"Spotlight" was the surprise Best Picture winner, Leo finally took home an Oscar, and Chris Rock made light of the elephant in the room — the lack of racial equality in Hollywood — but also played it straight on the point that people of color need and deserve more opportunities in the film industry. Oh, and “Mad Max: Fury Road” cleaned house. Here are all the nominees and winners at Sunday’s 88th Academy Awards.
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