LOS ANGELES — “The Revenant” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” were showered with honors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, picking up Oscar nominations for best picture and best director.
There will be six best picture nominees to join them: “Bridge of Spies,” “Spotlight,” “The Big Short,” “The Martian,” “Brooklyn” and “Room.” Notably not among them: “Straight Outta Compton” and “Carol,” both of which were pegged to make the cut by awards handicappers.
For the second year in a row, Oscar voters put forth an all-white field of acting nominees. Without the diverse “Straight Outta Compton” – last year’s field at least had “Selma” – the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is certain to face blowback for its selections.
“The Revenant,” directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, drew 12 nominations in total — the most of any film — with Leonardo DiCaprio honored for his wounded frontiersman and Tom Hardy for his villainous supporting role. Additional nominations came in more technical categories like cinematography and sound mixing, an indication of especially broad support among all classes of voters. (One possible exception: No women were among its on-screen nominees.)
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With 10 nominations, George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” was the second most-honored film, although most of its support came from technical areas, like film editing, costume design and makeup and hairstyling. Behind “Fury Road” came “The Martian,” with seven nominations – although its director, Ridley Scott, was prominently snubbed – and “Spotlight,” with six, including nods for its director, Tom McCarthy, and two of its supporting actors, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams.
Rounding out the race for best director will be Adam McKay (“The Big Short”) and, in a little-expected selection, Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”).
Here is a complete list of the nominees.
The acting fields were filled with familiar faces. As expected, Cate Blanchett came away with her sixth best actress nomination for “Carol.” Jennifer Lawrence, now a four-time nominee, this time for “Joy,” joined Ms. Blanchett in the category. Also selected were Brie Larson from “Room,” Charlotte Rampling from “45 Years” and Saoirse Ronan from “Brooklyn.”
Mr. DiCaprio, picking up his fifth acting nomination, will be competing against the reigning best actor winner, Eddie Redmayne, who picked up a nod for “The Danish Girl.” Voters also backed Matt Damon (“The Martian”), Bryan Cranston (“Trumbo”) and Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”).
Although the cold shoulder to Mr. Scott, who has never won a directing Oscar, was perhaps the biggest snub, there were others. Aaron Sorkin was not among the adapted screenplay nominees for “Steve Jobs,” even though he took the screenwriting prize at the Golden Globes on Sunday.
“Concussion,” starring Will Smith, and “Beasts of No Nation,” featuring Idris Elba, received nothing. The racially diverse “Creed,” directed by Ryan Coogler, was shut out, except for a nomination for its (white) war-horse supporting actor, Sylvester Stallone.
The documentary category also brought two prominent rebukes, as two widely viewed investigative films, Alex Gibney’s “Going Clear,” focused on Scientology, and Kirby Dick’s “The Hunting Ground” were left out. Instead, nominations went to “Amy,” about the rise and fall of Amy Winehouse; “Cartel Land,” set in Mexico; “The Look of Silence,” about genocide in Indonesia; and a pair of heavily campaigned Netflix films, “What Happened, Miss Simone?” and “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom.”
Interactive Feature | Oscar Nominees Share Their Thoughts Reactions from some of this year's newly minted contenders.
The Academy announced the nominations in two batches on Thursday morning, the first group with categories like documentary, sound editing and mixing, animated film and screenwriting. The second wave included the closely watched acting, directing and best picture nominations.
A few open questions were quickly settled. “Anomalisa,” a bit of stop-motion puppetry from Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, for instance, overcame head-scratching by some animation fans to take its place alongside the more conventionally built “Inside Out,” “When Marnie Was There,” “Boy and the World” ” and “Shaun the Sheep Movie” in the best animated film category. Left out were Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” and “The Peanuts Movie.”
Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy president; Guillermo del Toro; Ang Lee and the actor John Krasinski took turns reading the list of nominees at a news conference that started at 5:30 a.m. Pacific time. (Why those film celebrities? They have promotional irons in the fire. Mr. Krasinski stars in Paramount’s “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” set to open on Friday. Mr. Lee is finishing “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” for release by Sony in November. Mr. del Toro is among the producers of “Kung Fu Panda 3,” due from DreamWorks Animation this month.)
There was little mystery to the first-round nominations: Most of the contenders have been considered locked for months, the result of a dance that started in the summer, with studio strategists whispering into the ears of awards handicappers.
In the category of best cinematography, for instance, the nominees — as some of the savvier prognosticators have long predicted — are “The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Hateful Eight,” “Carol” and “Sicario.”
Unlike last year’s awards race, when “Birdman” and “Boyhood” dominated (with “The Grand Budapest Hotel” in hot pursuit), this year’s competition is still wide open. A ragged Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday did little to focus the competition. “Carol,” which led the field heading into the night, left empty-handed; Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “The Revenant,” a late arrival on the circuit, took the awards for best drama and best director.
The newspaper drama “Spotlight,” considered a major contender by many awards handicappers, was shut out at the Globes, as was “The Big Short,” which is centered on last decade’s mortgage meltdown. One of the only films to receive multiple Globes, “Steve Jobs” has been considered an also-ran on the awards trail, partly because it was rejected at the box office; Globe voters gave it prizes for Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay and Kate Winslet’s acting in a supporting role.
Under the Academy’s complex counting method, an eight-film best picture spread (for the second year), indicates that opinion was fairly fragmented. In 2009, the academy increased the number of possible films nominated in the best picture category from five to ten.
“Mad Max: Fury Road” received 10 nominations, including best picture.
Jasin Boland / Warner Bros. Pictures
After three years of entrusting its ceremony to the producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who brought in Seth MacFarlane to sing about female on-screen nudity as host and Neil Patrick Harris to stand in his underwear, the Academy has turned to a new pair of telecast producers: Reginald Hudlin, a filmmaker whose raucous comedies include “House Party,” and David Hill, a producer with credits on “American Idol” and the 2011 World Series broadcast.
Under pressure to lift ratings — the audience for the last year’s ceremony dropped nearly 15 percent, to around 36.6 million viewers, from 43 million in 2014 — the new producers turned to Chris Rock to host. (NBC attracted about 18.5 million viewers for this year’s Globes, down from 19.3 million a year earlier, according to Nielsen data.)
ABC will broadcast the Oscars on Feb. 28.
There will be six best picture nominees to join them: “Bridge of Spies,” “Spotlight,” “The Big Short,” “The Martian,” “Brooklyn” and “Room.” Notably not among them: “Straight Outta Compton” and “Carol,” both of which were pegged to make the cut by awards handicappers.
For the second year in a row, Oscar voters put forth an all-white field of acting nominees. Without the diverse “Straight Outta Compton” – last year’s field at least had “Selma” – the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is certain to face blowback for its selections.
“The Revenant,” directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, drew 12 nominations in total — the most of any film — with Leonardo DiCaprio honored for his wounded frontiersman and Tom Hardy for his villainous supporting role. Additional nominations came in more technical categories like cinematography and sound mixing, an indication of especially broad support among all classes of voters. (One possible exception: No women were among its on-screen nominees.)
Interactive Feature | New York Times 2016 Academy Awards Ballot Make your Oscar picks and share your ballot with your friends.
With 10 nominations, George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” was the second most-honored film, although most of its support came from technical areas, like film editing, costume design and makeup and hairstyling. Behind “Fury Road” came “The Martian,” with seven nominations – although its director, Ridley Scott, was prominently snubbed – and “Spotlight,” with six, including nods for its director, Tom McCarthy, and two of its supporting actors, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams.
Rounding out the race for best director will be Adam McKay (“The Big Short”) and, in a little-expected selection, Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”).
Here is a complete list of the nominees.
The acting fields were filled with familiar faces. As expected, Cate Blanchett came away with her sixth best actress nomination for “Carol.” Jennifer Lawrence, now a four-time nominee, this time for “Joy,” joined Ms. Blanchett in the category. Also selected were Brie Larson from “Room,” Charlotte Rampling from “45 Years” and Saoirse Ronan from “Brooklyn.”
Mr. DiCaprio, picking up his fifth acting nomination, will be competing against the reigning best actor winner, Eddie Redmayne, who picked up a nod for “The Danish Girl.” Voters also backed Matt Damon (“The Martian”), Bryan Cranston (“Trumbo”) and Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”).
Although the cold shoulder to Mr. Scott, who has never won a directing Oscar, was perhaps the biggest snub, there were others. Aaron Sorkin was not among the adapted screenplay nominees for “Steve Jobs,” even though he took the screenwriting prize at the Golden Globes on Sunday.
“Concussion,” starring Will Smith, and “Beasts of No Nation,” featuring Idris Elba, received nothing. The racially diverse “Creed,” directed by Ryan Coogler, was shut out, except for a nomination for its (white) war-horse supporting actor, Sylvester Stallone.
The documentary category also brought two prominent rebukes, as two widely viewed investigative films, Alex Gibney’s “Going Clear,” focused on Scientology, and Kirby Dick’s “The Hunting Ground” were left out. Instead, nominations went to “Amy,” about the rise and fall of Amy Winehouse; “Cartel Land,” set in Mexico; “The Look of Silence,” about genocide in Indonesia; and a pair of heavily campaigned Netflix films, “What Happened, Miss Simone?” and “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom.”
Interactive Feature | Oscar Nominees Share Their Thoughts Reactions from some of this year's newly minted contenders.
The Academy announced the nominations in two batches on Thursday morning, the first group with categories like documentary, sound editing and mixing, animated film and screenwriting. The second wave included the closely watched acting, directing and best picture nominations.
A few open questions were quickly settled. “Anomalisa,” a bit of stop-motion puppetry from Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, for instance, overcame head-scratching by some animation fans to take its place alongside the more conventionally built “Inside Out,” “When Marnie Was There,” “Boy and the World” ” and “Shaun the Sheep Movie” in the best animated film category. Left out were Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” and “The Peanuts Movie.”
Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy president; Guillermo del Toro; Ang Lee and the actor John Krasinski took turns reading the list of nominees at a news conference that started at 5:30 a.m. Pacific time. (Why those film celebrities? They have promotional irons in the fire. Mr. Krasinski stars in Paramount’s “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” set to open on Friday. Mr. Lee is finishing “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” for release by Sony in November. Mr. del Toro is among the producers of “Kung Fu Panda 3,” due from DreamWorks Animation this month.)
There was little mystery to the first-round nominations: Most of the contenders have been considered locked for months, the result of a dance that started in the summer, with studio strategists whispering into the ears of awards handicappers.
In the category of best cinematography, for instance, the nominees — as some of the savvier prognosticators have long predicted — are “The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Hateful Eight,” “Carol” and “Sicario.”
Unlike last year’s awards race, when “Birdman” and “Boyhood” dominated (with “The Grand Budapest Hotel” in hot pursuit), this year’s competition is still wide open. A ragged Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday did little to focus the competition. “Carol,” which led the field heading into the night, left empty-handed; Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “The Revenant,” a late arrival on the circuit, took the awards for best drama and best director.
The newspaper drama “Spotlight,” considered a major contender by many awards handicappers, was shut out at the Globes, as was “The Big Short,” which is centered on last decade’s mortgage meltdown. One of the only films to receive multiple Globes, “Steve Jobs” has been considered an also-ran on the awards trail, partly because it was rejected at the box office; Globe voters gave it prizes for Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay and Kate Winslet’s acting in a supporting role.
Under the Academy’s complex counting method, an eight-film best picture spread (for the second year), indicates that opinion was fairly fragmented. In 2009, the academy increased the number of possible films nominated in the best picture category from five to ten.
“Mad Max: Fury Road” received 10 nominations, including best picture.
Jasin Boland / Warner Bros. Pictures
After three years of entrusting its ceremony to the producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who brought in Seth MacFarlane to sing about female on-screen nudity as host and Neil Patrick Harris to stand in his underwear, the Academy has turned to a new pair of telecast producers: Reginald Hudlin, a filmmaker whose raucous comedies include “House Party,” and David Hill, a producer with credits on “American Idol” and the 2011 World Series broadcast.
Under pressure to lift ratings — the audience for the last year’s ceremony dropped nearly 15 percent, to around 36.6 million viewers, from 43 million in 2014 — the new producers turned to Chris Rock to host. (NBC attracted about 18.5 million viewers for this year’s Globes, down from 19.3 million a year earlier, according to Nielsen data.)
ABC will broadcast the Oscars on Feb. 28.
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