Nominations for the 88th Academy Awards

BEST PICTURE
The Big Short Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
Bridge of Spies Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
Brooklyn Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
Mad Max: Fury Road Doug Mitchell and George Miller, Producers
The Martian Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam, Producers
The Revenant Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon, Producers
Room Ed Guiney, Producer
* Spotlight Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, Producers

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Bryan Cranston in Trumbo
Matt Damon in The Martian
* Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant
Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett in Carol
* Brie Larson in Room
Jennifer Lawrence in Joy
Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christian Bale in The Big Short
Tom Hardy in The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight
* Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone in Creed

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara in Carol
Rachel McAdams in Spotlight
* Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet in Steve Jobs

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

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
* The Big Short Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Brooklyn Screenplay by Nick Hornby
Carol Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
The Martian Screenplay by Drew Goddard
Room Screenplay by Emma Donoghue

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Bridge of Spies Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Ex Machina Written by Alex Garland
Inside Out Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
* Spotlight Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
Straight Outta Compton Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Carol Ed Lachman
The Hateful Eight Robert Richardson
Mad Max: Fury Road John Seale
* The Revenant Emmanuel Lubezki
Sicario Roger Deakins

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Bridge of Spies Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich
The Danish Girl Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish
* Mad Max: Fury Road Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson
The Martian Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
The Revenant Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy

SOUND MIXING
Bridge of Spies Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
* Mad Max: Fury Road Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
The Martian Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth
The Revenant Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

MUSIC (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

MUSIC (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 and 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

FILM EDITING
The Big Short Hank Corwin
* Mad Max: Fury Road Margaret Sixel
The Revenant Stephen Mirrione
Spotlight Tom McArdle
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

COSTUME DESIGN
Carol Sandy Powell
Cinderella Sandy Powell
The Danish Girl Paco Delgado
* Mad Max: Fury Road Jenny Beavan
The Revenant Jacqueline West

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
* Mad Max: Fury Road Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
The Revenant Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini

VISUAL EFFECTS
* Ex Machina Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
Mad Max: Fury Road Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
The Martian Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner
The Revenant Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

SOUND EDITING
* Mad Max: Fury Road Mark Mangini and David White
The Martian Oliver Tarney
The Revenant Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender
Sicario Alan Robert Murray
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Matthew Wood and David Acord

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
* Bear Story Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Prologue Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
Sanjay's Super Team Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
We Can't Live without Cosmos Konstantin Bronzit
World of Tomorrow Don Hertzfeldt

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Ave Maria Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
Day One Henry Hughes
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut) Patrick Vollrath
Shok Jamie Donoughue
* Stutterer Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
* Amy Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
Cartel Land Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
The Look of Silence Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
What Happened, Miss Simone? Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Body Team 12 David Darg and Bryn Mooser
Chau, beyond the Lines Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah Adam Benzine
* A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Last Day of Freedom Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Embrace of the Serpent Colombia
Mustang France
* Son of Saul Hungary
Theeb Jordan
A War Denmark

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Anomalisa Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
Boy and the World Alê Abreu
* Inside Out Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
Shaun the Sheep Movie Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
When Marnie Was There Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Debbie Reynolds

HONORARY AWARD
Spike Lee
Gena Rowlands

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS (ACADEMY CERTIFICATES)
To Michael John Keesling for the design and development of Image Shaker, an optical system that convincingly creates the illusion of the camera shaking in a variable and repeatable manner.
To David McIntosh, Steve Smith, Mike Branham and Mike Kirilenko for the engineering and development of the Aircover Inflatables Airwall.
To Trevor Davies, Thomas Wan, Jon Scott Miller, Jared Smith and Matthew Robinson for the development of the Dolby Laboratories PRM Series Reference Color Monitors.
To Ronald Mallet and Christoph Bregler for the design and engineering of the Industrial Light & Magic Geometry Tracker, a novel, general-purpose tracker and solver.
To Jim Hourihan, Alan Trombla and Seth Rosenthal for the design and development of the Tweak Software RV system, a highly extensible media player system.
To Richard Chuang and Rahul Thakkar for the groundbreaking design, and to Andrew Pilgrim, Stewart Birnam and Mark Kirk for the review workflows and advanced playback features, of the DreamWorks Animation Media Review System.
To Keith Goldfarb, Steve Linn, Brian Green and Raymond Chih for the development of the Rhythm & Hues Global DDR System.
To J Robert Ray, Cottalango Leon and Sam Richards for the design, engineering and continuous development of Sony Pictures Imageworks Itview.

SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARDS (ACADEMY PLAQUES)
To Brian McLean and Martin Meunier for pioneering the use of rapid prototyping for character animation in stop-motion film production.
To Jack Greasley, Kiyoyuki Nakagaki, Duncan Hopkins and Carl Rand for the design and engineering of the MARI 3D texture painting system.

SPECIAL AWARD (PLAQUE)
To the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers