Oscars 2016: Spotlight, Larson & DiCaprio win
Spotlight wins best picture over bookies' favourites The Revenant and The Big Short, while Leonardo DiCaprio joins the Oscars club with his win for best actor.
Forget the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. This year’s Academy Awards were starting to look a little #OscarsSoBeige. A few months ago this was shaping up to be the most unpredictable Oscars in years, with The Revenant, The Big Short and Spotlight all looking to be in with a chance of Best Picture, but in the last few weeks the waters settled, with all Oscar pundits and bookies pointing to Alejandro González Iñárritu’s epic revenge film The Revenant as the likely winner. Those still hedging their bets suggested The Big Short – winner of the Producers Guild Association award, a key Best Picture indicator – was the dark horse.
But they were all wrong. Although it looked like The Revenant was marching to victory on the night, picking up awards for its cinematographer (Emmanuel Lubezki), its lead actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and director (Iñárritu), Tom McCarthy's gripping ensemble piece Spotlight, which tells the story of the Boston Globe’s sensational 2002 exposé of sexual abuse in the Catholic church, swooped in to take the big prize.
This wasn’t the only surprise. The supporting actor categories proved the most difficult to predict, with Mark Rylance and Bridge of Spies winning over Sly Stallone for Creed, and Alicia Vikander winning for The Danish Girl over Kate Winslet for Steve Jobs.
It’s been a great year for Vikander, with her role in Ex Machina being one of the year’s highlights. That indie film also caused an upset of sorts too, beating sci-fi behemoths The Martian and Star Wars: The Force Awakens to the best visual effects prize.
Other categories went as expected, though. Lead actress went to Brie Larson for Room and Leonardo DiCaprio took home his first Oscar from his fifth nomination.
Overall Mad Max: Fury Road was the biggest winner, taking home six awards from ten nominations, including best editing, best costumes and best production design.
As for the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, it dominated event, but the Academy didn’t receive the public scalding from host Chris Rock as expected, with his most barbed jokes being aimed at the actors boycotting the Oscars: “Jada [Pinkett Smith] boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties... I wasn’t invited.”
The full list of winners are below.
BEST PICTURE
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight – WINNER
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant – WINNER
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room – WINNER
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies – WINNER
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl – WINNER
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Inside Out – WINNER
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant – WINNER
Sicario
COSTUME DESIGN
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
The Revenant
DIRECTING
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant – WINNER
Room
Spotlight
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
Amy – WINNER
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness – WINNER
Last Day of Freedom
FILM EDITING
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
The Revenant
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Embrace of the Serpent
Mustang
Son of Saul – WINNER
Theeb
A War
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Revenant
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Bridge of Spies
Carol
The Hateful Eight – WINNER
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
MUSIC (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 – WINNER
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Bear Story – WINNER
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
Stutterer – WINNER
SOUND EDITING
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
SOUND MIXING
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
VISUAL EFFECTS
Ex Machina – WINNER
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
The Big Short – WINNER
Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Spotlight – WINNER
Straight Outta Compton