A full list of nominations for the 88th Academy Awards, to be held in Los Angeles on 28th February 2016.

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 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 Wegener

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 Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey

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 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 – Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and Ronnie del Carmen
Spotlight – Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy
Straight Outta Compton – Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short – Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Brooklyn – Nick Hornby
Carol – Phyllis Nagy
The Martian – Drew Goddard
Room – Emma Donoghue

Best Animated Feature Film
Anomalisa
Boy & the World
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There

Best Foreign Language Film
A War (Denmark)
Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)
Mustang (France)
Son of Saul (Hungary)
Theeb (Jordan)

Best Documentary – Feature
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire

Best 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

Best Live Action Short Film
Alles wird gut
Ave Maria
Day One
Shok
Stutterer

Best Animated Short Film
Historia de un oso
Mi ne mozhem zhit bez kosmosa
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
World of Tomorrow

Best Original Score
Thomas Newman – Bridge of Spies
Carter Burwell – Carol
Jóhann Jóhannsson – Sicario
John Williams – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Ennio Morricone – The Hateful Eight

Best Original Song
Earned It (Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville, Stephan Moccio) – Fifty Shades of Grey
Manta Ray (Antony Hegarty) – Racing Extinction
Simple Song #3 (David Lang) – Youth
Til It Happens to You (Diane Warren, Lady Gaga) – The Hunting Ground
Writing's on the Wall (Jimmy Napes, Sam Smith) – Spectre

Best Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Sound Mixing
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Production Design
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant

Best Cinematography
Carol – Ed Lachman
The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson
Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale
The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki
Sicario – Roger Deakins

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Revenant

Best Costume Design
Carol – Sandy Powell
Cinderella – Sandy Powell
The Danish Girl – Paco Delgado
Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan
The Revenant – Jacqueline West

Best 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

Best Visual Effects
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Once again I have not seen many of the chosen films. I will try and watch as many as I can, so that I can chose the best of the nominated before the big day.

Steven Spielberg has set the record for the most best picture nominations for an individual producer with nine, following his latest nod for Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies.  Of those nominations, he's won twice - for Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List.

Here's the nominations tally:

The Revenant - 12   
Mad Max: Fury Road - 10 
The Martian - 7
Spotlight - 6 
Bridge of Spies - 6
Carol - 6 
The Big Short - 5 
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 5 

Not as excited as I'd hoped to be.


I really liked the walk and I was hoping for some nominations it doesn't look like it got any


I'm happy and hoping  drew Goddard wins for The Martian. Drew Goddard worked with Joss whedon. He wrote 5 eps of Buffy and 5 eps angel. He and Joss wrote Cabin in the woods and drew directed it. Basically drew is an extension of joss so if drew wins joss wins too!  8)  (Q-Logic  :P  )

Not as excited as I'd hoped to be.


I really liked the walk and I was hoping for some nominations it doesn't look like it got any


I'm happy and hoping  drew Goddard wins for The Martian. Drew Goddard worked with Joss whedon. He wrote 5 eps of Buffy and 5 eps angel. He and Joss wrote Cabin in the woods and drew directed it. Basically drew is an extension of joss so if drew wins joss wins too!  8)  (Q-Logic  :P  )
Nothing for "The Lady in the Van"!

Nothing for "The Lady in the Van"!


Wait! That's a movie? Was she kidnapped? Is she driving the van?
What kind of van? Is she a soccer mom driving car pool????


Sooo many questions!

Wait! That's a movie? Was she kidnapped? Is she driving the van?
What kind of van? Is she a soccer mom driving car pool????


Sooo many questions!
Maggie Smith has lost out!

The Lady in the Van
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt3722070/

Straight Out of Compton got stiffed.

Straight Out of Compton got stiffed.


Yeah it did but I expected that Hollywood likes to give one rap award a decade but they were afraid to make SOC the one this decade  ;D

How can a film with an original release date of 2013 be up for an Oscar, the film  "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling?

How can a film with an original release date of 2013 be up for an Oscar, the film  "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling?



Well he's 100 yrs old so it took him a while to get here.  ;D

Well he's 100 yrs old so it took him a while to get here.  ;D
It is his fault for disappearing?

Mind you it is a very good film!

It is his fault for disappearing?

Mind you it is a very good film!


Another one that I seemed to have missed

Another one that I seemed to have missed
I saw it twice in three successive day in mid 2014.

I saw it twice in three successive day in mid 2014.


Wow

Wow
...and I thought it would have already been nominated for Best Foreign Film much earlier. I am surprised to see it in this years nominations.

John Williams has earned his 50th Oscar nomination for his score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He now has the most nods of any living person. The overall record holder - with 60 nominations - is Walt Disney.

I want Stallone to win Best Supporting Actor.  For a while there, he had an unbroken run of getting a Golden Raspberry Nomination for almost every film he did since Rhinestone in 1983.  It's about time he gets a real award!

...and I thought it would have already been nominated for Best Foreign Film much earlier. I am surprised to see it in this years nominations.



So maybe it didn't get played here until 2015 and that's why it's nominated now.

So maybe it didn't get played here until 2015 and that's why it's nominated now.
Google has the US release date as May 1st 2015, yes indeed, what took them so long?

Oscars head Cheryl Boone Isaacs is taking action to "alter the make-up" of their membership, after Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith's refusal to attend because of the mostly white nominees.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35348062

Oscars head Cheryl Boone Isaacs is taking action to "alter the make-up" of their membership, after Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith's refusal to attend because of the mostly white nominees.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35348062



Janet Huber (the first Auny Viv) pretty much put Jada Pinkett (and Will Smith) on blast for her video.


I don't disagree with what she has to say but spike and nada are fifth about the oscars needing a shake up.

Things looked good a couple years ago but the recent backslide is disappointing.

Straight outta Compton deserved a nom...  Concussion did not (at least that's what I hear from my friends who have seen it) everyone warned me away from it.... They all saw it for free and said it wasn't worth the ticket
Price. It was too slow and too dry and the focus shoulda been on the players not the dr.

Oscar-winning actor George Clooney has accused the Academy Awards of "moving in the wrong direction" amid controversy over lack of diversity.

For the second year running, no black or minority actors have been nominated in the four Oscars acting categories.

Star Wars actress Lupita Nyong'o also said she is "disappointed by the lack of inclusion" in the nominations.

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs vowed to review its membership as stars pledged to boycott the ceremony.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35360113

Oscar-winning actor George Clooney has accused the Academy Awards of "moving in the wrong direction" amid controversy over lack of diversity.

For the second year running, no black or minority actors have been nominated in the four Oscars acting categories.

Star Wars actress Lupita Nyong'o also said she is "disappointed by the lack of inclusion" in the nominations.

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs vowed to review its membership as stars pledged to boycott the ceremony.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35360113



I don't want the academy to vote them in just beacause they are black I mean if the performances are worthy then they should be included. 

Michael B. Jordan have a good performance in Creed
Ryan Cooglar (Creed) and F. Gary Gray (Compton) are worthy directors
Compton could've gotten a nod for best pic.

I don't want the academy to vote them in just beacause they are black I mean if the performances are worthy then they should be included. 

Michael B. Jordan have a good performance in Creed
Ryan Cooglar (Creed) and F. Gary Gray (Compton) are worthy directors
Compton could've gotten a nod for best pic.


Exactly!

If the film and acting are good a nomination it deserves.

Any chance of Ride Along as best movie in their books?

Exactly!

If the film and acting are good a nomination it deserves.

Any chance of Ride Along as best movie in their books?



Oh for sure! Kevin Hart would win it hands down they are afraid to nominate him bc they know no one else stands a chance with him in the running. 


I just made myself  8-P  :D

I don't usually watch the Oscars (although I'm always front row center for the Turner Classic Movies month-long film marathon preceding the awards) I will watch because I want to see Leonardo DiCaprio win an Oscar. If he can't win the Oscar after sleeping in a bear carcass I have lost faith in humanity.

And people are acting surprised by the all-white noms. I literally am not. When the Oscars were conceived, Hollywood was all-white. The first ceremony was held in 1927. IT took to 1939 for Hattie McDaniel to win for "Gone with the Wind" and even then, her character was a "loyal" slave to a white mistress. And the rest of the winners have been decades apart...but people want to squawk about it now?

I could care less about a little gold naked man on a pedestal. There's too many wars in the world, too many hungry children and people trying to eke out a living to worry about rich people crying over a little trophy. I'm more worried about North Korea dropping a nuclear bomb on me than whether or not "Straight Out of Compton" was snubbed.

I know my opinion is probably not shared, but what else is new?

I didn't like any of the films last year. So I'm not watching the Oscars.

Comedian Chris Rock is facing calls to withdraw from his role as host of this year's Academy Awards ceremony, as the row over the lack of representation among the nominees intensifies. "Please do not do the Oscars awards," wrote rapper 50 Cent on Instagram. Fast & Furious 7 star Tyrese Gibson has also called on Rock to step down. The actor said there was "no joke that can crack" that would make up for the Academy's failure to nominate a single non-white acting nominee.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35370284