88th Academy Awards

Broadcast Date: 29th February - Australia

Hello, moviegoers. After four days of posting two news updates that revolved around the unexpected deaths of David Bowie and Alan Rickman. For the sixth time, I announce the 88th Annual Academy Award nominations. Its host will be actor/stand-up comedian Chris Rock. The Rock will unlikely host this year's ceremony, which got surrounded by controversy. The actor tweeted on social media and discussed none of the African-American actors got nominated for any four categories. As a result, he called the Oscars "The White BET Awards" for their lack of diversity.

It could have been more welcome that one of the contenders of 2015, The Force Awakens, isn't nominated for Best Picture when snubbed in favour of movies like Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant. Even Jurassic World is not on for the Best Visual Effects award.

Without further ado, let's look at the list of Oscar nominations.


Best Visual Effects

Ex Machina - Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett,
Paul Norris and Andrew Whitehurst
Mad Max: Fury Road - Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver,
Andy Williams and Tom Wood
The Martian - Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence,
Richard Stammers and Steven Warner
The Revenant - Richard McBride, Matt Shumway,
Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Chris Corbould,
Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh and Neal Scanlan

Best Film Editing

The Big Short - Hank Corwin
Mad Max: Fury Road - Margaret Sixel
The Revenant - Stephen Mirronne
Spotlight - Tom McArdle
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Maryann Brandon and
Mary Jo Markey

Best Costume Design

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

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the 
Window and Disappeared - Love Larson and
Eva von Bahr
Mad Max: Fury Road - Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega
and Damian Martin
The Revenant - Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman and
Robert Pandini

Best Cinematography

Carol - Ed Lachman

The Hateful Eight - Robert Richardson

Mad Max: Fury Road - John Seale

The Revenant - Emmanuel Lubezki

Sicario - Roger Deakins

Best Production Design

Bridge of Spies - Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich 

and Adam Stockman

The Danish Girl - Michael Standish and Eve Stewart

Mad Max: Fury Road - Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson

The Martian - Celia Bobak and Arthur Max

The Revenant - Jack Fisk and Hamish Purdy

Best Sound Mixing

Bridge of Spies - Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom 

and Drew Kunin

Mad Max: Fury Road - Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff 

and Ben Osmo

The Martian - Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and 

Mac Ruth

The Revenant - Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, 

Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdik

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Andy Nelson, 

Chris Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

Best Sound Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road - Mark A. Mangini and 

David White

The Martian - Oliver Tarney

The Revenant - Martin Hernández and Lon Bender

Sicario - Alan Robert Murray

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Matthew Wood 

and David Acord

Best Original Song

"Earned It" from Fifty Shades of Gray - Music and 

Lyrics by Belly, Stephan Moccio, Jason Daheala Quenneville 

and The Weeknd

"Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction - Music by J. Ralph 

and Lyrics by Antony Hegarty 

"Simple Song #3" from Youth - Music and Lyrics by 

David Lang

"Til It Happens to You" from The Hunting Ground - 

Music and Lyrics by Lady Gaga and Diane Warren

"Writing's in the Wall" from Spectre - Music and 

Lyrics by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith

Best Original Score

Bridge of Spies - Thomas Newman

Carol - Carter Burwell

The Hateful Eight - Ennio Morricone

Sicario - Jóhann Jóhannson

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - John Williams

Best Animated Short Film

Bear Story - Pato Escala Pierart and Gabriel 

Osorio Vargas

Prologue - Imogen Sutton and Richard Williams

Sanjay's Super Team - Nicole Paradis Grindle and 

Sanjay Patel

We Can't Live Without Cosmos - Konstantin Bronzit

World of Tomorrow - Don Hertzfeldt

Best Live Action Short Film

Ave Maria - Eric Dupont and Basil Khalil

Day One - Henry Hughes

Everything Will Be Okay - Patrick Vollrath

Shok - Jamie Donoughue

Stutterer - Serenade Armitage and Benjamin Clearly

Best Documentary - Short Subject

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

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness - 

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Last Day of Freedom - Dee Hibbert-Jones and 

Nomi Talisman

Best Documentary - Feature

Amy - Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees

Cartel Land - Matthew Heinerman and Tom Yellin

The Look of Silence - Joshua Oppenheimer and 

Signe Burge 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

Best Foreign Language Film

Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia) in Spain - 

Cairo Guerra

Mustang (France) in Turkish - Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Son of Saul (Hungary) in Hungarian - László Nemes

Theeb (Jordan) in Arabic - Naji Abu Nowar

A War (Denmark) in Danish - Tobias Lindholm

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 Writing - 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 her own novel

Best Writing - Original Screenplay

Bridge of Spies - Matt Charman and Ethan & 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 Supporting Actress

Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight as 

Daisy Domergue

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 Supporting Actor

Christian Bale - The Big Short as Michael Burry

Tom Hardy - The Revenant as John Fitzgerald 

Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight as Michael Rezendes

Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies as Rudolf Abel

Sylvester Stallone - Creed as Rocky Balboa

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett - Carol as Carol Aird

Brie Larson - Room as Joy "Ma" Newsome

Jennifer Lawrence - Joy as Joy Mangano

Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years as Kate Mercer

Saoirse Roman - Brooklyn as Ellis Lacey

Best Actor

Bryan Cranston - Trumbo as Dalton Trumbo

Matt Damon - The Martian as Mark Watney

Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant as Hugh Glass

Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs as Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl as Lili Elbe/Einar Wegner

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 Picture

The Big Short - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and 

Jeremy Kleiner

Bridge of Spies - Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and 

Kristie Macosko Krieger

Brooklyn - Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey

Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller and Doug Mitchell

The Martian - Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, 

Michael Shaefer and Mark Huffam

The Revenant - Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, 

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon

Room - Ed Guiney

Spotlight - Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin 

and Blye Pagon Fest

Academy Honorary Awards

Spike Lee

Gena Rowlands

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Debbie Reynolds

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