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Best Film - Spotlight Best Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio - the Revenant Best Actress - Brie Larson - Room Best Supporting Actor - Tom Hardy - The Revenant Best Supporting Actress - Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina Best Youth Performance - Jacob Tremblay - Room Best Director - Alejandro Iñárritu - The Revenant Best Original Screenplay - Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer - Spotlight Best Adapted Screenplay - tie - Drew Goddard for The Martian and Emma Donoghue for Room Best Ensemble Cast - Spotlight Best Documentary - Amy Best Animated Movie - Inside Out Best Production Design - Francois Séguin - Brooklyn Best Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki - The Revenant Best Visual Effects - Ex Machina

Best Actor — Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant Best Actress — Brie Larson, Room Best Animated Film - Inside Out Best Body of Work — Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina, The Danish Girl, Testament of Youth Best Director — George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road Best Documentary - Amy Best First Feature — Alex Garland, Ex Machina Best Foreign Language Film - Son of Saul Best Original Screenplay - Spotlight Best Adapted Screenplay — Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short Best Supporting Actor — Michael Keaton, Spotlight and Sylvester Stallone, Creed (tie) Best Supporting Actress — Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina Most Disappointing Film - Tomorrowland

Best Picture: Ex Machina Best Director: Alex Garland, Ex Machina Richard Harris Award: Chiwetel Ejiofor Best Actress: Saiorse Ronan, Brooklyn Best Actor: Tom Hardy, Legend Best Supporting Actress: Olivia Colman, The Lobster Best...

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Such responsibility is not imposed upon us from without, by some alien agent or a deus ex machina; it is the law of our being or, in much better language, the law for our becoming.

1 The best - known recent statement of this view is probably Lynn White's article «The Historic Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis» (Science 155 [March 10, 1967]: reprinted in White's Machina ex Deo [Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968] and in numerous anthologies).

Alicia Vikander, who was outstanding earlier this year in Ex Machina, looks like an excellent long shot bet for the Best Actress Award.

Instead, we get plenty of opportunities for fast - paced slapstick, and Gleeson — a fine actor who in recent years has ably demonstrated his versatility in everything from The Last Jedi to Ex Machina to Brooklyn to The Revenant — turns out to be an inspired physical comedian as well.

Is it a good thing when the phrase «deus ex machina» appears in multiple reviews of the episode?

Whether you have a film like Ex Machina winning the Oscar for best visual effects over films like Mad Max: Fury Road or The Hurt Locker taking precedence over behemoth's like Avatar for best picture, independent films have always had a way of winning over the hearts of many viewers.

As he did in «Ex Machina,» Garland exhibits exquisite taste in manifesting the Shimmer, as well as the fecund Florida swampland it's overtaking with disquieting efficiency.

Garland, whose only other directorial feature is Ex Machina, a film I thought was the best movie of its entire year, tries his hand at adapting this phenomenal book into a screenplay and then into a film, but he couldn't do it without falling back on a ton of typical elements, and that's a real shame.

By the time the violent (yet oddly difficult - to - swallow) ending rolls around, Ex Machina has confirmed its place as a strong first effort from Garland that bodes well for his future endeavors behind the camera.

Garland, working from his own screenplay, has infused Ex Machina with a pace best described as deliberate, with Garland's willingness to let the story breathe having both positive and negative ramifications on the movie as a whole (ie certain sections are far more enthralling and entertaining than others).

Third - billed Domhnall Gleeson is good enough in his sporadic role, which virtually guarantees him two Best Picture Oscar nominees this year (along with Brooklyn) and a presence in four of the year's most acclaimed films (with Ex Machina and Star Wars: The Force Awakens) without being terribly noteworthy or conspicuous in any of them.

Best Original Screenplay «Bridge of Spies» «Ex Machina» «Inside Out» «Spotlight» «Straight Outta Compton»

Best Original Screenplay Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen (Bridge Of Spies) Alex Garland (Ex Machina) Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley (Inside Out) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight) Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton)

Best Visual Effects Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Star Wars: The Force Awakens Ex Machina

Best Supporting Actress Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight Julie Walters, Brooklyn Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs Rooney Mara, Carol

Directors joining Villeneuve in competition for the Robert Altman Award for Best Director are Alex Garland (Ex Machina), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant), Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) and George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road).

Still, it does remain interesting and quite watchable even if the characters and story are cartoonish, but any aspirations of being a good film get blown into the wind by a grossly overblown deus ex machina ending and is further evidence of De Palma's problem: he has so much fun setting things up he seems begrudging when he has to end it, and it's a letdown both for him and for us that he can't punctuate things properly.

Alex Garland's «Ex Machina» garnered widespread critical acclaim and won a slew of awards, including the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, but there's one scene in particular that took the Internet by storm: Oscar Isaac's character Nathan dancing to Oliver Cheatham's «Get Down Saturday Night» with his «girlfriend» Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno).

The Ex Machina showing here is the best news to me.

In a lot of ways, Ex Machina is a good movie: It's beautifully shot and designed, it features some very game actors (including Golden Globe - nominated Alicia Vikander, vying for the all - time Fembot Hall Of Fame), and it's nicely mindful of movie history.

Especially good to see were screenplay nominations for two of the year's most inventive and original films, the science - fiction brain twister «Ex Machina» and the inside - the - brain animated triumph «Inside Out.»

In fact, I told someone the other day that I expect it to be in the conversation for a nomination for Best Original Screenplay (it's A24, who worked similar wonders for «Ex Machina»).

Garland was already an accomplished screenwriter, having written 28 Days Later and Sunshine for Danny Boyle, and adapting Never Let Me Go for the screen, but his assured work in Ex Machina proves him to be a major new talent behind the camera as well.

Director Alex Garland, whose screenwriting credits include 28 Days Later and Sunshine, and who made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, has produced an appropriately understated script, leaving most of the thematic good stuff to the action and art direction.

Best Original Screenplay: Ex Machina (Alex Garland) Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley) Mistress America (Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach) Sicario (Taylor Sheridan) Spotlight (Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy)

Final Thoughts: Like Ex Machina, we think this movie is going to be well - received, but won't be a box - office smash.

Alicia Vikander was chosen Best Supporting Actress for the sci fi thriller Ex Machina.

Steve Jobs» Michael Fassbender earned the award for Best Actor while Oscar Isaac received the award for Best Supporting Actor in Ex Machina.

Best Picture: Brooklyn Carol Ex Machina Inside Out Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Room Sicario Spotlight

Four years ago, writer Alex Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a critical smash that surprised with two Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Visual Effects and further surprised by winning the Visual Effects prize.

Beautifully executed though thematically murky, Alex Garland's (Ex Machina) adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's best - seller novel is an exercise in psychedelia and cinematic dissonance.

Best Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro (Sicario) Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina) Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight) Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) Sylvester Stallone (Creed)

We're hoping it's for the better, as was the case with Ex Machina, but a February release date is a little curious for a movie like this.

More of a metaphysical adventure tale that delves into some moments of abject horror, Annihilation is a potent demonstration of Garland's range within the genre itself, as well as those who have provided him inspiration (if Ex Machina was haunted by the specter of Stanley Kubrick, Annihilation is possessed by Andrei Tarkovsky).

This was a far better movie than ex machina, exploring corporate use of expendable clones for warfare, the pace was consistently fast, and the story tight and gripping to the end.

After delivering one of the best performances in years as another female (of a sort) caught between two men in Ex Machina a few months back, Alicia Vikander has continued one hell of a year with a showstopping performance as the spirited Gabby.

And, it goes without saying, the two films nominated for PGA's most likely to miss out on a Best Picture nomination are «Ex Machina» and «Sicario» although this pundit is personally overjoyed they received some just recognition.

Best Achievement in Craft Chris King (editing), «Amy» Fiona Weir (casting), «Brooklyn» Mark Digby (production design), «Ex Machina» Andrew Whitehurst (production design), «Ex Machina» Adam Arkapaw (cinematography), «Macbeth»

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She's had an amazing year, but does she have a better chance in Supporting with «Ex Machina»?

He doesn't so much have supporting players in the film as he does an extended family of cherished guests who he invites to stay for a while, relax and soak up the ambience: French it girl Léa Seydoux has a part as a maid which may as well be non-speaking; Owen Wilson plays one of M Gustave's concierge brethren and gets a line (if not a laugh); even Tilda Swinton makes a flying visit to Wesworld, caked in gristly prosthetics as an ageing dowager who drops dead after her first and only scene, her passing acting as deus ex machina for an elaborate art heist involving the whereabouts of the apocryphal, priceless chef d'oeuvre, «Boy With Apple».

Our first look at Alex Garland's post-Ex Machina project is finally here, and it's looking fantastically creepy — and filled with weird new alien vistas for Natalie Portman and her team of crack scientists to explore and be fearful of (with good reason).

Ex Machina works so well because it's more than just a sci - fi film.

Domhnall's other movie «Ex Machina» took home several awards, including for Best British Independent Film and Best Director.

From the OFCS website: Best Picture Brooklyn Carol Ex Machina Inside Out Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Room Sicario Spotlight Best Animated Feature Anomalisa The Good Dinosaur Inside Out The Peanuts Movie Shaun the Sheep Movie Best Film Not in the English Language The Assassin (Taiwan) Goodnight Mommy (Austria) Mustang (France) Phoenix (Germany) Son of Saul...

Produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B (Oscar winners for 12 Years a Slave), distributed by A24 (last season's Best Actress winner Brie Larson — Room and Visual Effects winner Ex Machina) and starring Naomie Harris (Skyfall), André Holland (The Knick), Janelle Monaé (Hidden Figures) and Emmy - nominee Mahershala Ali (House of Cards) Moonlight combines elements of Boyhood, Beasts of the Southern Wild and the documentary On the Downlow to give us a truly new vision of cinema.