation for underappreciated independent cinema
“The Forbidden Room” Guy Maddin’s haunted scream, full of artfully recreated, vinegar-eaten celluloid, is a rat’s nest of affairs too strange to recall and too troubling to forget.
Marlon Riggs Award for courage & innovation in the Bay Area film community
Frank Lee For his lifelong dedication to film culture in San Francisco—in particular his twenty-plus-year film stewardship of the 4 Star Theatre in the tradition of the family-run independent art house and his attention to Hong Kong film, both marked by his astute taste and knowledge.
