2015 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards

Best Film

• Spotlight
  • Runner-up: Inside Out
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Revenant
• Room

Best Actor

• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
  • Runner-up: Ian McKellen – Mr. Holmes
• Abraham Attah – Beasts of No Nation
• Matt Damon – The Martian
• Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl

Best Supporting Actor

• Sylvester Stallone – Creed
  • Runner-up: Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
• Paul Dano – Love & Mercy
• Idris Elba – Beasts of No Nation
• Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight

Best Original Screenplay

• Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
  • Runner-up: Ex Machina – Alex Garland
• Clouds of Sils Maria – Olivier Assayas
• The Hateful Eight – Quentin Tarantino
• Inside Out – Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley

Best Cinematography

• The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki
  • Runner-up: Carol – Edward Lachman
• Beasts of No Nation – Cary Fukunaga
• The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson
• Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale

Best Editing

• Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel
  • Runner-up: The Revenant – Stephen Mirrione
• The Big Short – Hank Corwin
• The Martian – Pietro Scalia
• Spotlight – Tom McArdle

Best Music

• Ennio Morricone – The Hateful Eight
  • Runner-up: Michael Giacchino – Inside Out
• Carter Burwell – Carol
• Disasterpeace – It Follows
• Junkie XL – Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Art Direction

• Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Runner-up (tie): Brooklyn, Carol, and The Danish Girl
• Cinderella

Best Foreign Language Film

• Goodnight Mommy • Austria
  • Runner-up Son of Saul • Hungary
• The Assassin • Taiwan
• Phoenix • Germany
• Wild Tales • Argentina

Best Animated Feature

• Inside Out
  • Runner-up: Anomalisa
• The Good Dinosaur
• The Peanuts Movie
• Shaun the Sheep Movie

Best Scene

(favorite movie scene or sequence)

• The Revenant: Hugh mauled by a grizzly
  • Runner-up: The Walk: The walk between the Twin Towers
• Creed: Creed’s first fight.
• Furious 7: The farewell scene between Vin Diesel and Paul Walker.
• Room: Jack’s escape and rescue.

Best Director

• Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
  • Runner-up: George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
• Todd Haynes – Carol
• Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
• Ridley Scott – The Martian

Best Actress

• Brie Larson – Room
  • Runner-up: Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
• Cate Blanchett – Carol
• Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road
• Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

Best Supporting Actress

• Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina
  • Runner-up (tie): Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria and Rooney Mara – Carol
• Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
• Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Martian – Drew Goddard
  • Runner-up: Brooklyn – Nick Hornby
• Creed – Ryan Coogler and Aaron Covington
• Room – Emma Donoghue
• Steve Jobs – Aaron Sorkin

Best Visual Effects

• Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Runner-up: The Walk
• Ex Machina
• The Martian
• The Revenant

Best Song

• "Writing's on the Wall" – Spectre
  • Runner-up: "See You Again" – Furious 7
• "Feels Like Summer" – Shaun the Sheep Movie
• "Til It Happens to You" – The Hunting Ground
• "Simple Song #3" – Youth

Best Soundtrack

• Love & Mercy
  • Runner-up: Straight Outta Compton
• Amy
• Dope
• The Martian

Best Documentary Film

• Amy
  • Runner-up: The Look of Silence
• Best of Enemies
• Cartel Land
• The Hunting Ground

Best Comedy

• Trainwreck
  • Runner-up: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• Inside Out
• Spy
• What We Do in the Shadows

Worst Film

• Fantastic Four
  • Runner-up: Aloha
• The Boy Next Door
• Jem and the Holograms
• Jupiter Ascending
• Mortdecai
• Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
• The Ridiculous 6
• Stonewall
• Strange Magic