“I was not expecting it … especially at this time in my life. You gotta do.’ Talking gets to the doing, and we are going to do”. Previous nominations were for “More” from “Mondo Cane” (1963); “I Need To Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth”, which won an Oscar in 2006; “Before My Time” from “Chasing Ice” (2012), also written by this year’s nominee J.
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Another gritty tale of outback survival – Australian apocalypse hit Mad Mad: Fury Road – picked up 10 nominations to take it second place.
British author Nick Hornby received a nomination in the adapted screenplay category for Brooklyn, while Irish author Emma Donoghue got a nod for her adaptation of her own novel Room. For the latter, it will compete against “Spotlight”, “Ex Machina”, “Bridge of Spies” and “Straight Outta Compton”.
The 88th annual Academy Award nominations for best visual effects have been announced.
Sound Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road; The Martian; The Revenant; Sicario; Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Among the foreign films nominated were Hungarian Holocaust drama “Son of Saul”, Jordan’s “Theeb”, Colombia’s “Embrace of the Serpent” and “Mustang”, a French production about five Turkish sisters living in subjugation. The announcements will be broadcast and streamed lived on www.oscars.org/live. Toronto-native the Weeknd had his song Earned It from the film Fifty Shades of Grey, nominated for the best original song Oscar.
Stallone, Rylance, and Bale were nominated for Golden Globes and Bale and Rylance were nominated for SAG Awards.
Nominees for the best actress award are Saoirse Ronan of “Brooklyn“, “45 Years” actress Charlotte Rampling, “Joy” actress Jennifer Lawrence, “Room” actress Brie Larson, and “Carol” actress Cate Blanchett.
Larson won best actress at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.
Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s The Revenant led all films with 12 nominations. The other big victor was THE REVENANT, scoring Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, totaling 12 nominations. A good number of people have seen “The Martian” and “Mad Max: Fury Road“.
With his two nominations for Sound Mixing (for “Bridge of Spies” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”), Andy Nelson has tied Kevin O’Connell’s record for the most individual nominations in the category with 20.
Alongside DiCaprio and Damon, the best actor nominees are: Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”), Eddie Redmayne (“The Danish Girl”) and Bryan Cranston (“Trumbo”).
The Oscar nominees for supporting actress have been announced in Beverly Hills, California.
Jennifer Jason Leigh as a killer being transported to the hangman in “The Hateful Eight, received her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight”, as did Alicia Vikander, as the wife of an artist who undergoes gender reassignment surgery, in “The Danish Girl, and Rachel McAdams as an investigative reporter in “Spotlight”.
“Fury Road” will vie with “The Big Short”, “Bridge of Spies”, ” Brooklyn“, “The Martian”, “Room” and “Spotlight” for best picture, the highest honor in the film industry.
“When Marnie Was There”, “Anomalisa”, “Boy and the World” and “Shaun the Sheep Movie” are the other nominees for best animated feature film category.
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The Oscar nominees for documentary feature are: “Amy”, “Cartel Land”, “What Happened, Miss Simone?”, “The Look of Silence”, and “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom”.
