Saturday 12 March 2016

The Oscar Winners

The Winners of the 88th Academy Awards. All in one place.

Related: OSCARS 2016. Nominees And Predictions for Best Actor and Picture.

BEST PICTURE:

SPOTLIGHT

In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson (Michael Keaton), reporters Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Matt Carroll and Sacha Pfeiffer interview victims and try to unseal sensitive documents. The reporters make it their mission to provide proof of a cover-up of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.

BEST ACTOR:

LEONARDO DICAPRIO

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. DiCaprio began his career by appearing in television commercials, after which he had recurring roles in TV series. He won his first Oscar in 2016 after being nominated for the award several times before.

BEST ACTRESS:

BRIE LARSON

Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress and singer. She won her Oscar in 2016 for the best actress.

Best Supporting Actor:

Mark Rylance

David Mark Rylance Waters is an English actor, theatre director and playwright. He was the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, from 1995 to 2005.

Best supporting Actress:

Alicia Vikander

Alicia Amanda Vikander is a Swedish actress and dancer. Born and raised in Gothenburg, she began acting as a child in minor stage productions.

Best Director:

Alejandro Gonzalez

Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and former composer. He Won the Oscar for his Film ' THE REVENANT' in 2016.

Best Original Song:

Writings on the Wall


Best Foreign Language Film:

Son of Saul

During World War II, a Jewish worker (Géza Röhrig) at the Auschwitz concentration camp tries to find a rabbi to give a child a proper burial.

Best Writing adapted Screenplay:

The Big Short

In 2008, Wall Street guru Michael Burry realizes that a number of subprime home loans are in danger of defaulting. Burry bets against the housing market by throwing more than $1 billion of his investors' money into credit default swaps. His actions attract the attention of banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling), hedge-fund specialist Mark Baum (Steve Carell) and other greedy opportunists. Together, these men make a fortune by taking full advantage of the impending economic collapse in America.

Best Original Screenplay:

Spotlight

This is the 2nd Oscar award for this movie. It also won the Oscar for The Best Movie.

Best Documentary Feature:

Amy

Archival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.


Best Animated Film:

Related: The best animations you will ever see

Inside Out

Young Riley lives a happy life in Midwest until she has to move to San Francisco with her parents. Her emotions, Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust conflict on how to make her happy in her new life. They create numerous problems inside Riley's head. It surely is one of the masterpieces in the world of Animated movies.

Best Cinematography:

Emmanuel Lubezki

Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern, A.S.C., A.M.C. is a Mexican cinematographer. He sometimes goes by the nickname Chivo, which means "goat" in Spanish.

Best Original Music Score:

The Hateful Eight

While racing toward the town of Red Rock in post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunter John "The Hangman" Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) encounter another bounty hunter (Samuel L. Jackson) and a man who claims to be a sheriff. Hoping to find shelter from a blizzard, the group travels to a stagecoach stopover located on a mountain pass. Greeted there by four strangers, the eight travelers soon learn that they may not make it to their destination after all.

Best Costume Design:

Jenny Beavan

Jenny Beavan is an English costume designer. She has won two Academy Awards, most recently in 2016 for Costume Design in Mad Max: Fury Road, and has been nominated an additional eight times.

Best Visual Effects:

Ex Machina

Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) a programmer at a huge Internet company, wins a contest that enables him to spend a week at the private estate of Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), his firm's brilliant CEO. When he arrives, Caleb learns that he has been chosen to be the human component in a Turing test to determine the capabilities and consciousness of Ava (Alicia Vikander), a beautiful robot. However, it soon becomes evident that Ava is far more self-aware and deceptive than either man imagined.

Best Live Action Short Film:

Stutterer

A man whose lush inner thoughts are rendered mute by a crippling stutter feels isolated from the world despite a flourishing online relationship.

Best Sound Mixing:

Gregg Rudloff, Ben Osmo, Chris Jenkins

The Award was given to Mad Max: Fury Road.