San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards 2016 Explained

15th SFFCC Awards

December 11, 2016

----Picture:
Moonlight----Animated Feature:
The Red Turtle----Documentary:
I Am Not Your Negro----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.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Winners

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

Best Film	Best Director
Moonlight Arrival Hell or High Water La La Land Manchester by the Sea	Barry Jenkins – Moonlight Damien Chazelle – La La Land Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea Jeff Nichols – Loving Denis Villeneuve – Arrival
Best Actor	Best 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 Actor	Best 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 – Adapted	Best 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 (TIE) Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea (TIE) Damien Chazelle – La La Land Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou – The Lobster Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water
Best Animated Feature	Best Documentary Film
The Red Turtle Finding Dory Kubo and the Two Strings Moana Zootopia	I Am Not Your Negro 13th Cameraperson Fire at Sea
Best Foreign Language Film	Best 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 Editing	Best Original Score
Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders – Moonlight (TIE) Joe Walker – Arrival (TIE) 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

• The Fits

Marlon Riggs Award for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community

• Joshua Grannell (a.k.a. Peaches Christ)

External links

• The San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Notes and References

1. Web site: San Francisco Film Critics Circle Nominations! . Flores . Marshall . December 9, 2016 . Awards Daily . December 9, 2016.
2. Web site: San Francisco Film Critics Nominations: Arrival, La La Land, Moonlight, Hell or High Water Get Bay Area Love . Anderson . Erik . December 9, 2016 . AwardsWatch . December 9, 2016.
3. Web site: SF film critics name ‘Moonlight’ best picture, director . Hartlaub . Peter . December 12, 2016 . . December 12, 2016.