San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2016

Best Film

Hell or High Water

• La La Land
• Manchester by the Sea
• Moonlight
• Nocturnal Animals

Best Director

David Mackenzie – Hell or High Water

• Damien Chazelle – La La Land
• Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals
• Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
• Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea

Best Male Actor

Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea

• Adam Driver – Paterson
• Joel Edgerton – Loving
• Ryan Gosling – La La Land
• Jake Gyllenhaal – Nocturnal Animals
• Chris Pine – Hell or High Water
• Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic

Best Female Actor

Sônia Braga – Aquarius

• Annette Bening – 20th Century Women
• Ruth Negga – Loving
• Natalie Portman – Jackie
• Emma Stone – La La Land

Best Male Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali – Moonlight (TIE)
Ben Foster – Hell or High Water (TIE)

• Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
• Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson – Nocturnal Animals

Best Female Supporting Actor

Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea

• Judy Davis – The Dressmaker
• Greta Gerwig – 20th Century Women
• Lily Gladstone – Certain Women
• Nicole Kidman – Lion

Best Comedic Performance

Ryan Gosling – The Nice Guys

• Julian Dennison – Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Alden Ehrenreich – Hail, Caesar!
• Kate McKinnon – Ghostbusters
• Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool

Best Original Screenplay

Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water

• Damien Chazelle – La La Land
• Efthimis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos – The Lobster
• Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney – Moonlight
• Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea

Best Adapted Screenplay

Whit Stillman – Love & Friendship

• Luke Davies – Lion
• Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals
• Eric Heisserer – Arrival
• Taika Waititi – Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Best Animated Film

Kubo and the Two Strings

• April and the Extraordinary World
• Long Way North
• Moana
• Zootopia

Best Documentary

Weiner

• De Palma
• Gleason
• O.J.: Made in America
• Tower

Best Foreign Language Film

Mountains May Depart

• Aquarius
• The Handmaiden
• A Man Called Ove
• Mother
• Neruda

Best Cinematography

Giles Nuttgens – Hell or High Water

• James Laxton – Moonlight
• Seamus McGarvey – Nocturnal Animals
• Linus Sandgren – La La Land
• Bradford Young – Arrival

Best Costume Design

Mary Zophres – La La Land

• Suzy Benzinger – Café Society
• Marion Boyce and Margot Wilson – The Dressmaker
• Madeline Fontaine – Jackie
• Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh – Love & Friendship

Best Editing

Blu Murray – Sully

• Tom Cross – La La Land
• Jake Roberts – Hell or High Water
• Joan Sobel – Nocturnal Animals
• Joe Walker – Arrival

Best Production Design

Jess Gonchor – Hail, Caesar!

• Jean Rabasse – Jackie
• Anna Rackard – Love & Friendship
• Shane Valentino – Nocturnal Animals
• Patrice Vermette – Arrival
• David Wasco – La La Land

Best Visual Effects

The Jungle Book

• Arrival
• Doctor Strange
• La La Land
• A Monster Calls

Best Use of Music in a Film

Sing Street

• Everybody Wants Some!!
• Hell or High Water
• Jackie
• La La Land

Breakthrough Artist

Lily Gladstone – Certain Women

• Julian Dennison – Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Alden Ehrenreich – Hail, Caesar! and Rules Don't Apply
• Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea
• Anya Taylor-Joy – The Witch

Best Ensemble

Hell or High Water

• 20th Century Women
• Hidden Figures
• Moonlight
• Nocturnal Animals

Best Body of Work

Michael Shannon for Elvis & Nixon, Loving, Midnight Special, and Nocturnal Animals