Oscars 2016: Predictions and Film Excess' favorites

2/28/2016

Oscars 2016: Predictions and Film Excess' favorites

Tonight is the night of the 88th Academy Awards, hosted this year by Chris Rock (Top Five (2014)), back as host for his second time, following his 2005 job.
Following are the list of nominees. Note that the three short film categories are left out, since I as usual don't have any qualified opinion about them.

Red marks the person/s or film I predict will win the Oscar.
Film Excess favorite marks the person/s or film I hope will win the Oscar.

Chris Rock looks game, but will he be able to navigate the diversity-heated waters of the Hollywood elite on Oscar night? We'll have to wait and see ...

Best Visual Effects

Ex Machina
Mad Mad: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Film Excess favorite

Best Film Editing

The Big Short Film Excess favorite
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Costume Design

Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road Film Excess favorite
The Revenant

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Film Excess favorite
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant

Best Cinematography

Carol (Ed Lachman)
The Hateful Eight (Robert Richardson)
Mad Max: Fury Road (John Seale)
The Revenant (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Sicario (Roger Deakins) Film Excess favorite

Best Production Design

Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road Film Excess favorite
The Martian
The Revenant

Best Sound Mixing

Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Film Excess favorite

Best Sound Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road Film Excess favorite
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Original Song

Earned It - Fifty 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 Film Excess favorite

Best Original Score

Bridge of Spies (Thomas Newman)
Carol (Carter Burwell)
The Hateful Eight (Ennio Morricone) Film Excess favorite
Sicario (Jóhann Jóhannsson)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (John Williams)

Best Documentary

Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence Film Excess favorite
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

Best Foreign Language Film

Embrace of the Serpent - Ciro Guerra, Colombia
Mustang - Deniz Gamze Ergüven, France
Son of Saul - László Nemes, Hungary
Theeb - Naji Abu Nowar, Jordan
A War - Tobias Lindholm, Denmark Film Excess favorite

Best Animated Feature

Anomalisa
Boy & the World
Inside Out Film Excess favorite
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Big Short (Adam McKay, Charles Randolph) Film Excess favorite
Brooklyn (Nick Hornby)
Carol (Phyllis Nagy)
The Martian (Drew Goddard)
Room (Emma Donoghue)

Best Original Screenplay

Bridge of Spies (Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
Inside Out (Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Ronnie Del Carmen) Film Excess favorite
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer)
Straight Outta Compton (Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus)

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara - Carol
Rachel McAdams - Spotlight
Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl Film Excess favorite
Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs

Best Supporting Actor

Christian Bale - The Big Short
Tom Hardy - The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight
Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone - Creed Film Excess favorite

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett - Carol
Brie Larson - Room
Jennifer Lawrence - Joy
Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn Film Excess favorite

Best Actor

Bryan Cranston - Trumbo
Matt Damon - The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl Film Excess favorite

Best Director

Adam McKay - The Big Short Film Excess favorite
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu - The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson - Room
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight

Best Picture

The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn Film Excess favorite
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

Related posts:

Oscars 2015: Prognosis and Film Excess' favorites
Oscars 2014: Prognosis and Film Excess' favorites

Enjoy the Oscars!

- And remember to check in here again tomorrow to read Film Excess' brutally honest take on the eve; its winners, losers, presenters, performances and host!

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Donald Sutherland has passed away

Born in Canada, Sutherland battled polio as a child. His first credit was in Suspense (1963, TV-series) and his first film was The Castle of the Living Dead (1964). Later credits in his remarkable career include The Saint (1965-66), The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), 1900 (1976), Casanova (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Ordinary People (1980), A Dry White Season (1989), JFK (1991), Outbreak (1995), Fallen (1998), Virus (1999), Fierce People (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lord of War (2005), The Hunger Games (2012), The Undoing (2020, miniseries) and many more. He passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Roger Corman has passed away

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Corman had a sprawling, intellectually hungry life as a youth and young man before arriving with his first film in 1955, Five Guns West. He would follow that with titles such as Apache Woman, It Conquered the World, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Teenage Cave Man, A Bucket of Blood, House of Usher, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Intruder, The Raven, The Terror, The Masque of Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Bloody Mama and many more. As a producer he was behind almost 500 films. Arguably among the most important filmmakers of the 20th century, Corman passed away at age 98. R.I.P.

William Friedkin has died

Born in Chicago, Friedkin accrued TV credits prior to his advance to the big screen as the director of Good TImes (1967), The Birthday Party (1968), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and The Boys in the Band (1970) before his major breakthrough, The French Connection (1971), for which he won his only Oscar. He followed it up with the even bigger smash, The Exorcist (1973), arguably the best horror film of all time, for which he was Oscar-nominated. Later credits include Sorcerer (1977), Cruising (1980), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Rampage (1987), Rules of Engagement (2000), Killer Joe (2011) and The Devil and Father Amorth (2017, documentary). Friedkin passed away at age 87. R.I.P.

Louise Fletcher has passed away

Born in Alabama to deaf parents, Fletcher got her first credits in late-1950s TV-series.She took a 10 year-long sabbatical to devote her time to motherhood after the release of A Gathering of Eagles, but then came back and soon saw her career's most important part, as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she won her sole Oscar. Later credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Lucky Star (1980), Brainstorm (1983), Two Moon Junction (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), A Perfect Man (2013) and many more. Fletcher passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Jean-Luc Godard has passed away

Born in Paris, France, Godard lived much of his life in Switzerland. He wrote for French film criticism magazine Cahiers du Cinema and became foundational for the New French Wave that inspired new waves in scores of other countries across the world with his Breathless (1960). Later credits include A Woman Is A Woman (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967), Weekend (1967), Every Man for Himself (1980), King Lear (1987), Century of Cinema (1995, documentary), Goodbye to Language (2014) and many more. Godard died of assisted suicide at age 91. R.I.P.

Wolfgang Petersen has died

James Caan has died

Caan was born the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany in New York. He got his start on TV in the early 1960s. His credits include El Dorado (1966), The Rain People (1969), Brian's Song (1971, TV movie), The Godfather (1972), - for which he earned his only Oscar nomination, - Slither (1973), The Gambler (1974), Funny Lady (1975), Rollerball (1975), Silent Movie (1976), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), - the only film he also directed, - Thief (1981), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Bottle Rocket (1996), Eraser (1996), Dogville (2003), Elf (2003), Las Vegas (2003-07), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and many more. Caan passed away at age 82. R.I.P.

Jean-Louis Trintignant has died

Born in Vaucluse, France, Trintignant's theatrical debut as an actor was in If All the Guys in the World... (1955). Later credits include ...And God Created Woman (1956), The Seven Deadly Sins (1961), Inferno (1964), A Man and A Woman (1966), My Love, My Love (1967), A Man to Kill (1967), The Great Silence (1968), Z (1969), The Assassination (1972), Three Colors: Red (1994), Amour (2012), Happy End (2017) and many more. He also wrote and directed two films in the 1970s. Trintignant passed away at age 91. R.I.P.

Ray Liotta has died

Adopted from an orphenage at a young age, Liotta got hooked on acting in high school. He had various TV credits in the late 1970s and early 80s, with his film debut in The Lonely Lady (1983). Later credits include Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), Narc (2002), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Details (2011), Killing THem Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Shades of Blue (2016-18), The Simpsons (2018, TV-series), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Black Bird (2022, TV-series) and many more. Liotta passed away at age 67 in his sleep while on production in the Dominican Republic. R.I.P.

Philip Baker Hall has died

Born in Ohio, Hall didn't start acting until he was 30. His long list of credits include Zabriskie Point (1970), Miami Vice (1987, TV-series), Midnight Run (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Cheers (1993, TV-series), Hard Eight (1996), The Rock (1996), Air Force One (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Seinfeld (1991-98), Rush Hour (1998), The Insider (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), The Zodiac (2005), Zodiac (2007), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004-09), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), Modern Family (2011-12) and many more. Hall passed away at age 90. R.I.P.

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