Nominees:

THE BIG SHORT
Producers: Brad Pitt & Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner

BRIDGE OF SPIES
Producers: Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger

BROOKLYN
Producers: Finola Dwyer & Amanda Posey

EX MACHINA
Producers: TBD

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Producers: Doug Mitchell & George Miller

THE MARTIAN
Producers: Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Mark Huffam

THE REVENANT
Producers: Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon

SICARIO
Producers: Basil Iwaynk, Edward L. McDonnell, Molly Smith

SPOTLIGHT
Producers: Michael Sugar & Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Blye Pagon Faust

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
Producers: Ice Cube & Matt Alvarez, F. Gary Gray, Dr. Dre, Scott Bernstein

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Won't be announced until January 5th, but I am very curious about how these will turn out.

Last year we had Nightcrawler, Foxcatcher and Gone Girl nominated here, but they didn't make the cut at the Oscars. Selma missed here, but got in at the Oscars.

Inside Out is only eligible in the Animated category, I think.

I'm predicting:

The Martian
Mad Max: Fury Road
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Spotlight
The Big Short
The Revenant
The Hateful Eight
Carol

I am hoping for Hateful Eight, but I doubt it

PGA nominations will be announced on Tuesday. Any predictions? Last year they only missed Selma as an eventual BP nominee (they also picked Gone Girl, Nightcrawler, and Foxcatcher who weren't nominated).

Mine:

Bridge of Spies
Creed
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
The Room
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Straight Outta Compton

Carol and Brooklyn could bump out Creed and Straight Outta Compton. I'm also guessing the 70MM roadshow will win over some QT voters but I could be wrong. Otherwise, I'm pretty confident.

I agree with your choices except Hateful 8 , I dont see it getting much support.
I think Brooklyn will take its place.

Beasts of No Nation
The Big Short
Brooklyn
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

ALTERNATIVE: Straight Outta Compton, which would replace Beasts of No Nation

I wish they would recognize Steve Jobs and give its hurt-by-the-box-office campaign a shot in the arm.

Spotlight
The Big Short
Trumbo
Straight Outta Compton
Room
Brooklyn
Carol
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Bridge of Spies

The beginning of the end for Mad Max as it's revealed it's a critics film not AMPAs

Mad Max is a stone-cold lock for a PGA nod. Remember that the guilds aren't even remotely as exclusive as the Academy, and they also encompass TV players. Even if the stuffier Academy ultimately doesn't warm up to Mad Max for some reason, the guilds will still take it.

When was the last time that happened, a film like Mad Max and it's phase one award season run not show up at the PGA? And as it's been pointed out, the PGA aren't remotely the AMPAS. These are the same (largely) guys that nominated Star Trek, Bridesmaids, and back in the 90s, Toy Story and The Lion King.

If anything in life was certain, it's Mad Max is going to be a PGA nominee on Tuesday.

PGA can sometimes be cooler than AMPAs by nominating stuff like Star Trek and Skyfall or Bridesmaids, but it's not that common a pattern, 90% of PGA nominees are still regular Oscar bait, and they have another option to give the Star Trek/Skyfall nom to this year in Star Wars. If another "cooler than AMPAs" nom it wouldn't have to be another blockbuster, it could be something like Ex Machina or Sicario or Anomalisa, also, more like Nightcrawler nom than Trek

Mad Max was a film that in November was considered a longshot to be 8th or 9th Best Picture nominee with the saving grace being WB having to push something, because action movies rarely get in. The whole change in how Mad Max is viewed has come from critics awards which I'm not sure changes as much as people think it does.

I would argue that the critical support is actually a huge shot in the arm for Mad Max's awards chances. For the critics to gravitate toward a bizarre action movie from May when they could just as easily have gone for a safer genre film that was a bigger hit and released in October is a clear sign that Mad Max is staying in the awards season conversation. Even the Golden Globes, who love to play predictor, nominated it for Best Picture - something that they didn't do for The Dark Knight seven years ago.

Up until the critics and Globes came out for it, I was as skeptical as anyone about Mad Max's prospects. But now? It's definitely in the running for these guild honors.

You forgot Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (!) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding (!!). When there were ony five slots!

Predictions:

The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Straight Outta Compton

Revised:

The Martian
Mad Max: Fury Road
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Spotlight
The Big Short
The Revenant
Straight Outta Compton
Carol

I'll replace Bridge of Spies with Sicario.

Spotlight
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Revenant
The Martian
Sicario
Straight Outta Compton
Room
Carol

the big short
bridge of spies
carol
mad max fury road
the martian
the revenant
sicario
spotlight
star wars the force awakens
straight outta compton

They're here.

Nominees:
THE BIG SHORT
Producers: Brad Pitt & Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner

BRIDGE OF SPIES
Producers: Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger

BROOKLYN
Producers: Finola Dwyer & Amanda Posey

EX MACHINA
Producers: TBD

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Producers: Doug Mitchell & George Miller

THE MARTIAN
Producers: Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Mark Huffam

THE REVENANT
Producers: Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon

SICARIO
Producers: Basil Iwaynk, Edward L. McDonnell, Molly Smith

SPOTLIGHT
Producers: Michael Sugar & Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Blye Pagon Faust

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
Producers: Ice Cube & Matt Alvarez, F. Gary Gray, Dr. Dre, Scott Bernstein

Wow, no Carol or Star Wars. Brooklyn making in over Room is a great sign, and Bridge of Spies can breathe a sign of relief for now.

star wars

I told y'all Star Wars wasn't happening!

Ex Machina!

Well that's disturbing.

As always, Shack fucking nailed it.

Lol, okay, I am off the Star-Wars-train and gone to eat some early fresh-baked crow pie.

This is super-super-weird, though.

Buuuut, at least I was touting Sicario's chances for a long time now, even though I gave in to the pressure in the BP thread.

And, let me just say, TOLDYA about Room vs. Brooklyn. Room can still make it at the Oscars, but the film is SMALL.

This PGA nod for Brooklyn just makes the horse race between Larson and Ronan even more interesting, IMO.

Star Wars didn't even make it here when, like, Star Trek '09 did. And Ex Machina beat it to the punch. That does not bode well for a Best Picture nom.

Can Straight Outta Compton or Sicario get BP nods at the Oscars?