All the nominees for the 88th Annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, with the brutal frontier drama “The Revenant” leading with 12 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu), Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Best Supporting Actor (Tom Hardy).
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Many had hoped Ridley Scott would finally earn his first best director Oscar for “The Martian”, which landed seven nominations overall, including one for star Matt Damon. Academy voters like actors to have suffered for their art, as happened when last year’s victor Eddie Redmayne (also nominated this year for The Danish Girl) went through a painful physical transformation to play Stephen Hawking.
Director Inarritu will face off with George Miller for “Mad Max”; Adam McKay for “The Big Short”, about the 2007 USA financial collapse; Lenny Abrahamson for “Room”; and Tom McCarthy for “Spotlight”, about the Boston Globe’s probe into child abuse by Catholic priests.
In the lead actress category, the picks came in as expected with nods for Cate Blanchett (“Carol”), Brie Larson (“Room”), Jennifer Lawrence (“Joy”), Charlotte Rampling (“45 Years”) and Saoirse Ronan (“Brooklyn”). Surprise smash “Straight Outta Compton” received an arguably token nomination for original screenplay.
Sylvester Stallone (“Creed”) is the clear, and clearly sentimental, nominee for best supporting actor, at 2-1.
– Steven Spielberg, whose “Bridge of Spies” was nominated for best picture on Thursday, has set the record for the most best picture nominations for an individual producer with nine.
Alicia Vikander picked up a supporting actress nomination for her role as the wife of a transgender pioneer in “The Danish Girl”, though some viewed her as a lead in the film. Quentin Tarantino also failed to make the list for adapted screenplay and his “Hateful Eight” was omitted from the best picture and best director lists. The other nominees are Jennifer Jason Leigh of “The Hateful Eight”, Rachel McAdams of “Spotlight” and Kate Winslet of “Steve Jobs”. The Academy got most the nominations for those two stellar films right.
Bridge of Spies received six nominations, including best picture and best original screenplay.
Financial drama The Big Short, espionage thriller Bridge Of Spies and revenge epic The Revenant will compete with Spotlight, Room, The Martian, Brooklyn and Mad Max: Fury Road for best picture.
Best animated feature film: “Inside Out”, “When Marnie Was There”, “Anomalisa”, “Boy and the World”, “Shaun the Sheep Movie”.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, despite being the highest-grossing movie of all time, took no major nominations.
The Oscar winners will be announced at the 88th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on 28 February.
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