title: London Film Critics Circle Awards 2015
text: # London Film Critics Circle Awards 2015
  
  35th London Film Critics Circle Awards
  
  17 January 2016
  
  Film of the Year:
  
  Mad Max: Fury Road
  
  British Film of the Year:
  
  45 Years
  
  The 36th London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2015, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 17 January 2016.
  
  ## Winners and nominees
  
  ### Film of the Year
  
  Mad Max: Fury Road
  
  * 45 Years
  * Amy
  * Carol
  * Inside Out
  * The Look of Silence
  * The Martian
  * The Revenant
  * Room
  * Spotlight
  
  ### Foreign Language Film of the Year
  
  The Look of Silence
  
  * Eden
  * Hard to Be a God
  * The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
  * The Tribe
  
  ### British/Irish Film of the Year
  
  45 Years
  
  * Amy
  * Brooklyn
  * The Lobster
  * London Road
  
  ### Documentary of the Year
  
  Amy
  
  * Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
  * The Look of Silence
  * Palio
  * A Syrian Love Story
  
  ### Actor of the Year
  
  Tom Courtenay – 45 Years
  
  * Paul Dano – Love & Mercy
  * Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
  * Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
  * Tom Hardy – Legend
  
  ### Actress of the Year
  
  Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
  
  * Cate Blanchett – Carol
  * Brie Larson – Room
  * Rooney Mara – Carol
  * Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
  
  ### Supporting Actor of the Year
  
  Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
  
  * Benicio del Toro – Sicario
  * Tom Hardy – The Revenant
  * Oscar Isaac – Ex Machina
  * Michael Keaton – Spotlight
  
  ### Supporting Actress of the Year
  
  Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
  
  * Olivia Colman – The Lobster
  * Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria
  * Tilda Swinton – Trainwreck
  * Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina
  
  ### British/Irish Actor of the Year
  
  Tom Hardy – Legend, London Road, Mad Max: Fury Road, and The Revenant
  
  * Michael Caine – Kingsman: The Secret Service and Youth
  * Idris Elba – Beasts of No Nation and Second Coming
  * Colin Farrell – The Lobster and Miss Julie
  * Michael Fassbender – Macbeth, Slow West, and Steve Jobs
  
  ### British/Irish Actress of the Year
  
  Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn and Lost River
  
  * Emily Blunt – Sicario
  * Carey Mulligan – Far From the Madding Crowd and Suffragette
  * Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years and The Forbidden Room
  * Kate Winslet – The Dressmaker, A Little Chaos, and Steve Jobs
  
  ### Young British/Irish Performer of the Year
  
  Maisie Williams – The Falling
  
  * Asa Butterfield – X+Y
  * Milo Parker – Mr. Holmes and Robot Overlords
  * Florence Pugh – The Falling
  * Liam Walpole – The Goob
  
  ### Director of the Year
  
  George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
  
  * Andrew Haigh – 45 Years
  * Todd Haynes – Carol
  * Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
  * Ridley Scott – The Martian
  
  ### Screenwriter of the Year
  
  Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer – Spotlight
  
  * Emma Donoghue – Room
  * Nick Hornby – Brooklyn
  * Phyllis Nagy – Carol
  * Aaron Sorkin – Steve Jobs
  
  ### Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker
  
  John Maclean – Slow West
  
  * Tom Browne – Radiator
  * Mark Burton and Richard Starzak – Shaun the Sheep Movie
  * Emma Donoghue – Room
  * Alex Garland – Ex Machina
  
  ### British/Irish Short Film
  
  Benjamin Cleary – Stutterer
  
  * Fyzal Boulifa – Rate Me
  * Jorn Threlfall – Over
  * Simon Mesa Soto – Leidi
  * Duncan Cowles – Directed by Tweedie
  
  ### Technical Achievement
  
  Carol – Edward Lachman, cinematography
  
  * Carol – Carter Burwell, music
  * Cinderella – Sandy Powell, costumes
  * Ex Machina – Andrew Whitehurst, visual effects
  * Macbeth – Alistair Sirkett and Markus Stemler, sound design
  * Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson, production design
  * Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale, cinematography
  * Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – Wade Eastwood, stunts
  * Sicario – Tom Ozanich, sound design
  * Steve Jobs – Elliot Graham, editing
  
  ### Dilys Powell Award
  
  * Kenneth Branagh
  