'Mad Max' Sweeps Below-the-Line, 'Spotlight' Best Picture: Full List of 2016 Oscar Winners
Oscar night has finally come! We're here to bring you our coverage of the nominees as well as up-to-date information on who goes home with a golden statue.
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)