2015 Awards -- Central Ohio Film Critics Association Nominees

A group of 22-25 members make up the Central Ohio Film Critics. The largest city in the vicinity would probably be Columbus. Also the first group I've seen (besides the Critics Choice) to throw some love at the Star Wars camp!

BEST FILM
The Big Short
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Sicario
Spotlight
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

BEST DIRECTOR
Todd Haynes - "Carol"
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - "The Revenant"
Tom McCarthy - "Spotlight"
George Miller - "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Ridley Scott - "The Martian"
Denis Villeneuve - "Sicario"

BEST ACTOR
Matt Damon - "The Martian"
Johnny Depp - "Black Mass"
Leonardo DiCaprio - "The Revenant"
Michael Fassbender - "Steve Jobs"
Jacob Tremblay - "Room"

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett - "Carol"
Brie Larson - "Room"
Saoirse Ronan - "Brooklyn"
Charlize Theron - "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Alicia Vikander - "The Danish Girl"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Benicio Del Toro - "Sicario"
Tom Hardy - "The Revenant"
Oscar Isaac - "Ex Machina"
Mark Ruffalo - "Spotlight"
Sylvester Stallone - "Creed"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Jason Leigh - "The Hateful Eight"
Rooney Mara - "Carol"
Rachel McAdams - "Spotlight"
Alicia Vikander - "Ex Machina"
Kate Winslet - "Steve Jobs"

BEST ENSEMBLE
The Big Short
Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
Spotlight
Steve Jobs

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
Sicario
Spotlight

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Big Short
Brooklyn
The Martian
Room
Steve Jobs

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Inside Out
The Peanuts Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario

BEST FILM EDITING
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario
Spotlight
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

BEST SCORE
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Assassin
Goodnight Mommy
Phoenix
The Tribe
Timbuktu
Wild Tales

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Amy
Best of Enemies
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
The Look of Silence
The Wolfpack

BREAKTHROUGH FILM ARTIST
Sean Baker - "Tangerine"
Joel Edgerton - "The Gift"
David Robert Mitchell - "It Follows"
Daisy Ridley - "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens"
Jacob Tremblay - "Room"
Alicia Vikander - "Burnt, The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Seventh Son & Testament of Youth)

ACTOR OF THE YEAR (Body of work)
Cate Blanchett - (Carol, Cinderella, Truth)
Michael Fassbender - (Macbeth, Slow West, Steve Jobs)
Domhnall Gleeson - (Brooklyn, Ex Machina, The Revenant, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens)
Tom Hardy - (Child 44, Legend, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant)
Alicia Vikander - (Burnt, The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Seventh Son, Testament of Youth)

BEST OVERLOOKED FILM
The End of the Tour
The Gift
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Mistress America
Slow West
The Tribe