BEST FILM

THE REVENANT

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

BROOKLYN

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

NAJI ABU NOWAR (Writer/Director) RUPERT LLOYD (Producer) Theeb

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

WILD TALES

DOCUMENTARY

AMY

ANIMATED FILM

INSIDE OUT

DIRECTOR

THE REVENANT Alejandro G. Iñárritu

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

SPOTLIGHT Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

THE BIG SHORT Adam McKay, Charles Randolph

LEADING ACTOR

LEONARDO DICAPRIO The Revenant

LEADING ACTRESS

BRIE LARSON Room

SUPPORTING ACTOR

MARK RYLANCE Bridge of Spies

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

KATE WINSLET Steve Jobs

ORIGINAL MUSIC

THE HATEFUL EIGHT Ennio Morricone

CINEMATOGRAPHY

THE REVENANT Emmanuel Lubezki

EDITING

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

PRODUCTION DESIGN

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Colin Gibson, Lisa Thompson

COSTUME DESIGN

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Jenny Beavan

MAKE UP & HAIR

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Lesley Vanderwalt, Damian Martin

SOUND

THE REVENANT Lon Bender, Chris Duesterdiek, Martin Hernandez, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor, Randy Thom

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Neal Scanlan

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

EDMOND Nina Gantz, Emilie Jouffroy

BRITISH SHORT FILM

OPERATOR Caroline Bartleet, Rebecca Morgan

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

JOHN BOYEGA

No real surprises. I'm still thinking a Revenant trouncing with Actor Director Pic and a slew of techs.

I'm still not sure if The Revenant will win Best Picture at the Oscars. The only places The Revenant has won Best Picture are at the Globes and at BAFTA - both awards bodies that did not award Birdman (and Inarritu) last year. PGA, which has a preferential ballot like the Best Picture Oscar, didn't end up awarding The Revenant.

I also recall someone saying that never in the history of the Oscars has films directed by the same individual won Best Picture back-to-back.

I already see Inarritu winning Best Director, which is already pretty historic as is, as you have to go all the way back to 1950 for the last time the same director has won Best Director back-to-back. Then again, the DGA already made a historic move in rewarding Inarritu two years in a row.

So, I don't know what to think anymore!! :S I'm leaving toward Spotlight or The Big Short winning the Best Picture Oscar with the preferential ballot (and winning Best Picture with maybe only one or two other Oscar wins), and The Revenant winning Director/Actor and whatever tech awards it wins.

If The Revenant wins Best Picture & Best Director - then jeez, all I can say is way to go Inarritu on having his films win Best Picture back-to-back and Best Director back-to-back. If this is what happens, that will be truly historic. This year still boggles my mind!

Peace,
Mike

Even though SAG was so off base this year, one thing I go back to is Spotlight winning there. Because if The Revenant was their Best Picture horse, with how the rest of the night went it would have been really easy to give Ensemble to Straight Outta Compton, just like the Elba win with the future Oscar winner not being an option, their back-up choice being used as a black make-up