Supporting actress nods went to Jennifer Jason Leigh, “The Hateful Eight”; Rooney Mara, “Carol”; Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl”; Kate Winslet, “Steve Jobs”; and Rachel McAdams, “Spotlight”.
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Another critically acclaimed film was Straight Outta Compton, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, but ignored for every other category it should’ve been in.
– George Miller, to The Hollywood Reporter, on his dystopian action movie “Mad Max: Fury Road”, getting 10 nods, including for best picture and best director.
The full list of best picture nominees consists of “The Big Short”, “Bridge of Spies“, “Brooklyn”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “The Martian”, “The Revenant”, “Room”, and “Spotlight”.
It was certainly satisfying to see “Room” get a best-picture nomination, along with nominations for director Lenny Abrahamson, screenwriter Emma Donoghue and actress Brie Larson.
Saoirse Ronan – Nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role “Brooklyn”: “When we made ‘Brooklyn, ‘ we had no idea of what was to come”.
They will compete against Drew Goddard for his adaptation of Alex Weir’s novel The Martian, Phyllis Nagy for Carol, which is based on the Patricia Highsmith novel The Price Of Salt, and Charles Randolph and Adam McKay for The Big Short, which is based on Michael Lewis’s book of the same name.
The nominees for the 88th Academy Awards, best-known as Oscars, were announced on Thursday.
But there were surprises at Thursday’s announcement of Academy Award nominations. Sylvester Stallone is considered a frontrunner for Best Supporting Actor – but it doesn’t look great for the Academy to acknowledge the film’s only white performer. Adapted screenplay hopefuls are The Big Short, Brooklyn, Carol, Room, and The Martian taking the final slot that probably should have gone to Steve Jobs.
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.
DiCaprio – who on Sunday won a Golden Globe for his performance – is up for best actor in the Academy Awards.
“The audience award changes that – the victor of that prize in Toronto has gone on to be a best-picture Oscar nominee six of the last seven years”, Rich wrote.
On the flip side, a film that critics liked and which has proved to be the most popular film on the planet – “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, (currently at $812 million at the box office) – garnered four nominations, mostly in minor, technical categories. Here are my best guesses as to if and when they’ll get here.
“Shaun the Sheep Movie”: Played in Visalia and now available on home video. Barring a major surprise, the best actor, best actress and best supporting actress fields will be all white.
The smile would have been a little wider if “Creed” got any other nominations.
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The 41-year-old actor received his fifth Oscar nomination today for “The Revenant”, and this year he is favored to win. Unjustly omitted were Will Smith (Concussion), Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation), Michael B. Jordan (Creed) and, aside from an original-screenplay nomination, the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton. Charlie Puth, which featured in Furious 7, from the Original Song category proves that incredible chart success doesn’t matter to the Academy, not one bit.
