--- title: 'Carol' Wins Big at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards description: The New York Film Critics Circle handed out its 2015 awards on Wednesday, with director Todd Haynes' "Carol" nabbing four out of 15 prizes. canonical: https://time.com/4132996/carol-new-york-film-critics-circle-awards/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-02T19:43:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:56:57.415Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Carol' Wins Big at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards og:description: The New York Film Critics Circle handed out its 2015 awards on Wednesday, with director Todd Haynes' "Carol" nabbing four out of 15 prizes. og:url: https://time.com/4132996/carol-new-york-film-critics-circle-awards/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5a7ea3b0815238d/69887382524fc04d91df5b99/rooney-mara-cate-blanchett.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara during the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2015 in Cannes, France. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Carol' Wins Big at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards twitter:description: The New York Film Critics Circle handed out its 2015 awards on Wednesday, with director Todd Haynes' "Carol" nabbing four out of 15 prizes. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5a7ea3b0815238d/69887382524fc04d91df5b99/rooney-mara-cate-blanchett.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Carol_ Wins Big at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards > Sponsored content. 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Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara during the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2015 in Cannes, France.Barcroft Media--Barcroft Media via Getty Images  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 2, 2015 7:43 PM UTC If the kick-off to the 2015-16 movie award season has told us anything, it’s that the year’s top prizes are anyone’s to win. Between Monday’s [Gotham Awards](http://time.com/4130610/spotlight-gotham-movie-awards/), Tuesday’s [National Board of Review ](http://time.com/4131668/mad-max-national-board-of-review/)awards and Wednesday’s New York Film Critics Circle prizes, this week has seen several film organizations recognize several very different movies, and with good reason: In a year that’s had its share of [beautiful](http://time.com/4092376/review-a-colorful-journey-to-brooklyn/), [harrowing](http://time.com/4074566/brie-larson-finds-a-room-of-her-own/) and [just plain solid](http://time.com/4094990/movie-review-spotlight-rachel-mcadams-mark-ruffalo/) movies, it’s only natural that there’s more than one frontrunner. The NYFCC consists of 30 film critics for New York-based publications, and has met every December since the 1930s to vote on the year’s top films, actors, directors, cinematographers and screenplays. Leading the pack this year was director Todd Haynes’ period love story _Carol_, which won not only Best Picture but Best Director for Haynes, Best Cinematographer for Edward Lachman and Best Screenplay for Phyllis Nagy, who adapted the script from Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel _The Price of Salt_. The tale of romance between two women in the early 1950s, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, couldn’t be more different from Gotham’s pick, _Spotlight_, or the NBR’s top choice, _Mad Max: Fury Road_. For its acting awards, the NYFCC singled out Saoirse Ronan, whose young Irish immigrant in _Brooklyn_ has made her an early Oscar contender, and last year’s Oscar winner Michael Keaton for _Spotlight_, which has thus far been recognized more for the performance of its entire ensemble than for any one player. And while Mark Rylance’s win for his supporting role in _Bridge of Spies_ squares with the ample accolades he’s garnered for the role, Kristen Stewart’s win for _Clouds of Sils Maria_ is perhaps the most surprising of the group’s 14 awards. Though much lauded for her performance, the movie itself premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was a relative blip at the U.S. box office—not to mention that most of the attention for supporting actresses this year has gone to Mara for _Carol_ and Alicia Vikander for _The Danish Girl_. Other winners include _Inside Out_ for Best Animated Film, Frederick Wiseman’s neighborhood portrait _In Jackson Heights_ for Best Non-Fiction Film, the Mauritanian _Timbuktu_ for Best Foreign Film and László Nemes for Best First Film for the wrenchingly unflinching Auschwitz drama _Son of Saul_. Special awards went to longtime composer Ennio Morricone (who composed the score for this year’s _Hateful Eight_) and to critic and Janus Films helmer William Becker, who died in September at 88. 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