The Ballot 2 0 1 6 The 88th Academy Awards® Best Picture Best Director Best Adapted Screenplay Best Original Screenplay “ The Big Short” “ The Martian” Lenny Abrahamson, “ Room” “ The Big Short” “ Bridge of Spies” “ Bridge of Spies” “ Room” Alejandro G. Iñ á rritu, “ The Revenant” “ Brooklyn” “ Ex Machina” Tom McCarthy, “Spotlight” “ Carol” “ Inside Out” “ Brooklyn” “ Spotlight” Adam McKay, “The Big Short” “ Room” “ Spotlight” “ Mad Max: Fury Road” “ The Revenant” George Miller, “ Mad Max: Fury Road” “ The Martian” “ Straight Outta Compton” Best Actor Best Supporting Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actress Best Animated Feature Bryan Cranston, “ Trumbo” Christian Bale, “ The Big Short” Cate Blanchett, “ Carol” Jennifer Jason Leigh, “The Hateful Eight” “ Anomalisa” Matt Damon, “ The Martian” Tom Hardy, “ The Revenant” Brie Larson, “Room” Rooney Mara, “ Carol” “ Boy and the World” Leonardo DiCaprio, “ The Revenant” Mark Ruffalo, “ Spotlight” Jennifer Lawrence, “ Joy” Rachel McAdams, “ Spotlight” “ Inside Out” Michael Fassbender, “Steve Jobs” Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies” Charlotte Rampling, “45 Years” Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl” “ Shaun the Sheep Movie” Eddie Redmayne, “The Danish Girl” Sylvester Stallone, “ Creed” Saoirse Ronan, “ Brooklyn” Kate Winslet, “ Steve Jobs” “ When Marnie Was There” Best Cinematography Best Costume Design Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short Best Film Editing “ Carol,” Ed Lachman “ Carol,” Sandy Powell “ Amy” “ Body Team 12” “ The Big Short” “ The Hateful Eight,” Robert Richardson “ Cinderella,” Sandy Powell “ Cartel Land” “Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah” “ Mad Max: Fury Road” “ Mad Max: Fury Road,” John Seale “ The Danish Girl,” Paco Delgado “ The Look of Silence” “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” “ The Revenant” “ The Revenant,” Emmanuel Lubezki “ Mad Max: Fury Road,” Jenny Beavan “ What Happened, Miss Simone?” “ Chau Beyond the Lines” “ Spotlight” “ Sicario,” Roger Deakins “ The Revenant,” Jacqueline West “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” “ Last Day of Freedom” “ Star Wars: The Force Best Foreign Language Film Best Makeup & Hairstyling Best Original Score Best Original Song Best Production Design “ Embrace of the Serpent” (Colombia) “ Mad Max: Fury Road” “ Bridge of Spies,” Thomas Newman “ Earned It” from “ Fifty Shades of Grey” “ Bridge of Spies” “ Mustang” (France) “ The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed “ Carol,” Carter Burwell “ Manta Ray” from “ Racing Extinction” “ The Danish Girl” “ Son of Saul” (Hungary) Out the Window and Disappeared” “ The Hateful Eight,” Ennio Morricone “ Simple Song #3” from “ Youth” “ Mad Max: Fury Road” “ Theeb” (Jordan) “ The Revenant” “ Sicario,” Jó hann Jó hannsson “Til It Happens To You” from “The Hunting Ground” “ The Martian” “ A War” (Denmark) “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” John Williams “ Writings on the Wall” from “ Spectre” “ The Revenant” Best Short, Animated Best Short, Live-Action Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing Best Visual Effects “ Bear Story” “ Ave Maria” “ Mad Max: Fury Road” “ Bridge of Spies” “ Ex Machina” “ Prologue” “ Day One” “ The Martian” “ Mad Max: Fury Road” “ Mad Max: Fury Road” “ Sanjay’s Super Team” “ Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)” “ The Revenant” “ The Martian” “ The Martian” “ We Can’t Live Without Cosmos” “ Shok” “ Sicario” “ The Revenant” “ The Revenant” “ World of Tomorrow” “ Stutterer” “ Star Wars: The Force Awakens” “ Star Wars: The Force Awakens” “ Star Wars: The Force Awakens” .