African-American Film Critics Association Awards 2015

13th African-American Film Critics Association Awards
Date	February 10, 2016
Highlights
Best Picture	Straight Outta Compton
Independent film	Chi-Raq
Animation	The Peanuts Movie
Documentary	A Ballerina's Tale
Best Comedy Series	Black-ish
Best Drama Series	How to Get Away with Murder

The 2015 African-American Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 7, 2015, while the ceremony took place on February 10, 2016 at Taglyan Complex, in Hollywood, California.

Awards

Below is the list of complete winners.

AAFCA Top Ten Films

1. Straight Outta Compton (Universal Pictures)
2. Creed (Warner Bros.)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros.)
4. Beasts of No Nation (Netflix)
5. The Martian (20th Century Fox)
6. 3 1/2 Minutes and Dope (HBO Films/Open Road Films)
7. Chi-Raq (Roadside Attractions/Amazon Studios)
8. Carol (Weinstein Co.)
9. The Big Short (Paramount Pictures)
10. The Danish Girl (Focus Features)

AAFCA Regular Awards

Best Picture

• Straight Outta Compton

Best Director

• Ryan Coogler – Creed

Best Actor

• Will Smith – Concussion

Best Actress

• Teyonah Parris – Chi-Raq

Best Supporting Actor

• Jason Mitchell – Straight Outta Compton

Best Supporting Actress

• Tessa Thompson – Creed

Best Ensemble

• Straight Outta Compton

Best Independent Film

• Chi-Raq

Best Screenplay

• Rick Famuyiwa – Dope

Breakout Performance

• Michael B. Jordan – Creed

Best Animation

• The Peanuts Movie

Best Documentary

• A Ballerina's Tale

Best Song

• "See You Again" – Furious 7

Best TV Comedy

• Black-ish

Best TV Drama

• How to Get Away with Murder

Best Cable/New Media TV Show

• Survivor's Remorse

AAFCA Special Awards

AAFCA Special Achievement Award

• Jeff Clanagan; John Singleton - Codeblack Entertainment and Maverick Carter; LeBron James - SpringHill Entertainment

Cinema Vanguard Award

• HBO

Roger Ebert Award

• Manohla Dargis - The New York Times film critic and journalist.

See also

• 2015 in film