The 2016 Oscars have concluded, and among the winners were a few surprises. Mad Max: Fury Road took a lot of the early honors, while The Revenant looked to challenge the dystopian juggernaut. Top honors went to a sleeper nominee, Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight. The night was full of thrills and frills and did not disappoint viewers.
One of the biggest surprises of the night was that Matt Damon’s hit space film The Martian failed to take any honors. According to Collider, “Spotlight is the lowest total-haul Best Picture winner since 1952’s The Greatest Show on Earth (which also won 2).” This year marks the 88th Academy Awards, and the 2016 Oscars was more of a platform to incite a revolution in Hollywood. Leonardo DiCaprio took opportunity to talk about climate change during his Best Actor speech, while the President of the Academy plead for more films from the industry that reflected the current state of America, in response to this year’s second helping of the #OscarsSoWhite movement. While this statement wasn’t an acceptance of guilt, it was a call for reform.
Two people won their first Oscars in 2016, Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant, and composer Ennio Morricone. You can see the full 2016 Oscars winner list below, after the break.
And The Award Goes To…
2016 Oscars: BEST PICTURE
Winner: Spotlight
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
2016 Oscars: BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant)
Adam McKay (The Big Short)
George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Lenny Abrahamsson (Room)
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)
2016 Oscars: BEST ACTRESS
Winner: Brie Larson (Room)
Cate Blanchett (Carol)
Jennifer Lawrence (Joy)
Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)
Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)
2016 Oscars: BEST ACTOR
Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
Bryan Cranston (Trumbo)
Matt Damon (The Martian)
Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)
Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl)
2016 Oscars: BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)
Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight)
Rooney Mara (Carol)
Rachel McAdams (Spotlight)
Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs)
2016 Oscars: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
Christian Bale (The Big Short)
Tom Hardy (The Revenant)
Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight)
Sylvester Stallone (Creed)
2016 Oscars: BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Spotlight
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Straight Outta Compton
2016 Oscars: BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: The Big Short
Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room
2016 Oscars: BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Winner: Inside Out
Anomalisa
Boy & the World
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Winner: Son of Saul – Hungary
Embrace of the Serpent – Colombia
Mustang – France
Theeb – Jordan
A War – Denmark
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner: Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Winner: The Hateful Eight
Bridge of Spies
Carol
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Winner: “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
BEST SOUND EDITING
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST SOUND MIXING
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
Bridge of Spies
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: Mad Max Fury Road
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
The Martian
The Revenant
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: The Revenant
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Revenant
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
The Revenant
BEST FILM EDITING
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
The Big Short
The Revenant
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner: Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Winner: Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
Winner: Stutterer
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay
Shok
BEST DOCUMENTARY – SHORT SUBJECT
Winner: A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
Last Day of Freedom
[display-posts posts_per_page=”5″ orderby=”title”]
