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2015 OFCS AWARDS

"Mad Max" earns top honors from the Online Film Critics Society

"Mad Max: Fury Road" won Best Picture from the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) today as the group celebrated its 19th awards.

Starring Tom Hardy as the title character alongside OFCS nominee Charlize Theron, "Mad Max: Fury Road" is about a post-apocalyptic world where water scarcity has led to intense conflicts. The film received three other awards from the OFCS including Best Director for George Miller, Best Editing and Best Cinematography.

Taking home three awards this year, "Carol," a drama about a female clerk who falls in love with an older woman in the 1950s, claimed the awards for Best Actress (Cate Blanchett), Best Supporting Actress (Rooney Mara) and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Other films walking away with prizes included Pixar feature "Inside Out," which won Best Animated Feature. Michael Fassbender earned the award for Best Actor in"Steve Jobs," while Oscar Isaac received the award for Best Supporting Actor in "Ex Machina." "Spotlight," a film about the exposure of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, was presented the award for Best Original Screenplay.

"The Look of Silence" received the award for Best Documentary while "The Assassin," Taiwan’s official entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language, won the corresponding award from the OFCS.

Because the organization is composed of members from across the globe, the group also recognizes films that have not yet been released in the United States. The honorees in that category this year, were "Aferim!," "Cemetery of Splendor," "The Club," "Dheepan," "The Lobster," "Mountains May Depart," "Mia Madre," "Rams," "Right Now, Wrong Then," and "The Sunset Song."

The OFCS has nominated the eventual Oscar winner for Best Picture in eight of the last ten years; matching Oscar winners "12 Years a Slave" (2013), "The Hurt Locker" (2009), "No Country for Old Men" (2007) and "Argo" (2012), becoming the first major critics group to recognize Ben Affleck’s future Academy Award recipient.

“Our organization is excited to recognize so many unique and interesting films,” the OFCS Governing Committee members John Hanlon, Wesley Lovell and Cole Smithey said about the eclectic mix of winners.

Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society is the world’s oldest and most prominent group for online film critics, comprised of 254 members representing 22 different countries.

The 2015 OFCS AWARD WINNERS:

Best Picture:

Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Animated Feature:

Inside Out

Best Film Not in the English Language:

The Assassin (Taiwan)

Best Documentary:

The Look of Silence

Best Director:

George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Actor

Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)

Best Actress:

Cate Blanchett (Carol)

Best Supporting Actor:

Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina)

Best Supporting Actress:

Rooney Mara (Carol)

Best Original Screenplay:

Spotlight (Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy)

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Carol (Phyllis Nagy)

Best Editing:

Mad Max: Fury Road (Margaret Sixel)

Best Cinematography:

Mad Max: Fury Road (John Seale)

Non-U.S. Films Awards (Alphabetical Order):

Aferim!

Cemetery of Splendor

The Club

Dheepan

The Lobster

Mountains May Depart

Mia Madre

Rams

Right Now, Wrong Then

The Sunset Song

OFCS 2014 AWARDS NOMINATIONS

Best Picture
"Boyhood"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Ida"
"The LEGO Movie"
"Mommy"
"Nightcrawler"
"Selma"
"Two Days, One Night"
"Whiplash"
"Under the Skin"

Best Animated Feature
"Big Hero 6"
"The Boxtrolls"
"How to Train Your Dragon 2"
"The LEGO Movie"
"The Tale of the Princess Kaguya"

Best Film Not in the English Language
"Ida"
"The Missing Picture"
"Mommy"
"The Tale of the Princess Kaguya"
"Two Days, One Night"

Best Documentary
"CITIZENFOUR"
"Life Itself"
"The Missing Picture"
"National Gallery"
"The Overnighters"

Best Director
Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, "Two Days, One Night"
Ava DuVernay, "Selma"
Jonathan Glazer, "Under the Skin"
Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"

Best Actor
Ralph Fiennes, "The Grand Budapest Hotel
Brendan Gleeson, "Calvary"
Jake Gyllenhaal, "Nightcrawler"
Michael Keaton, "Birdman"
Timothy Spall, "Mr. Turner"

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, "Two Days, One Night"
Essie Davis, "The Babadook"
Anne Dorval, "Mommy"
Julianne Moore, "Still Alice"
Rosamund Pike, "Gone Girl"

Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin, "Inherent Vice"
Ethan Hawke, "Boyhood"
Edward Norton, "Birdman"
Mark Ruffalo, "Foxcatcher"
J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash"

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood"
Jessica Chastain, "A Most Violent Year"
Suzanne Clément, "Mommy"
Agata Kulesza, "Ida"
Tilda Swinton, "Snowpiercer"

Best Original Screenplay
"Boyhood"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Selma"
"Two Days, One Night"
"Whiplash"

Best Adapted Screenplay
"Gone Girl"
"Inherent Vice"
"Snowpiercer"
"Under the Skin"
"We Are the Best!"

Best Editing
"Birdman"
"Boyhood"
"Gone Girl"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Whiplash"

Best Cinematography
"Birdman"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Ida"
"Mr. Turner"
"Under the Skin"

Best Non-U.S. Release (non-competitive category)
"'71"
"10,000 km"
"Entre Nós"
"Han Gong-ju"
"Hard to Be a God"
"The Look of Silence"
"The Salt of the Earth"
"What We Do in the Shadows"
"Timbuktu"
"The Tribe"