The National Society Of Film Critics elected Tom McCarthy’s ensemble drama Best Picture of the Year 2015.

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Michael B Jordan won best actor for Creed, Charlotte Rampling was named best actress for 45 Years and Todd Haynes won best director for Carol.

The 53-strong Society membership uses a weighted ballot system and held its 50th annual awards voting meeting on Sunday (Jan 3) at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Center as guests of the Film Society Of Lincoln Center.

Full results:

BEST ACTOR

  1. Michael B. Jordan (Creed)  29 points
  2. Geza Rohrig (Son Of Saul) 18
  3. Tom Courtenay  (45 Years)  15

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Charlotte Rampling (45 Years) 57
  2. Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)  30
  3. Nina Hoss (Phoenix)  22

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Mark Rylance (Bridge Of Spies) 56
  2. Michael Shannon (99 Homes)  16
  3. Sylvester Stallone (Creed) 14

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Kristen Stewart (Clouds Of Sils Maria) 53
  2. Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) 23
  3. Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs) 17
    Elizabeth Banks (Love & Mercy) 17

BEST SCREENPLAY

  1. Spotlight (Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy)  21
  2. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman) 15
    The Big Short (Charles Randolph, Adam McKay) 15

CINEMATOGRAPHY

  1. Carol  (Ed Lachman)  25
  2. The Assassin (Mark Lee Ping-bin) 22
  3. Mad Max: Fury Road (John Seale) 12

PICTURE

  1. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) 23
  2. Carol (Todd Haynes) 17
  3. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) 13

DIRECTOR

  1. Todd Haynes (Carol) 21
  2. Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) 21 (because he was on fewer ballots)
  3. George Miller (Mad Max:  Fury Road) 20

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

  1. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) 22
  2. Phoenix (Christian Petzold) 20
  3. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 16

BEST NON-FICTION FILM

  1. Amy (Asif Kapadia) 23
  2. In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman) 18
  3. Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke) 15

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS

Film Society Of Lincoln Center and the programmers Jake Perlin and Michelle Materre, for the series Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-1986

The Criterion Collection and L’Immagine Ritrovata for the restoration and packaging of the reconstructed version of The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray

Association Chaplin for supervising the digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s Essanay Films

SPECIAL CITATION for a film awaiting American distribution:  

One Floor Below, a Romanian film directed by Radu Muntean.

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