The big day is finally here! The Academy Awards will be announced live from the Dolby Theatre tonight in the heart of Hollywood, with Chris Rock hosting the big event. We'll be watching the big show live all night and updating this story with all of the winners, live as they're announced. Who do you think will take home the big awards during Oscar Sunday tonight? We'll find out soon enough.
Academy members from each of the 17 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories - actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.
Official screenings of all motion pictures with one or more nominations will begin for members on Saturday, January 23, at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Screenings also will be held at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and in London, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Active members of the Academy are eligible to vote for the winners in all 24 categories.
The 88th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Academy Awards presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. Take a look at all of the nominees below, and keep refreshing for the latest updates.
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BEST ACTRESS
- Brie Larson - Room
- Cate Blanchett - Carol
- Jennifer Lawrence - Joy
- Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years
- Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn
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BEST DIRECTOR
- Alejandro González Iñárritu - The Revenant
- Lenny Abrahamson - Room
- Adam McKay - The Big Short
- George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
- Thomas McCarthy - Spotlight
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BEST ORIGINAL SONG
- "Writing's On the Wall" from Spectre
- "Earned It" from Fifty Shades of Grey
- "Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction
- "Simple Song #3" from Youth
- "Til It Happens To You" from The Hunting Ground
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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
- The Hateful Eight - Ennio Morricone
- Bridge of Spies - Thomas Newman
- Carol - Carter Burwell
- Sicario - Jóhann G. Jóhannsson
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens - John Williams
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BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
- Son of Saul (Hungary; László Nemes)
- A War (Denmark; Tomas Lindholm))
- Embrace of the Serpent
- Mustang (France; Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
- Theeb (Jordan; Naji Abu Nowar)
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BEST SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION
- Stutterer - Benjamin Cleary
- Ave Maria - Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
- Day One - Henry Hughes
- Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut) - Patrick Vollrath
- Shok - Jamie Donoughue
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BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
- Amy
- Cartel Land
- The Look of Silence'
- What Happened, Miss Simone?
- Winter on Fire
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BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
- A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- 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
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies
- Christian Bale - The Big Short
- Tom Hardy - The Revenant
- Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight
- Sylvester Stallone - Creed
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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
- Inside Out
- Anomalisa
- The Boy and the World
- Shaun the Sheep
- When Marnie Was There
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BEST SHORT FILM - ANIMATED
- Bear Story (Historia de un Oso)} - Gabriel Osorio and Pato EscalaPrologue - Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
- Sanjay's Super Team - Sanjay Patel and Nicole Drindle
- We Can't Live Without Cosmos - Konstantin Bronzit
- World of Tomorrow - Don Hertzfeldt
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BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
- Ex Machina - Andrew Whitehurst
- Mad Max: Fury Road - Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams
- The Martian - Richard Stammers, Chris Lawrence, Anders Langlands, Steven Warner
- The Revenant - Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett
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BEST SOUND MIXING
- Mad Max: Fury Road - Ben Osmo, Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff
- Bridge of Spies - Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, Drew Kunin
- The Martian - Mac Ruth, Paul Massey, Mark Taylor
- The Revenant - Chris Duesterdiek, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor, Randy Thom
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Stuart Wilson, Andy Nelson, Chris Scarabosio
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BEST SOUND EDITING
- Mad Max: Fury Road - Mark Mangini, David White
- The Martian - Oliver Tarney
- The Revenant - Martin Hernandez, Lon Bender
- Sicario - Alan Robert Murray
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens - David Accord, Matthew Wood
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BEST FILM EDITING
- Mad Max: Fury Road - Margaret Sixel
- The Big Short - Hank Corwin
- The Revenant - Stephen Mirrione
- Spotlight - Tom McArdle
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Maryann Brandon, Mary Jo Markey
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
- The Revenant - Emmanuel Lubezki
- Carol - Edward Lachman
- The Hateful Eight - Robert Richardson
- Mad Max: Fury Road - John Seale
- Sicario - Roger Deakins
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BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
- Mad Max: Fury Road - Lesley Vanderwalt, Damian Martin, Elka Wardega
- 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
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BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
- Mad Max: Fury Road - Colin Gibson; Katie Sharrock, Lisa Thompson
- Bridge of Spies - Adam Stockhausen; Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich
- The Danish Girl - Eve Stewart; Michael Standish
- The Martian - Arthur Max; Celia Bobak
- The Revenant - Jack Fisk, Hamish Purdy
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BEST COSTUME DESIGN
- Mad Max: Fury Road - Jenny Beavan
- Carol - Sandy Powell
- Cinderella - Sandy Powell
- The Danish Girl - Paco Delgado
- The Revenant - Jacqueline West
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl
- Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
- Rooney Mara - Carol
- Rachel McAdams - Spotlight
- Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs
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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- The Big Short - Adam McKay, Charles Randolph
- Brooklyn - Nick Hornby
- Carol - Phyllis Nagy
- The Martian - Drew Goddard
- Room - Emma Donoghue
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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Spotlight - Thomas McCarthy, Josh Singer
- Bridge of Spies - Matthew Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Ex Machina - Alex Garland
- Inside Out - Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve
- Straight Outta Compton - Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus