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Oscar Nominations: Complete List

27/01/2016

Oscar nominees for the 88th annual awards were announced on Thursday morning live from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences headquarters in Beverly Hills.

The ceremony, hosted by Chris Rock for the second time, will be held on Feb. 28 and air live on ABC.

Here is the full list of nominees for the 2016 Oscars:

Best motion picture of the year:

The Big Short

Bridge of Spies

Brooklyn

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Room

Spotlight

Performance by an actor in a leading role:

Bryan Cranston in Trumbo

Matt Damon in The Martian

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant

Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl

Performance by an actress in a leading role:

Cate Blanchett in Carol

Brie Larson in Room

Jennifer Lawrence in Joy

Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years

Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn

Performance by an actor in a supporting role:

Christian Bale in The Big Short

Tom Hardy in The Revenant

Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight

Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies

Sylvester Stallone in Creed

Performance by an actress in a supporting role:

Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight

Rooney Mara in Carol

Rachel McAdams in Spotlight

Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl

Kate Winslet in Steve Jobs

Achievement in directing:

The Big Short Adam McKay

Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller

The Revenant Alejandro G. I rritu

Room Lenny Abrahamson

Spotlight Tom McCarthy

Adapted screenplay:

The Big Short Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay

Brooklyn Screenplay by Nick Hornby

Carol Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy

The Martian Screenplay by Drew Goddard

Room Screenplay by Emma Donoghue

Original screenplay:

Bridge of Spies Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen

Ex Machina Written by Alex Garland

Inside Out Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen

Spotlight Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy

Straight Outta Compton Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff

Best animated feature film of the year:

Anomalisa Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran

Boy and the World Al 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 documentary feature:

Amy Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees

Cartel Land Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin

The Look of Silence Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge S rensen

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 of the year:

Embrace of the Serpent Colombia

Mustang France

Son of Saul Hungary

Theeb Jordan

A War Denmark

Achievement in cinematography:

Carol Ed Lachman

The Hateful Eight Robert Richardson

Mad Max: Fury Road John Seale

The Revenant Emmanuel Lubezki

Sicario Roger Deakins

Achievement in costume design:

Carol Sandy Powell

Cinderella Sandy Powell

The Danish Girl Paco Delgado

Mad Max: Fury Road Jenny Beavan

The Revenant Jacqueline West

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

Achievement in 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

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling:

Mad Max: Fury Road Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared Love Larson and Eva von Bahr

The Revenant Si n Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score):

Bridge of Spies Thomas Newman

Carol Carter Burwell

The Hateful Eight Ennio Morricone

Sicario J hann J hannsson

Star Wars: The Force Awakens John Williams

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song):

Earned It from Fifty Shades of Grey

Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio

Manta Ray from Racing Extinction

Music by J. Ralph and Lyric by Antony Hegarty

Simple Song #3 from Youth

Music and Lyric by David Lang

Til It Happens To You from The Hunting Ground

Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga

Writing's On The Wall from Spectre

Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith

Achievement in production design:

Bridge of Spies Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich

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

Best animated short film:

Bear Story Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala

Prologue Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton

Sanjay's Super Team Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle

We Can't Live without Cosmos Konstantin Bronzit

World of Tomorrow Don Hertzfeldt

Best live action short film:

Ave Maria Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont

Day One Henry Hughes

Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut) Patrick Vollrath

Shok Jamie Donoughue

Stutterer Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage

Achievement in sound editing:

Mad Max: Fury Road Mark Mangini a
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