Oscar Nominations

[ToxicAdam]

Best Picture
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

Best Director
Lenny Abrahamson - Room
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
Adam McKay - The Big Short
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road


Best Actor
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Matt Damon – The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl


Best Actress
Cate Blanchett – Carol
Brie Larson – Room
Jennifer Lawrence – Joy
Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn


Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale – The Big Short
Tom Hardy – The Revenant
Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
Sylvester Stallone – Creed


Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara – Carol
Rachel McAdams – Spotlight
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

Best Original Screenplay
Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen – Bridge of Spies
Alex Garland - Ex Machina
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and Ronnie del Carmen – Inside Out
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus – Straight Outta Compton


Best Adapted Screenplay
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay – The Big Short
Nick Hornby - Brooklyn
Phyllis Nagy – Carol
Drew Goddard – The Martian
Emma Donoghue – Room


Best Animated Feature Film
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There

[ToxicAdam]

Only thing I'm rooting for is George Miller to win best director.

[Joe Molotov]

JaseC vindicated.

[Samson Manhug]

Yikes, what a weak year for films.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Wait, the Coen brothers wrote Bridge of Spies?

[Brehvolution]

Next year, there will be a new category for Best Star Wars movie.

[fistfulofmetal]

Oscar nominated film Mad Max: Fury Road

[nachobro]

Only thing I'm rooting for is George Miller to win best director.

luckily we live in a sane world where that won't happen

[Tasty]

Oscar Nominees Include Zero Nonwhite Actors

[Tasty]

Wait, the Coen brothers wrote Bridge of Spies?

Yes, crazy isn't it? Nobody seemed to talk about that.

[nachobro]

ice cube's kid was robbed

[Kara]

ice cube's kid was robbed

Wow, thanks for spoiling Straight Out of Compton for me, jerk.

[Mods Help]

How did Straight out of Compton not get a nominination?

[Steve Contra]

How did Straight out of Compton not get a nominination?

Just try to imagine a world where a biopic about NWA gets a nomination in this election year.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Wait, the Coen brothers wrote Bridge of Spies?

Yes, crazy isn't it? Nobody seemed to talk about that.

I wrote that movie off as dry Baby Boomer bait. Might have to watch it now.

[mormapope]

Rooting for Tom Hardy. Dude is a better actor than Leonardo and it shows in The Revenant.

[Mr. Gundam]

The Look of Silence was my favorite documentary of the year and should win, but I'd love to hear about Scientology's efforts to keep Going Clear off the final list of nominations.

Was hoping Phoenix would get a Best Foreign nomination, but I don't think it was country's submission.

[brob]

How did Straight out of Compton not get a nominination?

Cause it wasn't that good

more like: the voting body for this shit is 90% white and sits at an average age of 60

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Wait, the Coen brothers wrote Bridge of Spies?

Yes, crazy isn't it? Nobody seemed to talk about that.

I wrote that movie off as dry Baby Boomer bait. Might have to watch it now.

It's a Spielberg movie. He has made some clunkers but overall dude is pretty consistent, especially when it comes to this sort of movie. The Coen Bros. are just icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.

Still need to watch it and Lincoln, btw.

Oh yeah, I know. Spielbergo is boss. All the promotional material just made it look like the type of movie someone's dad would drunkenly rave about at Thanksgiving.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Wait, the Coen brothers wrote Bridge of Spies?

Yes, crazy isn't it? Nobody seemed to talk about that.

I wrote that movie off as dry Baby Boomer bait. Might have to watch it now.

It's a Spielberg movie. He has made some clunkers but overall dude is pretty consistent, especially when it comes to this sort of movie. The Coen Bros. are just icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.
Still need to watch it and Lincoln, btw.

Oh yeah, I know. Spielbergo is boss. All the promotional material just made it look like the type of movie someone's dad would drunkenly rave about at Thanksgiving.

it pretty much is, but its like the best version of that movie. It really is pretty good.

and holy crap, Vikander got nominated for The Danish Girl, not Ex Machina?
and holy crap, Sicario only got a nom for cinematography and music (it should really be a contender for its score, that's a good call)?
and holy crap, Mad Max might actually be a contender.
and holy crap, Leo is finally going to get that Oscar (weak field he's playing against).

[Human Snorenado]

Love that the director of Anchorman and Talladega Nights is now nominated for an Oscar. What a time to be alive.

[octopushover]

jennifer lawrence must be a default checkmark for most of these people because i can't imagine they've actually seen joy

[TakingBackSunday]

Love that the director of Anchorman and Talladega Nights is now nominated for an Oscar. What a time to be alive.

Big Short was gud bro

Rooting for Mad Max obviously.  Also for Brie Larson.  Best young actress of her generation, fuck Lawrence

[Joe Molotov]

Love that the director of Anchorman and Talladega Nights is now nominated for an Oscar. What a time to be alive.

Oscar for Best Movie Ever Made. 

[Mupepe]

Has anyone here seen the Bradley Cooper and J Law movie Serena?  God what a piece of trash.

[Trent Dole]

Hollywood for all it's bullshit about being progressive and inclusive has quite the good ol' boy network going for it self. Take a look at the gender breakdown for directors major film releases and then check the breakdown for film students. It's a fairly even split for men and women aspiring to be in the director's chair but who actually gets to make films within the LA system, hmm? And of course there's the near auto-R-ing of anything with 'alt-lifestyle' content, the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated will give you a pretty damning overview of that. Super gross and fucked up system. ..this wasn't meant to be a deflective 'never mind racism' comment, more a supplemental noting of how Hollywood is super lame all over the place.

[Steve Contra]

Hollywood for all it's bullshit about being progressive and inclusive has quite the good ol' boy network going for it self. Take a look at the gender breakdown for directors major film releases and then check the breakdown for film students. It's a fairly even split for men and women aspiring to be in the director's chair but who actually gets to make films within the LA system, hmm? And of course there's the near auto-R-ing of anything with 'alt-lifestyle' content, the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated will give you a pretty damning overview of that. Super gross and fucked up system. ..this wasn't meant to be a deflective 'never mind racism' comment, more a supplemental noting of how Hollywood is super lame all over the place.

The bigger story in this isn't that no black people got nominated but that everyone can only name 4 films (Creed, Beasts of No Nation, Straight Outta Compton, and maybe Concussion but no one seemed to care about that anyway).  It isn't that Hollywood is just like this come awards time.

[I'm a Puppy!]

How did Straight out of Compton not get a nominination?

Bye Felicia

[Beezy]

Mad Max

Didn't expect SoC to get any nominations, but I thought Creed or Idris in Beasts of No Nation would.

[Phoenix Dark]

The bigger problem with Hollywood revolves around who is considered for roles and who isn't. It's not surprising that a bunch of white people get nominated given that the vast majority of award-viable roles go to white people. That's an issue with scriptwriting and casting. And (white) public perception. If Joy was the true story of a black woman it would be billed and sold as a "black film," with no mainstream viability because white audiences wouldn't give a fuck.

Meanwhile the most award-viable roles for black actors are almost exclusively some type of slavery or 1960s civil rights role. There wasn't a film like that in 2015 so I guess the academy decided no one was worthy lol.

I haven't seen Straight Outta Compton but I seriously doubt it deserves nominations for much. I did see Beasts Of No Nation and can confirm Elba was amazing...but perhaps the snub is moreso about Netflix than anything else. Haven't seen Creed.

At the end of the day tho all these awards shows are basically industry insider bullshit so

[nachobro]

Beasts Of No Nation is almost certainly a Netflix snub. All the theater chains boycotted it out of asspains.

[brawndolicious]

Wait, the Coen brothers wrote Bridge of Spies?

Yes, crazy isn't it? Nobody seemed to talk about that.

I'm surprised that movie was nominated tbh. It just doesn't really stand out much.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

I was hoping against hope for at least a best original song nom for Chi-Raq, or best lead for Samuel L. Jackson for H8ful 8, or Creed getting anything besides Best Supporting (adapted screenplay I guess, its a sequel).

I didn't want those for inclusiveness' sake, I wanted them because they frigging deserved the honors they didn't get. In a career rich with great supporting parts, Samuel L. Jackson had his best lead role ever for The Hateful Eight, isn't he owed some serious accolades by now? Everybody who saw Sicario (rightly) raved about Benico Del Toro, and he got nothing?

My meandering point being, there were good options to choose to nominate who weren't white people, that they didn't get recognized may or may not show racism, but it absolutely shows poor taste

[Cerveza mas fina]

Benicio Del Toro is not white?

Only in America

[VomKriege]

Hollywood for all it's bullshit about being progressive and inclusive has quite the good ol' boy network going for it self. Take a look at the gender breakdown for directors major film releases and then check the breakdown for film students. It's a fairly even split for men and women aspiring to be in the director's chair but who actually gets to make films within the LA system, hmm? And of course there's the near auto-R-ing of anything with 'alt-lifestyle' content, the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated will give you a pretty damning overview of that. Super gross and fucked up system. ..this wasn't meant to be a deflective 'never mind racism' comment, more a supplemental noting of how Hollywood is super lame all over the place.

Well, maybe there's not a lot of female DoPs because they can't lift that camera with their small muscles  (That's an actual reply I got in a similar discussion. Apparently more believable than just systemic difficulties.)

The LA Times once had an article on the matter, since the membership list is not readily available, and they found out that the voters for the Academy are in a vast majority old, male, white dudes.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/oscars/la-et-unmasking-oscar-academy-project-20120219-story.html