As a new sidebar to Dr. Rob’s 8th Annual Simulated Oscar Ballot project, we initiated a new feature this season. With the help of hundreds of passionate voters, we decided this year to have Awards Daily readers complete an alternate ballot, honoring the films and filmmakers first selected by our readership last month — before the actual Oscar nominations were announced. The Daily Awards voters chose these 3 films as their number one, two and three favorites of 2015:
Mad Mad: Fury Road
The Big Short
Carol
Detailed preferential ballot breakdown and winners in 7 other categories, after the break.
(We will still be conducting Part 2 of the Simulated Ballot, using the actual Oscar nominees, because that’s the best way for us to get a handle on illustrating the way the preferential ballot works with real-world examples each year. The results we’re posting today are a way for readers to see “What Might Have Been” had the Academy not overlooked so many films that were favorites among those of us who are more comfortable with diversity than many Oscar voters seem to be.)
Directing:
- MAD MAX – 168 votes (55.6%)
- Carol – 59 – 19.5%
- The Revenant – 38 – 12.6%
- The Martian – 22 – 7.3%
- Spotlight – 15 – 5.0%
Actress:
- LARSON – 108 votes (35.5%)
- Ronan – 80 – 26.3%
- Blanchett – 47 – 15.5%
- Theron – 35 – 11.5%
- Rampling – 34 – 11.2%
Actor:
- DICAPRIO – 136 votes (45.3%)
- Fassbender – 92 – 30.7%
- Jordan – 43 – 14.3%
- Damon – 16 – 5.3%
- Redmayne – 13 – 4.3%
Supporting Actress:
- TIE! – MARA – 91 votes (30.0%)
- TIE! – VILKANDER (Ex Machina) – 91 votes (30.0%)
- Winslet – 44 – 14.5%
- Stewart – 42 – 13.9%
- Leigh – 35 – 11.6%
Supporting Actor:
- ELBA – 100 votes (33.3%)
- Stallone – 72 – 24.0%
- Dano – 62 – 20.7%
- Rylance – 42 – 14.0%
- Ruffalo – 24 – 8.0%
Original Screenplay:
- INSIDE OUT – 103 votes (34.1%)
- Spotlight – 98 – 32.5%
- Ex Machina – 56 – 18.5%
- Hateful Eight – 26 – 8.6%
- Sicario – 19 – 6.3%
Adapted Screenplay:
- THE BIG SHORT – 94 votes (31.2%)
- Carol – 76 – 25.2%
- Brooklyn – 47 – 15.6%
- Room – 43 – 14.3%
- Steve Jobs – 41 – 13.6%
Cinematography:
- THE REVENANT – 95 Votes (31.4%)
- Mad Max – 94 – 31.0%
- Carol – 64 – 21.1%
- Sicario – 39 – 12.9%
- Hateful Eight – 11 – 3.6%
Editing:
- MAD MAX – 200 Votes (66.0%)
- Big Short – 48 – 15.8%
- Spotlight – 21 – 6.9%
- Carol – 20 – 6.6%
- The Revenant – 14 – 4.6%
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