EDDIE Redmayne could be set to strip Leonardo DiCaprio of his first Oscar as
they do battle for Best Actor.
Brit born Eddie is a contender to bag the award, which he won last year for
The Theory of Everything, after wowing as transgender pioneer Lile Elbe in
The Danish Girl.
It would be a huge blow for Leonardo, who has been nominated five times for an
Academy Award, but never won.
He is up for The Revenant, which has the most nominations – notching an
incredible 12 nods.
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That’s just two less than the most nominated films ever, Titanic and All About
Eve with 14.
But success is not guaranteed, as only four years ago Lincoln won just two
awards from 12 nominations, while The Kings Speech landed only four from the
same amount of noms in 2010.
Fighting Eddie and Leo for Best Actor are Irish star Michael Fassbender (Steve
Jobs), Matt Damon (The Martian) and Breaking Bad favourite Bryan Cranston
(Trumbo).
Kate Winslet, Tom Hardy, Christian Bale and Sam Smith are among the other
British nominees for this year’s Oscars.
Previous Best Actress winner Kate received a nod in the Best Supporting
Actress category for Steve Jobs, where she will face Alicia Vikander (The
Danish Girl), Rooney Mara (Carol), Rachel McAdams (Spotlight) and Jennifer
Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight).
It will be a battle of the Brits in Best Supporting Actor between Tom Hardy
for The Revenant, Christian Bale for The Big Short and Mark Rylance for
Bridge of Spies. Sylvester Stallone, who won the equivalent award at the
Golden Globes on Sunday for Creed, and Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight) are also in
this category.
Irish star Saoirse Ronan will face Jennifer Lawrence (Joy), Cate Blanchett
(Carol), Brie Larson (Room) and English acting veteran Charlotte Rampling
(45 Years) for Best Actress.
Best Picture will be fought between The Danish Girl, Max Max: Fury Road, The
Revenant, The Martian, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Room and The Big Short –
which could see Brad Pitt bag an Oscar for his role as producer.
In The Lonely Hour singer Sam will face Lady Gaga and The Weeknd in the Best
Original Song category.
He is up for Bond theme Writing’s On The Wall, which he won a Golden Globe for
at the weekend, while Gaga – another Globe victor, for her role in American
Horror Story: Hotel – is up for Til It Happens To You from college rape
documentary The Hunting Ground.
The late Amy Winehouse will also be remembered as the hit film of her life,
Amy, is up for Best Documentary Feature.
The Weeknd bagged a nomination for his Fifty Shades of Grey song Earned It,
but there will be no invite to the Oscars for Ellie Goulding, who was
expected to be nominated for her own song from the kinky movie, global smash
Love Me Like You Do.
Other Brit snubs include Idris Elba and Dame Maggie Smith, who were nominated
for Baftas on Friday for their roles in Beasts of No Nation and The Lady In
The Van, and The Martian’s Ridley Scott for Best Director.
Also snubbed were Quentin Tarantino for The Hateful Eight and West Wing writer
Aaron Sorkin for Best Screenplay for Steve Jobs.
The Academy was also criticised once again for the lack of diversity in major
categories.
The nominations were announced by directors John Krasinski, Guillermo del Toro
and Ang Lee in Los Angeles this afternoon.
This year’s Oscars will be hosted by comedian Chris Rock and held at the Dolby
Theatre in Hollywood on February 28.
THE NOMINATIONS IN FULL:
Best motion picture of the year
“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
Performance by an 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”
Performance by an 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”
Performance by an 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”
Performance by an 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”
Best animated feature film of the year
“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
Achievement in cinematography
“Carol” Ed Lachman
“The Hateful Eight” Robert Richardson
“Mad Max: Fury Road” John Seale
“The Revenant” Emmanuel Lubezki
“Sicario” Roger Deakins
Achievement in costume design
“Carol” Sandy Powell
“Cinderella” Sandy Powell
“The Danish Girl” Paco Delgado
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Jenny Beavan
“The Revenant” Jacqueline West
Achievement in directing
“The Big Short” Adam McKay
“Mad Max: Fury Road” George Miller
“The Revenant” Alejandro G. Iñárritu
“Room” Lenny Abrahamson
“Spotlight” Tom McCarthy
Best 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
Achievement in 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
Best foreign language film of the year
“Embrace of the Serpent” Colombia
“Mustang” France
“Son of Saul” Hungary
“Theeb” Jordan
“A War” Denmark
Achievement in 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
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (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
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (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
Achievement in 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
Best 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
Best 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
Achievement in 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
Achievement in 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
Achievement in 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
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