My Favorite Performances - 2015

as Ma in Room

as Eilis in Brooklyn

as Ava in Ex Machina

as Kate Macer in Sicario

as Rachel in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

as Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight

Runner up:
Lisa Hesselman in Anomalisa

as Sacha Pfeiffer in Spotlight

as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road

as Edith Cushing in Crimson Peak

as Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs

as Maggie Stuart in Infinitely Polar Bear

as Hedda Hopper in Trumbo

as Bianca in Creed

as Cornelia in While We're Young

as Jessica Cobb in Secret in Their Eyes

as Jules in The Intern

as Kumiko in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

as Lucille Sharpe in Crimson Peak

as Jay Height in It Follows

as Diggy in Dope

as Lisa in The Voices

as Darby in While We're Young

as Robyn in The Gift

as Ilsa Faust in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

as Mrs. Munro in Mr. Holmes

as Commandant in Beasts of No Nation

as Rocky Balboa in Creed

as Alejandro in Sicario

as Hugh Glass in The Revenant

as Nathan in Ex Machina

as Reggie Kray / Ron Kray in Legend

Runner up:
John Fitzgerald in The Revenant
Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road

as Steve Jobs in Steve Jobs

Runner up:
Silas Selleck in Slow West

as Sheriff Chris Mannix in The Hateful Eight

as Agu in Beasts of No Nation

as Cam Stuart in Infinitely Polar Bear

Runner up:
Mike Rezendes in Spotlight

as Adonis Johnson in Creed

as Caleb in Ex Machina

Runner up:
Captain Andrew Henry in The Revenant
Jim Farrell in Brooklyn

as Jack in Room

as Major Marquis Warren in The Hateful Eight

Runner up:
Valentine in Kingsman: The Secret Service

as Rick Ford in Spy

as Eazy-E in Straight Outta Compton

as Rick Carver in 99 Homes

as Chicory in Bone Tomahawk

as Walter 'Robby' Robinson in Spotlight

as Tony in Brooklyn

as Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies

as Sheriff Kretzer in Cop Car

as Jerry in The Voices

as Sherlock Holmes in Mr. Holmes

as David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour