Awards seasons continues as, earlier today, the Detroit Film Critics announced their nominations for the best of 2015!  Like almost all the other film critics groups, Detroit showed a lot of love to Spotlight.  However, unlike previous groups, Detroit did not nominate Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, or Rachel McAdams.  Instead, they nominated Liev Schrieber who, up until this point, had not really figured into the awards race.

If nothing else, the current confusion over who, if anyone, should be nominated for Spotlight might inspire someone to ask why the Academy doesn’t give an award for Best Ensemble.

Another question raised by Detroit: why does the Academy only allow actors to be nominated for one performance per category.  Detroit nominated Alicia Vikander twice for best supporting actress, for both The Danish Girl and Ex Machina.  And why not?  As we saw with Jessica Chastain in 2011, sometimes one performer delivers several great performances in one year.

Here are the Detroit nominations!

BEST FILM

• Brooklyn
• Inside Out
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Revenant
• Sicario
• Spotlight
• Youth

BEST DIRECTOR

• John Crowley, Brooklyn
• Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
• Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
• George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
• Paolo Sorrentino, Youth

BEST ACTOR

• Christopher Abbott, James White
• Michael Caine, Youth
• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
• Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
• Tom Hardy, Legend

BEST ACTRESS

• Cate Blanchett, Carol
• Brie Larson, Room
• Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
• Bel Powley, The Diary of a Teenage Girl
• Saorise Ronan, Brooklyn

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Paul Dano, Love & Mercy
• Benicio Del Toro, Sicario
• Oscar Issac, Ex Machina
• Liev Schreiber, Spotlight
• Jacob Tremblay, Room

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
• Cynthia Nixon, James White
• Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria
• Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
• Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina

BEST ENSEMBLE

• The Big Short
• The Hateful Eight
• Inside Out
• Joy
• Spotlight

BREAKTHROUGH

• Sean Baker, Tangerine (director)
• Emory Cohen, Brooklyn (actor)
• Bel Powley, The Diary of a Teenage Girl (actress)
• Jacob Tremblay, Room (actor)
• Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina, The Danish Girl (actress)

BEST SCREENPLAY

• Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Inside Out
• Nick Hornby, Brooklyn
• Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, The Big Short
• Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
• Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• Amy
• Best of Enemies
• Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
• Listen To Me Marlon
• The Look of Silence