Forum Oscar Poll Results: November 2015 – Spotlight #1 in Best Picture, Director and more

The November results of the Forum Oscar polls are out and recent critics award winner Spotlight is far out in front in Best Picture, Best Director (Tom McCarthy), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Keaton) and Best Original Screenplay. Good word on The Revenant has boosted it back up into the top 2 and Leonardo DiCaprio maintains his stranglehold on Best Actor.

One big difference is going to be the results you see for Joy and what next month will look like. Still riding high as November, the film placed #3 in Best Picture, #2 in Best Director (David O. Russell) and #1 in Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence). With the reviews out for the film sinking fast, expect the prediction results to reflect that next month.

Elsewhere, the trio of Room, Carol and Brooklyn all continue to build or remain strong, as does The Martian. It will be interesting to see if the huge success Mad Max: Fury Road has had with the critics awards translates into top 5 predictions in December.

BEST PICTURE

01. Spotlight (98%; 152 votes)
02. The Revenant (95%; 147 votes)
03. Joy (94%; 145 votes)
04. Carol (87%; 135 votes)
04. The Martian (87%; 135 votes)
06. Brooklyn (86%; 134 votes)
07. Room (85%; 131 votes)
08. Bridge of Spies (81%; 125 votes)
09. Inside Out (54%; 84 votes)
10. The Hateful Eight (52%; 81 votes)

BEST DIRECTOR

01. Tom McCarthy — Spotlight (92%; 120 votes)
02. Alejandro González Iñárritu — The Revenant(87%; 113 votes)
02. David O. Russell — Joy (75%; 98 votes)
04. Todd Haynes — Carol (67%; 87 votes)
05. Ridley Scott — The Martian (63%; 82 votes)

06. Steven Spielberg — Bridge of Spies (40%; 52 votes)
07. Lenny Abrahamson — Room (31%; 40 votes)
08. George Miller — Mad Max: Fury Road (15%; 20 votes)
09. Quentin Tarantino — The Hateful Eight (9%; 12 votes)
10. László Nemes — Son of Saul (7%; 9 votes)

BEST ACTOR

01. Leonardo DiCaprio — The Revenant (98%; 206 votes)
02. Michael Fassbender — Steve Jobs(87%; 183 votes)
03. Eddie Redmayne — The Danish Girl (76%; 161 votes)
04. Matt Damon — The Martian (73%; 155 votes)
05. Michael Caine — Youth (57%; 121 votes)

06. Johnny Depp — Black Mass (18%; 39 votes)
07. Tom Hanks — Bridge of Spies (18%; 38 votes)
08. Ian McKellen — Mr. Holmes (17%; 35 votes)
09. Steve Carell — The Big Short (12%; 25 votes)
10. Samuel L. Jackson — The Hateful Eight (9%; 19 votes)

BEST ACTRESS

01. Jennifer Lawrence — Joy (94%; 252 votes)
02. Cate Blanchett — Carol (94%; 251 votes)
02. Brie Larson — Room (94%; 251 votes)
04. Saoirse Ronan — Brooklyn(89%; 238 votes)
05. Charlotte Rampling — 45 Years(73%; 194 votes)

06. Carey Mulligan — Suffragette (15%; 41 votes)
07. Rooney Mara — Carol (14%; 37 votes)
08. Lily Tomlin — Grandma (6%; 17 votes)
09. Alicia Vikander — The Danish Girl (4%; 10 votes)
10. Maggie Smith — The Lady in the Van (3%; 8 votes)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

01. Michael Keaton — Spotlight (88%; 152 votes)
02. Mark Rylance — Bridge of Spies(85%; 147 votes)
03. Mark Ruffalo — Spotlight (80%; 139 votes)
04. Robert De Niro — Joy (68%; 117 votes)
05. Jacob Tremblay — Room(51%; 89 votes)

06. Tom Hardy — The Revenant (45%; 78 votes)
07. Idris Elba — Beasts of No Nation (15%; 26 votes)
08. Other (13%; 22 votes)
09. Paul Dano — Love & Mercy (12%; 20 votes)
10. Samuel L. Jackson — The Hateful Eight (11%; 19 votes)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

01. Kate Winslet — Steve Jobs (84%; 170 votes)
02. Rooney Mara — Carol (81%; 163 votes)
03. Jennifer Jason Leigh — The Hateful Eight(78%; 157 votes)
04. Alicia Vikander — The Danish Girl (57%; 116 votes)
05. Rachel McAdams — Spotlight (47%; 95 votes)

06. Jane Fonda — Youth (47%; 94 votes)
07. Diane Ladd — Joy (24%; 49 votes)
08. Isabella Rossellini — Joy (23%; 47 votes)
09. Joan Allen — Room (20%; 41 votes)
10. Elizabeth Banks — Love & Mercy (8%; 17 votes)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

01. Room (93%; 84 votes)
02. Carol (90%; 81 votes)
02. Brooklyn (90%; 81 votes)
04. Steve Jobs (61%; 55 votes)
05. Anomalisa (50%; 45 votes)

06. The Martian (44%; 40 votes)
07. The Revenant (38%; 34 votes)
08. The Big Short (18%; 16 votes)
09. 45 Years (12%; 11 votes)
10. Other (2%; 2 votes)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

01. Inside Out (100%; 81 votes)
01. Spotlight (100%; 81 votes)
03. Joy (98%; 79 votes)
04. The Hateful Eight(93%; 75 votes)
05. Bridge of Spies (88%; 71 votes)

06. Son of Saul (10%; 8 votes)
07. Trainwreck (6%; 5 votes)
07. Youth(6%; 5 votes)

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

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