88th Academy Awards

Date: February 28, 2016

Host: Chris Rock

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Best Picture

• Spotlight (2015)

The Big Short (2015)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Brooklyn (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
The Martian (2015)
The Revenant (2015)
Room (2015)


Best Director

• Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant)

Adam McKay (The Big Short)
George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Lenny Abrahamson (Room)
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)


Best Actor

• Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glassdouble (The Revenant)

Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo (Trumbo)
Matt Damon as Mark Watney (The Martian)
Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs)
Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe (The Danish Girl)


Best Actress

• Brie Larson as Joy "Ma" Newsome (Room)

Cate Blanchett as Carol Aird (Carol)
Jennifer Lawrence as Joy Mangano (Joy)
Charlotte Rampling as Kate Mercer (45 Years)
Saoirse Ronan as Eilis Lacey (Brooklyn)


Best Supporting Actor

• Mark Rylance as Rudolf Abel (Bridge of Spies)

Christian Bale as Michael Burry (The Big Short)
Tom Hardy as John Fitzgerald (The Revenant)
Mark Ruffalo as Michael Rezendes (Spotlight)
Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa (Creed)


Best Supporting Actress

• Alicia Vikander as Gerda Wegener (The Danish Girl)

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy Domergue (The Hateful Eight)
Rooney Mara as Therese Belivet (Carol)
Rachel McAdams as Sacha Pfeiffer (Spotlight)
Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman (Steve Jobs)


Best Original Screenplay

• Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight)

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)
Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus (Straight Outta Compton)


Best Adapted Screenplay

• Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (The Big Short)

Nick Hornby (Brooklyn)
Phyllis Nagy (Carol)
Drew Goddard (The Martian)
Emma Donoghue (Room)


Best Animated Feature Film

• Inside Out (2015)

Anomalisa (2015)
Boy & the World (2013)
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
When Marnie Was There (2014)


Best Foreign Language Film

• Son of Saul (2015) (Hungary) 

Embrace of the Serpent (2015) (Colombia)
Mustang (2015) (France)
Theeb (2014) (Jordan)
A War (2015) (Denmark)


Best Documentary – Feature

• Amy (2015)

Cartel Land (2015)
The Look of Silence (2014)
What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015)


Best Documentary – Short Subject

• A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015)

Body Team 12 (2015)
Chau, Beyond the Lines (2015)
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (2015)
Last Day of Freedom (2015)


Best Live Action Short Film

• Stutterer (2015)

Ave Maria (2015)
Day One (2015)
Everything Will Be Okay (2015)
Shok (2015)


Best Animated Short Film

• Bear Story (2014)

Prologue (2015)
Sanjay's Super Team (2015)
We Can't Live Without Cosmos (2015)
World of Tomorrow (2015)


Best Original Score

• Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight)

Thomas Newman (Bridge of Spies)
Carter Burwell (Carol)
Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario)
John Williams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)


Best Original Song

• Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith - "Writing's on the Wall" (Spectre)

Belly, Stephan Moccio, Jason "Daheala" Quenneville, The Weeknd - "Earned It" (Fifty Shades of Grey)
J. Ralph, Antony Hegarty - "Manta Ray" (Racing Extinction)
David Lang - "Simple Song #3" (Youth)
Lady Gaga and Diane Warren - "Til It Happens to You" (The Hunting Ground)


Best Sound Editing

• Mark A. Mangini and David White (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Oliver Tarney (The Martian)
Martin Hernández and Lon Bender (The Revenant)
Alan Robert Murray (Sicario)
Matthew Wood and David Acord (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)


Best Sound Mixing

• Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff, and Ben Osmo (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, and Drew Kunin (Bridge of Spies)
Paul Massey, Mark Taylor, and Mac Ruth (The Martian)
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom, and Chris Duesterdiek (The Revenant)
Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, and Stuart Wilson (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)


Best Production Design

• Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich, and Adam Stockhausen (Bridge of Spies)
Michael Standish and Eve Stewart (The Danish Girl)
Celia Bobak and Arthur Max (The Martian)
Jack Fisk and Hamish Purdy (The Revenant)


Best Cinematography

• Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant)

Ed Lachman (Carol)
Robert Richardson (The Hateful Eight)
John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Roger Deakins (Sicario)


Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega, and Damian Martin (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Love Larson and Eva von Bahr (The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared)
Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman, and Robert Pandini (The Revenant)


Best Costume Design

• Jenny Beavan (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Sandy Powell (Carol)
Sandy Powell (Cinderella)
Paco Delgado (The Danish Girl)
Jacqueline West (The Revenant)


Best Film Editing

• Margaret Sixel (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Hank Corwin (The Big Short)
Stephen Mirrione (The Revenant)
Tom McArdle (Spotlight)
Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)


Best Visual Effects

• Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst (Ex Machina)

Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams, and Tom Wood (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence, Richard Stammers, and Steven Warner (The Martian)
Richard McBride, Matt Shumway, Jason Smith, and Cameron Waldbauer (The Revenant)
Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, and Neal Scanlan (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)


Academy Honorary Awards

• Spike Lee
• Gena Rowlands

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Debbie Reynolds

Films with multiple nominations 

• The Revenant (12)

Mad Max: Fury Road (10)
The Martian (7)
Bridge of Spies (6)
Carol (6)
Spotlight (6)
The Big Short (5)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (5)
The Danish Girl (4)
Room (4)
Brooklyn (3)
The Hateful Eight (3)
Sicario (3)
Ex Machina (2)
Inside Out (2)
Steve Jobs (2)


Films that received multiple awards

• Mad Max: Fury Road (6)

The Revenant (3)
Spotlight (2)

Presenters

• Ellen K - Announcer for the 88th annual Academy Awards
• Emily Blunt, Charlize Theron - Presenters of the award for Best Original Screenplay
• Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling - Presenters of the award for Best Adapted Screenplay
• Sarah Silverman - Presenter of the performance of Best Original Song nominee "Writing's on the Wall"
• Henry Cavill, Kerry Washington - Presenters of the films "The Martian" and "The Big Short" on the Best Picture segment
• J. K. Simmons - Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress
• Cate Blanchett - Presenter of the award for Best Costume Design
• Steve Carell, Tina Fey - Presenters of the award for Best Production Design
• Jared Leto, Margot Robbie - Presenters of the award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
• Jennifer Garner, Benicio del Toro - Presenters of the films "The Revenant" and "Mad Max: Fury Road" on the Best Picture segment
• Michael B. Jordan, Rachel McAdams - Presenters of the award for Best Cinematography
• Priyanka Chopra, Liev Schreiber - Presenters of the award for Best Film Editing
• Chadwick Boseman
• Chris Evans - Presenters of the awards for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing
• Andy Serkis - Presenter of the award for Best Visual Effects
• Olivia Munn, Jason Segel - Presenters of the segment of the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement and the Gordon E. Sawyer Award
• Kevin, Stuart & Bob (voiced by Pierre Coffin) - Presenters of the award for Best Animated Short Film
• Sheriff Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen) - Presenters of the award for Best Animated Feature
• Kevin Hart - Presenter of the performance of Best Original Song nominee "Earned It"
• Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon - Presenters of the films "Bridge of Spies" and "Spotlight" on the Best Picture segment
• Patricia Arquette - Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor
• Louis C.K. - Presenter of the award for Best Documentary – Short Subject
• Dev Patel, Daisy Ridley - Presenters of the award for Best Documentary Feature
• Whoopi Goldberg - Presenter of the segment of the Honorary Academy Awards and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
• Louis Gossett, Jr. - Presenter of the In Memoriam tribute
• Abraham Attah, Jacob Tremblay - Presenters of the award for Best Live Action Short Film
• Lee Byung-hun, Sofía Vergara - Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Joe Biden - Presenter of the performance of Best Original Song nominee "Til It Happens to You"
• Quincy Jones, Pharrell Williams - Presenters of the award for Best Original Score
• Common, John Legend - Presenters of the award for Best Original Song
• Ali G, Olivia Wilde - Presenters of the films "Room" and "Brooklyn" on the Best Picture segment
• J. J. Abrams - Presenter of the award for Best Director
• Eddie Redmayne - Presenter of the award for Best Actress
• Julianne Moore - Presenter of the award for Best Actor
• Morgan Freeman - Presenter of the award for Best Picture

In Memoriam

• Wes Craven
• Stan Freberg
• Saeed Jaffrey
• Miroslav Ondricek
• Robert Balser
• Lizabeth Scott
• Stuart Reiss
• Robert Chartoff
• Murray Weissman
• Jerry Weintraub
• James L. White
• Barbara Brogliatti
• Omar Sharif
• Louis DiGiamio
• Patricia Norris
• Dean Jones
• Ettore Scola
• Alan Rickman
• Haskell Wexler
• Karolyn Ali
• Tex Rudloff
• Richard Corliss
• John B. Mansbridge
• Alex Rocco
• Kirk Kerkorian
• Bob Minkler
• Douglas Slocombe
• David W. Samuelson
• James Horner
• Bruce Sinofsky
• Frank D. Gilroy
• Holly Woodlawn
• James Elmo Williams
• Howard A. Anderson
• Roger L. Mayer
• Albert Maysles
• Melissa Mathison
• Richard Glatzer
• David Bowie
• Vilmos Zsigmond
• Daniel Gerson
• Leonard Nimoy