2016 Oscar nominations.

[The Romulan Republic]

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"Spotlight," "The Revenant," "Mad Max: Fury Road" and "The Martian" led the way this morning as the 2016 Oscar nominations were officially announced.

"The Revenant" led overall with 12 nods.

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The biggest stars in Hollywood also led the way in individual categories with Leonardo DiCaprio being nominated for Best Actor, along with Matt Damon, Michael Fassbender and Eddie Redmayne. Cate Blanchett, Brie Larson and Jennifer Lawrence were among those nominated in the Best Actress category.

Following up on his big Golden Globes win, Sylvester Stallone earned a nod for bringing Rocky back to the big screen in "Creed."

Here's the complete list for the 88th Academy Awards:

BEST PICTURE

The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

BEST ACTOR

Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone, Creed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

DIRECTING

Adam McKay - The Big Short
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson - Room
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There

COSTUME DESIGN

Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Body Team
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Last Day of Freedom

MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING

Mad Max: Fury Road
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Revenant

ORIGINAL SONG

"Earned It" - Fifty Shades of Grey
"Manta Ray" - Racing Extinction
"Simple Song #3" - Youth
"Til It Happens to You" - The Hunting Ground
"Writing's on the Wall" - Spectre

ANIMATED SHORT

Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay's Super Team
We Can't Live Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow

SOUND EDITING

Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Martian
The Revenant

FILM EDITING

The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Embrace of the Serpent
Mustang
Son of Saul
Theeb
A War

ORIGINAL SCORE

Bridge of Spies
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant

VISUAL EFFECTS

Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Big Short
Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Spotlight
Straight Outta Compton

Not much for Star Wars, but boy did Fury Road do well. The Martian's got a lot of nominations too, including some in major categories. A good year for science fiction, it seems.

[Iroscato]

Really hope DiCaprio finally gets Best Actor, if only to see the internet collapse into chaos immediately after

[Elheru Aran]

Sci-fi and fantasy movies rarely excel at the Academy Awards. IIRC Star Wars has never gotten anything but technical stuff. Lord of the Rings is the extremely rare exception, and they waited until it was over with Return of the King to give it anything.

[LaCroix]

Really hope DiCaprio finally gets Best Actor, if only to see the internet collapse into chaos immediately after

Nah, it's probably already in the bag for Redmayne.

Solid acting in a character-centric movie about a Transgender. The academy are suckers for that. (And he would deserve it as much as the other contenders, as well - as I said, he did a really good acting job in that movie.)

[RogueIce]

Really hope DiCaprio finally gets Best Actor, if only to see the internet collapse into chaos immediately after

I know he used to have a bad rep among the nerd scene, but I thought after "Gangs of New York" he's been pretty much widely accepted as a legitimate actor?

[The Romulan Republic]

Sci-fi and fantasy movies rarely excel at the Academy Awards. IIRC Star Wars has never gotten anything but technical stuff. Lord of the Rings is the extremely rare exception, and they waited until it was over with Return of the King to give it anything.

As I recall, the original was nominated for Best Picture, but did not win.

[Gandalf]

Sci-fi and fantasy movies rarely excel at the Academy Awards. IIRC Star Wars has never gotten anything but technical stuff. Lord of the Rings is the extremely rare exception, and they waited until it was over with Return of the King to give it anything.

As I recall, the original was nominated for Best Picture, but did not win.

It was, and it was (rightly) beaten by Annie Hall. It was actually nominated for a bunch of stuff.

[Thanas]

After the horrendous snub at the Golden Globes, Mark Rylance really needs to win something.

[Balrog]

The cynic in me thinks Redmayne and Blanchet will win their respective categories solely to appeal to the LGBT crowd. Not that they didn't have good performances, but their roles have that extra social justice juice to propel them above others like DiCaprio who IMO were much better.

[The Romulan Republic]

I don't know, if the Globes are any indication, it'll be either DiCaprio or Damon.

[Adam Reynolds]

The cynic in me thinks Redmayne and Blanchet will win their respective categories solely to appeal to the LGBT crowd. Not that they didn't have good performances, but their roles have that extra social justice juice to propel them above others like DiCaprio who IMO were much better.

There does seem to be an element of this. It used to be all about the Holocaust, now it has largely moved on to other things. Sadly the following actually happened in reality, after Kate Winslet pointed out this problem:


Glad to see The Martian with so many nominations. Though I largely enjoyed it, TFA wasn't Oscar worthy.

[Civil War Man]

So for the second year in a row the acting awards have only white nominees (plus, with the exception of Inarritu, all of the directing nominees are also white). Considering the shit that was thrown at them last year, I'm actually somewhat surprised that the Academy did it again, especially since it's not like there weren't a lot of strong contenders. The names I've heard thrown around the most for getting snubbed are Idris Elba for Beasts of No Nation, Samuel L. Jackson for The Hateful Eight, Kitana Rodriguez for Tangerine, Will Smith for Concussion, and Michael B. Jordan for Creed, along with mentions for Ryan Coogler for directing Creed and F. Gary Gray for directing Straight Outta Compton.

It's actually almost funny with Creed and Straight Outta Compton, since both are movies with black directors and black main characters, but they each received only only nomination, and the people being nominated are all white (Stallone for Best Supporting in Creed, and Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff for Best Original Screenplay in Straight Outta Compton).

[Balrog]

That's probably why Carol and The Danish Girl got so many nominations instead, so they can still claim to be progressive.

Although I guess in a show of conciliation for next year they could make a rule where one nomination in each category must go to a "PoC," with the caveat that if a "PoC" doesn't win a given category in a three-year span the next one in that category automatically wins?