‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Wins 10 INOCA Halfway Awards, ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ – 3

 

The summer smash Mad Max: Fury Road laid waste to its competition at the 2015 Half-way Awards of the International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA), winning 10 of its 16 nominations. The Warner Brothers release won Best Picture as well as dominated the tech categories, including Cinematography, Film Editing and Sound Mixing.

No slouch, the arthouse hit Clouds of Sils Maria from IFC Films won three, including Best Actress for Juliette Binoche and Best Supporting Actress for Kristen Stewart (who won the César for this role). Interestingly, Supporting Actress resulted in a tie with none other than Stewart’s co-star in 2014’s Still Alice, Julianne Moore. Her win came from another arthouse hit, Maps to the Stars, for which she won the Cannes Best Actress award last year.

The ensemble award provided a nice surprise (as well as a 2nd tie) with Melissa McCarthy’s summer comedy Spy tying with About Elly from Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi. That film, originally released in 2009 in its native country of Iran, only just got a U.S. release this year from The Cinema Guild, therefore making it eligible for our 2015 awards.

Here are the full list of winners and for a quick reminder of the nominees, click here.

Best Picture
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Director
George Miller, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Actor
Gaspard Ulliel, SAINT LAURENT

Best Actress
Juliette Binoche, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA

Best Supporting Actor
Oscar Isaac, EX MACHINA

Best Supporting Actress (tie)
Julianne Moore, MAPS TO THE STARS & Kristen Stewart, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA

Best Adapted Screenplay
Nico Lathouris, Brendan McCarthy, and George Miller, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Original Screenplay
Olivier Assayas, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA

Best Ensemble (tie)
ABOUT ELLY & SPY

Best Film Not in the English Language
ABOUT ELLY

Best Cinematography
John Seale, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Costume Design
Anais Romand, SAINT LAURENT

Best Film Editing
Margaret Sixel, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Makeup & Hair
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Original Score
Michael Giacchino, INSIDE OUT

Best Production Design
Colin Gibson, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Sound Mixing
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Sound Editing
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best Visual Effects
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Totals
Mad Max: Fury Road – 10
Clouds of Sils Maria – 3
About Elly – 2
Saint Laurent – 2
Ex Machina – 1
Inside Out – 1
Maps to the Stars – 1
Spy – 1