88th Oscars: Academy Awards Nominations

88th Oscar Poster Eight Best Picture nominees, excluding Carol and Inside Out. There were a few surprises thrown in, but this was a surprisingly settled list this year. I will have more commentary on each category later today.

Nominations Tallies

(12) The Revenant
(10) Mad Max: Fury Road
(7) The Martian
(6) Bridge of Spies, Carol, Spotlight
(5) The Big Short, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
(4) The Danish Girl, Room
(3) Brooklyn, The Hateful Eight, Sicario
(2) Ex Machina, Inside Out, Steve Jobs
(1) 45 Years, Amy, Anomalisa, Ave Maria, Bear Story (Historia De Un Oso), Body Team 12, Boy and the World, Cartel Land, Chau beyond the Lines, Cinderella, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, Creed, Day One, Embrace of the Serpent, Everything Will Be Okay, Fifty Shades of Grey, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, The Hunting Ground, Joy, Last Day of Freedom, The Look of Silence, Mustang, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Prologue, Racing Extinction, Sanjay’s Super Team, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Shok, Son of Saul, Spectre, Straight Outta Compton, Stutterer, Theeb, Trumbo, A War, We Can’t Live Without Cosmos, What Happened Miss Simone?, When Marnie Was There, Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, World of Tomorrow, Youth

The Nominations

BEST PICTURE

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

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

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

BEST DIRECTING

The Big Short – Adam McKay
Mad Max: Fury Road – George Miller
The Revenant – Alejandro G. Inarritu
Room – Lenny Abrahamson
Spotlight – Tom McCarthy

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
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Spotlight
Straight Outta Compton

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Big Short
Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room

BEST 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