The 88th annual Academy Awards nominations The Oscars will be presented on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles Best Picture: Best Foreign Language Film: q "The Big Short" q "Embrace of the Serpent" (Colombia) q "Bridge of Spies" q "Mustang" (France) q "Brooklyn" q "Son of Saul" (Hungary) q "Mad Max: Fury Road" q "Theeb" (Jordan) q "The Martian" q "A War" (Denmark) q "The Revenant" q "Room" Best Adapted Screenplay: q "Spotlight" q "The Big Short" q "Brooklyn" Best Director: q "Carol" q Adam McKay, "The Big Short" q "The Martian" q George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road" q "Room" q Alejandro G. Iñárritu, "The Revenant" q Lenny Abrahamson, "Room" Best Original Screenplay: q Tom McCarthy, "Spotlight" q "Bridge of Spies" q "Ex Machina" Best Actor: q "Inside Out" q Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo" q "Spotlight" q Matt Damon, "The Martian" q "Straight Outta Compton" q Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant" q Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs" Best Animated Feature Film q Eddie Redmayne, "The Danish Girl" q "Anomalisa" q "Boy and the World" Best Actress: q "Inside Out" q Cate Blanchett, "Carol" q "Shaun the Sheep Movie" q Brie Larson, "Room" q "When Marnie Was There" q Jennifer Lawrence, "Joy" q Charlotte Rampling, "45 Years" Best Cinematography: q Saoirse Ronan, "Brooklyn" q "Carol" q "The Hateful Eight" Best Supporting Actor: q "Mad Max: Fury Road" q Christian Bale, "The Big Short" q "The Revenant" q Tom Hardy, "The Revenant" q "Sicario" q Mark Ruffalo, "Spotlight" q Mark Rylance, "Bridge of Spies" Best Costume Design: q Sylvester Stallone, "Creed" q "Carol" q "Cinderella" Best Supporting Actress: q "The Danish Girl" q Jennifer Jason Leigh, "The Hateful Eight" q "Mad Max: Fury Road" q Rooney Mara, "Carol" q "The Revenant" q Rachel McAdams, "Spotlight" q Alicia Vikander, "The Danish Girl" q Kate Winslet, "Steve Jobs" Best Film Editing: Best Sound Editing: q "The Big Short" q "Mad Max: Fury Road" q "Mad Max: Fury Road" q "The Martian" q "The Revenant" q "The Revenant" q "Spotlight" q "Sicario" q "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" q "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Best Visual Effects q "Mad Max: Fury Road" q "Ex Machina" q "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed q "Mad Max: Fury Road" Out the Window and Disappeared" q "The Martian" q "The Revenant" q "The Revenant" q "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Best Production Design: q "Bridge of Spies" Best Documentary - Feature: q "The Danish Girl" q "Amy" q "Mad Max: Fury Road" q "Cartel Land" q "The Martian" q "The Look of Silence" q "The Revenant" q "What Happened, Miss Simone?" q "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Best Original Song: Freedom" q "Earned It" (from "Fifty Shades of Grey") q "Manta Ray" (from "Racing Extinction") Best Documentary - Short Subject: q "Simple Song #3" (from "Youth") q "Body Team 12" q "'Til It Happens To You" (from "The q "Chau, Beyond the Lines" Hunting Ground") q "Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the q "Writing's On The Wall" (from Shoah" "Spectre") q "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" Best Original Score: q "Last Day of Freedom" q "Bridge of Spies" q "Carol" Best Animated Short Film: q "The Hateful Eight" q "Bear Story" q "Sicario" q "Prologue" q "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" q "Sanjay's Super Team" q "We Can't Live Without Cosmos" Best Sound Mixing: q "World of Tomorrow" q "Bridge of Spies" q "Mad Max: Fury Road" Best Live Action Short Film: q "The Martian" q "Ave Maria" q "The Revenant" q "Day One" q "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" q "Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)" q "Shok" q "Stutterer" .