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So, the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards have been revealed and fanboys are happy to hear Mad Max is a Best Picture nominee while others are mad that Star Wars The Force Awakens got snubbed of a Best Picture nomination. Sadly, people won't care about the Oscars because they like the action and big explosions and tend to ignore the artistic themes in the nominees, which is a pity. The nominees are:

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BEST PICTURE

Spotlight

The Big Short

The Revenant

The Martian

Brooklyn

Mad Max: Fury Road

Bridge of Spies

Room

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BEST DIRECTOR

Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant

Adam McKay – The Big Short

Tom McCarthy – Spotlight

George Miller -- Mad Max: Fury Road

Lenny Abrahamson -- Room

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BEST ACTRESS

Brie Larson – Room

Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn

Cate Blanchett – Carol

Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years

Jennifer Lawrence -- Joy

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BEST ACTOR

Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant

Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl

Bryan Cranston – Trumbo

Matt Damon – The Martian

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight

Rooney Mara – Carol

Rachel McAdams – Spotlight

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies

Sylvester Stallone – Creed

Christian Bale – The Big Short

Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight

Tom Hardy -- The Revenant

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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Big Short – Adam McKay, Charles Randolph

Room -- Emma Donaghue

Carol – Phyllis Nagy

The Martian – Drew Goddard

Brooklyn – Nick Hornby

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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Spotlight – Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer

Inside Out – Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, Meg LeFavue

Straight Outta Compton -- Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus

Ex Machina – Alex Garland

Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki

Sicario – Roger Deakins

Carol – Edward Lachman

Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale

The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson

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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone

Star Wars: The Force Awakens – John Williams

Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman

Carol – Carter Burwell

Sicario -- Johann Johannsson

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BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Ex Machina

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Martian

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

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BEST FILM EDITING

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

Spotlight

The Big Short

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

The Revenant

The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared

Mad Max: Fury Road

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BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Mad Max: Fury Road

Bridge of Spies

The Martian

The Revenant

The Danish Girl

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BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Carol

Cinderella

The Danish Girl

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

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BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey

“Manta Ray” from Racing Extinction

“Til It Happens to You” from The Hunting Ground

“Writing’s on the Wall” from Spectre

“Simple Song #3” from Youth

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BEST SOUND EDITING

Sicario

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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BEST SOUND MIXING

Bridge of Spies

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Inside Out

Anomalisa

Boy and the World

Shaun the Sheep Movie

When Marnie Was There

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BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE

Mustang – France

Son of Saul – Hungary

Theeb – Jordan

A War -- Denmark

Embrace of the Serpent -- Colombia

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BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Amy

The Look of Silence

Cartel Land

What Happened Miss Simone?

Winter’s on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

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BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

Last Day of Freedom

Body Team 12

Chau

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BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

Ave Maria

Day One

Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)

Shok

Stutterer

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BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

Bear Story (Historia de un Oso)

Prologue

Sanjay’s Super Team

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

World of Tomorrow

The Big Short is being used by a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters on Reddit to promote Bernie Sanders. I haven't seen it though so if someone could describe it that'd be great.

Hmm, good idea, so I'll explain the noms.

The Big Short – A bunch of businessmen struggle through the financial and mortgage crisis of 2007-08.

Bridge of Spies – The true story of how American agents became afraid of Communism when the USSR launched Sputnik.

Brooklyn – An Irish woman moves to 1950s New York and falls in love, but when someone from the past shows up, she must choose if she wants to live in America or Ireland.

Mad Max: Fury Road – Do I have to explain this?!

The Martian – See description for Mad Max: Fury Road.

The Revenant – The true story of a man struggling to survive the harsh winter landscape of the 1820s in Montana.

Room – A woman and her 5-year-old son have been locked away in a room for a long time and finally experience the real world for the first time.

Spotlight – The true story of a bunch of Boston journalists investigating the sex scandals of the Catholic Church in 2003.

Can't remember if Fury Road got any awards from the Golden Globes, but here's hoping it gets something from the Academy.

And the question remains, will DiCaprio get the oscar this time?

I really doubt that even with all its nominations The Revenant would win big. When was the last time a director had two major Oscar winning films in back to back years?

So how many of these movies did the Academy actually bother watching this time around?

Umm, all of them. What's with the rude comment?

Somehow relevant

Considering members of the Academy have in the past actively admitted that they don't watch all of the movies that get nominated (particularly animated movies, as the link posted about says) I don't feel my comment was unwarranted. Frankly I don't take the Oscars seriously at all so I will take a jab at them here and there when I can

>Anamolisa only nominated for best animated feature
>No other nominations
>Not even for "Best Original Screenplay"
>Probably won't even win because judges are stupid animation bigots
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It's a shame that the Peanuts Movie didn't get nominated for Best Animated Feature…
But I will say, it's so awesome that Mad Max Fury Road is nominated for so many awards, including Best Picture--never thought I'd see the Oscar judges would nominated a summer blockbuster for that category…
Also, I do hope DiCaprio has his chance this time around! I have some images in mind for that moment, winning (one of the images I made about two/three years ago after the Wolf of Wall Street) and losing.

Bumping this thread since it will expire tomorrow.

The Oscars will take place at 7:00 on February 28th on ABC with Chris Rock being the host of the event.

Here's to hoping that Chris Rock does a better job than Neil Patrick Harris
(also, I believe I have an unpopular opinion here, but I actually thought Seth MacFarlane did a pretty ok job hosting…)

Gonna reorganise your OP post a bit because it's really hard to get some good oversight in there.

Thanks!

Bridge of spies is about a U.S. and Soviets doing a prisoner exchange at the height of the cold war. You're summary is very wrong.

Well, tonight's the night. Any predictions?

I think this is Leo's year tonight.

Thanks to Smiley Dog for making this past comment to address the voters' view on animation. So here it is below!

My complaint is more on the general public’s perspective on animation which is that all animation is for children.
I feel the states see animation as nothing more than cheap kiddy fodder, including from the big studios like Disney or Dreamworks, though some of their movies don’t really help when they’re just made to make a quick buck (coughcoughcarscoughsharktalecoughcough).
Also the fact that nobody appreciates the artistry that goes into these movies, how many more possibilities there are than live action, and how every movie can have a distinctive art style. But nope, it’s all little baby works only for the stupidest, immature crowd.
k rant done I go now

Along with Space Stranger

As an animation fanatic one of my biggest gripes with Western animated material is the reluctance to pursue serious animated works. Even though it is nice to appeal to a wider, family audience with animation since that’s what sells, I think more attempts at animated shows and films with a more serious. There have been few shows in the past that have been able to aim for this type of serious tone (Batman: The Animated Series comes to mind, it handles mature topics in Batman in a way suitable for children). The constant over-saturation of comedy-based tv shows doesn’t really help animations reputation as a “childish medium”.

I repeat these comments is regarding the Oscar voters' view on animation as in how their logic works to make them get away with abstaining the nominees.

Original Screenplay – Spotlight
Adopted Screenplay – The Big Short

Best Supporting Actress – Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)
Costume Design – Mad Max Fury Road
Production Design – Mad Max Fury Road
Makeup and Hairstyling – Mad Max Fury Road

Cinematography – The Revenant
Film Editing – Mad Max Fury Road

I say, Mad Max has obtained five and "El Chivo" Lubezki won his third oscar in a row. So far so good.

Anyone have a link to a stream that works in Canada?

Sound Editing – Mad Max Fury Road
Sound Mixing – Mad Max Fury Road

Mad Max Gone Mad!

Visual Effects – Ex Machina
Best Animated Short – Bear Story
Best Animated Film – Inside Out

Found this tweet by Josh Peck

Best Supporting Actor – Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
Best Documentary Short Subject – A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Best Documentary Feature – Amy

This is the guy who originally made it.

Best Live Action Short Film – Stutterer
Best Foreign Language Film – Son of Saul (Hungary)

Thanks for that. It's best to get it from the original source

THE VICE PRESIDENT IS HERE!

Original Score – The Hateful Eight
Original Song – Writing's on the Wall (Spectre)

Introducing a best original song nominee from a godawful documentary and helping to further spread the misconceptions that it pushes, I might add.

I'm glad that Fury Road's getting all these awards.

I thought Skyfall was the better Bond theme, and I personally think Lady Gaga's song should've won. But hey, I'm just glad the award didn't go to Fifty Shits of Gray.

Best Director – Alejandro G. Inarritu (The Revenant)
Best Actress – Brie Larson (Room)
Best Actor – Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)

He should just shrug and walk away.

This is it folks. This is it.

Leo's got it.

AND THE WINNER FOR BEST PICTURE IS SPOTLIGHT!

Sad day for The Martian.

Is the worse day ever for the Star Wars fanboys, i am a fan, but damn TFA is the most over praised Star Wars movie ever.

Here are my two cents:
I'm happy to see "El Chivo” Lubezki and Iñarritu winning again but unfortunately I can see people jumping to the oscar's bandwagon "'cuz they're Mexican and represent Mexican talent" and all that shit.
I didn't watch any movie from the documentary category so I can't offer a proper opinion on the subject, but I'm gonna check that Nina Simone documentary.
Disney and Pixar have a fucking monopoly on the animated category, but I'm glad that Chilean production win on the short animated film category.
Mad Max was like:

But I'm sad it didn't won Best Picture.

And Rest in pepperoni.

Let me get one thing out of the way –
LEO LEO LEO LEO LEO LEO YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS.
I was watching the Oscars in a public building on my campus, and everyone watching was on the edge of their seats and when he won everyone cheered (inb4 and the whole bus clapped)
Magical.

I take back everything I said about Neil Patrick Harris being a terrible host. He was bad, but he looks like Ellen compared to Chris Rock. Outside a few jokes in the opening monologue, it just plummeted for me. Kevin Hart did a better job in his mini speech and I think that was the best speech next to Pete Doctor's winning speech for Inside Out.
I kind of wanted Earned It to win best song just for the banter of saying 50 Shades of Grey is an Oscar winning movie…

Any thoughts about Spotlight winning Best Picture.

Kind of surprised but not really upset. On my list of predictions it was 3rd least likely to win (beating out Mad Max and The Martian by quite a lot) but it certainly could have been worse. I was hoping against all logic that Mad Max would win but clearly a film that literally sweeps the technical awards isn't the best display of film making.