When Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday morning there were some surprises and some snubs. Chiwetel Ejiofor (Slave) and Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) earned nominations for best actor and supporting actor, respectively, while Lupita Nyong’o won best supporting actress for her breakout Slave performance.
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– Composer John Williams’ original score for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” was nominated for this year’s awards.
This year’s Oscar nominations have been announced and The Revenant is already a favourite with 12 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.
The Academy Awards nominees were finally presented on Thursday.
DiCaprio has previously called it “the most hard film” he has ever done due to the freezing temperatures and having only one and a half hours a day of natural light to get their shots, but the cast said they were lucky to have his dulcet tones to keep morale up. It was an eight-month enterprise in remote, cold, uncomfortable, hard landscapes.
DiCaprio stars as real-life fur-trapper Hugh Glass who is severely injured in a bear attack and left for dead by his colleagues, but Glass survives to take revenge on those who betrayed him.
“The more I speculate about what’s happening, the more I try to avoid spoilers this far out, and also I find myself talking around in circles”, he said. “We were the black sheeps of the industry and we used to it. If we didn’t get nominated, that would be familiar territory”. “He’s insanely good in it, and without the collaboration, the way that he approached this as a partner, it could have been impossible”, said Alejandro Iñarritu to the Wall Street Journal.
An unanticipated movie near the front of the nominations pack was “Mad Max: Fury Road”, whose 10 nods include best picture and director, for 70-year-old series creator George Miller. In fact, it’s a big Tom Hardy year, as the actor’s two films – Mad Max and The Revenant – cleaned up.
Three of this year’s Best Picture nominees are among the highest-grossing movies of the year: “The Martian”, “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “Bridge of Spies”, ranked No. 8, No. 20 and No. 42 respectively on 2015’s list.
DiCaprio has yet to win an Oscar, despite four other nominations. Half the fun of the Oscars is rooting for your favorites while amping up some faux rage to unleash when predictable candidates take home the same awards they did past year. There were an very bad lot of really great movies out there with actors of color doing wonderful work.
The acting nominees, which notably omitted Idris Elba for “Beasts of No Nation” and Benicio Del Toro for “Sicario”, gave the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences an awkward repeat of the “OscarsSoWhite” backlash that followed last year’s acting nominees.
In addition to Cate Blanchett, she’s up against Brie Larson, Charlotte Rampling and Saoirse Ronan. Redmayne won in this category previous year for “The Theory of Everything”.
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The 88th Academy Awards will be held February 28 in Hollywood, carried live on Walt Disney Co.’s ABC network and broadcast in more than 225 countries.
