"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.
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-14 09:57am
by Iroscato
Really hope DiCaprio finally gets Best Actor, if only to see the internet collapse into chaos immediately after
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-14 10:20am
by 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.
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-14 11:12am
by LaCroix
Chimaera wrote: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.)
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-14 04:46pm
by RogueIce
Chimaera wrote: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?
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-14 07:33pm
by The Romulan Republic
Elheru Aran wrote: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.
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-14 07:54pm
by Gandalf
The Romulan Republic wrote:
Elheru Aran wrote: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.
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-14 08:33pm
by Thanas
After the horrendous snub at the Golden Globes, Mark Rylance really needs to win something.
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-14 10:38pm
by 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.
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-15 03:13am
by The Romulan Republic
I don't know, if the Globes are any indication, it'll be either DiCaprio or Damon.
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-15 08:05am
by Adam Reynolds
Balrog wrote: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.
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-15 12:05pm
by 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).
Re: 2016 Oscar nominations.
Posted: 2016-01-15 09:53pm
by 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?
