Star Leonardo DiCaprio will vie for Best Actor, Alejandro G Inarritu is up for Best Director, Tom Hardy has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor and the movie will compete for Best Picture.
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The actor was first nominated for an Academy Award 22-years ago, for his role in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”.
But absences were also stuck on repeat.
It wasn’t to be: This crop of eight best-picture nominees, while an eclectic mix, fits comfortably into the pattern of Academy Awards past.
George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” on the heels of “The Revenant” with 10 nominations. The academy expanded the number of best picture nominations in 2009 from five, to as many as 10, in order to allow for the inclusion of more popular films, such as “Avatar”.
“Of course I am disappointed, but this is not to take away the greatness (of the films nominated)”, she told Deadline.
Sure enough, he was one of the frontrunners when the Oscars 2016 nominations were announced earlier this week.
Sylvester Stallone (“Creed“) is the clear, and clearly sentimental, nominee for best supporting actor, at 2-1.
As has also happened the past few years, it looks like a two-horse race for best picture. Stallone returned to the role of Rocky Balboa in “Creed”, the seventh installment in the Rocky series and the first Stallone didn’t write himself.
And in the best documentary feature category, Amy Winehouse documentary Amy secures a nomination for London-born filmmaker Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees.
Oscar nominees for Best Actress are shown in this combination of file photos (L-R) Brie Larson, Saoirse Ronan, Charlotte Rampling, Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett.
“Spotlight” earned six nominations, including Tom McCarthy for Best Director, and for two of its supporting actors, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams.
“This a testament to the strength of CIFF’s short film section, and especially the talent of the filmmakers”, Steve Schroeder, executive director of the festival said in a media release. Or were voters more intent on welcoming a newcomer like Lenny Abrahamson of “Room” into the tent?
“Films are making the bulk of their money in foreign markets so it’s going to be a business necessity for the industry to populate their films with the people of the world, who are not only black and brown but all other colors”. “We were screaming like idiots in the pitch black with the smell of waffles in the room”.
The Academy Awards nominees were finally presented on Thursday. “Star Wars” may have set a domestic box office record with $822 million and counting, but “Room”, with a minuscule $5.2 million to its name, was the bigger Oscar force.
On Thursday, January 14, the much-anticipated announcement of this year’s Oscar nominees left many film fans feeling deflated, as the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite resurfaced online in reaction to a almost all-white list of nominees. Best Documentary and Best Original Screenplay.
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“Fury Road” will vie with “The Big Short”, “Bridge of Spies”, “Brooklyn”, “The Martian”, “Room” and “Spotlight” for best picture, the top Oscar award.
