Tuesday, July 15, 2025

2015 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture

  • Inside Out (Jonas Rivera)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (Doug Mitchell, George Miller & P.J. Voeten)
  • The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin, Arnon Milchan & Mary Parent)
  • Spotlight (Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin & Michael Sugar)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy & Bryan Burk)
    (Honourable Mentions: Bridge of Spies, The Hateful Eight, The Martian, Room, Steve Jobs)

Best Director

  • Pete Docter - Inside Out
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu - The Revenant
  • Thomas McCarthy - Spotlight
  • George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Ridley Scott - The Martian
    (Honourable Mentions: Lenny Abrahamson - Room, Ryan Coogler - Creed, Alex Garland - Ex Machina, Adam McKay - The Big Short, Steven Spielberg - Bridge of Spies)

Best Lead Actor

  • Matt Damon - The Martian
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
  • Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
  • Ian McKellen - Mr. Holmes
  • Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl
    (Honourable Mentions: Bryan Cranston - Trumbo, Johnny Depp - Black Mass, Michael B. Jordan - Creed, Will Smith - Concussion, Jacob Tremblay - Room)

Best Lead Actress

  • Cate Blanchett - Carol
  • Emily Blunt - Sicario
  • Brie Larson - Room
  • Jennifer Lawrence - Joy
  • Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn
    (Honourable Mentions: Blythe Danner - I'll See You in My Dreams, Amy Poehler - Inside Out, Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years, Maggie Smith - The Lady in the Van, Charlize Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Benicio del Toro - Sicario
  • Tom Hardy - The Revenant
  • Michael Keaton - Spotlight
  • Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies
  • Sylvester Stallone - Creed
    (Honourable Mentions: Christian Bale - The Big Short, Paul Dano - Love and Mercy, Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation, Michael Shannon - 99 Homes, Jason Statham - Spy)

Best Supporting Actress

  • Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
  • Rooney Mara - Carol
  • Rachel McAdams - Spotlight
  • Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
  • Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs
    (Honourable Mentions: Elizabeth Banks - Love and Mercy, Rose Byrne - Spy, Olivia Cooke - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Jane Fonda - Youth, Kristen Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria)

Best Original Screenplay

  • Bridge of Spies (Matt Charman, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
  • Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
  • The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
  • Inside Out (Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley & Ronnie del Carmen)
  • Spotlight (Josh Singer & Thomas McCarthy)
    (Honourable Mentions: Love and Mercy, Sicario, Son of Saul, Straight Outta Compton, Trainwreck)

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • The Big Short (Charles Randolph & Adam McKay; based on the book "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis)
  • Brooklyn (Nick Hornby; based on the novel by Colm Tóibín)
  • Room (Emma Donoghue; based on the novel by Emma Donoghue)
  • Steve Jobs (Aaron Sorkin; based on the book by Walter Isaacson)
  • The Walk (Christopher Browne & Robert Zemeckis; based on the book "To Reach the Clouds" by Philippe Petit)
    (Honourable Mentions: Anomalisa, Carol, Creed, The Martian, The Revenant)

Best Cast Ensemble

  • The Hateful Eight [Victoria Thomas] (Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Channing Tatum & Bruce Dern, et. al.)
  • Inside Out [Natalie Lyon & Kevin Reher] (Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan & Richard Kind, et. al.)
  • Spotlight [Kerry Barden, John Buchan, Jason Knight & Paul Schnee] (Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian d’Arcy James, Billy Crudup & Stanley Tucci, et. al.)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens [Nina Gold, Alyssa Weisberg & April Webster] (John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domnhall Gleeson, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher & Harrison Ford, et. al.)
  • Straight Outta Compton [Victoria Thomas & Cindy Tolan] (O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Aldis Hodge, Neil Brown, Jr., Corey Reynolds, Marlon Yates Jr., Keith Stanfield & Paul Giamatti, et. al.)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Big Short, Creed, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, Trumbo)

Best Young Actor (21 or Under)

  • Abraham Attah - Beasts of No Nation
  • Kaitlyn Dias - Inside Out
  • Milo Parker - Mr. Holmes
  • Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn
  • Jacob Tremblay - Room
    (Honourable Mentions: Raffey Cassidy - Tomorrowland, RJ Cyler - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Shameik Moore - Dope, Ed Oxenbould - The Visit, Ty Simpkins - Jurassic World)

Best Foreign Language Film

  • The Assassin [Taiwan] (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  • Labyrinth of Lies [Germany] (Giulio Ricciarelli)
  • Mustang [France] (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
  • Phoenix [Germany] (Christian Petzold)
  • Son of Saul [Hungary] (Laszló Nemes)
    (Honourable Mentions: Embrace of the Serpent, Goodnight Mommy, The Look of Silence, When Marnie Was There, Wild Tales)

Best Documentary Feature

  • Amy (Asif Kapadia & James Gay-Rees)
  • Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright & Kristen Vaurio)
  • The Hunting Ground (Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering)
  • The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer & Signe Byrge Sørensen)
  • Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore, Carl Deal & Tia Lessin)
    (Honourable Mentions: Best of Enemies, Cartel Land, He Named Me Malala, Listen to Me Marlon, What Happened Miss Simone?)

Best Original Score

  • Bridge of Spies (Thomas Newman)
  • The Hateful Eight (Ennio Merricone)
  • Inside Out (Michael Giacchino)
  • Sicario (Jóhann Jóhannsson)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (John Williams)
    (Honourable Mentions: Carol - Carter Burwell, Mad Max: Fury Road - Junkie XL, The Revenant - Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto, Steve Jobs - Daniel Pemberton, The Walk - Alan Silvestri)

Best Original Song

  • "Earned It" - Fifty Shades of Grey (The Weeknd, Stephan Moccio & Jason Quenneville)
  • "Feels Like Summer" - Shaun the Sheep Movie (Ilan Eshkeri, Nick Hodgson & Tim Wheeler)
  • "See You Again" - Furious 7 (Justin Franks, Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa & Andrew Cedar)
  • "Til it Happens to You" - The Hunting Ground (Lady Gaga & Diane Warren)
  • "Writing's on the Wall" - Spectre (Sam Smith & James Napier)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Better When I'm Dancin'"- The Peanuts Movie, "Love Me Like You Do" - Fifty Shades of Grey, "One Kind of Love" - Love and Mercy, "Simple Song #3" - Youth, "So Long" - Concussion)

Best Sound Editing

  • Inside Out (Shannon Mills)
  • Jurassic World (Al Nelson & Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (Scott Hecker, Mark Mangini & David White)
  • Sicario (Alan Robert Murray)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Matthew Wood & David Acord)
    (Honourable Mentions: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ex Machina, The Martian, Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation, The Revenant)

Best Sound Mixing

  • Mad Max: Fury Road (Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff & Ben Osmo)
  • The Martian (Mac Ruth, Paul Massey & Mark Taylor)
  • The Revenant (Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom & Chris Duesterdiek)
  • Spectre (Scott Millan, Gregg Rudloff & Stuart Wilson)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio & Stuart Wilson)
    (Honourable Mentions: Bridge of Spies, The Hateful Eight, Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation, Sicario, The Walk)

Best Animated Feature

  • Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, Rosa Tran & Dino Stamatopoulos)
  • Inside Out (Pete Docter)
  • The Peanuts Movie (Steve Martino, Paul Feig, Craig Schulz & Bryan Schulz)
  • Shaun the Sheep Movie (Mark Burton, Richard Starzak, Paul Kewley & Julie Lockhart)
  • When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi & Yoshiaki Nishimura) 
    (Honourable Mentions: Boy and the World, The Good Dinosaur, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Regular Show: The Movie, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water)

Best Voice-Over Performance

  • Lewis Black - Inside Out
  • Sandra Bullock - Minions
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anomalisa
  • Lupita Nyong'o - Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Amy Poehler - Inside Out
  • (Honourable Mentions: Mel Brooks - Hotel Transylvania 2, Jon Hamm - Minions, J.G. Quintel - Regular Show: The Movie, Noah Schnapp - The Peanuts Movie, Phyllis Smith - Inside Out)

Best Cinematography

  • Bridge of Spies (Janusz Kamiński)
  • The Hateful Eight (Robert Richardson)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (John Seale)
  • The Revenant (Emmanuel Lubezki)
  • Sicario (Roger Deakins)
    (Honourable Mentions: Beasts of No Nation - Cary Fukunga, Brooklyn - Yves Bélanger, Carol - Edward Lachman, The Martian - Dariusz Wolski, Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation - Robert Elswit)

Best Film Editing

  • Bridge of Spies (Michael Kahn)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (Margaret Sixel)
  • The Revenant (Stephen Mirrione)
  • Sicario (Joe Walker)
  • Spotlight (Tom McArdle)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Big Short - Hank Corwin, Inside Out - Kevin Nolting, The Martian - Pietro Scalia, Room - Nathan Nugent, Steve Jobs - Elliot Graham)

Best Production Design

  • Bridge of Spies (Adam Stockhausen & Rena DeAngelo)
  • Cinderella (Dante Ferretti & Francesca Lo Schiavo)
  • Inside Out (Ralph Eggleston)
  • The Revenant (Jack Fisk & Hamish Purdy)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Rick Carter, Darren Gilford & Lee Sandales)
    (Honourable Mentions: Carol, Crimson Peak, The Danish Girl, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian)

Best Costume Design

  • Brooklyn (Odile Dicks-Mireaux)
  • Cinderella (Sandy Powell)
  • The Danish Girl (Paco Delgado)
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (Janet Patterson)
  • The Revenant (Jacqueline West)
    (Honourable Mentions: Carol, Crimson Peak, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, Mad Max: Fury Road, Trumbo)

Best Makeup and Hair

  • Mad Max: Fury Road (Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega & Damian Martin)
  • The Revenant (Adrien Morot, Graham Johnston & Robert Pandini)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin & Neal Scanlan)
    (Honourable Mentions: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Black Mass, Concussion, The Hateful Eight, Mr. Holmes)

Best Visual Effects

  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (Christopher Townsend, Ben Snow, Alessandro Cioffi & Paul Corbould)
  • Jurassic World (Tim Alexander, Glen McIntosh, John Rosengrant & Michael Meinardus)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver & Andy Williams)
  • The Martian (Richard Stammers, Chris Lawrence, Anders Langlands & Steven Warner)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan & Chris Corbould)
    (Honourable Mentions: Ant-Man, Everest, Ex Machina, The Revenant, The Walk)

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