# 2016 Oscar Watch-along thread (includes nominations and show order) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458 "2016-02-28T23:55:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/1 "2016-02-28T23:55:16Z")
Please no threadshitting. If you’re not into the Oscars or movies, go start your own thread. Here are the nominees, and though I can’t confirm this until the show itself goes along, but I believe these are listed in the order they will be presented. To learn more about the nominees, here is the [Wikipedia nominees page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88th_Academy_Awards) with links to all the films. Here is the [IMDB nominees page](http://www.imdb.com/awards-central/oscars?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=2417966282&pf_rd_r=0X3ABVPW2QR27WM3DV2Y&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_ac_acd_lk1), with IMDB links to all the nominees. **Original Screenplay** Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen Ex Machina – Alex Garland Inside Out – Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and Ronnie del Carmen Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer Straight Outta Compton – Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus **Adapted Screenplay** The Big Short – Adam McKay and Charles Randolph from The Big Short by Michael Lewis Brooklyn – Nick Hornby from Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín Carol – Phyllis Nagy from The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith The Martian – Drew Goddard from The Martian by Andy Weir Room – Emma Donoghue from Room by Emma Donoghue **Supporting Actress** Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight as Daisy Domergue Rooney Mara – Carol as Therese Belivet Rachel McAdams – Spotlight as Sacha Pfeiffer Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs as Joanna Hoffman **Costume Design** Carol – Sandy Powell Cinderella – Sandy Powell The Danish Girl – Paco Delgado Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan The Revenant – Jacqueline West **Production Design** Bridge of Spies – Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich, and Adam Stockhausen The Danish Girl – Michael Standish and Eve Stewart Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson The Martian – Celia Bobak and Arthur Max The Revenant – Jack Fisk and Hamish Purdy **Makeup & Hairstyling** The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Love Larson and Eva von Bahr Mad Max: Fury Road – Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega, and Damian Martin The Revenant – Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman, and Robert Pandini **Cinematography** Carol – Ed Lachman The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki Sicario – Roger Deakins **Film Editing** The Big Short – Hank Corwin Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel The Revenant – Stephen Mirrione Spotlight – Tom McArdle Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey **[Sound Editing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_editor_%28filmmaking%29)** Mad Max: Fury Road – Mark A. Mangini and David White The Martian – Oliver Tarney The Revenant – Martin Hernández and Lon Bender Sicario – Alan Robert Murray Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Matthew Wood and David Acord **[Sound Mixing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_mixing#Film_and_television)** Bridge of Spies – Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, and Drew Kunin Mad Max: Fury Road – Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff, and Ben Osmo 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 **Visual Effects** Ex Machina – Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst Mad Max: Fury Road – Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams, and Tom Wood The Martian – Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence, Richard Stammers, and Steven Warner The Revenant – Richard McBride, Matt Shumway, Jason Smith, and Cameron Waldbauer Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, and Neal Scanlan **Animated Short Film** Bear Story – Pato Escala Pierart and Gabriel Osorio Vargas Prologue – Imogen Sutton and Richard Williams Sanjay’s Super Team – Nicole Paradis Grindle and Sanjay Patel We Can’t Live Without Cosmos – Konstantin Bronzit World of Tomorrow – Don Hertzfeldt **Animated Feature Film** Anomalisa – Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, and Rosa Tran Boy & 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 **Supporting Actor** Christian Bale – The Big Short as Michael Burry Tom Hardy – The Revenant as John Fitzgerald Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight as Michael Rezendes Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies as Rudolf Abel Sylvester Stallone – Creed as Rocky Balboa **Documentary Short Subject** 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 A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Last Day of Freedom – Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman **Documentary Feature** Amy – Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees 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 **Live Action Short Film** Ave Maria – Eric Dupont and Basil Khalil Day One – Henry Hughes Everything Will Be Okay – Patrick Vollrath Shok – Jamie Donoughue Stutterer – Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage **Foreign Language Film** Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia) in Spanish – Ciro Guerra Mustang (France) in Turkish – Deniz Gamze Ergüven Son of Saul (Hungary) in Hungarian – László Nemes Theeb (Jordan) in Arabic – Naji Abu Nowar A War (Denmark) in Danish – Tobias Lindholm **Original Song** “Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey – Music and Lyric by Ahamad Balshe (Belly), Stephan Moccio, Jason “Daheala” Quenneville, Abel Tesfaye (The Weekend) “Manta Ray” from Racing Extinction – Music by J. Ralph, Lyric by Antony Hegarty “Simple Song #3” from Youth – Music and Lyric by David Lang “Til It Happens to You” from The Hunting Ground – Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and Diane Warren “Writing’s on the Wall” from Spectre – Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith **Original Score** Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman Carol – Carter Burwell The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone Sicario – Jóhann Jóhannsson Star Wars: The Force Awakens – John Williams **Best Directing** Adam McKay – The Big Short George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant Lenny Abrahamson – Room Tom McCarthy – Spotlight **Best Actress** Cate Blanchett – Carol as Carol Aird Brie Larson – Room as Joy “Ma” Newsome Jennifer Lawrence – Joy as Joy Mangano Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years as Kate Mercer Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey **Best Actor** Bryan Cranston – Trumbo as Dalton Trumbo Matt Damon – The Martian as Mark Watney Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant as Hugh Glass Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs as Steve Jobs Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl as Lili Elbe **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 ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/2 "2016-02-29T00:05:15Z")
Very excited! I live a couple miles from Hollywood, so I’ll be at the local hole playing Oscar Bingo. GO JJL! ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/3 "2016-02-29T00:23:09Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Very excited! I live a couple miles from Hollywood, so I’ll be at the local hole playing Oscar Bingo. > > GO JJL! Ryan Seacrest just interviewed Jennifer (Jason Leigh, for anyone confused) and he asked her who she was wearing. She just threw back her head and blurted “HA!” and that was the end of the interview. I laughed for 5 minutes. I love her! ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/4 "2016-02-29T00:32:25Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Ryan Seacrest just interviewed Jennifer (Jason Leigh, for anyone confused) and he asked her who she was wearing. She just threw back her head and blurted “HA!” and that was the end of the interview. I laughed for 5 minutes. I love her! What channel are you watching? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/5 "2016-02-29T00:40:18Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > What channel are you watching? E! for now. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/6 "2016-02-29T01:13:39Z")
Is the Dolby Theater a place where you can see movies on a regular basis? ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/7 "2016-02-29T01:14:36Z")
The level of phoniness and cliche during these red carpet segments is horrible. “The party never stops at the Oscars!” Puh-leeeez… ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/8 "2016-02-29T01:20:25Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > The level of phoniness and cliche during these red carpet segments is horrible. > > “The party never stops at the Oscars!” > > Puh-leeeez… Charleze likes the hamburgers. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/9 "2016-02-29T01:21:40Z")
Michael is struggling a bit here ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/10 "2016-02-29T01:34:02Z")
My favorite part is always the montages. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/11 "2016-02-29T01:34:37Z")
Chris Rock’s jacket #oscarsowhite Yeah it’s low-hanging fruit, but it’s there ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/12 "2016-02-29T01:35:10Z")
disappointed already ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/13 "2016-02-29T01:40:57Z")
chris rock is floundering ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/14 "2016-02-29T01:41:08Z")
Started off OK…then went downhill fast ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/15 "2016-02-29T01:43:36Z")
yawn ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/16 "2016-02-29T01:48:15Z")
So all their thanks are scrolling along the bottom? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/17 "2016-02-29T01:48:55Z")
Alright, you can thank literally 6 people, but the rest we put on a ticker…deal?" ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/18 "2016-02-29T01:49:59Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Alright, you can thank literally 6 people, but the rest we put on a ticker…deal?" Could be worse. They could be required to Tweet them. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/19 "2016-02-29T01:51:17Z")
Brooklyn was so amazingly beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458/20 "2016-02-29T01:52:51Z")
Woot! The Big Short wins Best Adapted Screenplay! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-oscar-watch-along-thread-includes-nominations-and-show-order/747458.md?page=2)