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The Revenant, Mad Max, Star Wars sweep Oscar nominations

January 14, 2016

The nominations for the 88th Annual Academy awards were announced by Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, directors Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee, and actor John Krasinski at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills. 

Here are the nominations:

BEST PICTURE

Bridge of Spies

Brooklyn

Mad Max: Fury Road

Spotlight

The Big Short

The Martian

The Revenant


ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Bryan Cranston
Trumbo

Eddie Redmayne
The Danish Girl

Leonardo DiCaprio
The Revenant

Matt Damon
The Martian

Michael Fassbender
Steve Jobs



ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Brie Larson
Room

Cate Blanchett
Carol

Charlotte Rampling
45 Years

Jennifer Lawrence
Joy

Saoirse Ronan
Brooklyn

 

DIRECTING

George Miller
Mad Max: Fury Road

Lenny Abrahamson
Room

Tom McCarthy
Spotlight

Adam McKay
The Big Short

Alejandro G Iñárritu
The Revenant

 

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Christian Bale
The Big Short

Mark Ruffalo
Spotlight

Mark Rylance
Bridge of Spies

Sylvester Stallone
Creed

Tom Hardy
The Revenant

 

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE


Alicia Vikander
The Danish Girl

Jennifer Jason Leigh
The Hateful Eight

Kate Winslet
Steve Jobs

Rachel McAdams
Spotlight

Rooney Mara
Carol


ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Anomalisa

Boy and The World

Inside Out

Shaun The Sheep

When Marnie was there

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Carol
Ed Lachman

Mad Max: Fury Road
John Seale

Sicario
Roger Deakins

The Hateful Eight
Robert Richardson

The Revenant
Emmanuel Lubezki


COSTUME DESIGN

Carol
Sandy Powell

Cinderella
Sandy Powell

Mad Max: Fury Road
Jenny Beavan

The Danish Girl
Paco Delgado

The Revenant
Jacqueline West


DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Amy
Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees

Cartel Land
Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin

The Look of Silence
Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen

What Happened, Miss Simone?
Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor


DOCUMENTARY SHORT

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Body Team 12
David Darg and Bryn Mooser

Chau, Beyond the Lines
Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
Adam Benzine

Last Day of Freedom
Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman


FILM EDITING

Mad Max: Fury Road
Margaret Sixel

Spotlight
Tom McArdle

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Marke

The Big Short
Hank Corwin

The Revenant
Stephen Mirrione

 

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A War (Denmark)

Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)

Mustang (France)

Son of Saul (Hungary)

Theeb (Jordan)


MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Mad Max: Fury Road
Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window And Disappeared
Love Larson and Eva von Bahr

The Revenant
Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini


MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

Earned It from Fifty Shades of Grey
Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio

Manta Ray from Racing Extinction
Music by J. Ralph; Lyric by Antony Hegarty

Simple Song #3 from Youth
Music and Lyric by David Lang

Til It Happens To You from The Hunting
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga

Writing's On The Wall from Spectre
Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith


MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE

Bridge of Spies
Thomas Newman

Carol
Carter Burwell

Sicario
Jóhann Jóhannsson

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
John Williams

The Hateful Eight
Ennio Morricone


PRODUCTION DESIGN

Bridge of Spies
Adam Stockhausen

Mad Max: Fury Road
Colin Gibson

The Danish Girl
Eve Stewart

The Martian
Arthur Max

The Revenant
Jack Fisk 


SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

Bear Story
Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala

Prologue
Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton

Sanjay's Super Team
Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle

We Can't Live without Cosmos
Konstantin Bronzit

World of Tomorrow
Don Hertzfeldt


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


SOUND EDITING


Mad Max: Fury Road
Mark Mangini and David White

Sicario
Alan Robert Murray

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Matthew Wood and David Acord

The Martian
Oliver Tarney

The Revenant
Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender


SOUND MIXING

Bridge of Spies
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin

Mad Max: Fury Road
Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

The Martian
Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth

The Revenant
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek


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

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

The Martian
Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner

The Revenant
Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer


WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)


Brooklyn
by Nick Hornby

Carol
Phyllis Nagy

Room
Emma Donoghue

The Big Short
Charles  Randolph and Adam McKay

The Martian
Drew Goddard


WRITING - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Bridge of Spies
Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & 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 & 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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