The nominations for the 88th Academy Awards are here with The Revenant leading the pack with 12 noms with Mad Max: Fury Road tailgating with 10 noms.
Surprisingly, out of the eight nominees for Best Picture, the critically-praised Carol fell short of the pack, as did Pixar’s masterful Inside Out. However, it’s good to see the Academy not giving a pass to ho-hum efforts Joy and The Good Dinosaur – both by past Oscar-darlings.
The 88th Academy Awards is on February 28th (Monday, February 29 local time) and will be hosted by Chris Rock.
BEST PICTURE
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight
BEST DIRECTING
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
BEST LEAD ACTOR
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
BEST LEAD 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
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Embrace of the Serpent
Mustang
Son of Saul
Theeb
A War
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Anomalisa
The Boy and the World
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep
When Marnie Was There
BEST DOCUMENTARY
My Friend Victoria
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Ex Machina – Alex Garland
Inside Out – Josh Cooley, Ronnie del Carmen, Pete Docter and Meg LeFauve
Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
Straight Outta Compton – Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge and Alan Wenkus
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Big Short – Adam McKay and Charles Randolph
Brooklyn – Nick Hornby
Carol – Phyllis Nagy
The Martian – Drew Goddard
Room – Emma Donoghue
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Carol – Ed Lachman
The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson
Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale
The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki
Sicario – Roger Deakins
BEST MUSIC – ORIGINAL SCORE
Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman
Carol – Carter Burwell
The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone
Sicario – Jóhann Jóhannsson
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens – John Williams
BEST MUSIC – ORIGINAL SONG
Fifty Shades of Grey – “Earned It”
Racing Extinction – “Manta Ray”
Youth – “Simple Song #3”
The Hunting Ground – “Til It Happens To You”
Spectre – “Writing’s On The Wall”
BEST EDITING
The Big Short – Hank Corwin
Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel
The Revenant – Stephen Mirrione
Spotlight – Tom McArdle
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens – Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Bridge of Spies – Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich and Adam Stockhausen
The Danish Girl – Michael Standish and Eve Stewart
Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson
The Martian – Celia Bobak and Arthur Max
The Revenant – Jack Fisk and Hamish Purdy
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 SOUND EDITING
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
BEST SOUND MIXING
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIR
Mad Max: Fury Road
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Revenant
Best Short Film – Live Action
Ave Maria | Day One | Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut) | Shok | Stuttered
Best Short Film – Animated
Bear Story | Prologue | Sanjay’s Super Team | We Can’t Live Without Cosmos | World of Tomorrow
Best Documentary Short
Body Team 12 | Chau, Beyond the Lines | Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah | A Girl on the River: The Price of Forgiveness | Last Day of Freedom
