2016 Oscar Winners

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Best Picture

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

Best Actor

  • Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
  • Matt Damon, The Martian
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant (winner)
  • Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
  • Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

Best Actress

  • Cate Blanchett, Carol
  • Brie Larson, Room (winner)
  • 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 (winner)
  • Sylvester Stallone, Creed

Best Supporting Actress

  • Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
  • Rooney Mara, Carol
  • Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
  • Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl (winner)
  • Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

Best Director

  • Adam McKay, The Big Short
  • George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant (winner)
  • Lenny Abrahamson, Room
  • Tom McCarthy, Spotlight

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

  • The Big Short (winner)
  • Brooklyn
  • Carol
  • The Martian
  • Room

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

  • Bridge of Spies
  • Ex Machina
  • Inside Out
  • Spotlight (winner)
  • Straight Outta Compton

Best Editing

  • The Big Short
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (winner)
  • The Revenant
  • Spotlight
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Animated Feature Film

  • Anomalisa
  • Boy and the World
  • Inside Out (winner)
  • Shaun the Sheep Movie
  • When Marnie Was There

Best Cinematography

  • Carol
  • The Hateful Eight
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Revenant (winner)
  • Sicario

Best Costume Design

  • Carol
  • Cinderella
  • The Danish Girl
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (winner)
  • The Revenant

Best Original Score

  • Bridge of Spies
  • Carol
  • The Hateful Eight (winner)
  • Sicario
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Original Song

  • “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)

Best Documentary, Feature

  • Amy (winner)
  • Cartel Land
  • The Look of Silence
  • What Happened, Miss Simone?
  • Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

Best Documentary, Short Subject

  • Body Team 12
  • Chau, beyond the Lines
  • Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
  • A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (winner)
  • Last Day of Freedom

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Embrace of the Serpent
  • Mustang
  • Son of Saul (winner)
  • Theeb
  • A War

Makeup and Hairstyling

  • Mad Max: Fury Road (winner)
  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared
  • The Revenant

Best Production Design

  • Bridge of Spies
  • The Danish Girl
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (winner)
  • The Martian
  • The Revenant

Best Short Film, Animated

  • Bear Story (winner)
  • Prologue
  • Sanjay’s Super Team
  • We Can’t Live without Cosmos
  • World of Tomorrow

Best Short Film, Live Action

  • Ave Maria
  • Day One
  • Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
  • Shok
  • Stutterer (winner)

Best Sound Editing

  • Mad Max: Fury Road (winner)
  • The Martian
  • The Revenant
  • Sicario
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Sound Mixing

  • Bridge of Spies
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (winner)
  • The Martian
  • The Revenant
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Visual Effects

  • Ex Machina (winner)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Martian
  • The Revenant
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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