The survival thriller The Revenant leads this year's Oscar nominations with twelve nominations including Best Picture and a widely expected Best Actor nod for Leonardo Di Caprio who now looks like a dead cert to finally win an Oscar (sorry Fassbender fans).
A recent win at the BAFTAs has put it back in the running for the Best Picture gong. However this year there's no clear front-runner and the race for the top prize still remains wide open as either Spotlight or The Big Short both have momentum in the run up to Oscar night on February 28th.
After the nominations were announced, actor Will Poulter, who stars opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Domhnall Gleeson in The Revenant, told TEN that he was delighted at the recognition that the movie is receiving.
"It's amazing. I think the awards attention is a really lovely bonus. The most important thing for us is that it's affected audiences and people have engaged watching it. But, of course, all of that is lovely and I'm made up for everybody nominated", he said.
The Revenant leads the way with twelve nominations
Spotlight continues its good run the awards season and picked up six nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Mark Ruffalo) and Supporting Actress (Rachel McAdams), though the Irish movies Room (four nominations) and Brooklyn (three nominations) aren't that far behind.
Spotlight has six nominations
The other big contender at this year's Oscars (and a movie nobody saw doing this well earlier this year) is Mad Max: Fury Road which picked up a very respectable ten nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for seventy year old George Miller.
Here's the full list of nominees.
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 González Iñárritu - The Revenant
Adam McKay - The Big Short
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
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 Ruffalo - Spotlight
Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone - Creed
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
Rachel McAdams - Spotlight
Rooney Mara - Carol
Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs
Best Foreign Language Film
Mustang (France)
Son of Saul (Hungary)
Theeb (Jordan)
A War (Denmark)
Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)
Best Documentary
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
Best Animated Film
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There
Best Original Screenplay
Bridge of Spies - Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Ex Machina - Alex Garland
Inside Out - Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Spotlight - Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy
Straight Outta Compton - Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S Leigh Savidge and Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff
Best Adapted Screenplay
Room - Emma Donoghue
The Martian - Drew Goddard
Brooklyn - Nick Hornby
Carol - Phyllis Nagy
The Big Short - Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Cinematography
Carol - Ed Lachman
The Hateful Eight - Robert Richardson
Mad Max: Fury Road - John Seale
The Revenant - Emmanuel Lubezki
Sicario - Roger Deakins
Best Original Score
Bridge of Spies - Thomas Newman
Carol - Carter Burwell
The Hateful Eight - Ennio Morricone
Sicario - Jóhann Jóhannsson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - John Williams
Best Original Song
Earned It from Fifty Shades of Grey; Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
Manta Ray from Racing Extinction; Music by J Ralph, Lyric by Antony Hegarty
Simple Song #3 from Youth; Music and Lyric by David Lang
Til It Happens To You from The Hunting Ground; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
Writing's on the Wall from SPECTRE; Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
Best Live Action Short
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
Stutterer
Best Animated Short
Prologue
Sanjay's Super Team
We Can't Live Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow
Bear Story
Best Documentary Short
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Last Day of Freedom
Film Editing
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Visual Effects
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Production Design
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Costume Design
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Makeup and Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Revenant
Sound Mixing
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sound Editing
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
