2016 Oscars Winners
We made it! The 2016 Oscars have finally arrived, and we can finally stop speculating on who will win because the Oscar winners were finally handed out last night. Spotlight took home Best Picture, upsetting The Revenant, which had just won both Best Director for Alejandro G. Ińarritu and Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio. It was only the 23rd time that the year’s top director didn’t also win Best Picture (it last happened in 2013 when Ang Lee won Best Director for Life of Pi, but Argo won Best Picture). In addition to Best Picture, Spotlight also won Best Original Screenplay, meaning it wound up winning the first and last awards handed out during this year’s Oscars. It was also the first film since 1952’s The Greatest Show on Earth to win Best Picture and only one other Oscar.
George Miller’s apocalyptic Road warrior movie Mad max scored six awards within the below-the-line classes at Sunday’s Oscars: best editing, best costumes, best production design, best makeup and hairstyling, best sound editing, and best sound mixing. Mad max came into the night with 10 total nominations, second solely to The Revenant, that led the way with 12.
[adinserter block=”10″]That film, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, won 3 awards: best director for Iñárritu (his second straight win within the category), best cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki (the third straight time Lubezki has taken home that honor), and best actor for DiCaprio (his first-ever oscar win).
Though DiCaprio and Best actress winner Brie Larson were significant favorites, that doesn’t mean there weren’t some surprises. Sylvester Stallone missed out on the best Supporting Actor award, losing out to Mark Rylance of Bridge of Spies. Lady Gaga, who got a ovation for her performance of “Til It Happens to You” lost Best Original Song to sam Smith’s Spectre theme “Writing on the Wall”, that many agreed was one of the weaker Bond songs in recent memory. Finally, Ex Machina, a movie that was made for only $15 million, won Best Visual Effects, beating out a group of nominees (including Star Wars: The Force Awakens) that all cost over $100 million.
A complete list of 2016 Oscar nominees below:
Best Picture
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight — WINNER
Best Director
Adam McKay, The Big Short
Alejandro G. Ińarritu, The Revenant — WINNER
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant — WINNER
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Best Actress
Brie Larson, Room — WINNER
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies — WINNER
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl — WINNER
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Best Original Screenplay
Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Bridge of Spies
Alex Garland, Ex Machina
Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer, Spotlight — WINNER
Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, Josh Cooley, Meg LeFauve, Inside Out
Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus, Straight Outta Compton
Best Adapted Screenplay
Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, The Big Short — WINNER
Nick Hornby, Brooklyn
Phyllis Nagy, Carol
Drew Goddard, The Martian
Emma Donoghue, Room
Best Cinematography
Robert Richardson, The Hateful Eight
Edward Lachman, Carol
Roger Deakins, Sicario
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant — WINNER
John Seale, Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Animated Feature
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Inside Out — WINNER
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was there
Best Documentary Feature
Amy — WINNER
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter of Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom
Best Film Editing
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road — WINNER
The Revenant
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Visual Effects
Ex Machina — WINNER
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Production Design
Adam Stockhausen, Bridge of Spies
Eve Stewart, The Danish Girl
Colin Gibson, Mad Max: Fury Road — WINNER
Arthur Max, The Martian
Jack Fisk, The Revenant
Best Original Score
Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight — WINNER
Thomas Newman, Bridge of Spies
Carter Burwell, Carol
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Sicario
John Williams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Foreign Language Film
Mustang (France)
Son of Saul (Hungary) — WINNER
Theeb (Jordan)
A War (Denmark)
Embrace the Serpent (Columbia)
Best Costume Design
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road — WINNER
The Revenant
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road — WINNER
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out A Window and Disappeared
The Revenant
Best Original Song
“Earned It,” Fifty Shades of Grey
“Manta Ray,” Racing Extinction
“Simple Song #3,” Youth
“Til It Happens to You,” The Hunting Ground
“Writing On the Wall,” Spectre — WINNER
Best Documentary Short Subject
Body Team 12
Chau Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness — WINNER
Last Day of Freedom
Best Live Action Short
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay
Shok
Stutterer — WINNER
Best Animated Short
Bear Story — WINNER
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow
Best Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road — WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Sound Mixing
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road — WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens