San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards 2016



15th SFFCC Awards

December 11, 2016

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Picture:
Moonlight
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Animated Feature:
The Red Turtle
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Documentary:
I Am Not Your Negro
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Foreign Language Picture:
The Handmaiden

The 15th San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2016, were given on December 11, 2016.

Winners

These are the nominees for the 15th SFFCC Awards. Winners are listed at the top of each list:
Best FilmBest Director

  • Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
  • * Damien Chazelle – La La Land
  • * Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
  • * Jeff Nichols – Loving
  • * Denis Villeneuve – Arrival
    • Best ActorBest Actress
  • Denzel Washington – Fences
  • * Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
  • * Joel Edgerton – Loving
  • * Ryan Gosling – La La Land
  • * Tom Hanks – Sully
  • Isabelle Huppert – Elle
  • * Amy Adams – Arrival
  • * Annette Bening – 20th Century Women
  • * Ruth Negga – Loving
  • * Natalie Portman – Jackie
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
  • Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
  • * Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
  • * Ralph Fiennes – A Bigger Splash
  • * Ben Foster – Hell or High Water
  • * Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals
  • Viola Davis – Fences
  • * Greta Gerwig – 20th Century Women
  • * Lily Gladstone – Certain Women
  • * Naomie Harris – Moonlight
  • * Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea
    • Best Screenplay – AdaptedBest Screenplay – Original
  • Eric Heisserer – Arrival
  • * David Birke – Elle
  • * Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyung – The Handmaiden
  • * Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals
  • * August Wilson – Fences
  • Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
  • Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
  • * Damien Chazelle – La La Land
  • * Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou – The Lobster
  • * Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water
    • Best Animated FeatureBest Documentary Film
  • The Red Turtle
  • * Finding Dory
  • * Kubo and the Two Strings
  • * Moana
  • * Zootopia
  • I Am Not Your Negro
  • * 13th
  • * Cameraperson
  • * Fire at Sea
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    • Best Foreign Language FilmBest Cinematography
  • The Handmaiden
  • * Elle
  • * Neruda
  • * The Salesman
  • * Toni Erdmann
  • James Laxton – Moonlight
  • * Stéphane Fontaine – Jackie
  • * Rodrigo Prieto – Silence
  • * Linus Sandgren – La La Land
  • * Bradford Young – Arrival
    • Best EditingBest Original Score
  • Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders – Moonlight
  • Joe Walker – Arrival
  • * Tom Cross – La La Land
  • * Jennifer Lame – Manchester by the Sea
  • * Jake Roberts – Hell or High Water
  • Mica Levi – Jackie
  • * Nicholas Britell – Moonlight
  • * Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Hell or High Water
  • * Justin Hurwitz – La La Land
  • * Jóhann Jóhannsson – Arrival
    • Best Production Design
  • Seong-hie Ryu – The Handmaiden'
  • * Craig Lathrop – The Witch
  • * Jean Rabasse – Jackie
  • * Patrice Vermette – Arrival
  • * David Wasco – La La Land''

    • Special awards

    Special Citation Award for under-appreciated independent cinema