The winners and nominees for the 28th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are as follows:[1][2]
| Best Film | Best Director | Fury Road - Doug Mitchell and George Miller- Carol - Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley and Christine Vachon
- Inside Out - Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
- The Revenant - Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon
- Spotlight - Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust
| George Miller – Fury Road- Todd Haynes – Carol
- Alejandro González Iñárritu – The Revenant
- Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
- Adam McKay – The Big Short
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| Best Actor | Best Actress |
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Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant as Hugh Glass- Christopher Abbott – James White as James White
- Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs as Steve Jobs
- Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl as Lili Elbe
- Jason Segel – The End of the Tour as David Foster Wallace
| Brie Larson – Room as Joy "Ma" Newsome- Cate Blanchett – Carol as Carol Aird
- Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years as Kate Mercer
- Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey
- Charlize Theron – Fury Road as Imperator Furiosa
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| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
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Benicio del Toro – Sicario as Alejandro Gillick- Sam Elliott – Grandma as Karl
- Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies as Rudolf Abel
- Michael Shannon – 99 Homes as Rick Carver
- Sylvester Stallone – Creed as Rocky Balboa
| Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener- Jennifer Jason Leigh – Anomalisa as Lisa Hesselman
- Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight as Daisy Domergue
- Cynthia Nixon – James White as Gail White
- Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria as Valentine
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| Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay |
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Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer- Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman and Joel and Ethan Coen
- Ex Machina – Alex Garland
- The Hateful Eight – Quentin Tarantino
- Inside Out – Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley
| The Big Short – Adam McKay and Charles Randolph based on the book by Michael Lewis- Anomalisa – Charlie Kaufman based on the audio play by Francis Fregoli
- Brooklyn – Nick Hornby based on the novel by Colm Toibin
- Room – Emma Donoghue based on the novel
- Steve Jobs – Aaron Sorkin based on the biography by Walter Isaacson
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| Best Animated Film | Best Foreign Language Film |
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Inside Out - Peter Docter and Jonas Rivera- Anomalisa - Charlie Kaurman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
- The Good Dinosaur - Peter Sohn and Denise Ream
- The Peanuts Movie - Steve Martino, Craig Schultz, Bryan Schultz, Cornelius Uliano, Paul Feig and Michael J. Travers
- Shaun the Sheep Movie - Mark Burton, Richard Starzak, Paul Kewley and Julie Lockhart
| Son of Saul (Hungary) in Hungarian - Directed by Laszlo Nemes- The Assassin (China) in Mandarin - Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
- The Look of Silence (Indonesia) in Indonesian - Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
- Phoenix (Germany) in German - Directed by Christian Petzold
- White God (Hungary) in Hungarian - Directed by Kornel Mundruczo
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| Best Documentary | Best Original Score |
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Amy - Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees- Cartel Land - Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
- The Hunting Ground - Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
- The Look of Silence - Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sorensen
- Where to Invade Next -
| The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone- Carol – Carter Burwell
- Inside Out – Michael Giacchino
- It Follows – Disasterpeace
- Fury Road – Junkie XL
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| Best Production Design | Best Editing |
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Fury Road - Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson- The Assassin - Production Design: Ding-Yang Weng; Set Decoration: Erica Wei Ju Chang
- Brooklyn - Production Design: Tania Bijlani, Irene O'Brien and Robert Parle; Set Decoration: Stephan McKenzie and Manon Thomas
- Carol - Production Design: Jesse Rosenthal; Set Decoration: Scott A. Lawson
- Crimson Peak - Production Design: Brandt Gordon; Set Decoration: Carlos Caneca
| Fury Road – Jason Ballantine and Margaret Sixel- The Big Short – Hank Corwin
- The Martian – Pietro Scalia
- The Revenant – Stephen Mirrione
- Spotlight – Tom McArdle
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| Best Cinematography | |
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Fury Road – John Seale- Carol – Edward Lachman
- The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson
- The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki
- Sicario – Roger Deakins
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| Most Promising Filmmaker | Most Promising Performer |
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Alex Garland – Ex Machina- Marielle Heller – The Diary of a Teenage Girl
- Josh Mond – James White
- Laszlo Nemes – Son of Saul
- Bill Pohlad – Love & Mercy
| Jacob Tremblay – Room as Jack Newsom- Christopher Abbott – James White as James White
- Bel Powley – The Diary of a Teenage Girl as Minnie Goetze
- Geza Rohrig – Son of Saul as Saul
- Amy Schumer – Trainwreck as Amy Townsend
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2. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20151216/entlife/151219073/|title='Mad Max: Fury Road' wins best picture from Chicago Film Critics|last=Gire|first=Dann|date=December 17, 2015|work=Chicago Daily Herald|accessdate=December 22, 2015}}