21st Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards (2015)
Best Picture
1. Spotlight
2. The Revenant
3. Carol
4. Sicario
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. The Big Short
7. The Martian
8. Room
9. The Danish Girl
10. Brooklyn
Best Director
1. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
2. Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
3. George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Todd Haynes - Carol
5. Denis Villeneuve - Sicario
Best Actor
1. Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant as Hugh Glass
2. Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs as Steve Jobs
3. Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl as Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener
4. Matt Damon - The Martian as Mark Watney
5. Johnny Depp - Black Mass as James "Whitey" Bulger
Best Actress
1. Brie Larson - Room as Joy "Ma" Newsome
2. Cate Blanchett - Carol as Carol Aird
3. Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey
4. Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years as Kate Mercer
5. Carey Mulligan - Surragette as Maude Watts (TIE)
5. Charlize Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road as Imperator Furiosa (TIE)
Best Supporting Actor
1. Paul Dano - Love & Mercy as Brian Wilson (Young)
2. Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies as Rudolf Abel
3. Tom Hardy - The Revenant as John Fitzgerald
4. Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation as Commandant
5. Benicio del Toro - Sicario as Alejandro Gillick
Best Supporting Actress
1. Rooney Mara - Carol as Therese Belivet
2. Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina as Ava
3. Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs as Joanna Hoffman
4. Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener
5. Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight as Daisy Domergue
Best Screenplay
1. Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer - Spotlight
2. Emma Donoghue - Room
Best Cinematography
1. Emmanuel Lubezki - The Revenant
2. Edward Lachman - Carol
Best Musical Score
1. Bryce Dessner, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Alva Noto - The Revenant
2. Ennio Morricone - The Hateful Eight
Best Foreign Language Film
1. Son of Saul • Hungary
2. The Assassin • Taiwan
3. The Second Mother • Brazil
4. Mustang • France
5. Goodnight Mommy • Austria
Best Documentary Film
1. Amy
2. The Look of Silence
3. The Wolfpack
4. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
5. The Hunting Ground
Best Animated Film
1. Inside Out
2. Anomalisa
Individual awards (Russell Smith Award)
Tangerine, for "best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film"