As always, a few days after the Golden Globes, the Oscar nominations have been announced, so that we can spend the next few weeks wondering who will win, before it’s announced on February 28th. As many expected, The Revenant got the most nods, with 12, followed by Mad Max: Fury Road with 10 – the duo also became only the fourth and fifth film ever to get nominations in all seven technical categories.
However, it was more a story of who wasn’t nominated, with that list including every black actor being shut out, Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg missing out in the director category (despite Scott picking up a Golden Globe at the weekend), Steve Jobs’ Aaron Sorkin and The Hateful Eight’s Quentin Tarantino failing to be acknowledge in the screenplay categories (again, Sorkin won a Globe), and Carol in the Best Picture category, despite the fact it had gone into the Awards Season as the favourite. Many are also wondering how Straight Outta Compton missed out on a Best Picture nomination – indeed there will hopefully be a bit of soul-searching considering there so much good work from black actors and filmmakers this year, but there’s been so little recognition of that at the Oscars.
The Revenant is definitely now the movie to beat though, with many believing it is now a shoo-in for the top prize. And while Leonardo DiCaprio infamously has a history of not winning Oscars, many believe this is his year, helped by a weaker than normal field (the others are Bryan Cranston for Trumbo, Matt Damon for The Martian,Michael Fassbender for Steve Jobs and Eddie Redmayne for The Danish Girl).
There are also some suggesting that while it’s unlikely to win Best Picture, it’s Mad Max that could end up with the most wins overall, as it’s likely to do extremely well in the technical categories. It would be impressive if it did, especially considering it’s the fourth movie in a series that started way back in 1979. But then, it’s a year of big gaps, as Sylvester Stallone has nabbed the record for the longest time between nominations for playing the same character, with 39 between Rock and Creed (beating Paul Newman for the 25 years between The Hustler and The Color Of Money).
Take a look at the full list of nominees below.
Best Picture
The Big Short – Producers: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner
Bridge of Spies – Producers: Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger
Brooklyn – Producers: Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
Mad Max: Fury Road – Producers: Doug Mitchell and George Miller
The Martian – Producers: Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam
The Revenant – Producers: Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon
Room – Producer: Ed Guiney
Spotlight – Producers: Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust
Best Directing
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro G. Inarritu, The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander. The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Best Animated Feature Film
Anomalisa – Producers: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
Boy and the World – Producer: Ale Abreu
Inside Out – Producers: Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
Shaun the Sheep Movie – Producers: Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
When Marnie Was There – Producers: Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura
Best Cinematography
Carol, Ed Lachman
The Hateful Eight, Robert Richardson
Mad Max: Fury Road, John Seale
The Revenant, Emmanuel Lubezki
Sicario, Roger Deakins
Best Costume Design
Carol, Sandy Powell
Cinderella, Sandy Powell
The Danish Girl, Paco Delgado
Mad Max: Fury Road, Jenny Beavan
The Revenant, Jacqueline West
Best Documentary Feature
Amy – Producers: Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
Cartel Land – Producers: Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
The Look of Silence – Producers: Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
What Happened, Miss Simone? – Producers: Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom – Producers: Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor
Best Documentary Short
Body Team 12 – Producers: David Darg and Bryn Mooser
Chau, Beyond the Lines – Producers: Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah – Producer: Adam Benzine
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness – Producer: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Last Day of Freedom – Producers: Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
Best Film Editing
The Big Short, Hank Corwin
Mad Max: Fury Road, Margaret Sixel
The Revenant, Stephen Mirrione
Spotlight, Tom McArdle
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey
Best Foreign-Language Film
Embrace of the Serpent, Colombia
Mustang, France
Son of Saul, Hungary
Theeb, Jordan
A War, Denmark
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road, Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
The Revenant, Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini
Best Music – Original Song
“Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey – Music and lyrics by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
“Manta Ray” from Racing Extinction – Music by J. Ralph and lyrics by Antony Hegarty
“Simple Song #3” from Youth – Music and lyrics by David Lang
“Til It Happens to You” from The Hunting Ground – Music and lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
“Writing’s on the Wall” from Spectre – Music and lyrics by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
Best Music – Original Score
Bridge of Spies, Thomas Newman
Carol, Carter Burwell
The Hateful Eight, Ennio Morricone
Sicario, Johann Johannsson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, John Williams
Best Production Design
Bridge of Spies – Production design: Adam Stockhausen; set decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich
The Danish Girl – Production design: Eve Stewart; set decoration: Michael Standish
Mad Max: Fury Road – Production design: Colin Gibson; set decoration: Lisa Thompson
The Martian – Production design: Arthur Max; set decoration: Celia Bobak
The Revenant – Production design: Jack Fisk; set decoration: Hamish Purdy
Best Short Film – Live Action
Ave Maria, Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
Day One, Henry Hughes
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut), Patrick Vollrath
Shok, Jamie Donoughue
Stutterer, Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
Best Short Film – Animated
Bear Story – Producers: Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Prologue – Producers: Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
Sanjay’s Super Team – Producers: Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos – Producer: Konstantin Bronzit
World of Tomorrow – Producer: Don Hertzfeldt
Best Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road, Mark Mangini and David White
The Martian, Oliver Tarney
The Revenant, Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender
Sicario, Alan Robert Murray
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Matthew Wood and David Acord
Best Sound Mixing
Bridge of Spies, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
Mad Max: Fury Road, Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
The Martian, Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth
The Revenant, Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montano, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson
Best Visual Effects
Ex Machina, Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
Mad Max: Fury Road, Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
The Martian, Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner
The Revenant, Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short, screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Brooklyn, screenplay by Nick Hornby
Carol, screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
The Martian, screenplay by Drew Goddard
Room, screenplay by Emma Donoghue
Best Writing – Original Screenplay
Bridge of Spies – Written by Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Ex Machina – Written by Alex Garland
Inside Out – Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Spotlight – Written by Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy
Straight Outta Compton – Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; story by S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff
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