2015 superlatives & JWD awards

Edit: So - in starting to create my 2016 post, I've only just realized that I never finished and posted this. So, although incomplete, I'm going ahead and hitting publish so that it will be up.

2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 - Hey! First time getting this out POST-OSCARS. One day I'll have a manageable winter. *sigh.*

Best Film
Carol
The World of Tomorrow
Diary of A Teenage Girl
Room
Brooklyn
Mad Max
The Royal Road
The Duchess of Malfi
Tangerine
Results
Amy
Crimson Peak
Far from the Madding Crowd

Best Film not Starring a Woman
Spotlight
The Look of Silence
What We Do in the Shadows
Me And Earl and the Dying Girl
The Hateful Eight
Son of Saul
The Martian
Kingsman
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Charlie's Country
Jimmy's Hall
The Dark Horse

Notable Omissions here.

Best Actress
Bel Powley - Diary of a Teenage Girl
Saorsie Ronan - Brooklyn
Brie Larson - Room
Rooney Mara - Carol
Charlize Theron - Mad Max
Cobie Smulders - Results

(I saw it last year, but Rinko Kikuchi was brilliant in Kumiko the Treasure Hunter. Notable Omissions: Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years, Alicia Vikander - the Danish Girl, Arielle Holmes - Heaven Knows What, Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anomalisa, Julianne Moore - Maps to the Stars, Juliette Binoche - Clouds of Sils Maria, Karidja Toure - Girlhood, Laia Costa - Victoria, Nina Hoss - Phoenix, Shu Qi - The Assassin, Sidse Babett Knudsen - Duke of Burgundy, Teyonah Parris - Chi-raq, Carey Mulligan - Suffragette, Golshifteh Farahani - About Elly, Brit Marling - the Keeping Room,)

Best Actor
David Gulpilil - Charlie's Country
Emory Cohen - Brooklyn
Geza Rohrig - Son of Saul
Jacob Tremblay - Room
Thomas Mann-  Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

(Notable Omissions: Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs, Abraham Attah - Beasts of No Nation, Andrew Garfield - 99 Homes, Ben Mendelsohn - Mississippi Grind, Felix de Givry - Eden, Jason Mitchell - Straight Outta Compton, Jason Segel - End of the Tour, Johnny Depp - Black Mass, Koudous Seihon - Mediterranea, Michael B. Jordan - Creed, Ronald Zehrfeld - Phoenix, Shameik Moore - Dope, Tom Hardy - Legend, Viggo Mortensen - Jauja, Jack O'Connell - '71, Xavier Dolan - Tom at the Farm)

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett - Carol
Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
Mya Taylor - Tangerine
Olivia Cooke - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Rachel McAdams - Spotlight
Jessica Chastain - Crimson Peak
Joan Allen - Room
Julie Walters - Brooklyn
Elizabeth Banks - Love & Mercy

(Notable Omissions: Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs, Angela Bassett - Chi-raq, Chiara D'Anna - Duke of Burgundy, Cynthia Nixon - James White, Franziska Weisz - Stations of the Cross, Katherine Waterson - Queen of Earth, Kristen Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria, Lise Roy - Tom at the Farm, Marin Ireland - Glass Chin, Mia Wasikowska - Maps to the Stars, Nina Kunzendorf - Phoenix, Rachel Weisz - Youth, Robin Bartlett - H., Tessa Thompson - Creed)

Best Supporting Actor 
Walton Goggins - The Hateful Eight
Matthias Schoenaerts - Far from the Madding Crowd
Michael Keaton - Spotlight
Oscar Isaac - Ex Machina
Paul Dano - Love & Mercy
Tom Hardy - Mad Max
Stanley Tucci - Spotlight
Nicholas Hoult - Mad Max
Michael Sheen - Far from the Madding Crowd
Alexander Skarsgaard - Diary of a Teenage Girl
Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies
Christian Bale - The Big Short
RJ Cyler - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Michael Cyril Creighton - Spotlight

(Notablie Omissions: Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation, Jesse Eisenberg - End of the Tour, Michael Shannon - 99 Homes, O'Shea Jackson - Straight Outta Compton, Ryan Reynolds - Mississippi Grind, Tom Courtenay - 45 Years, Pierre-Yves Cardinal - Tom at the Farm, Caleb Landry Jones - Heaven Knows What, Billy Crudup - Glass Chin, Sylvester Stallone - Creed)

Best Ensemble
Carol
Tangerine
Brooklyn
Diary of a Teenage Girl
Love & Mercy
The Hateful Eight
Spotlight

(Notable Omissions: Eden, Girlhood, Mississippi Grind, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Straight Outta Compton, Beasts of No Nation)

Best Director
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
George Miller - Mad Max
Lenny Abrahamson - Room
Laszlo Nemes - Son of Saul
Marielle Heller - Diary of a Teenage Girl
Todd Haynes - Carol

(Notable Omissions: Cary Joji Fukunaga, Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson - Anomalisa, Christan Petzold - Phoenix, Hou Hsiao-hsien - The Assassin, Sarah Gavron - Suffragette, Celine Sciamma - Girlhood)

Best Screenplay - Adapted
The Martian
Brooklyn
Carol
Room
Diary of a Teenage Girl

(Notable Omissions: Steve Jobs, Creed, Beasts of No Nation)

Best Screenplay - Original
Spotlight
What We Do in the Shadows
Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Tangerine

(Notable Omissions: Straight Outta Compton, Phoenix, Duke of Burgundy, Clouds of Sils Maria, Anomalisa)

Best Animated
Inside Out
Shan the Sheep Movie
The Good Dinosaur

(Notable Omissions: Anomalisa, When Marnie Was There, Boy and the World, The Prophet, the Peanuts Movie)

Best Documentary
Amy
Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Racing Extinction

(Notable Omissions: Cartel Land, Winter on Fire, Heart of a Dog, the Hunting Ground, Listen to Me Marlon, Meru, We Come As Friends, Going Clear, Ballet 422, Dreamcatcher, Finders Keepers, Hitchcock/Truffaut, In Jackson Heights, Song from the Forest, Stray Dog, Beats of the Antonov, The Wolfpack, Democrats, Western, T-Rex)

Best Foreign
Son of Saul
The Tribe
Jimmy's Hall
Charlie's Country
The Dark Horse

...I don't even know. Can we toss Mad Max, Room, and What We do in the Shadows on here?

(Notable Omissions: Mustang, A War, Embrace of the Serpent (not out yet), Theeb, Viva, Goodnight Mommy, Lamb, Arabian Nights, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, The Assassin, Girlhood, Phoenix, Mediterranea, Timbuktu, Rams, Felix and Meira, Marshland, 10000 Km, White God, Black Coal Thin Ice, the Brand New Testament, the New Girlfriend, the Postman's White Nights, Vincent, Winter Sleep, Sworn Virgin, Stations of the Cross)

Best Editing
Mad Max
Spotlight
Amy
Carol
Room
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Tangerine
The Martian
Son of Saul
What We Do in the Shadows
Diary of a Teenage Girl

(Notable Omissions: White God, Phoenix, Heaven Knows What, Beasts of No Nation, Duke of Burgundy, Eden, Arabian Nights, Anomalisa)

Best Cinematography
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max
Sicario
The Revenant
Ex Machina
Far From the Madding Crowd
It Follows
Son of Saul
Tangerine

(Notable Omissions: The Assassin, Beasts of No Nation, Clouds of Sils Maria, Duke of Burgundy, Goodnight Mommy, Heaven Knows What, Jauja, Meadowland, Phoenix, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch, Slow West, Songs my Brothers Taught Me (not out yet?), Western)

Best Costumes
Kingsman
Carol
Cinderella
Mad Max
Brooklyn
Crimson Peak
Duchess of Malfi
The Hateful Eight
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Far from the Madding Crowd
MI5

(Notable Omissions: Danish Girl, Beasts of No Nation)

Best Makeup
Mad Max
The Revenant
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Brooklyn

(Notable Omissions: Black Mass, the Danish Girl)

Best Production Design
Mad Max
The Martian
Carol
Brooklyn
Ex Machina
Crimson Peak

(Notable Omissions: Danish Girl)

Best Visual Effects
Ex Machina
Mad Max
The Martian
Star Wars
The Good Dinosaur

(Notable Omissions: The Walk)

Best Score
Far From the Madding Crowd
Carol
The Hateful Eight

Mad Max
Spotlight

Best Song/Musical Moment
Siuil a Run - Jimmy's Hall
Earned It - 50 Shades
Manta Ray - Racing Extinction
Til It Happens to You - Hunting Ground
Jim Jones at Botany Bay - The Hateful Eight
Silent Night - The Hateful Eight
Back to Black - Amy
Wouldn't It Be Nice - Love & Mercy

The Big Ship - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Disintegration - Ant Man

(Notable Omissions: It's My Turn Now - Dope, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Anomalisa, Liszt - Victoria, Pray 4 My City and Oh Girl - Chi-raq, No Vaseline - Straight Outta Compton)

Best Animated Short
World of Tomorrow
We Can't Live Without Cosmos
Discussion Questions
Bang Bang!
Horse Raised by Spheres
Faded Finery
One Night in Hell
A Pattern for Survival
Caveirão
Street of Crocodiles (new to me)

Best Live Action Short
Cailleach
Territory (also winner of best unexpected werewolves)
Arrowed
NO ID
Stutterer

Film I didn't get to that I am most looking forward to:
Mustang
Girlhood
Phoenix
Clouds of Sils Maria
Anomalisa
Duke of Burgundy
Pigeon Sat on A Branch


Best Quote
What We Do In the Shadows:
"Sometimes you make the honest mistake of making a mask out of crackers and a duck eats your face"

Deacon: “I think we drink virgin blood because it sounds cool.”
Vladislav: “I think of it like this: if you were going to eat a sandwich, you would just enjoy it more if you knew no one had fucked it.”

Anton: “Hey, don’t swear! What are we?”
Werewolves: “We’re werewolves, not swear-wolves.”

Viago: “Yeah, some of our clothes are from our victims. You might bite someone and then think, ‘Oooh, these are nice pants’.”

Vladislav: "Leave me to do my dark bidding on the internet!"
Viago: "What are you bidding on?"
Vladislav: "I am bidding on a table."

The Martian:
“I don’t want to come off as arrogant here, but I’m the greatest botanist on this planet.”

“In the face of overwhelming odds, I’m left with only one option: I’m gonna have to science the shit out of this.”

“They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it. So, technically, I colonized Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong!”

"I've been thinking about laws on Mars. There's an international treaty saying that no country can lay claim to anything that's not on Earth. By another treaty if you're not in any country's territory, maritime law aplies. So Mars is international waters. Now, NASA is an American non-military organization, it owns the Hab. But the second I walk outside I'm in international waters. So Here's the cool part. I'm about to leave for the Schiaparelli Crater where I'm going to commandeer the Ares IV lander. Nobody explicitly gave me permission to do this, and they can't until I'm on board the Ares IV. So I'm going to be taking a craft over in international waters without permission, which by definition... makes me a pirate. Mark Watney: Space Pirate."

Best Trailer


Best Poster
Neon Bull
Love & Mercy
Crimson Peak

It Follows

Unforgettable Moment Award [SPOILERS]
Furiosa taking the shot - Mad Max
The Church Scene - Kingsman


Other Superlatives:
Best Bats: What We Do in the Shadows
Best Squirrels: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Best Butterflies/Moths: Duke of Burgundy (I assume.)
Best Dogs: White God (again, I assume.)
Best Crab: Luna
Best Guitar: Mad Max
Best Dance: Ex Machina and Magic Mike XXL (notable omissions: Girlhood and Catch Me Daddy)
Prettiest landscape: Arnhem Land - Charlie's Country (Runner Up: Chile - The Revenant)
Best Restoration: Well - Rififi was probably the *best*, but the most interesting was the director's cut of 54, in which massive changes to characterization occurred.
Best Female Action Star: Charlize Theron - Mad Max
Best Trailer for a 2016 Film: Deadpool (Runner Up: Captain America Civil War)
Best Action Scene: Mad Max. (Runners Up: Harry vs. the Church - Kingsman, the Opera scene - MI5)
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't: In the Heart of the Sea (Runner up: Spectre, Age of Ultron)
Most Wasted Potential of an Idea: It Follows
Most ridiculous, entertaining music cue: Pomp & Circumstance - Kingsman (Runner Up: Muse's Uprising - Pitch Perfect 2)
Best Chase: Mad Max.
Best Cameo: Channing Tatum - The Hateful Eight (I was surprised! I wasn't spoiled!) (Runner Up: LeBron James - Trainwreck)
Best Breakthrough: Bel Powley
Best Ending (the McKayla Maroney award): Tangerine
Best Opening: Kingsman (Runners-up: It Follows, Sicario)
Worst Song: Writing's on the Wall - Spectre
Worst Hair: The Big Short
Best Sciencing: The Martian
Most in Need of Some Muthafucking Tree Stars: The Good Dinosaur
Creepiest Scene: The Tall Man - It Follows
Best Train: Ant-Man
Best Sidekick: Stu - What We Do in the Shadows
Still Most in Need of Diction Lessons: Tom Hardy - The Revenant
Most Overrated: It Follows
Best TV Show: STILL HANNIBAL.