Congratulations to Zach Schreiber, our 2015 winner! This was the best contest in recent memory, and a couple of our runners-up might even have had better responses to single questions, but Zach’s application was great from start to finish. He managed to perfectly appeal to our selection committee’s taste in movies, and (bizarrely but truly) his mastery of the plausible superlative won out in the end. And as anybody who knows him probably already knows, he rocks.

Congratulations, Zach, and we wish we’d had the chance to give you the award in person.