Let’s have a brief bit of fun.

Back at the start of January, just before the Oscars revealed their nominations slate for the year, my good Internet friend Kyle Turner went ahead and published his own little fantasy list of what he would have filled the awards categories with had anybody with authority bothered to ask him to contribute his (mostly) correct opinions.  It was a nice little read and it led me to wonder why I hadn’t tried anything like that.  I mean, yeah, I did some Awards during my endless year-end wrap-up series, but they weren’t exactly ‘professional’.

So, since it might be a fun little timewaster for myself that gets some fresh content up on this site, I’ve chosen to basically rip Kyle off and give you my fantasy awards booking.  If you’ve read my 2015 round-up pieces, checked my Twitter, or listened to Screen 1 – Mondays at 2PM on Hullfire Radio or Tuesdays at 6PM on West Hull FM – then you’ll know why these categories look the way they do.  I shan’t be giving detailed descriptions as to each category or who’d win, in any case, since this is just a fun little exercise rather than anything meaningful, much like awards ceremonies themselves!  Just know that, should any awards body had ever wanted to solicit my opinions on anything, this is how I would have voted this year.

Yes, I know that this is long after any of you stopped giving a shit, but if everybody else – even the sodding BAFTAs, the preview piece of which shall be up Tuesday or Wednesday, sorry for its lateness – is going to include all of the Awards Season movies that don’t make it to British shores until January of the year after the awards are supposed to honour, then, by Jove, I shall too!

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Best Picture

Carol

Creed

Inside Out

Mad Max: Fury Road

Magic Mike XXL

Phoenix

Sicario

Shaun The Sheep Movie

The Big Short

The Look Of Silence

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Best Director

Denis Villenueve	Sicario
George Miller	Mad Max: Fury Road
Marjane Satrapi	The Voices
Ryan Coogler	Creed
Todd Haynes	Carol

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Best Actor

Benicio del Toro	Alejandro	Sicario
Jacob Tremblay	Jack Newsom	Room
Michael B. Jordan	Adonis Johnson	Creed
Ryan Reynolds	Jerry Hickfang	The Voices
Samuel L. Jackson	Major Marquis Warren	The Hateful Eight

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Best Actress

Cate Blanchett	Carol Aird	Carol
Charlize Theron	Imperator Furiosa	Mad Max: Fury Road
Charlotte Rampling	Kate Mercer	45 Years
Emily Blunt	Kate Macer	Sicario
Rooney Mara	Therese Belivet	Carol

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Best Supporting Actor

Jason Bateman	Simon Callum	The Gift
Jason Mitchell	Eazy-E	Straight Outta Compton
Josh Brolin	Matt Graver	Sicario
Seth Rogen	Steve Wozniack	Steve Jobs
Sylvester Stallone	Rocky Balboa	Creed

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Best Supporting Actress

Alicia Vikander	Gabriella Teller	The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Jada Pinkett Smith	Rome	Magic Mike XXL
Jennifer Jason Leigh	Daisy Domergue	The Hateful Eight
Mya Taylor	Alexandra	Tangerine
Phyllis Smith	Sadness	Inside Out

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Best Original Screenplay

Ex Machina	Alex Garland
Inside Out	Pete Docter & Ronnie del Carmen (story), Pete Docter and Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley (screenplay)
Sicario	Taylor Sheridan
The Hateful Eight	Quentin Tarantino
The Voices	Michael R. Perry

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Best Adapted Screenplay

Carol	Phyllis Nagy
Creed	Ryan Coogler (story), Ryan Coogler and Aaron Covington (screenplay)
Phoenix	Christian Petzold and Harun Farocki
Room	Emma Donoghue
Steve Jobs	Aaron Sorkin

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Best Animated Film

Inside Out

Minions

Shaun the Sheep Movie

The Peanuts Movie

World of Tomorrow

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Best Cinematography

Carol	Edward Lachman
Mad Max: Fury Road	John Seale
Shaun the Sheep Movie	Charles Copping and Dave Alex Riddett
Sicario	Roger Deakins
The Revenant	Emmanuel Lubezki

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Best Original Score

Inside Out	Michael Giacchino
Mad Max: Fury Road	Junkie XL
Shaun the Sheep Movie	Ilan Eshkeri
Sicario	Jóhann Jóhannsson
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.	Daniel Pemberton

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Best Documentary

Amy

Listen To Me Marlon

The Look of Silence

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Best Production Design

Crimson Peak	Thomas E. Sanders
Mad Max: Fury Road	Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson
Room	Ethan Tobman
The Martian	Celia Bobak and Arthur Max
The Voices	Udo Kramer

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Best Costume Design

Carol	Sandy Powell
Cinderella	Sandy Powell
Mad Max: Fury Road	Jenny Beavan
The Dressmaker	Marion Boyce and Margot Wilson
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.	Joanna Johnston

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Best Editing

Crimson Peak	Bernat Vilaplana
Mad Max: Fury Road	Margaret Sixel
Magic Mike XXL	Mary Ann Bernard
Spy	Melissa Bretherton and Brent White
The Big Short	Hank Corwin

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Best Foreign Language Film

Eden

Phoenix

The Look of Silence

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Got a fantasy awards nominations slate of your own?  Drop it or link it in the comments below!

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