DiCaprio Reborn As The Revenant Scoops Up 12 Oscar Nominations

The awards season has been a mixed bag of emotions with few delights, some expected nominees snubbed, however The Revenant scoops 12 nominations as the 88th Academy Awards announce it’s nominees. Could 2016 finally be the year Leonardo DiCaprio finally grabs himself a golden statue for best actor, when you see the nominees it might just be his year!

Scooping up 12 nominations for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s grim wilderness drama, including noms for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best ing Actor, and Best Film Editing.Could Iñárritu make it 2 in a row after Birdman?Best chances lie to his regular Oscar winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki who won the double last year with Birdman and Ida looks odds on for another statue this year. As for the burning question will DiCaprio finally win that elusive prize?

His competiton is coming from the likes of Michael Fassbender for The Danish Girl is an ok film but compared to The Theory of Everything it’s average but with great performance, a shame as Lily Ebbe’s story deserved a stronger story.

The Revenant’s closest rival in challenging for the statues is Mad Max: Fury Road  with 10 noms finally highlighting the academy jury do think outside the box when picking the nominees. The Martian, Brooklyn, Room, Big Short, Bridge Of Spies make of the rest of the Best Feature Film however the big shock is the omission of Todd Haynes Carol. But looking at the early awards this comes to no surprise its not up for best film however Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara up for best Actress/ing actress.

Below is the full list of nominations, and you can find out on 28th February at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood with the master of the ceremony duties courtesy of Chris Rock.

Here’s the full list of nominees.

Best Picture
The Big Short
Bridge Of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

Best Animated Feature
Anomalisa
Boy & The World (O Menino E O Mundo)
Inside Out
Shaun The Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There

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 ing Actor
Christian Bale The Big Short
Mark Ruffalo  Spotlight
Mark Rylance Bridge Of Spies
Sylvester Stallone  Creed
Tom Hardy  The Revenant

Best ing Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh  The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara  Carol
Rachel McAdams Spotlight
Alicia Vikander  The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet Steve Jobs

Best Director
Adam McKay  The Big Short
George Miller  Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro González Iñárritu The Revenant
Tom McCarthy Spotlight
Lenny Abrahamson  Room

Best Adapted Screenplay
Emma Donoghue  Room
Drew Goddard  The Martian
Nick Hornby  Brooklyn
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph The Big Short
Phyllis Nagy  Carol

Best Original Screenplay
Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen (Bridge Of Spies)
Alex Garland (Ex Machina)
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley (Inside Out)
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight)
Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton)

Best Cinematography
Ed Lachman, Carol
John Seale, Mad Max: Fury Road
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
Roger Deakins, Sicario
Robert Richardson, The Hateful Eight

Best Costume Design
Sandy Powell  Carol
Sandy Powell  Cinderella
Paco Delgado  The Danish Girl
Jenny Beavan Mad Max: Fury Road
Jacqueline West  The Revenant

Best Documentary
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look Of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom

Best Documentary Short
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

Best Makeup And Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared

Best Original Song
Earned It from Fifty Shades Of Grey (The Weeknd)
Simple Song #3 from Youth (David Lang)
Writing On The Wall from Spectre (Sam Smith)
Til It Happens To You from The Hunting Ground (Diane Warren and Lady Gaga)
Manta Ray from Racing Extinction

Best Animated Short
Bear Story (Historia De Un Oso)
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
World Of Tomorrow
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

Best Live-Action Short
Ave Maria
Day One
Shok
Stutterer
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)

Best Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Sound Mixing
Bridge Of Spies
The Martian
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Film Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Big Short
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Revenant

Best Foreign Language Film
Mustang
Son Of Saul
Theeb
A War
Embrace The Serpent

Best Original Score
Carter Burwell Carol
Ennio Morricone  The Hateful Eight
John Williams Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Thomas Newman  Bridge Of Spies
Jóhann Jóhannsson Sicario

Best Production Design
Bridge Of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant

Best Visual Effects
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Ex Machina