88th Academy Awards Nominations Announced

The day has arrived! In the past couple of months, we’ve heard from the critics, the guilds, the Golden Globes and had our say over the best achievements in filmmaking of 2015 but now the big guns have arrived. Early Thursday morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) revealed the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards. There was some surprises, some major snubs and likely more than a few controversies and think pieces already in the works- so business as usual on the Oscar front.

The morning kicked off as Oscar winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) and Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) introduced the first group of nominations, later followed by Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and actor John Krasinski (13 Hours). The Revenant led the field with 12 nominations, further building momentum from the somewhat surprise Golden Globe win earlier this week. George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road trailed closely behind with 10 nods; both of which earned Best Picture nominations along with six other features, marking the second year in a row the Academy chose eight films in the top category.

Chris Rock returns to emcee the Oscar telecast on February 28, 2016. Check out the full list of nominations below:

BEST PICTURE

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

BEST DIRECTOR

• Lenny Abrahamson, Room
• Adam McKay, The Big Short
• George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
• Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
• Thomas McCarthy, 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

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Bridge of Spies– Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
• Ex Machina– Alex Garland
• Inside Out– Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
• Spotlight– Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy
• Straight Outta Compton– Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff; story by S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus, Andrea Berloff

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• The Big Short– Charles Randolph, Adam McKay
• Brooklyn– Nick Hornby
• Carol– Phyllis Nagy
• The Martian– Drew Goddard
• Room– Emma Donoghue

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

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

BEST DOCUMENTARY

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

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

• Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)
• Mustang (France)
• Son of Saul (Hungary)
• Theeb (Jordan)
• A War (Denmark)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Carol– Ed Lachman
• The Hateful Eight– Robert Richardson
• Mad Max: Fury Road– John Seale
• The Revenant– Emmanuel Lubezki
• Sicario– Roger Deakiins

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Carol– Sandy Powell
• Cinderella– Sandy Powell
• The Danish Girl– Paco Delgado
• Mad Max: Fury Road– Jenny Beaven
• The Revenant– Jacqueline West

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Bridge of Spies– Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich
• The Danish Girl– Eve Stewart, Michael Standish
• Mad Max: Fury Road– Colin Gibson, Lisa Thompson
• The Martian– Arthur Max, Celia Bobak
• The Revenant– Jack Fisk, Hamish Purdy

BEST FILM EDITING

• The Big Short– Hank Corwin
• Mad Max: Fury Road– Margaret Sixel
• The Revenant– Stephen Mirrione
• Spotlight– Tom McArdle
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens– Maryann Brandon, Mary Jo Markey

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Bridge of Spies– Thomas Newman
• Carol– Carter Burwell
• The Hateful Eight– Ennio Morricone
• Sicario– Jóhann Jóhannsson
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens– John Williams

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• Fifty Shades of Grey– “Earned It”
• The Hunting Ground– “Til It Happens to You”
• Racing Extinction– “Manta Ray”
• Spectre– “Writings on the Wall”
• Youth– “Simple Song #3”

BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The 100-Year-Old Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
• The Revenant

BEST SOUND MIXING

• Bridge of Spies
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• The Revenant
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

BEST SOUND EDITING

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

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

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

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

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

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

• Body Team 12
• Chau, Beyond the Lines
• Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
• A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
• Last Day of Freedom

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM

• Ave Maria
• Day One
• Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
• Shok
• Stutterer