Oscar Winners

☆☆☆ - StarMovieReviews.com Predicted Winner



Best Picture


Spotlight




Best Director



☆☆☆Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant





Best Actor



☆☆☆Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant





Best Actress



☆☆☆Brie Larson, Room





Best Supporting Actor



Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies





Best Supporting Actress



☆☆☆Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl




Best Original Screenplay



☆☆☆Spotlight





Best Adapted Screenplay



☆☆☆The Big Short





Best Animated Feature



☆☆☆Inside Out




Best Foreign Language Film


☆☆☆Son of Saul





Best Documentary Feature


☆☆☆Amy





Best Cinematography



☆☆☆The Revenant





Best Film Editing



☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road





Best Production Design



☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road





Best Costume Design



☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road





Best Original Score



☆☆☆The Hateful Eight





Best Original Song



“Writing’s on the Wall,” Spectre




Best Visual Effects



Ex Machina





Best Makeup & Hairstyling



☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road





Best Sound Mixing



☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road





Best Sound Editing


☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road





Best Documentary Short



A Girl in the River





Best Live Action Short Film



Stutterer



Best Animated Short Film


Bear Story

Oscar Predictions 2016

Best Picture

The Big Short

Bridge of Spies

Brooklyn

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

☆☆☆The Revenant

Room

Spotlight




Best Director

Adam McKay, The Big Short

George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road

☆☆☆Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant

Lenny Abrahamson, Room

Tom McCarthy, Spotlight



Best Actor

Bryan Cranston, Trumbo

Matt Damon, The Martian

☆☆☆Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant

Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl



Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, Carol

☆☆☆Brie Larson, Room

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

☆☆☆Sylvester Stallone, Creed



Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight

Rooney Mara, Carol

Rachel McAdams, Spotlight

☆☆☆Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl

Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs



Best Original Screenplay

Bridge of Spies

Ex Machina

Inside Out

☆☆☆Spotlight

Straight Outta Compton



Best Adapted Screenplay

☆☆☆The Big Short

Brooklyn

Carol

The Martian

Room



Best Animated Feature

Anomalisa

Boy and the World

☆☆☆Inside Out

Shaun the Sheep Movie

When Marnie Was There



Best Foreign Language Film

Embrace of the Serpent

Mustang

☆☆☆Son of Saul

Theeb

A War



Best Documentary Feature

☆☆☆Amy

Cartel Land

The Look of Silence

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom



Best Cinematography

Carol

The Hateful Eight

Mad Max: Fury Road

☆☆☆The Revenant

Sicario



Best Film Editing

The Big Short

☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

Spotlight

Star Wars: The Force Awakens



Best Production Design

Bridge of Spies

The Danish Girl

☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant



Best Costume Design

Carol

Cinderella

The Danish Girl

☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant



Best Original Score

Bridge of Spies

Carol

☆☆☆The Hateful Eight

Sicario

Star Wars: The Force Awakens



Best Original Song

“Earned It,” 50 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



Best Visual Effects

Ex Machina

☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Star Wars: The Force Awakens



Best Makeup & Hairstyling

☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared

The Revenant



Best Sound Mixing

Bridge of Spies

☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Star Wars: The Force Awakens



Best Sound Editing

☆☆☆Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Sicario

Star Wars: The Force Awakens



Best Documentary Short

Body Team 12

Chau, Behind the Lines

☆☆☆Claude Lanzman: Spectres of the Shoah

A Girl in the River

Last Day of Freedom



Best Live Action Short Film

Ave Maria

Day One

Everything Will Be Okay

☆☆☆Shok

Stutterer



Best Animated Short Film

Bear Story

Prologue

Sanjay’s Super Team

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

☆☆☆World of Tomorrow

Bridge of Spies

☆☆☆☆1/2

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Based on true events, "Bridge of Spies" (Academy Award nomination for best picture) is the suspenseful story of James Donovan (Tom Hanks)...an American attorney that negotiated the trade of a spy plane pilot being held by the Russian government for a Russian spy being held by the U.S.A.
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May be tough to find in theaters, but worth the effort.

Rated PG-13
2 hr. 15 min.

Visit the official website and see the trailer.

Anomalisa

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Nominated for Best Animated Feature..."Anomalisa" is the story of an unhappy man struggling with the relationships in his life.
Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Thewils ("Harry Potter...Hallows Part 2), and Tom Noonan voice all of the characters.
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It is hard to appreciate what is special about the movie when it just so melancholy...joyless...depressing.

Rated R
1 hr. 30 min.

Visit the website and watch the trailer.

Youth

☆☆1/2

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"Youth" (all star cast including Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda) is the story of two old friends at the end of their careers taking a vacation in the Swiss Alps...and reflecting on their lives.
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The film suffers from a poor screenplay that is trying too hard to be something profound.
Difficult to care about the underdeveloped characters.

Rated R
2 hr. 3 min.

Visit the official website and see the trailer.