She should have been nominated for Best Actress.
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DiCaprio will fight it out with last year’s best actor victor Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl), Michael Fassbender for “Steve Jobs”, fellow Golden Globe victor Matt Damon “The Martian” and Bryan Cranston for “Trumbo”.
The nominees for best actress are Blanchett (“Carol“), Brie Larson (“Room“), Saoirse Ronan (“Brooklyn”), Lawrence (“Joy”) and Rampling (“45 Years“). When the 2016 Academy Award nominations were announced on January 14, there were many notables snubs, includingAmy Schumer, Carol and more!
Loved seeing “Spotlight” actors Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams getting in. Stallone, who received his first Acting nomination in 1976 for “Rocky”, is the sixth person nominated for playing the same role in two different films.
I am incredibly humbled by this honor, Stallone wrote in an email. So it’s great that it got a Visual Effects nomination and that Alex Garland got one for the screenplay; it’s less great that he didn’t get one for his direction.
“I’ve never had an experience like this in my entire life”. “Mad Max” earned an additional nomination in the Best Makeup category.
Miller says the action-packed blockbuster isn’t the typical type of film singled out by the Oscars, but he’s thrilled.
In the Best Animated Short Film category, We Can’t Live Without Cosmos scored a nomination: the film follows two cosmonauts in training in an effort to achieve their dreams of reaching the stars.
The Oscars will be presented February 28 the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, hosted by Chris Rock and broadcast live on ABC. Yet even though their films-Steve Jobs and The Hateful Eight, respectively-were nominated for their actors, the screenplays were left out, with newer names like Phyllis Nagy, Emma Donoghue, and the team behind Straight Outta Compton jumping in instead.
Bale won Best Supporting Actor for “The Fighter”, and was nominated for “American Hustle”.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” didn’t get a nomination in a major category, but composer John Williams did for best score.
Best foreign language film: “Son of Saul“, “Mustang“, “A War“, “Embrace of the Serpent”, “Theeb“.
The Weeknd had his song “Earned It, ” from the film “Fifty Shades of Grey, ” nominated for the best original song Oscar.
The Grammy-winning singer recently won a Golden Globe for the track alongside his writing partner Jimmy Napes. The miss for “Carol” meant one usual Oscar heavyweight – Harvey Weinstein – won’t have a horse in the best picture race for the first time since 2008.
The Big Short’s director Adam McKay also received a nod, alongside George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road, Spotlight director Tom McCarthy and Alejandro G Inarritu for The Revenant. It certainly has a head of steam – terrific box office numbers, lots of free press generated by star Leonardo DiCaprio’s physical endurance on the set, and enough critical consensus to push it over the edge.
“The Martian” director Ridley Scott and “Bridge of Spies” director Steven Spielberg, both of whom were left out of the directing category, despite seeing their films nominated for best picture. “Anomalisa” comes in at 2-1, followed by “Shaun the Sheep” at 3-1, “Boy and the World” at 6-1, and “When Marnie Was There” at 7-1.
Producer Simon Kinberg said the cast and crew are “shocked” following the nominations announcement on Wednesday morning.
The nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were announced on Thursday morning at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
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The nominations were full of surprises.
