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Oscar 2016
Best Picture
“The Big Short” (Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner)
“Bridge of Spies” (Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt)
“Brooklyn” (Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey)
“Mad Max: Fury Road” (Doug Mitchell and George Miller)
“The Martian” (Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer)
“The Revenant” (Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
“Room” (Ed Guiney)
“Spotlight” (Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin)
Best Director
Adam McKay (“The Big Short”)
George Miller (“Mad Max: Fury Road”)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu (“The Revenant”)
Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”)
Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”)
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston (“Trumbo”)
Matt Damon (“The Martian”)
Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”)
Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”)
Eddie Redmayne (“The Danish Girl”)
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett (“Carol”)
Brie Larson (“Room”)
Jennifer Lawrence (“Joy”)
Charlotte Rampling (“45 Years”)
Saoirse Ronan (“Brooklyn”)
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale (“The Big Short”)
Tom Hardy (“The Revenant”)
Mark Ruffalo (“Spotlight”)
Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies”)
Sylvester Stallone (“Creed”)
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh (“The Hateful Eight”)
Rooney Mara (“Carol”)
Rachel McAdams (“Spotlight”)
Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”)
Kate Winslet (“Steve Jobs”)
Best Adapted Screenplay
“The Big Short” (Adam McKay, Charles Randolph)
“Brooklyn” (Nick Hornby)
“Carol” (Phyllis Nagy)
“The Martian” (Drew Goddard)
“Room” (Emma Donoghue)
Best Original Screenplay
“Bridge of Spies” (Matthew Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
“Ex Machina” (Alex Garland)
“Inside Out” (Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve)
“Spotlight” (Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer)
“Straight Outta Compton” (Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman)
Best Cinematography
“Carol”
“The Hateful Eight”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Revenant”
“Sicario”
Best Costume Design
“Carol”
“Cinderella”
“The Danish Girl”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Revenant”
Best Film Editing
“The Big Short”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Revenant”
“Spotlight”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”
“The Revenant”
Best 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)
Best Original Song
“Earned It” from “Fifty Shades of Grey”
“Til It Happens To You” from “The Hunting Ground”
“Manta Ray” from “Racing Extinction”
“Writing’s On the Wall” from “Spectre”
“Simple Song #3” from “Youth”
Best Production Design
“Bridge of Spies”
“The Danish Girl”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
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 Visual Effects
“Ex Machina”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Best Animated Feature Film
“Anomalisa” (Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran)
“Boy and the World” (Ale 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 Foreign Language Film
“Embrace of the Serpent” (Colombia; Ciro Guerra)
“A War” (Denmark; Tobias Lindholm)
“Mustang” (France; Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
“Son of Saul” (Hungary; László Nemes)
“Theeb” (Jordan; Naji Abu Nowar)
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 Sørensen)
“What Happened, Miss Simone?” (Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes)
“Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” (Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor)