My List of Everything** in 2015

Stacy Lambe
3 min readDec 26, 2015

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**Really just film and TV with a lot of asterisks

Favorite Film Heroes: Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Emily Blunt (Sicario), Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2)

Biggest Scene-Stealers: The Women — Jada Pinkett Smith, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth Banks — of Magic Mike: XXL, Mya Taylor (Tangerine), Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Greta Lee (Inside Amy Schumer, Sisters), Niecy Nash (Getting On, Scream Queens), Kelly Ripa (Broad City), Elizabeth Marvel (House of Cards, Fargo)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Ryan Murphy Production, Ranked: Emma Roberts (Scream Queens), Jamie Lee Curtis (Scream Queens), Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story: Hotel), Lea Michele (Scream Queens), Tie: Heather Morris (Glee) / Billie Lourd (Scream Queens)

MVP of Saturday Night Live: The Female Cast — Vanessa Bayer, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, Sasheer Zamata, Leslie Jones**

**Best Moment of Live from New York!: Leslie Jones’ Weekend Update Joke About Race

Favorite Movie Trailer: Suicide Squad

Best Villain: Robert Durst** (The Jinx***)

**Biggest TV Spoiler: The New York Times Push Notification

***Great Documentaries: The Jinx, Going Clear, Chef’s Table, Making of a Murderer, Amy, The Wolfpack, Iris

Best Animated Horse: BoJack Horseman (BoJack Horseman)

Best Minnesotan Accent: Kirsten Dunst (Fargo)

Most Under-Celebrated Series Finale: Getting On**

**HBO’s Most Underrated Performances: Laurie Metcalf (Getting On), Lauren Weedman (Looking), Alex Borstein (Getting On), Becky Ann Baker (Girls), Jake Lacy (Girls), Desiree Akhavan (Girls), The Men — Jonathan Groff, Raul Castillo, Russell Tovey, Murray Bartlett, Frankie J. Alvarez — of Looking

Series Finales That Mattered More Than Mad Men: Parks and Recreation, Community, Getting On, Cougar Town, Parenthood, The Soup

Favorite Films: Dope, Inside Out, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Big Short, Ex Machina**, Steve Jobs, Joy****

**Best Shirtless Dance: Oscar Isaac***

***Biggest Breakouts: Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl), Brie Larson (Room, Trainwreck)

****David O. Russell’s Recurring Performers*****, Power-Ranked: Jennifer Lawrence (Up), Bradley Cooper (Even), Robert De Niro (Way Down)

****Actors That Should Be Added to David O. Russell’s Recurring List of Performers: Isabella Rossellini, Virginia Madsen, Édgar Ramírez

Favorite Film Scores: Inside Out, Steve Jobs, The Hateful Eight

Favorite New TV Shows: Master of None, UnREAL, The Jinx, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Empire, Schitt’s Creek, Grace & Frankie, Casual, Difficult People**, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

**Billy Eichner’s Best Guests*** on Billy on the Street: Julianne Moore, Chris Pratt, Sarah Jessica Parker

***Billy on the Street’s MVP: Rachel Dratch

Best New Shonda Rhimes** Show: Quantico

**Not Actually a Shonda Rhimes Show

Best New TV Show That I Missed: Mr. Robot

Best Performance by a Wrestler Turned Actor, Ranked: John Cena (Trainwreck), Dwayne Johnson (Furious 7), Dwayne Johnson (San Andreas), Dave Bautista (Spectre), Adam Joseph Copeland (The Flash)

Most Powerful Scene on Scripted TV: Jamie Clayton and Miguel Ángel Silvestre in Sense8

The Property Brothers Best TV Shows, Ranked: Property Brothers, Property Brothers at Home on the Ranch, Brother vs. Brother, ANTM Cycle 22

Best Cate Blanchett Performance**: Carol

**Best Cate Blanchett Performance (If We’re Being Really Honest): Cinderella

Best TV Trend: Male Full Frontal

Worst TV Trend: ’90s Reboots

Most Overhyped Anything: It Follows

Best Live TV: The Wiz Live, GOP Debates, Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Committee Hearing, Katy Perry’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, Lady Gaga’s Sound of Music Oscars Performance, Serena Williams at the U.S. Open, Caitlyn Jenner’s ESPYs Acceptance Speech, Saturday Night Live Hosted by Ryan Gosling

Comeback of the Year: Lily Tomlin

Showman of the Year: Amy Poehler and Dwayne Johnson

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Stacy Lambe
Stacy Lambe

Written by Stacy Lambe

Features Editor for @ETnow Online. Texted @HillaryClinton. stacy.lambe@cbs.com

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