Many personal favorites snubbed, per usual (all of the Creed omissions in particular)... but all of the Mad Max love helps make up for it.

Best Picture:
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Bridge of Spies
Spotlight
The Big Short
Brooklyn
Mad Max

Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett
Brie Larson
Jennifer Lawrence
Charlotte Rampling
Saoirse Ronan

Best Actor:
Matt Damon
Leo DICaprio
Michael Fassbender
Eddie Redmayne
Bryan Cranston

Directing:
Adam McKay
George Miller
Alejandro Inarritu
Tom McCarthy
Lenny Abrahamson

Original Screenplay:
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Spotlight
Straight Outta Compton

Original Score:
Bridge of Spies
Carol
Hateful 8
Sicario
Star Wars

Adapted Screenplay:
The Big Short
The Martian
Room
Brooklyn
Carol

Production Design:
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max
The Martian
The Revenant

Best Supporting Actress:
Alicia Vikander
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Rachel McAdams
Rooney Mara
Kate Winslet

Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale
Tom Hardy
Mark Ruffalo
Mark Rylance
Sylvester Stallone

Best Costume Design:
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Giel
Mad Max
The Revenant

Best Original Song:
Fifty Shades of Grey
Racing Extinction
Spectre
The Hunting Ground
Youth

Animated Film:
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep
When Marnie Was There

Best Documentary:
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter of Fire

Cinematography:
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario

rich fucks that'll have no impact on me or my life and they'll still be rich assholes after they lose but now they can't lrverage the trophy into more chances to get more rich and make no difference in my life or in the world at large yet too many hours of time will be wasted wondering which rich jerk will win what and wear who on a some awful night in February. Yay! Or awww! I forget bc I got lost.

I don't see any familiar names

(jokes, but you know QT is counting himself on this list)

That's a hell of a sequel.....

Kinda surprised here. Particularly how it seems that The Martian kind of took the spots they should have been in.

majorly, IMO. but, of course, AMPAS doesn't understand action flicks.

Maybe my favorite performance of the year in any category. It'll last far longer than any of the eventual Oscar winners' performances. It's an all-timer.

Meanwhile, I've already forgotten Joy.

wtf?

and the performance has such a great story to go along w/it. all the feminism/girl-power/lesbianism/triumph-of-the-disabled stuff...

it's GOLD! i can't believe they missed it.

Nothing the Academy loves more than scenery-chewing.

There's a fairly easy game to play to determine if an actor has a real chance at an Oscar nomination. Can you immediately pick out which scene they would play at the ceremony as you watch the movie? It must involve either crying or shouting.

I didn't think Theron had an obvious Oscar scene (maybe the scene where she discovers the green place is gone? That'd be my best guess). She was too busy giving a great performance.

(It's worth pointing out that I love 4 of the 5 nominees in that category-- but they were all pretty easy-to-peg Oscar performances, save for Ronan, who, while she does cry, does really lovely understated work. But goddamn, I've already forgotten the J-Law movie.)

a lock for at least one nomination every year


It's almost boring how fucking good she is


BARZ

Very restrained, very internalized.

They do unleash her for her one big "Oscar scene" toward the end, but outside of that, it might be her subtlest performance to date. Which I love.

I'm actually surprised Streep didn't get any momentum for her performance in Ricki and the Flash, which was another absolutely lovely performance and a lovely movie.

im still in my feelings bout tangerine but ga damn, Room was just an awsome movie!

A sequel I can get behind....

I'm there....

I'm howling for this^^^^^^sequel....