2016 Academy Awards

[Biff Pocoroba]

And the nominees are:

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

Best Director:
Lenny Abrahamson - Room
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
Adam McKay - The Big Short
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Actor
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Matt Damon – The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl

Best Actress:
Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years as Kate Mercer
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey
Brie Larson – Room as Joy "Ma" Newsome
Cate Blanchett – Carol as Carol Aird
Jennifer Lawrence – Joy as Joy Mangano

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 as Daisy Domergue a.k.a. "The Prisoner"
Rooney Mara – Carol as Therese Belivet
Rachel McAdams – Spotlight as Sacha Pfeiffer
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs as Joanna Hoffman

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 from The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Brooklyn – Nick Hornby from Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Carol – Phyllis Nagy from The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
The Martian – Drew Goddard from The Martian by Andy Weir
Room – Emma Donoghue from Room by Emma Donoghue

Best Animated Feature Film
Anomalisa – Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
Boy & the World – Alê Abreu
Inside Out – Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
Shaun the Sheep Movie – Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
When Marnie Was There – Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Best Foreign Film
A War (Denmark) in Danish – Tobias Lindholm
Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia) in Spanish – Ciro Guerra
Mustang (France) in Turkish – Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Son of Saul (Hungary) in Hungarian – László Nemes
Theeb (Jordan) in Arabic – Naji Abu Nowar

[lennytheweedwhacker]

sadly mad max is the only thing from any of those nominations that i've seen

[LoathedVermin72]

Sly's got that Oscar in the bag.

Happy Brooklyn got so many noms.

Also happy Carol didn't get a Best Picture nom. Ha, suck it.

As usual, most of these categories are a joke.

[Strat]

Mad MAx. Really?? I haven't seen it but had no idea it was that sort of picture? I guess ill have to check it out.

ROOM was fantastic. That is quite the category for best actor though.

You kind of have to give the award to sly at this point right?

[Jorge]

Best Foreign Film is probably the strongest group of nominees in this very staid batch.

I can't believe all the love The Martian is getting. Just confounding.

[Mecca]

Mad Max was a fairly standard summer blockbuster and not at all what i expect to be nominated

The Martian was a fun movie, but it seemed like the movie equivalent of eating your favorite candy

[spike]

why does every bond song get nominated? you could set your watch to it.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Mad Max was a fairly standard summer blockbuster and not at all what i expect to be nominated

The Martian was a fun movie, but it seemed like the movie equivalent of eating your favorite candy

mad max didn't do a lot for me, but i'm not surprised it was nominated

[spike]

mad max is deserved

[lennytheweedwhacker]

mad max is deserved

meh

[spike]

mad max is deserved

meh

there wasn't anything standard about it you rube

[E.H. Ruddock]

I think if I won a trip for two to the awards I would probably take spike. I feel like he would have the best comments about all of the smugness there.

[LoathedVermin72]

i can't wait for kanye to win an oscar

[Jorge]

Kanye should definitely score a film at some point.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

mad max is deserved

meh

there wasn't anything standard about it you rube

so?

[nyquillyn]

i can't wait for kanye to win an oscar

This will happen.

[swan]

Randomly, I've seen all the Best Picture noms except Revenant

In my mind Bridge of Spies & Room are the only ones worthy of such a title, even though I did really like Mad Max

[i got bugs]

Straight outta compton should be movie of the year

[LoathedVermin72]

Straight outta compton should be movie of the year

[McParadigm]

mad max is deserved

Yup.

Maybe not for a win, but def for a nomination.