With the pinnacle of award season is almost upon us, the 88th Academy Awards have been revealed. While there are some noticeable “snubs” for a few Oscar Nominations, overall it seems like this will be a fairly competitive year for the coveted award. Leading the charge with a whopping twelve different nominations is director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film The Revenant. Following close behind with ten nominations is our pick for best picture, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. Other notable films that received a fair amount of nominations is The Martian with seven, Bridge of Spies with six, and The Big Short with five. Star Wars: The Force Awakens was nominated for a few production based awards, though if it will win an Oscar against the likes of Mad Max and Ex Machina is up for debate.
Some noticeable exclusions from this year’s Oscars include Idris Elba for his role as the Commandant in Beast of No Name and Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E in Straight Outta Compton. Both of these men could have easily been nominated for best supporting actor, so seeing them off the list is a bit disheartening. It would have also been nice to see Will Smith get a nod for Best Actor in his film Concussion as that was easily one of Smith’s best performances in recent memory. That being said, this year’s Oscar Nominations offers a promising field! Check out the list of nominations below!
Best Picture:
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Room
Spotlight
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Best Director:
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Adam McKay – The Big Short
Lenny Abrahamson – Room
Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
Alejandro González Iñárritu – The Revenant
Best Actor in a Leading Role:
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Matt Damon – The Martian
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl
Best Actress in a Leading Role:
Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
Cate Blanchett – Carol
Brie Larson – Room
Jennifer Lawrence – Joy
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Christian Bale – The Big Short
Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
Sylvester Stallone – Creed
Tom Hardy – The Revenant
Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Rachel McAdams – Spotlight
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
Rooney Mara – Carol
Best Original Screenplay:
Inside Out
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Spotlight
Straight Outta Compton
Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Martian
The Big Short
Brooklyn
Room
Carol
Best Foreign Language Film:
Embrace of the Serpent
A War
Mustang
Theeb
Son of Saul
Best Animated Feature:
Inside Out
Anomalisa
When Marnie Was There
Shaun the Sheep
Boy and the Wild
Best Cinematography:
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Carol
The Revenant
Sicario
Best Production Design:
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Best Film Editing:
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Spotlight
Best Visual Effects:
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Make-Up and Hairstyling:
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Best Sound Mixing:
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Sound Editing:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario
The Martian
Best Costume Design:
Mad Max: Fury Road
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
The Revenant
Best Original Score:
Bridge of Spies
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Original Song:
Earned It – 50 Shades of Grey
Til it Happens to You – The Hunting Ground
Writings on the Wall – Spectre
Manta Ray – Racing Extinction
Simple Song 3 – Youth
Best Documentary Feature:
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Best Documentary Short:
Body Team 12
Chau Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann
A Girl in the River
Last Day of Freedom
Best Live-Action Short:
Ava Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay
Shok
Stutterer
Best Animated Short:
Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay’s Superteam
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow
The Oscar’s will be held on February 28th.
What do you think of the nomination list? Any movie you wish got nominated? Anything that shouldn’t? Sound off below!
