Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award Winners

Best Film 
1. Spotlight
2. Inside Out
3. Room
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Ex Machina
6. Sicario
7. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
8. The Revenant
9. The Big Short
10. The Martian

Best Director 
 Tom McCarthy "Spotlight)"
 Runner-Up - George Miller "Mad Max: Fury Road"

Best Actor 
Leonardo DiCaprio "The Revenant"
Runner-Up -  Michael Fassbender "Steve Jobs"

Best Actress
Brie Larson "Room"
Runner-Up - (TIE): Alicia Vikander "The Danish Girl" and Saoirse Ronan "Brooklyn"

Best Supporting Actor 
Benicio Del Toro "Sicario"
Runner-Up - Oscar Isaac "Ex Machina"

Best Supporting Actress 
Alicia Vikander "Ex Machina"
Runner-Up - Jennifer Jason Leigh "The Hateful Eight"

Best Ensemble 
Spotlight
Runner-Up - The Hateful Eight

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)
Alicia Vikander for Burnt, The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Seventh Son, and Testament of Youth
Runner-Up - Domhnall Gleeson for Brooklyn, Ex Machina, The Revenant, and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Breakthrough Film Artist 
Alicia Vikander for Burnt, The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Seventh Son, and Testament of Youth
Runner-Up - Sean Baker "Tangerine"

Best Cinematography 
Emmanuel Lubezki "The Revenant"
Runner-Up - John Seale "Mad Max: Fury Road"

Best Film Editing 
Margaret Sixel "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Runner-Up - Joe Walker "Sicario"

Best Adapted Screenplay 
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay "The Big Short"
Runner-Up - Emma Donoghue "Room"

Best Original Screenplay 
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy "Spotlight"
Runner-Up - Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley "Inside Out"

Best Score 
Ennio Morricone "The Hateful Eight"
Runner-Up - Junkie XL "Mad Max: Fury Road"

Best Documentary 
The Look of Silence
Runner-Up -  Amy

Best Foreign Language Film 
Phoenix
Runner-Up - Wild Tales

Best Animated Film
Inside Out
Runner-Up -  Anomalisa

Best Overlooked Film 
The Tribe
Runner-Up - The Gift