Imaginary Cinema Awards 2015

2015 was a huge year for fantasy movies, highlighted by the fact that Age of Ultron only managed to be the third most successful genre movie released last year. Star Wars and Mad Max came back, in some ways better than ever, and there were some great low budget gems. Plus, there were no Transformers movies released last year, which is always nice.

Best Movie: Mad Max: Fury Road
Runners-up: What We Do in the Shadows, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Inside Out, Ant-Man, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ex Machina

Best Screenplay: Inside Out (Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley)
Runners-up: Ex Machina (Alex Garland), What We Do in the Shadows

Best Direction: Mad Max (George Miller)
Runner-up: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams)

Best Actor: Adam Driver (Star Wars)
Runners-up: Tom Hardy (Mad Max), Hugh Keays-Byrne (Mad Max), James Spader (Age of Ultron), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina).

Best Actress: Charlize Theron (Mad Max)
Runners-up: Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), Elizabeth Olsen (Age of Ultron), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars)

Best Music: Star Wars (John Williams)
Runner-up: The Avengers: Age of Ultron (Danny Elfman)

Best Visual Effects: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Runners-up: Age of Ultron, Ex Machina, Mad Max

Best Production Design: Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Cinematography: Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Make-up: Mad Max: Fury Road

Most Surprisingly Okay Movie of the Year: Goosebumps: The Movie

Disappointment of the Year: Jurassic World - one of the blandest, most pointless sequels ever yet still became a huge blockbuster