These took the spots of more favored hits like Wiz Khalifa’s “Furious 7” song “See You Again”, Brian Wilson’s “One Kind of Love” from “Love & Mercy” and the “Fifty Shades of Grey” breakout “Love Me Like You Do”. Those are forbiddingly long odds against “The Revenant”, which also failed to land a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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The actor was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the movie Creed.
Since the best picture field was expanded from five nominees to up to 10, in 2010, every year has delivered nine nominations until this year’s eight.
Animated Short Film typically goes to the most prolific film, which makes Sanjay’s Super Team (which came along with The Good Dinosaur) the most likely recipient.
See all the categories and nominees here. As a producer of “The Martian”, he does have a shot at walking away with that golden statuette if it wins best picture, though.
The directing category featured a blend of veterans and newcomers, including George Miller (“Mad Max”), Adam McKay (“The Big Short”), Steven Spielberg (“Bridge of Spies”), Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”), Iñárritu (“The Revenant”) and Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”).
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and hip-hop movie “Straight Outta Compton” were among those not making the cut. Blanchett was nominated for her role in lesbian romance “Carol”, and Lawrence for playing the Miracle Mop inventor in “Joy”.
His competition is fairly stiff: others in the best actor category are Bryan Cranston for “Trumbo”, Matt Damon for “The Martian”, Michael Fassbender for “Steve Jobs” and Eddie Redmayne – an Oscar victor a year ago – for “The Danish Girl”.
Nominations have been announced for the 88th annual Academy Awards, celebrating the best in film.
The nominations for the 2016 Academy Awards, announced Thursday morning, are white as snow – in more ways than one.
“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.
Ronan was previously nominated when she was just 13 for her role in Atonement in 2007.
The best supporting actress honour contenders are Rooney Mara (‘Carol’), Jennifer Jason Leigh for “The Hateful Eight”, Alicia Vikander (‘The Danish Girl’), Kate Winslet (‘Steve Jobs’) and Rachel McAdams for “Spotlight”.
“The Martian”director Ridley Scott did not make the short list, but he was overlooked, as was “Carol” director Todd Haynes”. It secured nods for film editing, original score, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects.
Films nominated for best animated feature include writer/director Charlie Kaufman’s downbeat stop-motion drama “Anomalisa”, “Boy and the World”, Disney’s whimsical peek into the mind of a child “Inside Out”, “Shaun the Sheep Movie” and “When Marnie Was There”.
Netflix’s documentaries “What Happened, Miss Simone” and “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom” were nominated.
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After watching Larson completely lose herself in this role of a trapped mother, you have a hard time picking any of the other four nominees in that category.
