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Chris Luckett
With the Golden Globe Awards taking place this past Sunday, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that nobody actually cares about them. Regardless of how they’re very on by fewer than 90 people and the fact they consider things like The Martian a comedy, The Golden Globes are just the most public awards show for movies in the lead-up to the movie awards that really matter – the Oscars!
Tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn, the world will find out the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards. But what movies can you expect to be up for the treasured trophies?
BEST PICTURE
(Since there could be up to ten nominees, this category alone is ranked in the order of the likelihood of each movie’s inclusion.)
1. Spotlight
2. The Revenant
3. The Martian
4. The Big Short
5. Carol
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
7. Room
8. Bridge of Spies
9. Brooklyn
10. Steve Jobs
DARK HORSES: Inside Out, Sicario, Straight Outta Compton
Photo: Twentieth Century Fox
BEST DIRECTOR
Todd Haynes (Carol)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant)
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)
George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Ridley Scott (The Martian)
DARK HORSES: Lenny Abrahamson (Room), Adam McKay (The Big Short), and Steven Spielberg (Bridge of Spies)
BEST ACTOR
Bryan Cranston (Trumbo)
Matt Damon (The Martian)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)
Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl)
DARK HORSES: Christian Bale (The Big Short), Johnny Depp (Black Mass), and Will Smith (Concussion)
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett (Carol)
Brie Larson (Room)
Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)
Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)
Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)
DARK HORSES: Jennifer Lawrence (Joy), Maggie Smith (The Lady in the Van), and Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Photo: A24
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Benicio Del Toro (Sicario)
Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation)
Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight)
Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
Sylvester Stallone (Creed)
DARK HORSES: Steve Carell (The Big Short), Paul Dano (Love & Mercy), and Michael Shannon (99 Homes)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight)
Rooney Mara (Carol)
Helen Mirren (Trumbo)
Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)
Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs)
DARK HORSES: Jane Fonda (Youth), Rachel McAdams (Spotlight), and Kristen Stewart (Clouds of Sil Maria)
BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL)
Bridge of Spies
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
Spotlight
Trainwreck
DARK HORSES: Ex Machina, Joy, and Sicario
BEST SCREENPLAY (ADAPTED)
The Big Short
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Steve Jobs
DARK HORSES: Brooklyn, Carol, and Trumbo
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie was There
DARK HORSES: Minion, The Peanuts Movie, and The Prophet
Photo: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE
The Brand New Testament (Belgium)
Labyrinth of Lies (Germany)
Mustang (France)
Son of Saul (Hungary)
The War (Denmark)
DARK HORSES: Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia), Theeb (Jordan), and Viva (Ireland)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario
DARK HORSES: Bridge of Spies, The Martian, and The Walk
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
DARK HORSES: Brooklyn, Crimson Peak, and The Hateful Eight
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Amy
Cartel Land
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
He Named Me Malala
The Look of Silence
DARK HORSES: The Hunting Ground, Listen to Me, Marlon, and Where to Invade Next
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
50 Feet from Syria
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
The Testimony
DARK HORSES: Claude Lauzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, My Enemy, My Brother, and Starting Point
Photo: Warner Bros.
BEST EDITING
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
DARK HORSES: The Force Awakens, Sicario, and Spotlight
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Black Mass
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
DARK HORSES: Legend and Mr. Holmes
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Carol
The Force Awakens
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Steve Jobs
DARK HORSES: Bridge of Spies, The Danish Girl, and Sicario
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Love Me Like You Do” (Fifty Shades of Grey)
“See You Again” (Furious 7)
“Simple Song 3” (Youth)
“‘Til It Happens to You” (The Hunting Ground)
“Writing’s on the Wall” (Spectre)
DARK HORSES: “Feels Like Summer” (Shaun the Sheep Movie), “None of Them are You” (Anomalisa), and “Waiting for My Moment” (Creed)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Bridge of Spies
Carol
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
DARK HORSES: Brooklyn, Crimson Peak, and The Force Awakens
Photo: Twentieth Century Fox
BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Bear Story (Historia de Un Oso)
Carface (Autos Portraits)
If I Was God…
Sanjay’s Super Team
World of Tomorrow
DARK HORSES: An Object at Rest, Prologue, and We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE-ACTION)
Ave Maria
Day One
Shok
Stutterer
Winter Light
Dark Horses: Bis Gleich (Till Then), Contrapelo (Against the Grain), and Everything Will Be Okay
BEST SOUND EDITING
The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Dark Horses: The Hateful Eight, Inside Out, and Jurassic World
BEST SOUND MIXING
The Force Awakens
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Dark Horses: Bridge of Spies, Inside Out, and Straight Outta Compton
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Force Awakens
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Dark Horses: The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ex Machina, and The Walk
Photo: Universal Pictures
The 88th Academy Award nominations will be announced live tomorrow morning at 5:30 PST by Guillermo Del Tor, Ang Lee, John Krasinki, and AMPAS president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
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