Best Picture Winner
Spotlight
Best Picture
Director: Tom McCarthy
Studio: Open Road Films
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation within the local Catholic Archdiocese.
All Categories (29)
Animated Feature Film
Inside Out— Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
Winner
Anomalisa— Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
Boy and the World— Alê Abreu
Shaun the Sheep Movie— Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
When Marnie Was There— Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura
Best Picture
Spotlight— Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, Producers
Winner
Bridge of Spies— Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
Brooklyn— Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
Mad Max: Fury Road— Doug Mitchell and George Miller, Producers
Room— Ed Guiney, Producer
The Big Short— Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
The Martian— Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam, Producers
The Revenant— Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon, Producers
Actor In A Leading Role
Bryan Cranston— Trumbo {"Dalton Trumbo"}
Eddie Redmayne— The Danish Girl {"Lili"}
Matt Damon— The Martian {"Mark Watney"}
Michael Fassbender— Steve Jobs {"Steve Jobs"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Christian Bale— The Big Short {"Michael Burry"}
Mark Ruffalo— Spotlight {"Mike Rezendes"}
Sylvester Stallone— Creed {"Rocky Balboa"}
Tom Hardy— The Revenant {"John Fitzgerald"}
Actress In A Leading Role
Cate Blanchett— Carol {"Carol Aird"}
Charlotte Rampling— 45 Years {"Kate Mercer"}
Jennifer Lawrence— Joy {"Joy"}
Saoirse Ronan— Brooklyn {"Eilis"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Jennifer Jason Leigh— The Hateful Eight {"Daisy Domergue"}
Kate Winslet— Steve Jobs {"Joanna Hoffman"}
Rachel McAdams— Spotlight {"Sacha Pfeiffer"}
Rooney Mara— Carol {"Therese Belivet"}
Directing
Mad Max: Fury Road— George Miller
Room— Lenny Abrahamson
Spotlight— Tom McCarthy
The Big Short— Adam McKay
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Big Short— Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Winner
Brooklyn— Screenplay by Nick Hornby
Carol— Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
Room— Screenplay by Emma Donoghue
The Martian— Screenplay by Drew Goddard
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Spotlight— Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
Winner
Bridge of Spies— Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Ex Machina— Written by Alex Garland
Inside Out— Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Straight Outta Compton— Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff
Cinematography
The Revenant— Emmanuel Lubezki
Winner
Carol— Ed Lachman
Mad Max: Fury Road— John Seale
Sicario— Roger Deakins
The Hateful Eight— Robert Richardson
Music (Original Score)
The Hateful Eight— Ennio Morricone
Winner
Bridge of Spies— Thomas Newman
Carol— Carter Burwell
Sicario— Jóhann Jóhannsson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens— John Williams
Music (Original Song)
"Writing's On The Wall" from Spectre— Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
Winner
"Earned It" from Fifty Shades of Grey— Music and Lyric by The Weeknd, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
"Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction— Music by J. Ralph; Lyric by Anohni
"Simple Song #3" from Youth— Music and Lyric by David Lang
"Til It Happens To You" from The Hunting Ground— Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
Production Design
Mad Max: Fury Road— Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson
Winner
Bridge of Spies— Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich
The Danish Girl— Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish
The Martian— Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
The Revenant— Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy
Visual Effects
Ex Machina— Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
Winner
Mad Max: Fury Road— Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
Star Wars: The Force Awakens— Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
The Martian— Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner
The Revenant— Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
Film Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road— Margaret Sixel
Winner
Spotlight— Tom McArdle
Star Wars: The Force Awakens— Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey
The Big Short— Hank Corwin
The Revenant— Stephen Mirrione
Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road— Mark Mangini and David White
Winner
Sicario— Alan Robert Murray
Star Wars: The Force Awakens— Matthew Wood and David Acord
The Martian— Oliver Tarney
The Revenant— Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender
Sound Mixing
Mad Max: Fury Road— Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
Winner
Bridge of Spies— Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
Star Wars: The Force Awakens— Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson
The Martian— Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth
The Revenant— Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek
Costume Design
Mad Max: Fury Road— Jenny Beavan
Winner
Carol— Sandy Powell
Cinderella— Sandy Powell
The Danish Girl— Paco Delgado
The Revenant— Jacqueline West
Makeup And Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road— Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
Winner
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared— Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
The Revenant— Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini
Documentary (Feature)
Amy— Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
Winner
Cartel Land— Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
The Look of Silence— Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
What Happened, Miss Simone?— Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom— Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor
Documentary (Short Subject)
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Winner
Body Team 12— David Darg and Bryn Mooser
Chau, beyond the Lines— Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah— Adam Benzine
Last Day of Freedom— Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
Short Film (Animated)
Bear Story— Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Winner
Prologue— Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
Sanjay's Super Team— Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
We Can't Live without Cosmos— Konstantin Bronzit
World of Tomorrow— Don Hertzfeldt
Short Film (Live Action)
Stutterer— Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
Winner
Ave Maria— Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
Day One— Henry Hughes
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)— Patrick Vollrath
Shok— Jamie Donoughue
Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul— Hungary
Winner
A War— Denmark
Embrace of the Serpent— Colombia
Mustang— France
Theeb— Jordan
Honorary Award
To Spike Lee, filmmaker, educator, motivator, iconoclast, artist.
Winner
To Gena Rowlands, who has illuminated the human experience through her brilliant, passionate and fearless performances.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Debbie Reynolds
Winner
Scientific And Technical Award (Scientific And Engineering Award)
To BRIAN McLEAN and MARTIN MEUNIER for pioneering the use of rapid prototyping for character animation in stop-motion film production. LAIKA's inventive use of rapid prototyping has enabled artistic leaps in character expressiveness, facial animation, motion blur and effects animation. Through highly specialized pipelines and techniques, 3D printing capabilities have been harnessed with color uniformity, mechanical repeatability, and the scale required to significantly enhance stop-motion animated feature films. [Digital Imaging Technology]
Winner
To JACK GREASLEY, KIYOYUKI NAKAGAKI, DUNCAN HOPKINS and CARL RAND for the design and engineering of the MARI 3D texture painting system. Combining powerful, multilayer painting tools and a unique texture-management system, MARI simplifies working with large, high-resolution texture sets. It has achieved broad adoption in the visual effects industry, often supplanting long-term in-house systems. [Digital Imaging Technology]
Scientific And Technical Award (Special Award)
To the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers - For one hundred years, the Society's members have nurtured technology, provided essential standards, and offered the expertise, support, tools and infrastructure for the creation and post-production of motion pictures.
Winner
Scientific And Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award)
To MICHAEL JOHN KEESLING for the design and development of Image Shaker, an optical system that convincingly creates the illusion of the camera shaking in a variable and repeatable manner. The Image Shaker was unique and superior to alternatives in use when it was invented two decades ago, and it continues to be used today. [Special Photographic]
Winner
To DAVID McINTOSH, STEVE SMITH, MIKE BRANHAM and MICHAEL KIRILENKO for the engineering and development of the Aircover Inflatables Airwall. This system of modular inflatable panels can be erected on location, at lengths reaching hundreds of feet, with exceptional speed and safety. When used to support blue or green screens, the Airwall permits composite shots of unprecedented scale. [Stage Operations]
To J ROBERT RAY, COTTALANGO LEON and SAM RICHARDS for the design, engineering and continuous development of Sony Pictures Imageworks Itview. With an extensive plugin API and comprehensive facility integration including editorial functions, Itview provides an intuitive and flexible creative review environment that can be deployed globally for highly efficient collaboration. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To JIM HOURIHAN, ALAN TROMBLA and SETH ROSENTHAL for the design and development of the Tweak Software RV system, a highly extensible media player system. RV's multi-platform toolset for review and playback, with comprehensive APIs, has allowed studios of all sizes to take advantage of a state-of-the-art workflow and has achieved widespread adoption in the motion picture industry. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To KEITH GOLDFARB, STEVE LINN, BRIAN GREEN and RAYMOND CHIH for the development of the Rhythm & Hues Global DDR System. This consistent, integrated, production database-backed review system enables a recordable workflow and an efficient, collaborative content review process across multiple sites and time zones. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To RICHARD CHUANG and RAHUL C. THAKKAR for the groundbreaking design, and to ANDREW PILGRIM, STEWART BIRNAM and MARK KIRK for the review workflows and advanced playback features, of the DreamWorks Animation Media Review System. Over its nearly two decades of development, this pioneering system enabled desktop and digital theater review. It continues to provide artist-driven, integrated, consistent and highly scalable studio-wide playback and interactive reviews. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To RONALD MALLET and CHRISTOPH BREGLER for the design and engineering of the Industrial Light & Magic Geometry Tracker, a novel, general-purpose tracker and solver. Geometry Tracker facilitates convincing interaction of digital and live-action elements within a scene. Its precise results and tight integration with other ILM animation technologies solve a wider range of match-animation challenges than was previously possible. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To TREVOR DAVIES, THOMAS WAN, JON SCOTT MILLER, JARED SMITH and MATTHEW ROBINSON for the development of the Dolby Laboratories PRM Series Reference Color Monitors. The PRM's pioneering and innovative design allows the stable, accurate representation of images with the entire luminance range and color gamut used in contemporary theatrical feature presentation. [Digital Apparatuses Technology]