Sunday, February 28, 2016

Oscar Winner Predictions


BEST PICTURE
1) The Revenant
2) The Big Short
3) Spotlight
4) Room
5) Mad Max: Fury Road
6) The Martian
7) Bridge of Spies
8) Brooklyn
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - The Hateful Eight

BEST DIRECTOR
1) George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
2) Alejandro G. Innaritu - The Revenant
3) Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
4) Adam McKay - The Big Short
5) Lenny Abrahamson - Room
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - Ridley Scott - The Martian

BEST ACTOR
1) Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
2) Matt Damon - The Martian
3) Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
4) Bryan Cranston - Trumbo
5) Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - Michael B. Jordan - Creed

BEST ACTRESS
1) Brie Larson - Room
2) Saorise Ronan - Brooklyn
3) Cate Blanchett - Carol
4) Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years
5) Jennifer Lawrence - Joy
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - Charlize Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1) Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies
2) Sylvester Stallone - Creed
3) Christian Bale - The Big Short
4) Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight
5) Tom Hardy - The Revenant
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - Benicio Del Toro - Sicario

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1) Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl
2) Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs
3) Rachel McAdams - Spotlight
4) Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
5) Rooney Mara - Carol
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - Kirsten Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1) Spotlight - Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
2) Inside Out - Pete Doctor, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and Ronnie del Carmen
3) Straight Outta Compton - Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus
4) Bridge of Spies - Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen
5) Ex Machina - Alex Garland
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - Clouds of Sils Maria - Olivier Assayas

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1) The Big Short - Adam McKay and Charles Randolph
2) Room - Emma Donoghue
3) Brooklyn - Nick Hornby
4) The Martian - Drew Goddard
5) Carol - Phyllis Nagy
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - Anomalisa - Charlie Kaufman

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
1) Inside Out
2) Anomalisa
3) Shaun the Sheep Movie
4) When Marnie Was There
5) Boy & the World
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - Nothing coming to mind here!

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1) Son of Saul (Hungary) - Laszlo Nemes
2) Mustang (France) - Deniz Gamze Erguven
3) Theeb (Jordan) - Naji Abu Nowar
4) Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia) - Ciro Guerra
5) A War (Denmark) - Tobias Lindholm
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - The Clan (Argentina)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
1) Amy
2) The Look of Silence
3) Cartel Land
4) What Happened, Miss Simone?
5) Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - Listen to Me Marlon; or Best of Enemies

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1) The Revenant - Emmanuel Lubezki
2) Sicario - Roger Deakins
3) The Hateful Eight - Robert Richardson
4) Mad Max: Fury Road - John Seale
5) Carol - Ed Leachman

BEST FILM EDITING
1) The Big Short - Hank Corwin
2) Mad Max: Fury Road - Margaret Sixel
3) The Revenant - Stephen Mirrione
4) Spotlight - Tom McArdle
5) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
1) The Hateful Eight - Ennio Morricone
2) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - John Williams
3) Bridge of Spies - Thomas Newman
4) Carol - Carter Burwell
5) Sicario - Johann Johannsson

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
1) "Til It Happens To You" - The Hunting Ground - Lady Gaga and Dianne Warren
2) "Writing's On the Wall" - Spectre - Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
3) "Simple Song #3" - Youth - David Lang
4) "Earned It" - Fifty Shades of Grey - Ahmad Balshe, Stephan Moccio, Jason Dahela Quenneville and Abel Tesfaye
5) "Manta Ray" - Racing Extinction - J. Ralph and Antony Hegarty

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
1) Mad Max: Fury Road - Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson
2) The Revenant - Jack Fisk and Hamish Purdy
3) The Martian - Arthur Max and Celia Bobak
4) The Danish Girl - Eve Stewart and Michael Standish
4) Bridge of Spies - Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo, and Bernhard Henrich

COSTUME DESIGN
1) Cinderella - Sandy Powell
2) Mad Max: Fury Road - Jenny Beavan
3) The Revenant - Jacqueline West
4) Carol - Sandy Powell
5) The Danish Girl - Paco Delgado

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
1) Mad Max: Fury Road
2) Star Wars: The Force Awakens
3) The Martian
4) The Revenant
5) Ex Machina

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
1) The Revenant
2) Mad Max: Fury Road
3) The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

BEST SOUND MIXING
1) Mad Max: Fury Road
2) Star Wars: The Force Awakens
3) The Revenant
4) The Martian
5) Bridge of Spies

BEST SOUND EDITING
1) Mad Max: Fury Road
2) Star Wars: The Force Awakens
3) The Revenant
4) The Martian
5) Sicario

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
1) Everything Will Be Okay
2) Day One
3) Stutterer
4) Shok
5) Ave Maria

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

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
1) World of Tomorrow
2) Sanjay's Super Team
3) Bear Story
4) We Can't Live without Cosmos

5) Prologue