2016 Family-in-Mind Awards: Winners

The Family-in-Mind Awards

The Family-in-Mind Awards were created to recognize the year's most excellent and most family-friendly films.

Below are the 2016 FIM Award Winners, as well as any past award-winners.





The 2016 Family-in-Mind Awards: Nominees

Kids/Family:

Best Film for Kids/Family:
Cinderella

Best Film 

Cinderella

Best Leading Actor 

Hugh Bonneville as Mr. Brown (Paddington)

Best Leading Actress 

Lily James as Cinderella (Cinderella)

Best Supporting Actor

Bill Hader as Fear (Inside Out)

Best Supporting Actress

Best Actor: Hugh Bonneville

Cate Blanchett as Lady Tremaine (Cinderella)

Best Costume Design

Cinderella

Best Director

Pete Docter for Inside Out

Best Film Editing

Paddington

Best Actress: Lily James

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Cinderella

Best Original Score

Patrick Doyle for Cinderella

Best Sound Editing

Best Visual Effects:
Cinderella

Inside Out

Best Visual Effects

Cinderella

Best Adapted Screenplay

Chris Weitz & Aline Brosh McKenna for Cinderella

Best Original Screenplay

Peter Docter, Meg LeFauve, & Josh Cooley for Inside Out

Teens/Adults:

Best Film for Teens/Adults:
Tomorrowland

Best Film

Tomorrowland

Best Leading Actor 

Ryan Reynolds as Randol Schoenberg (Woman in Gold)

Best Leading Actress 

Helen Mirren as Maria Altmann (Woman in Gold)

Best Supporting Actor 

John Rhys-Davies as Charles Kemp (Beyond the Mask)

Best Supporting Actress 

Best Actor: Ryan Reynolds

Karen Abercrombie as Miss Clara (War Room)

Best Costume Design

Beyond the Mask

Best Director

Brad Bird for Tomorrowland

Best Actress: Helen Mirren

Best Film Editing 

Tomorrowland

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Original Score
John Williams for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Visual Effects:
Ant-Man

Best Sound Editing 

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Visual Effects 

Ant-Man

Best Adapted Screenplay

Alexi Kaye Campbell for Woman in Gold

Best Original Screenplay Nominees

Paul McCusker for Beyond the Mask

HONORABLE MENTIONS

   In addition to the awards above, there are a few special movies mentioned below:

The Highest-Grossing Family-in-Mind Nominee: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Highest-Grossing Family Film: Minions

An Excellent Christian Film: War Room

An Excellent Breakthrough Film: Beyond the Mask

An All-Around Family Film: The Peanuts Movie

The 2015 Family-in-Mind Awards: Winners

Best Film for Kids/Family:
Big Hero 6

Kids/Family:

Best Film 

Big Hero 6

Best Leading Actor 

Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast (How to Train Your Dragon 2)

Best Leading Actress 

Cate Blanchett as Valka (How to Train Your Dragon 2)

Best Supporting Actor

Best Actor: Gerard Butler

Liam Neeson as Good Cop/Bad Cop (The Lego Movie)

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Heaton as Sondra in Moms' Night Out

Best Costume Design

Marlene Stewart for Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Best Director

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett

Chris Williams & Don Hall for Big Hero 6

Best Film Editing

Tim Mertens for Big Hero 6

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Muppets Most Wanted

Best Original Score

John Powell for How to Train Your Dragon 2

Best Visual Effects:
Night at the Museum: Secret
of the Tomb

Best Original Song

“For the Dancing and the Dreaming” from How to Train Your Dragon 2

Best Sound Editing

Big Hero 6

Best Visual Effects

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Best Adapted Screenplay

Dean DeBlois for How to Train Your Dragon 2

Best Original Screenplay

Jon Erwin & Andrea Gyerston Nasfell for Moms’ Night Out

Best Film for Teens/Adults:
Into the Woods

Teens/Adults:

Best Film

Into the Woods

Best Leading Actor 

Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America (Captain America: The Winter Soldier)

Best Leading Actress 

Angelina Jolie as Maleficent (Maleficent)

Best Supporting Actor 

Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies)

Best Actor: Chris Evans

Best Supporting Actress 
Meryl Streep as The Witch (Into the Woods)

Best Costume Design

Bob Buck, Ann Maskrey, & Lesley Burkes-Harding for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Best Director

Peter Jackson for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Best Film Editing 

Best Actress: Angelina Jolie

Vance Null for God’s Not Dead

Best Makeup and Hairstyling Nominees

Into the Woods

Best Original Score
Howard Shore for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Best Original Song 

“The Last Goodbye” from The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Best Visual Effects:
Maleficent

Best Sound Editing 

Frank E. Eulner for Maleficent

Best Visual Effects 

Maleficent

Best Adapted Screenplay

James Lapine for Into the Woods

Best Original Screenplay Nominees

Linda Woolverton for Maleficent

HONORABLE MENTIONS

   In addition to the awards above, there are a few special movies mentioned below:

The Highest-Grossing Family-in-Mind Nominee: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

The Highest-Grossing Family Film: The LEGO Movie

An Excellent Christian Film: God's Not Dead

An Excellent Film Adaption of a Book: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The 2014 Family-in-Mind Awards

Best Film:
Saving Mr. Banks

Best Film

Saving Mr. Banks

Best Animated Film

Frozen

Best Leading Actor

Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)

Best Leading Actress

Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers (Saving Mr. Banks)

Best Animated Film:
Frozen

Best Supporting Actor

Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey (42)

Best Supporting Actress

Rachel Weisz as Evanora (Oz the Great and Powerful)

Best Costume Design

Gary Jones for Oz the Great and Powerful

Best Director

Brian Helgeland for 42

Best Film Editing

Greg Snyder for Monsters University

Best Actor: Martin Freeman

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Anna de Witt for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Original Score

John Williams for The Book Thief

Best Original Song

“Let It Go” from Frozen

Best Sound Editing

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Actress: Emma Thompson

Best Visual/Special Effects

Kris Chisholm for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Adapted Screenplay

Saving Mr. Banks

Best Original Screenplay

Best Visual Effects: The Hobbit:
The Desolation of Smaug

42

HONORABLE MENTIONS

   In addition to the awards above, there are a few special movies mentioned below:

An All-Around Family Film: Monsters University

The Highest-Grossing Family Film: Despicable Me 2

A Theatrical Christian Film: Alone Yet Not Alone (in theaters June 13, 2014)