The 88th annual Academy Award nominations were announced this morning from Los Angeles. You can watch the announcement above.
The Revenant led all films with 12 nominations, followed closely by Mad Max: Fury Road with 10. The Martian landed in third with seven nominations. The Academy chose to nominate eight films for Best Picture this year, as it did last year, and they ranged from small, quiet stories like Brooklyn to the action movie bombast of Mad Max. It's a much better lineup than 2015's.
The Oscars recognize filmmaking achievements in 24 categories, ranging from Best Picture to best short films. In contrast to many other awards ceremonies that hand out their "smaller" awards outside of their main event, the Oscars present all 24 trophies during their televised broadcast.
Actor John Krasinski (of the upcoming 13 Hours), as well as directors Ang Lee (a two-time winner for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi) and Guillermo del Toro (whose Pan's Labyrinth saw much Oscar success and whose most recent film is Crimson Peak), announced the nominations, along with Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
To see how we did with our predictions, go here, and for a full explanation of how the Oscars' voting process works, go here.
The full list of nominees is below.
Best Picture
Directing
- Adam McKay, The Big Short
- George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
- Lenny Abrahamson, Room
- Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Actress
- Cate Blanchett, Carol
- Brie Larson, Room
- Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
- Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
- Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Actor
- Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
- Matt Damon, The Martian
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
- Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
- Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Supporting Actor
- Christian Bale, The Big Short
- Tom Hardy, The Revenant
- Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
- Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
- Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Supporting Actress
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
- Rooney Mara, Carol
- Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
- Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
- Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Adapted Screenplay
- The Big Short, Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
- Brooklyn, Nick Hornby
- Carol, Phyllis Nagy
- The Martian, Drew Goddard
- Room, Emma Donaghue
Original Screenplay
- Bridge of Spies, Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
- Ex Machina, Alex Garland
- Inside Out, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; story by Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
- Spotlight, Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
- Straight Outta Compton, Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Berloff
Foreign Language Film
- Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)
- Mustang (France)
- Son of Saul (Hungary)
- Theeb (Jordan)
- A War (Denmark)
Animated Feature
Documentary Feature
- Amy
- Cartel Land
- The Look of Silence
- What Happened, Miss Simone?
- Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
Cinematography
- Carol, Edward Lachman
- The Hateful Eight, Robert Richardson
- Mad Max: Fury Road, John Seale
- The Revenant, Emmanuel Lubezki
- Sicario, Roger Deakins
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 and Mary Jo Markey
Production Design
- Bridge of Spies, Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Heinrich
- The Danish Girl, Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish
- Mad Max: Fury Road, Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson
- The Martian, Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
- The Revenant, Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration, Hamish Purdy
Costume Design
- Carol, Sandy Powell
- Cinderella, Sandy Powell
- The Danish Girl, Paco Delgado
- Mad Max: Fury Road, Jenny Beaven
- The Revenant, Jacqueline West
Makeup & Hairstyling
- Mad Max: Fury Road, Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
- The Revenant, Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini
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
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
Sound Editing
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Martian
- The Revenant
- Sicario
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sound Mixing
- Bridge of Spies
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Martian
- The Revenant
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Visual Effects
- Ex Machina
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Martian
- The Revenant
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Documentary Short Subject
- 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
Live Action Short Subject
- Ave Maria
- Day One
- Everything Will Be Okay
- Shok
- Stutter
