'Mad Max: Fury Road' Dominates The Critics' Choice Awards, But 'Spotlight' Is Truly Shiny And Chrome

The Critics' Choice Awards don't always reflect what eventually goes down at the Academy Awards, but they reflect it just often enough to go under the microscope of hungry awards season analysts. If this year's winners do predict the big winners at the Oscars next month, it's awfully hard to argue with these picks. Mad Max: Fury Road swept through the awards, snatching technical wins left and right. However, Spotlight nabbed a handful of top prizes, including Best Picture.

Let's dive into some minor analysis before we get to the complete list of winners.

Organized and voted on by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Critics' Choice Awards honor the best in movies and television and they're often a bit unwieldy. With 54 awards, including genre-specific categories like "Best Action Movie," they tend to sprawl all over the place and look just a wee bit messy. However, the end result is a wide variety of movies and shows winning all kinds of awards, which is often very fun to see.

While there were many of winners, Mad Max: Fury Road (our favorite movie of 2015) effortlessly led the awards, taking home nine trophies including Best Director for George Miller, Best Action Movie, Best Actor in an Action Movie for Tom Hardy, and Best Actress in an Action Movie for Charlize Theron. The rest of its awards were for technical categories, including Production Design, Editing, Costume Design, and Visual Effects.

Still, Spotlight went home with Best Picture, Best Acting Ensemble, and Best Original Screenplay, which is also hugely impressive. In fact, this could very well be a preview of what goes down at the Academy Awards, with Mad Max: Fury Road sweeping the technical categories while Spotlight grabs a handful of key trophies. After all, this is what happened when Gravity faced 12 Years a Slave at the Oscars a few years ago.

Other winners weren't too surprising. Leonardo DiCaprio won Best Actor for The Revenant, Sylvester Stallone took home Best Supporting Actor for Creed, and Brie Larson claimed Best Actress for Room. Those three are the clear frontrunners in their respective Oscars categories, so those wins aren't too surprising. However, Alicia Vikander winning Best Supporting Actress for The Danish Girl is certainly interesting and may suggest her pulling ahead in that very crowded category.

Here is the complete list of winners:

FILMBEST PICTURE

Spotlight

BEST ACTOR

Leonardo DiCaprio

The Revenant

BEST ACTRESS

Brie Larson

Room

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Sylvester Stallone, Creed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

Jacob Tremblay, Room

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Spotlight

BEST DIRECTOR

George Miller

Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, Spotlight

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Colin Gibson, Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST EDITING

Margaret Sixel, Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Jenny Beavan, Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST HAIR & MAKEUP

Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Inside Out

BEST ACTION MOVIE

Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE

Tom Hardy, Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE

Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST COMEDY

The Big Short

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY

Christian Bale, The Big Short

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

Amy Schumer, Trainwreck

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE

Ex Machina

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Son of Saul

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Amy

BEST SONG

"See You Again", Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa, Furious 7

BEST SCORE

Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight

TELEVISIONBEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent, Amazon

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Rami Malek, Mr. Robot, USA

BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES

Idris Elba, Luther, BBC America

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The CW

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Carrie Coon, The Leftovers, HBO

BEST ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES

Kirsten Dunst, Fargo, FX Networks

BEST COMEDY SERIES

Master of None, Netflix

BEST DRAMA SERIES

Mr. Robot, USA

BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Timothy Olyphant, The Grinder, Fox

BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Margo Martindale, The Good Wife, CBS

BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES

Fargo, FX Networks

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Fox

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Christian Slater, Mr. Robot, USA

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES

Jesse Plemons, Fargo, FX Networks

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory, CBS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Constance Zimmer, UnREAL, Lifetime

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES

Jean Smart, Fargo, FX Networks

BEST ANIMATION SERIES

BoJack Horseman, Netflix

BEST REALITY SHOW – COMPETITION

The Voice, NBC

BEST REALITY SHOW HOST

James Lipton, Inside the Actors Studio, Bravo

BEST STRUCTURED REALITY SHOW

Shark Tank, ABC

BEST TALK SHOW

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO

BEST UNSTRUCTURED REALITY SHOW

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, CNN

Genius Award

Industrial Light + Magic

MVP Award

Amy Schumer

Most Bingeworthy Show

Outlander, Starz