2015 Year in Review: Personal Oscar Ballot

Below is what my own Oscar ballot would look like. I didn’t do individual comments this year – it seemed like overkill – but if you really want to know why I chose what for Sound Editing, let me know.

Best Picture

1.    Inside Out
2.    Carol
3.    Anomalisa
4.    Mad Max: Fury Road
5.    The Hateful Eight
6.    Brooklyn
7.  45 Years
8.    Ex Machina

Director
1.    Todd Haynes, Carol
2.    George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
3.    Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson, Anomalisa
4.    Pete Docter, Inside Out
5.    Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight

Best Actor

1.     Paul Dano, Love & Mercy
2.   Tom Courtenay,45 Years
3.     Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight
4.     Géza Röhrig, Son of Saul
5.     Michael B. Jordan, Creed

Best Actress

1.     Saorise Ronan, Brooklyn
2.   Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
3.     Rooney Mara, Carol
4.     Brie Larson, Room
5.     Cate Blanchett, Carol

Best Supporting Actor

1.     Michael Shannon, 99 Homes
2.     Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
3.     Oscar Issac, Ex Machina
4.     Kurt Russell, The Hateful Eight
5.     Benicio Del Toro, Sicario

Best Supporting Actress

1.     Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria
2.     Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anomalisa
3.     Alicia Virkander, Ex Machina
4.     Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
5.     Elizabeth Banks, Love and Mercy

Best Original Screenplay

1.    Inside Out – P. Docter & R. Del Carmen and M. LeFauve & J. Cooley
2.    The Hateful Eight – Quentin Tarantino
3.    Ex Machina – Alex Garland
4.    Clouds of Sils Maria – Olivier Assayas
5.    Experimenter – Michael Almareyda

Best Adapted Screenplay

1.    Anomalisa – Charlie Kaufman
2.    Carol – Phyllis Nagy
3.    Brooklyn – Nick Hornby
4.   45 Years - Andrew Haigh
5.    Room – Emma Donaghue

Best Documentary

1.    Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
2.    The Look of Silence
3.    Approaching the Elephant
4.    Amy
5.    Cartel Land

Best Animated Film

1.    Inside Out
2.    Anomalisa
3.    World of Tomorrow
4.    The Good Dinosaur
5.    Shaun the Sheep Movie

Best Foreign Language Film

1.    Son of Saul
2.    Phoenix
3.    The Tribe
4.    The Kindergarten Teacher
5.    Eden

Best Cinematography

1.    Carol – Ed Lachman
2.    Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale
3.    The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson
4.    It Follows – Mike Gioulakis
5.    The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki

Editing

1.    Mad Max: Fury Road
2.    Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
3.    Carol
4.    Ex Machina
5.    Creed

Score

1.    The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone
2.    It Follows - Diasterpeace
3.    Mad Max: Fury Road – Junkie XL
4.    Carol – Carter Burwell
5.    Inside Out – Michael Giacchino

Song

1.    Dope – It’s My Turn Now
2.    Anomalisa – None of Them Are You
3.    Creed- Grip
4.    I’ll See You in My Dreams – I’ll See You in My Dreams
5.    Youth – Simple Song #3

Production Design
1.    Crimson Peak
2.    Mad Max: Fury Road
3.    Ex Machina
4.    Carol
5.    Anomalisa

Costume Design

1.    Carol
2.    Mad Max: Fury Road
3.    The Duke of Burgundy
4.    The Hateful Eight
5.    Brooklyn

Make-Up & Hair Styling

1.    Mad Max: Fury Road
2.    Carol
3.    The Hateful Eight

Sound Mixing

1.    Son of Saul
2.    Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
3.    Mad Max: Fury Road
4.    Inside Out
5.    It Follows

Sound Editing

1.    Mad Max: Fury Road
2.    The Hateful Eight
3.    Inside Out
4.    Star Wars: The Force Awakens
5.    Sicario

Visual Effects

1.    Mad Max: Fury Road
2.    Ex Machina
3.    The Walk
4.    Star Wars: The Force Awakens
5.    The Revenant