Here are the nominees and winners (in bold) for each category:

Best Picture

  • The Big Short — Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner
  • Bridge of Spies — Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger
  • Brooklyn — Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
  • Mad Max: Fury Road — Doug Mitchell and George Miller
  • The Martian — Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam
  • The Revenant — Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon
  • Room — Ed Guiney
  • Spotlight — Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust [WINNER]

Directing

  • Adam McKay — The Big Short
  • George Miller — Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu — The Revenant [WINNER]
  • Lenny Abrahamson — Room
  • Tom McCarthy  Spotlight

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Cinematography

  • Ed Lachman — Carol
  • Robert Richardson — The Hateful Eight
  • John Seale — Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Emmanuel Lubezki — The Revenant [WINNER]
  • Roger Deakins — Sicario

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Film Editing

  • The Big Short — Hank Corwin
  • Mad Max: Fury Road — Margaret Sixel [WINNER]
  • The Revenant — Stephen Mirrione
  • Spotlight — Tom McArdle
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens — Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

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Adapted Screenplay

  • Brooklyn — Nick Hornby
  • The Big Short — Adam McKay and Charles Randolph [WINNER]
  • Carol — Phyllis Nagy
  • The Martian — Drew Goddard
  • Room — Emma Donoghue

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Original Screenplay

  • Bridge of Spies — Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen
  • Ex Machina — Alex Garland
  • Inside Out — Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Ronnie del Carmin
  • Spotlight — Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy [WINNER]
  • Straight Outta Compton — Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus, Andrea Berloff

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Animated Feature Film

  • 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

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Costume Design

  • Carol — Sandy Powell
  • Cinderella — Sandy Powell
  • The Danish Girl — Paco Delgado
  • Mad Max: Fury Road — Jenny Beavan [WINNER]
  • The Revenant — Jacqueline West

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Visual Effects

  • Ex Machina — Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett [WINNER]
  • 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 

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Original Score

  • Bridge of Spies — Thomas Newman
  • Carol — Carter Burwell
  • The Hateful Eight — Ennio Morricone [WINNER]
  • Sicario — Jóhann Jóhannsson
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens — John Williams

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Sound Editing

  • Mad Max: Fury Road — Mark Mangini and David White [WINNER]
  • 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

Sound Mixing

  • Bridge of Spies — Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
  • Mad Max: Fury Road — Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo [WINNER]
  • 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

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]

Documentary Feature

  • Amy — Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees [WINNER]
  • 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

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Documentary Short Subject

  • A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy [WINNER]
  • 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
  • Last Day of Freedom — Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman

Makeup & Hairstyling

  • Mad Max: Fury Road — Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega, Damian Martin [WINNER]
  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared — Love Larson, Eva von Bahr
  • The Revenant — Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman, Robert Pandini

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

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 [WINNER]

Best Actor

  • Brian 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

Foreign Language Film

  • Embrace of the Serpent — Colombia; Directed by Ciro Guerra
  • Mustang — France; Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
  • Son of Saul — Hungary; Directed by László Nemes [WINNER]
  • Theeb — Jordan; Directed by Naji Abu Nowar
  • A War — Denmark; Directed by Tobias Lindholm

Production Design

  • Bridge of Spies — Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich (Set Decoration)
  • The Danish Girl — Eve Stewart (Production Design); Michael Standish (Set Decoration)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road — Colin Gibson (Production Design); Lisa Thompson (Set Decoration) [WINNER]
  • The Martian — Arthur Max (Production Design); Celia Bobak (Set Decoration)
  • The Revenant — Jack Fisk (Production Design); Hamish Purdy (Set Decoration)