This is it, folks. The big one. The White People’s Choice Awards Academy Awards just wrapped up at the Dolby Theater, and the newest batch of cinema’s elite have been honoured with weird, anthropomorphic statuettes.
While it was heralded as a damn fine piece of storytelling, Spotlight has become the latest ‘outsider’ to nab Best Picture. Not unheralded: Leonardo DiCaprio, a bloke who you may have gathered hasn’t had the greatest Oscars luck, finally took out the big one for The Revenant. Joining him as Best Actress is Brie Larson, for her turn in Room.
Mad Max: Fury Road absolutely cleaned up for the technical but oh-so-grungy mastery displayed on-screen. Jenny Beavan was honoured for her contributions to costume design – anybody who took a gander at Immortan Joe’s fucked-up face-piece knows she was a shoo-in – while Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin were given the nod in makeup and styling, for their subtle use of chrome spray-paint.
There were other movies too, apparently. Some included bears, boxing, bank loans and the inside of a little girl’s head, and some of them were actually pretty decent. Have a gander:
Best Picture
The Big Short
Bridge Of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight (WINNER)
Actor In A Leading Role
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Matt Damon – The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant (WINNER)
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmaybe – The Danish Girl
Actress In A Leading Role
Cate Blanchett – Carol
Brie Larson – Room (WINNER)
Jennifer Lawrence – Joy
Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Actor In A Supporting Role
Christian Bale – The Big Short
Tom Hardy – The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
Mark Rylance – Bridge Of Spies (WINNER)
Sylvester Stallone – Creed
Actress In A Supporting Role
Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara – Carol
Rachel McAdams – Spotlight
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl (WINNER)
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
Animated Feature Film
Anomalisa
Boy & The World
Inside Out (WINNER)
Shaun The Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There
Achievement in Cinematography
Ed Lachman – Carol
Robert Richardson – The Hateful Eight
John Seale – Mad Max: Fury Road
Emmanuel Lubezki – The Revenant (WINNER)
Roger Deakins – Sicario
Achievement in Costume Design
Sandy Powell – Carol
Sandy Powell – Cinderella
Paco Delgado – The Danish Girl
Jenny Beavan – Mad Max: Fury Road (WINNER)
Achievement in Directing
Adam McKay – The Big Short
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant (WINNER)
Lenny Abrahamson – Room
Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
Best Documentary (Feature)
Amy (WINNER)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres Of The Shoah
A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness (WINNER)
Last Day Of Freedom
Hank Corwin – The Big Short
Margaret Sixel – Mad Max: Fury Road (WINNER)
Stephen Mirrione – The Revenant
Tom McArdle – Spotlight
Embrace of the Serpent
Mustang
Son of Saul (WINNER)
A War
Achievement in Makeup And Styling
Thomas Newman – Bridge Of Spies
Ennio Morricone – The Hateful Eight (WINNER)
John Williams – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
‘Earned It’ – Fifty Shades Of Grey
‘Manta Ray’ – Racing Extinction
‘Simple Song #3’ – Youth
‘Til It Happens To You’ – The Hunting Ground
‘Writing’s On The Wall’ – Spectre (WINNER)
Achievement in Production Design
Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich (Set Decoration) – Bridge Of Spies
Best Short Film (Animated)
Bear Story (WINNER)
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
World Of Tomorrow
Short Film (Live Action)
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
Stutterer (WINNER)
Mark Mangini and David WHite – Mad Max: Fury Road (WINNER)
Oliver Tarney – The Martian
Alan Robert Murray – Sicario
Mathew Wood and David Accord – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Achievement in Sound Mixing
Achievement in Visual Effects
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay – The Big Short (WINNER)
Nick Hornby – Brooklyn
Phyllis Nagy – Carol
Drew Goddard – The Martian
Emma Donoghue – Room
Achievement in Writing (Original Screenplay)
Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen – Bridge of Spies
Alex Garland – Ex Machina
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen – Inside Out
Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy – Spotlight (WINNER)
Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff – Straight Outta Compton
Source: The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
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