The Academy Award season has finally begun! The Oscar nominations were finally announced last week. Here is a list to help you fill out the prediction polls with your friends, guide your movie watching to what is necessary before the night of the show, and help to impress others with your knowledge of some of the front runners! (This list only contains the main categories!)
Best Picture
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight
Most Likely to Win: The Revenant, The Martian
Dark Horses: Mad Max: Fury Road, Spotlight
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne: The Danish Girl
Most Likely to Win: Leonardo DiCaprio
Dark Horse: Pretty much anyone... Such good performances this year!
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Most Likely to Win: Brie Larson
Dark Horses: Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bride of Spies
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Most Likey to Win: Sylvester Stallone
Dark Horse: Mark Rylance (Stallone pretty much has this locked)
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Most Likely to Win: Alicia Vikander
Dark Horse: Rooney Mara, Kate Winslet
Best Directing
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Most Likely to Win: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Dark Horse: George Miller
Best Original Score
Thomas Newman, Bridge of Spies
Carter Burwell, Carol
Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight
JĂłhann JĂłhannsson, Sicario
John Williams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Most Likely to Win: The Hateful Eight
Dark Horse: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short, Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Brooklyn, Nick Hornby
Carol, Phyllis Nagy
The Martian, Drew Goddard
Room, Emma Donoghue
Most Likely to Win: The Martian, Drew Goddard
Dark Horse: Room, Emma Donoghue
Best Original Screenplay
Bridge of Spies, Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Ex Machina, Alex Garland
Inside Out, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Spotlight, Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy
Straight Outta Compton, Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff
Most Likely to Win: Spotlight, Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy
Dark Horse: Inside Out, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Best Animated Feature Film
Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
Boy and the World, AlĂŞ 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
Most Likely to Win: Inside Out
Dark Horse: Anomalisa
Best Original Song
"Earned It," Fifty Shades of Grey, Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
"Manta Ray," Racing Extinction, J. Ralph and Antony Hegarty
"Simple Song #3," Youth, David Lang
"'Til It Happens to You," The Haunting Ground, Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
"Writings on the Wall," Spectre, Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
Most Likely to Win: "'Til It Happens to You," The Haunting Ground, Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
Dark Horse: "Writings on the Wall," Spectre, Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
Who are you rooting for at the Oscars this year? Who are you disappointed to see snubbed from this year's race (some favorites are Straight Out of Compton for Best Picture, Ridley Scott for Director, and Will Smith for Concussion)? Be sure to tune into the telecast on February 28 with host Chris Rock!
