Critics Choice Award Winners! Spotlight Best Picture!

Well, the Awards pendulum seems to have swung back to “Spotlight.” This is after “The Revenant” won Best Picture at the Golden Globes last weekend. This week it’s “Spotlight” and next week? Next week we have the SAG awards which may totally light the way to the Oscars, but it won’t, however, be for Best Ensemble, the SAG awards version of Best Picture. Why am I so sure about that? Because “The Revenant” isn’t even nominated in that category.

Who else won? Well, the complete list is below and at http://www.awardsdaily.com.

Brie Larson triumphed AGAIN for her stellar turn in “Room.” She won the Golden Globes, too, for Best Actress Drama. The biggest head-scratching category right now seems to be Best Supporting Actress which went, surprisingly, to Kate Winslet for “Steve Jobs” and here it was Alicia Vikander for “The Danish Girl.” Leonardo Di Caprio AND Syl Stallone both won here, again, for “The Revenant” and “Creed” respectively. But in all cases it’s the SAG award given out by the Actors Union members themselves, many also members of the Academy,  that will tell the tale leading up to the Oscars. If any of the four above mentioned actors, Larson, Vikander, Stallone or DiCaprio, DON’T  repeat at the SAGS, dear readers, dear cineastes, we have a RACE!

• BEST PICTURE – Spotlight
  
• BEST DIRECTOR – George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
  
• BEST ACTOR – Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
  
• BEST ACTRESS – Brie Larson – Room
  
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Sylvester Stallone – Creed
  
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
  
• BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS – Jacob Tremblay – Room
  
• BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE – Spotlight
  
• BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
  
• BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – Charles Randolph and Adam McKay – The Big Short
  
• BEST EDITING – Mad Max: Fury Road
  
• BEST SCORE – Ennio Morricone – Hateful Eight
  
• BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – The Revenant
  
• BEST COMEDY – The Big Short
  
• BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY – Christian Bale – The Big Short
  
• BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY – Amy Schumer – Trainwreck
  

• BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE – Ex Machina
  
• BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM – Son of Saul
  
• BEST ANIMATED FEATURE – Inside Out
  
• BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE – Amy
  
• BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – Mad Max: Fury Road
  
• BEST COSTUME DESIGN – Mad Max: Fury Road
  
• BEST HAIR & MAKEUP – Mad Max: Fury Road
  
• BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – Mad Max: Fury Road
  
• BEST ACTION MOVIE – Mad Max: Fury Road
  
• BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE – Tom Hardy – Mad Max: Fury Road
  
• BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE – Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road
  
• BEST SONG – Furious 7 – See You Again