Awardswatch’s International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) Half-Way Awards Nominations (2015)

The nominations for the Half-Way awards for 2015 from the Awardswatch Film Circle were revealed this morning with Mad Max: Fury Road obliterating the competition with 16 nominations. It earned a mention in nearly every category for which it was eligible, save Best Supporting Actress. Ex Machina came in 2nd with 11 nods and stands as the film with the highest nomination total without a Best Picture nomination.

The nominations saw a wide range of films and styles that represent the diversity of the Awardswatch forums. Big hits like Mad Max: Fury Road and Cinderella did well but foreign films and indies were no slackers. Looking at Best Picture finds films like The Duke of Burgundy and About Elly making the cut and in Best Actress you have no less than 3/5 nominees coming from foreign language films, including Golshifteh Farahani for About Elly and Ronit Elkabetz for Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem. Saint Laurent was a strong player with seven nominations and Clouds of Sils Maria with five hit all of the majors; Best Picture, Best Director (Olivier Assayas), Best Actress (Juliette Binoche), Best Supporting Actress (Kristen Stewart) and Best Original Screenplay.

The Awardswatch Film Circle Awards (AFCA) are gathered from the Awardswatch forums and were formerly known as the INOCAs pre-2015. In all, 28 ballots were submitted. Voting for the winners takes place from now until Monday, July 27th and you can be a part of it. Vote for your choices here.

Best Visual Effects

AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
EX MACHINA
JUPITER ASCENDING
JURASSIC WORLD
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Film Editing

Chris Wyatt, ’71
Mark Day, EX MACHINA
Julio Perez IV, IT FOLLOWS
Margaret Sixel, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Fabrice Rouaud, SAINT LAURENT

Best Sound Editing

BLACKHAT
EX MACHINA
INSIDE OUT
IT FOLLOWS
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Sound Mixing

BLACKHAT
THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
EX MACHINA
IT FOLLOWS
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Production Design

Dante Ferretti, CINDERELLA
Pater Sparrow, THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
Mark Digby, EX MACHINA
Colin Gibson, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Katia Wyszkop, SAINT LAURENT

Best Makeup & Hair

CINDERELLA
THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
EX MACHINA
JUPITER ASCENDING
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
SAINT LAURENT

Best Costume Design

Sandy Powell, CINDERELLA
Andrea Flesch, THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
Janet Patterson, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
Jenny Beavan, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Anais Romand, SAINT LAURENT

Best Cinematography

Nic Knowland, THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
Mike Gioulakis, IT FOLLOWS
Timo Salminen, JAUJA
John Seale, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Robbie Ryan, SLOW WEST

Best Adapted Screenplay

Chris Weitz, CINDERELLA
David Nicholls, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
Nico Lathouris, Brendan McCarthy, and George Miller, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Bruce Wagner, MAPS TO THE STARS
Hiromasa Yonebayashi, WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE

Best Original Screenplay

Asghar Farhadi, ABOUT ELLY
Olivier Assayas, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
Alex Garland, EX MACHINA
Josh Cooley, Ronnie del Carmen (story), Pete Docter, and Meg LeFauve, INSIDE OUT
Roy Andersson, A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE

Best Original Score

Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, EX MACHINA

Para One, GIRLHOOD

Michael Giacchino, INSIDE OUT

Disasterpeace, IT FOLLOWS

Junkie XL, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Film Not in the English Language

ABOUT ELLY
JAUJA
A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE
SAINT LAURENT
TIMBUKTU

Best Ensemble

ABOUT ELLY
GIRLHOOD
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
MAPS TO THE STARS
SPY

Nicholas Hoult, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Oscar Isaac, EX MACHINA
Richard Kind, INSIDE OUT
Peyman Moaadi, ABOUT ELLY
Jérémie Renier, SAINT LAURENT

Cate Blanchett, CINDERELLA
Rose Byrne, SPY
Julianne Moore, MAPS TO THE STARS
Kristen Stewart, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
Alicia Vikander, EX MACHINA

Olivier Assayas, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
Peter Strickland, THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
Alex Garland, EX MACHINA
Pete Docter, INSIDE OUT
George Miller, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Paul Dano, LOVE & MERCY
Tom Hardy, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Viggo Mortensen, JAUJA
Jack O’Connell, ’71
Gaspard Ulliel, SAINT LAURENT

Juliette Binoche, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
Ronit Elkabetz, GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM
Golshifteh Farahani, ABOUT ELLY
Sidse Babett Knudsen, THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
Charlize Theron, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

ABOUT ELLY
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
INSIDE OUT
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

TOTALS

Mad Max: Fury Road – 16
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Ensemble
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Original Score
Best Production Design
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Visual Effects

Ex Machina – 11
Best Director
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay
Best Film Editing
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Original Score
Best Production Design
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Visual Effects

The Duke of Burgundy – 8
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Production Design
Best Sound Mixing

Saint Laurent – 7
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actor
Best Film not in the English Language
Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Production Design

About Elly – 6
Best Picture
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Ensemble
Best Original Screenplay
Best Film not in the English Language

Inside Out – 6
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Supporting Actor
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Score
Best Sound Editing

Cinderella – 5
Best Supporting Actress
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Costume Design
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Production Design

Clouds of Sils Maria – 5
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay

It Follows – 5
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing

Jauja – 3
Best Actor
Best Film not in the English Language
Best Cinematography

Maps to the Stars – 3
Best Actress
Best Ensemble
Best Adapted Screenplay

’71 – 2
Best Actor
Best Film Editing

Blackhat – 2
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing

Far from the Madding Crowd – 2
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Costume Design

Girlhood – 2
Best Ensemble
Best Original Score

Jupiter Ascending – 2
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Visual Effects

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence – 2
Best Original Screenplay
Best Film not in the English Language

Spy – 2
Best Supporting Actress
Best Ensemble

Avengers: Age of Ultron – 1
Best Visual Effects

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem – 1
Best Actress

Jurassic World – 1
Best Visual Effects

Love & Mercy – 1
Best Actor

Slow West – 1
Best Cinematography

Timbuktu – 1
Best Film not in the English Language

When Marnie Was There – 1
Best Adapted Screenplay