The Oscars is the definitely one of the grandest events in the film industry and it is just weeks away!

On February 28, academy award winners will be unveiled according to their respective nominations. The 88th Annual Academy Awards must have had a profound conclusion for the anticipated declaration of winners. Wasn’t quite easy though, as 2015 was one exquisite showcase of some of the creative, inspiring, original and remarkable movies.

Recently, Golden Globe Awards announced its winners for the major spots namely Leonardo DiCaprio for the Best Actor Award with his movie The Revenant and Jennifer Lawrence received the Best Actress Award for the movie Joy. Many have had anticipated that both stars might take home these awards for the Oscars 2016 as well. However, both stars will be competing against remarkable actors and actresses with their respective movie nominations.

Have you had your favorites for the 88th Annual Academy Awards? Better check them out!

Here is the complete list of nominees for the Oscars 2016

1BEST PICTURE

NOMINEES:

  1. Bridge of Spies
  2. Brooklyn
  3. Mad Max
  4. Room
  5. Spotlight
  6. The Big Short
  7. The Martian
  8. The Revenant

2BEST ACTOR – LEADING ROLE

NOMINEES:

  1. Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
  2. Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl
  3. Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
  4. Matt Damon – The Martian
  5. Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs

3BEST ACTRESS – LEADING ROLE

NOMINEES:

  1. Brie Larson – Room
  2. Cate Blanchett – Carol
  3. Jennifer Lawrence – Joy
  4. Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
  5. Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years

4BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

NOMINEES:

  1. Christian Bale – The Big Short
  2. Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
  3. Sylvester Stallone – Creed
  4. Tom Hardy – The Revenant
  5. Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies

5BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

NOMINEES:

  1. Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
  2. Rachel McAdams – Spotlight
  3. Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
  4. Rooney Mara – Carol
  5. Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

6BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

NOMINEES:

  1. Anomalisa
  2. Boy and the World
  3. Inside Out
  4. Shaun the Sheep
  5. When Marnie Was There

7BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

NOMINEES:

  1. Carol – Ed Lachman
  2. Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson
  3. The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki
  4. Mad Max – John Seale
  5. Sicario – Roger Deakins

8BEST COSTUME DESIGN

NOMINEES:

  1. Cinderella – Sandy Powell
  2. The Danish Girl – Paco Delgado
  3. Carol – Sandy Powell
  4. Mad Max – Jenny Beavan
  5. The Revenant – Jacqueline West

9BEST DIRECTOR

NOMINEES: 

  1. Mad Max – George Miller
  2. The Big Short – Adam McKay
  3. Room – Lenny Abrahamson
  4. The Revenant – Alegandro G. Iñárritu
  5. Spotlight – Tom McCarthy

10BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

NOMINEES: 

  1. Amy – Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
  2. What Happened, Miss Simone? – Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
  3. Cartel Land – Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
  4. Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom – Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor
  5. The Look of Silence – Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen

11BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

NOMINEES:

  1. A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
  2. Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
  3. Body Team 12
  4. Last Day of Freedom
  5. Chau, Beyond the Lines

12BEST FILM EDITING

NOMINEES:

  1. The Big Short – Hank Corwin
  2. Spotlight – Tom McArdle
  3. Mad Max – Margaret Sixel
  4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey
  5. The Revenant – Stephen Mirrione

13BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

NOMINEES:

  1. Mustang – France
  2. Embrace of the Serpent – Colombia
  3. A War – Denmark
  4. Theeb – Jordan
  5. Son of Saul – Hungary

14BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLE

NOMINEES:

  1. Mad Max – Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
  2. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared – Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
  3. The Revenant – Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini

15BEST MUSIC – ORIGINAL SCORE

NOMINEES: 

  1. Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman
  2. Sicario – Jóhann Jóhannsson
  3. Carol – Carter Burwell
  4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – John Williams
  5. The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone

16BEST MUSIC – ORIGINAL SONG

NOMINEES:

  1. Fifty Shades of Grey – Earned It (Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio)
  2. The Hunting Ground – Til It Happens To You (Music and Lyric by Diane Warren)
  3. Racing Extinction – Manta Ray (Music by J. Ralph; Lyric by Antony Hegarty)
  4. Spectre – Writing’s on the Wall (Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith)
    5. Youth – Simple Song #3 (Music and Lyric by David Lang)

17BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

NOMINEES:

  1. Bridge of Spies – Adam Stockhausen
  2. The Martian – Arthur Max
  3. The Danish Girl – Eve Stewart
  4. Mad Max – Colin Gibson
  5. The Revenant – Jack Fisk

18BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

NOMINEES:

  1. Bear Story
  2. We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
  3. Prologue
  4. World of Tomorrow
  5. Sanjay’s Super Team

19BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

NOMINEES:

  1. Ave Maria
  2. Shok
  3. Day One
  4. Stutterer
  5. Everything Will Be Okay

20BEST SOUND EDITING

NOMINEES:

  1. Mad Max – Mark Mangini and David White
  2. Sicario – Alan Robert Murray
  3. The Martian – Oliver Tarney
  4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Matthew Wood and David Acord
  5. The Revenant – Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender

21BEST SOUND MIXING

NOMINEES:

  1. Bridge of Spies – Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
  2. The Revenant – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek
  3. Mad Max – Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
  4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson
  5. The Martian – Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

22BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

NOMINEES:

  1. Ex Machina – Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
  2. The Revenant – Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
  3. Mad Max – Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
  4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
  5. The Martian – Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner

23BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

NOMINEES:

  1. The Big Short – Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
  2. The Martian – Drew Goddard
  3. Brooklyn – Nick Hornby
  4. Room – Emma Donoghue
  5. Carol – Phyllis Nagy

24BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

NOMINEES:

  1. Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
  2. Spotlight – Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
  3. Ex Machina – Alex Garland
  4. Straight Outta Compton – Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff
  5. Inside Out – Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen

What movie do you think will garner the most awards in this year’s Oscars? Share us your thoughts!

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