Post-SAG Nomination Depression, the 32 Finest Films of 2015:

2015 Features: 1. Tom McCarthy‘s Spotlight, 2. Alejandro G. Inarritu‘s The Revenant; 3. George Miller‘s Mad Max: Fury Road; 4. Cary Fukunaga‘s Beasts of No Nation; 4. Bill Pohlad‘s Love & Mercy, 5. Laszlo Nemes‘ Son of Saul; 6. John Crowley‘s Brooklyn; 7. Todd Haynes‘ Carol, 8. Baltasar Kormakur‘s Everest; 9. Peyton Reed‘s Ant-Man; 10. Adam McKay‘s The Big Short, 11. Ridley Scott‘s The Martian, 12. Asghar Farhadi‘s About Elly, 13. the last 25 minutes of The Walk, 14.  James Vanderbilt’s Truth; 15. Sarah Gavron Suffragette; 16.  Judd Apatow‘s Trainwreck;  17. Noah Baumbach‘s Mistress America, 18. Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson‘s Anomalisa, 19. David O. Russell‘s Joy; 20. Alex Garland‘s Ex Machina.

2015 Docs: 1. Alex Gibney‘s Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Belief; 2. Colin Hanks‘ All Things Must Pass, 3. Ondi Timoner‘s Brand: A Second Coming; 4. Doug Tirola‘s Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead; 5. Stevan Riley‘s Listen To Me, Marlon; 5. Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi‘s Meru; 6. Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna‘s Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans; 7. Michael Moore‘s Where To Invade Next; 8. Kent Jones‘ Hitchcock Truffaut; 9. Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon‘s Best of Enemies, 10. Asif Kapadia‘s Amy; 11. Amy Berg‘s Janis Little Girl Blue, 12. Jeffrey Schwarz‘s Tab Hunter Confidential.

2015 celebration/compilation video essay by Miguel Branco, 21, of Calgary, Canada.