28th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (2015)
Best Film
Mad Max: Fury Road - Doug Mitchell and George Miller
Carol - Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley and Christine Vachon
Inside Out - Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
The Revenant - Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon
Spotlight - Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust
Best Director
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
Todd Haynes - Carol
Alejandro González Iñárritu - The Revenant
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
Adam McKay - The Big Short
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant as Hugh Glass
Christopher Abbott - James White as James White
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs as Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl as Lili Elbe
Jason Segel - The End of the Tour as David Foster Wallace
Best Actress
Brie Larson - Room as Joy "Ma" Newsome
Cate Blanchett - Carol as Carol Aird
Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years as Kate Mercer
Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey
Charlize Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road as Imperator Furiosa
Best Supporting Actor
Benicio del Toro - Sicario as Alejandro Gillick
Sam Elliott - Grandma as Karl
Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies as Rudolf Abel
Michael Shannon - 99 Homes as Rick Carver
Sylvester Stallone - Creed as Rocky Balboa
Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anomalisa as Lisa Hesselman
Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight as Daisy Domergue
Cynthia Nixon - James White as Gail White
Kristen Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria as Valentine
Best Original Screenplay
Spotlight - Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
Bridge of Spies - Matt Charman and Joel and Ethan Coen
Ex Machina - Alex Garland
The Hateful Eight - Quentin Tarantino
Inside Out - Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short - Adam McKay and Charles Randolph based on the book by Michael Lewis
Anomalisa - Charlie Kaufman based on the audio play by Francis Fregoli
Brooklyn - Nick Hornby based on the novel by Colm Toibin
Room - Emma Donoghue based on the novel
Steve Jobs - Aaron Sorkin based on the biography by Walter Isaacson
Best Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road - Jason Ballantine and Margaret Sixel
The Big Short - Hank Corwin
The Martian - Pietro Scalia
The Revenant - Stephen Mirrione
Spotlight - Tom McArdle
Best Cinematography
Mad Max: Fury Road - John Seale
Carol - Edward Lachman
The Hateful Eight - Robert Richardson
The Revenant - Emmanuel Lubezki
Sicario - Roger Deakins
Best Production Design
Mad Max: Fury Road - Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson
The Assassin - Production Design: Ding-Yang Weng; Set Decoration: -
Brooklyn - Production Design: François Séguin, Irene O'Brien and Robert Parle; Set Decoration: -
Carol - Production Design: Jesse Rosenthal; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
Crimson Peak - Production Design: Thomas E. Sanders; Set Decoration: Jeffrey A. Melvin and Shane Vieau
Best Original Score
The Hateful Eight - Ennio Morricone
Carol - Carter Burwell
Inside Out - Michael Giacchino
It Follows - Disasterpeace
Mad Max: Fury Road - Junkie XL
Best Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul (Hungary) in Hungarian - Directed by Laszlo Nemes
The Assassin (China) in Mandarin - Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
The Look of Silence (Indonesia) in Indonesian - Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
Phoenix (Germany) in German - Directed by Christian Petzold
White God (Hungary) in Hungarian - Directed by Kornel Mundruczo
Best Documentary
Amy - Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
Cartel Land - Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
The Hunting Ground - Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
The Look of Silence - Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sorensen
Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore
Best Animated Film
Inside Out - Peter Docter and Jonas Rivera
Anomalisa - Charlie Kaurman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
The Good Dinosaur - Peter Sohn and Denise Ream
The Peanuts Movie - Steve Martino, Craig Schultz, Bryan Schultz, Cornelius Uliano, Paul Feig and Michael J. Travers
Shaun the Sheep Movie - Mark Burton, Richard Starzak, Paul Kewley and Julie Lockhart
Most Promising Filmmaker
Alex Garland - Ex Machina
Marielle Heller - The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Josh Mond - James White
Laszlo Nemes - Son of Saul
Bill Pohlad - Love & Mercy
Most Promising Performer
Jacob Tremblay - Room as Jack Newsom
Christopher Abbott - James White as James White
Bel Powley - The Diary of a Teenage Girl as Minnie Goetze
Geza Rohrig - Son of Saul as Saul
Amy Schumer - Trainwreck as Amy Townsend