FILMS SEEN IN THE YEAR
2015
(Films released or first shown in Chicago in 2015)
1.) Mommy 96
2.) Mountains
May Depart (Shan he gu ren) 96
China Jia Zhang-ke
3.) Phoenix 95
Germany Poland Christian
Petzold
4.) The
Salt of the Earth 94
France Brazil Italy Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro
Salgado
5.) Leviathan
(Leviafan) 94
Russia Andrei
Zvyagintsev
6.) Carol 94
USA Todd Haynes
7.) My
Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) 94
France Arnaud
Desplechin
8.) Embrace
of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente)
94
Colombia Venezuela Argentina Crio
Guerra
9.) The
Assassin (Nie Yinniang) 94
China Hong Kong Taiwan France Hou Hsiao-hsien
10.) About
Elly (Darbareye Elly) 94
Iran France Asghar Farhadi
11.) Heart of
a Dog 94
USA Laurie Anderson
12.) Metalhead (Málmhaus) 94
Iceland Ragnar
Bragason
13.) Red Army 93
USA Russia Gabe
Polsky
14.) The
Homecoming (Blóđberg) 93
Iceland Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
15.) Mustang 93
Turkey France Germany Qatar
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
16.) Black
Souls (Anime Nere) 93
Italy France Francesco
Munzi
17.) Ned Rifle 93
USA Hal Hartley
18.) Son
of Saul (Saul Fia) 92
Hungary László Nemes
19.) Room 92
Ireland Canada Larry Abrahamson
20.) Me
and Earl and the Dying Girl 92
USA Alfonso Goméz-Rejón
21.) Sicario 92
USA Denis
Villeneuve
22.) Jauja 92
Argentina Denmark France Mexico
Germany Brazil Netherlands
USA Lisandro Alonso
23.) Tangerines
(Mandariinid) 92
Estonia Georgia Zaza Urushadze
24.) A
Childhood (Une enfance) 91
France Philippe
Claudel
25.) Amy 91
Great
Britain Asif
Kapadia
26.) The
Wonders (Le meraviglie) 91
Italy Switzerland Germany Alice
Rohrwacher
27.) Dheepan 91
France Jacques
Audiard
28.) The
Look of Silence 91
Denmark Indonesia Finland
Norway UK Israel
France US Germany
Netherlands Joshua Oppenheimer
29.) Ex Machina 91
Great Britain Alex
Garland
30.) Spotlight 91
USA Tom
McCarthy
31.) Far
From the Madding Crowd (2015) 91
Great Britain USA
Thomas Vinterberg
32.) Brooklyn 90
USA John
Crowley
Sweden Germany Norway France Roy
Andersson
34.) Girlhood
(Bande de Filles) 90
France Céline Sciamma
35.) Chi-Raq 90
USA Spike Lee
36.) We
Come As Friends 90
Austria France Herbert Sauper
37.) A
Most Violent Year 90
38.) A
Wolf at the Door (O Lobo atrás da Porta) 90
Brazil Fernando Coimbra
39.) The
Hateful Eight 90
USA Quentin
Tarantino
39.) Wildlike 90
USA Frank Hall Green
40.) Still
Alice 90
41.) L'il Quinquin (P'tit Quinquin) – Made for TV 89
France Bruno
Dumont
42.) The
Forbidden Room 89
Canada Guy
Maddin
43.) The
End of the Tour 89
USA James Ponsoldt
44.) Eden 89
France Mia Hansen-Lřve
45.) In
Jackson Heights 89
USA Frederick
Wiseman
46.) Youth
88
Italy France Great Britain Switzerland Paolo
Sorrentino
47.) Our
Brand Is Crisis (2015) 88
USA David Gordon Green
48.) Steve Jobs 88
USA Danny
Boyle
49.) The
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 88
USA Stanley
Nelson
50.) Wild
Tales (Relatos salvajes) 88
Argentina Spain Damián Szifrón
51.) White
God (Fehér isten) 88
Hungary Kornél Mundruczó
52.) Coming
Home (Gui Lai) 87
China Zhang Yimou
53.) The
Treasure (Comoara) 87
Romania France Corneliu Porumboiu
54.) While
We're Young 87
USA Noah Baumbach
55.) Selma 87
56.) Dope (2015) 87
USA Rick Famuyiwa
57.) Manuscripts
Don't Burn (Dast-neveshtehaa nemisoosand) 86
Iran Mohammad Rasoulof
58.) Prophet's
Prey 86
USA Amy Berg
59.) In
the Underground (Di Ceng Shen Chu) 86
China Song Zhantao
60.) Irrational
Man 86
USA Woody Allen
61.) The
Face of an Angel 86
Great Britain Italy Spain Michael
Winterbottom
62.) Blackhat 85
63.)
Hitchcock/Truffaut
85
France
USA Kent
Jones
64.) The
Infinite Happiness 85
France Denmark Ila Bęka and Louise Lemoine
65.) Manglehorn 84
USA David Gordon Green
66.) Diary
of a Teenage Girl 84
USA Marielle
Heller
67.) The
Club (El Club) 84
Chile Pablo Larrain
68.) The
New Girlfriend (Une nouvelle amie) 84
France François Ozon
69.) Body (Cialo) 83
Poland Malgorzata Szumowska
70.) Cemetery
of Splendor (Rak ti Khon Kaen) 82
Thailand Great Britain France Germany
Malaysia South Korea Mexico
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
71.) Straight
Outta Compton 82
USA F. Gary Gray
72.) Slow West 82
Great Britain New Zealand John
Maclean
73.) 600
Miles (600 Millas) 81
Mexico USA Gabriel
Ripstein
74.) Inherent
Vice 81
75.) Homesick 81
Germany Austria Jakob M. Erwa
76.) Concussion 81
USA John
Landesman
77.) Under
Electric Clouds (Pod elektricheskimi oblakami) 81
Russia Ukraine Poland Aleksei German Jr.
78.) In
the Basement (Im Keller) 81
Austria Ulrich
Seidl
79.) Joy 81
USA David O. Russell
80.) In
the Shadow of Women (L'ombre des femmes) 80
France Switzerland Philippe
Garrel
81.) Grand
Central 80
France Austria Rebecca
Zlotkowski
82.) Mad
Max: Fury Road 79
Australia George
Miller
83.) Pawn
Sacrifice 79
USA Edward Zwick
84.) The Mend 78
USA John Magary
85.) Low Down 77
86.) Underground
Fragrance (Xia Xiang) 76
China France Pengfei Song
87.) As
We Were Dreaming (Als wir träumten) 74
Germany France Andreas
Dresen
88.) Da
Sweet Blood of Jesus 73
USA Spike Lee
89.) Hyena 73
Great Britain Gerard
Johnson
90.) American
Sniper 70
91.) The
Red Spider (Czerwony pajak) 66
Poland Czech Republic Slovakia Marcin
Koszalka
92.) Goodbye
to Language 3D (Adieu au langage) 64
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper
David Oyelowo –
Antoine-Olivier Pilon – Mommy
Alexei Serebriakov – Leviathan
Ricardo Darín – Wild Tales
Fabrizio Ferracane – Black Souls
Giuseppe Fumo – Black Souls
*Zaza Urushadze – Tangerines
Thomas Mann – Me
and Earl and the Dying Girl
Shameik Moore – Dope
*Michael Fassbender – Slow West (2) + Steve
Jobs (1)
*Viggo Mortenson – Jauja
Al Pacino – Manglehorn
Tahar Rahim – Grand Central
*Jason Segel – The
End of the Tour
Ronald Zehrfeld – Phoenix
Josh Lucas – The Mend
Chen Daoming – Coming Home
Bruce Greenwood – Wildlike
Cuzin Toma – The
Treasure
Alexei Mathieu – A Childhood
Hilmar Jónsson – The Homecoming
Kristyan Ferrer – 600 Miles
Géza Röhrig – Son of
Saul
Quentin Dolmaire – My Golden Days
*Jacob Tremblay – Room
Michael Keaton – Spotlight
*Samuel L. Jackson – The Hateful Eight
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
*Anne Dorval – Mommy
Karidja Touré – Girlhood
Érica Rivas – Wild Tales
Aubrey Plaza – Ned Rifle
Alicia Vikander –
Ex Machina
Carey Mulligan –
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thorbjὃrg Helga Thorgilsdόttir
– Metalhead
Golshifteh Farahani – About
Elly
Léa Seydoux – Grand Central
Leandra Leal – A Wolf at the Door
*Nina Hoss – Phoenix
Bel Powley – Diary of a Teenage Girl
Emily Blunt – Sicario
Gong Li – Coming Home
Ella Purcell – Wildlike
Kalieaswari Srinivasan – Dheepan
*Zhao Tao – Mountains May Depart
Harpa Arnardóttir – The
Homecoming
Güneş Nezihe Şensoy – Mustang
Shu Qi – The
Assassin
*Lou Roy-Lecollinet – My Golden Days
Clotilde Courau – In the Shadow of Women
Brie Larson –
Room
Sandra Bullock –
Our Brand Is Crisis
Maria Alexandra Lungu – The Wonders
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
*Teyonah Parris – Chi-Raq
*Rooney Mara – Carol
Cate Blanchett – Carol
*Roman Madyanov – Leviathan
Thomas Jay Ryan – Ned Rifle
Adam Driver – While We’re Young
Oscar Isaac – Ex
Machina
Jesse Eisenberg –
The End of the Tour
Alexander Skarsgĺrd – Diary of a Teenage Girl
*Benicio del Toro – Sicario
Austin Pendleton – The Mend
Liev Schreiber – Pawn Sacrifice (1) + Spotlight (2)
Brian Geraghty – Wildlike
Adrian Purcărescu – The Treasure
*Vincent Rottiers – Dheepan
*Jules Gauzelin – A Childhood
Hilmir Jensson – The
Homecoming
Billy Bob Thornton
– Our Brand Is Crisis
*Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
*Emory Cohen
– Brooklyn
Domhnall Gleeson – Brooklyn
John Cusack – Chi-Raq
Samuel L. Jackson – Chi-Raq
Albert Brooks – Concussion
David Morse – Concussion
Kurt Russell – The Hateful
Eight
Carmen Ejogo –
Kristen Stewart –
Still
Tang Wei – Blackhat
*Suzanne Clément – Mommy
Jessica Chastain – A Very Violent World
*Elena Lyadova – Leviathan
Rita Cortese – Wild Tales
Taraneh Alidoosti – About
Elly
Olivia Cooke – Me
and Earl and the Dying Girl
Zoë Kravitz – Dope
Holly Hunter – Manglehorn
Camille Lellouche – Grand Central
*Pauline Etienne – Eden
Carla Delevingne – The Face of an Angel
*Nina Kunzendorf – Phoenix
Zhang Huiwen – Coming Home
Ann Dowd – Wildlike
Ţórunn Arna Kristjánsdóttir – The Homecoming
Jóhanna Jónas – The
Homecoming
Nihal G. Koldaş –
Mustang
Ilayda Akdoğan –
Mustang
Zhou Yun – The Assassin
*Tatja Seibt – Homesick
Antoinette Moya –
In the Shadow of Women
*Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
Joan Allen –
Room
Julie Walters –
Brooklyn
Angela Bassett –
Chi-Raq
Jenifer Jason Leigh
– The Hateful Eight
Hal Hartley USA Ned Rifle
Denis Villenneuve USA Sicario
David Gordon Green USA Our Brand Is Crisis
Tom McCarthy USA Spotlight
Spike Lee USA Chi-Raq
*Todd Haynes USA Carol
Thomas Vinterberg Great Britain USA Far From the Madding Crowd
Richard Glatzer and
Wash Westmoreland USA France Still
Alice
Alice Rohrwacher Italy Switzerland Germany The
Wonders
Francesco Munzi Italy France Black Souls
Asghar Farhadi Iran France About Elly
Bruno Dumont France L’il Quinquin
Jacques Audiard France Dheepan
Philippe Claudel France A Childhood
*Arnaud Desplechin France My Golden Days
John Crowley Ireland Canada Great Britain Brooklyn
Larry Abrahamson Ireland Canada Room
*Xavier Dolan
Canada Mommy
Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson Canada The Forbidden Room
Alexei Zvyagintsev Russia Leviathan
Alex Garland Great Britain Ex Machina
Ragnar Bragason Iceland Metalhead
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson Iceland The
Homecoming
Deniz Gamze Ergüven Turkey France
Germany Qatar Mustang
Roy Andersson Sweden Germany Norway
France A Pigeon Sat On a Branch Reflecting On Existence
*Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan China
Hong Kong France The Assassin
*Lisandro Alonso Argentina Denmark France Mexico Germany Brazil Netherlands USA Jauja
Zaza Urushadze Estonia Georgia Tangerines
Fernando Coimbra Brazil A Wolf at the Door
*Christain Petzold Germany Phoenix
László Nemes Hungary
Son of Saul
BEST SCREENPLAY
Richard Glatzer and
Wash Westmoreland, adapted from Lisa Genova – Still Alice
Xavier Dolan –
Mommy
Paul Thomas
Anderson, adapted from Thomas Pynchon – Inherent Vice
Alexei Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin
– Leviathan
Damián Szifrón – Wild
Tales
Bruno Dumont – L’il Quinquin
Hal Hartley – Ned Rifle
Noah Baumbach – While We’re
Young
Alex Garland – Ex Machina
Francesco Munzi, Mauricio Braucci,
and Fabrizio Ruggirelo, adapted from Gioacchino Criaco – Black Souls
Ragnar Bragason – Metalhead
*Asghar Farhadi –
About Elly
Alfonso Goméz-Rejón – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Fernando Coimbra –
A Wolf at the Door
Christian Petzold and Harun Farocki, adapted from Hubert Monteilhet – Phoenix
Corneliu Porumboiu– The
Treasure
*Jia Zhang-ke – Mountains May
Depart
Philippe Claudel – A Childhood
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson – The Homecoming
Deniz Gamze Ergüven and
Alice Winocour – Mustang
László Nemes and Clara
Royer – Son of Saul
*Julie Peyr and
Arnaud Desplechin – My Golden Days
*Aaron Sorkin,
adapted from Walter Isaacson – Steve Jobs
Emma Donoghue, adapted from Amma Donoghue – Room
Peter Straughan, adapted from Rachel Boynton – Our Brand Is Crisis
Alice Rohrwacher – The Wonders
*Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
*Nick Hornby, adapted from Colm Tóibín – Brooklyn
Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee – Chi-Raq
Phyllis Nagy, adapted from Patricia Highsmith – Carol
Quentin Tarantino – The Hateful Eight
André Turpin – Mommy
Robert Elswit – Inherent Vice
Bradford Young – A Most Violent Year (1) +
*Mikhail Krichman – Leviathan
Rob Hardy – Ex
Machina
Charlotte Bruus Christensen – Far From the Madding Crowd
Vladan Radovic – Black Souls
August Jakobsson – Metalhead
Rein Kotov – Tangerines
Robbie Ryan – Slow
West
Timo Salminen – Jauja
Denis Lenoir – Eden
Lula Carvalho – A Wolf at the Door
Hans Fromm – Phoenix
Roger Deakins – Sicario
Hillary Spera – Wildlike
Denis Lenoir – A Childhood
David Chizallet and Ersin Gok – Mustang
*Mátyás Erdély – Son of Saul
*Mark Lee Ping Bing – The Assassin
Renato Berta – In the
Shadow of Women
*Serhiy Mykhalchuk and Yevgeni Privin – Under Electric Clouds
Tim Orr – Our Brand
Is Crisis
Hélčne Louvart – The Wonders
*Benjamin Kasulke and Stéphanie Anne Weber Biron – The Forbidden Room
*Ed Lachman – Carol
Robert Tichardson – The Hateful Eight
BEST
ENSEMBLE ACTING
Still
Mommy
A Most Violent Year
Leviathan
Wild Tales
Ned Rifle
While We’re Young
Black Souls
Metalhead
*About Elly
Manglehorn
Grand Central
Eden
The End of the Tour
Phoenix
Sicario
Coming Home
The New Girlfriend
Wildlike
Dheepan
*A Childhood
*The Homecoming
Mustang
*My Golden Days
Steve Jobs
Room
*Spotlight
*Brooklyn
Chi-Raq
Carol
The Hateful Eight
BEST ART DIRECTION
Blackhat
Mommy
Inherent Vice
Leviathan
White God
*Ex Machina
Far From the
Madding Crowd
Metalhead
About Elly
Eden
*A Pigeon Sat On a
Branch Reflecting On Existence
Phoenix
Diary a Teenage Girl
Coming Home
The New Girlfriend
Dheepan
Mustang
*Son of Saul
*The Assassin
Cemetery of Splendor
*Under Electric
Clouds
Brooklyn
*The Forbidden Room
Carol
*Mommy
A Most Violent Year
*Leviathan
Girlhood
Wild Tales
Ned Rifle
White God
While We’re Young
Ex Machina
Far From the
Madding Crowd
Black Souls
Metalhead
Tangerines
About Elly
*Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Dope
Manglehorn
Eden
A Wolf at the Door
Irrational Man
*Phoenix
The Mend
Sicario
Wildlike
The Treasure
A Childhood
The Homecoming
Mustang
*600 Miles
Son of Saul
*My Golden Days
Homesick
*Cemetery of Splendor
Steve Jobs
Room
Our Brand Is Crisis
Spotlight
Brooklyn
The Forbidden Room
BEST COSTUMES
Blackhat
Mommy
Inherent Vice
A Most Violent
Year
Girlhood
Ex Machina
*Far From the
Madding Crowd
Dope
*Coming Home
The New Girlfriend
*Mustang
*The Assassin
*Brooklyn
The Forbidden Room
*Carol
Atticus Ross – Blackhat
Noia – Mommy
Jean-Baptiste de Laubier and Para One – Girlhood
*Ben Salisbury and Geoff
Barrow – Ex Machina
Craig Armstrong –
Far From the Madding Crowd
Giuliano Taviani – Black Souls
Pétur Ben – Metalhead
*Niaz Diasamidze – Tangerines
Brian Eno – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Pharrell –
Dope
Jed Kurzel – Slow West
Harry Escott – The Face of an Angel
*Stefan Will –
Phoenix
Judd Greenstein and Michi Wiancko
– The Mend
Jóhann Jóhannsson
– Sicario
Danny Bensi and Saunder
Jurriaans – Wildlike
Nicolas Jaar – Dheepan
Jean-Christophe Onno – Underground Fragrance
Ray LaMontagne – A Childhood
*Warren Ellis – Mustang
*Lim Giong – The Assassin
*Carter Burwell – Carol
Ennio Morricone – The Hateful Eight
BEST DOCUMENTARY
*The Salt of the Earth
Heart of a Dog
Red Army
Amy
The Look of Silence
We Come As Friends