The Oscars have come and gone, and this was an interesting year for a variety of reasons.  We saw some very fresh faces among the nominees, of course there was the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, and the show itself was not without the occasional awkward moment.  Chris Rock hosted, and for the most part was quite funny, despite more than a few moments where it sounds like he was tripping over his own jokes.  I’m sure the pressure was on for Rock, as the racial issues going into this Oscars couldn’t be ignored, and yet he still had to keep things light and funny.  One of the most disturbing moments seemed to be a joke in which he introduced Stacey Dash as the new director of their “Minority Outreach Program”, only to have Dash walk out awkwardly laughing while the audience fell silent.  This was a weird choice, as she’s generated a lot of controversy not only for her political views, but her negative view on the black community and problems with diversity.  Chris Rock probably thought this would be a sharp and hilarious surprise, but the whole thing fell flat and really stood out as one of the strangest moments of the night.  Other notable moments included Sacha Baron Cohen presenting a Best Picture nominee with Olivia Wilde, but doing so in character as Ali G (of “Da Ali G Show” fame)… a 15-year-old character known mostly in Britain seemed funny but out of place, especially when introducing a very serious movie.  Vice President Joe Biden received major applause and a standing ovation when he came out as a presenter, and the great Ennio Morricone also got a tremendous response when he won the Best Original Score Oscar.  Check out the full list of winners below, with notations of what we originally picked to win versus the actual winners.  In many cases we predicted things right, but as with most Academy Awards presentations even we had a few unexpected shocks.  Please note, our “picks to win” do not necessarily mean we think they should have won, more that those are what we thought would win based on a variety of factors. Let us know what you think of the results in the comments below!

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Spotlight – WINNER
The Revenant – our pick to WIN!
Room
Brooklyn
Bridge of Spies
The Martian
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Big Short

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Bryan Cranston for Trumbo
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant – WINNER – our pick to WIN!
Michael Fassbender for Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne for The Danish Girl
Matt Damon for The Martian

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett for Carol
Brie Larson for Room – WINNER – our pick to WIN!
Saoirse Ronan for Brooklyn
Jennifer Lawrence for Joy
Charlotte Rampling for 45 Years

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Mark Rylance for Bridge of Spies – WINNER
Sylvester Stallone for Creed – our pick to WIN!
Tom Hardy for The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo for Spotlight
Christian Bale for The Big Short

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Jennifer Jason Leigh for The Hateful Eight
Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl – WINNER
Kate Winslet for Steve Jobs – our pick to WIN!
Rachel McAdams for Spotlight
Rooney Mara for Carol

Best Achievement in Directing
Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant – WINNER – our pick to WIN!
Tom McCarthy for Spotlight
George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road
Lenny Abrahamson for Room
Adam McKay for The Big Short

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Ex Machina – Alex Garland
Inside Out – Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Ronnie Del Carmen
Spotlight – Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy – WINNER – our pick to WIN!
Straight Outta Compton – Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
The Big Short – Charles Randolph, Adam McKay – WINNER
Brooklyn – Nick Hornby
The Martian – Drew Goddard
Room – Emma Donoghue – our pick to WIN!
Carol – Phyllis Nagy

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Anomalisa
Bakemono no ko
Inside Out – WINNER – our pick to WIN!
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Omoide no Mânî

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
El abrazo de la serpiente – Ciro Guerra
Krigen – Tobias Lindholm
Mustang – Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Saul fia – László Nemes – WINNER – our pick to WIN!
Theeb – Naji Abu Nowar

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Carol – Edward Lachman
The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson
Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale
The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki – WINNER – our pick to WIN!
Sicario – Roger Deakins

Best Achievement in Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel – WINNER
The Big Short – Hank Corwin
Spotlight – Tom McArdle
The Revenant – Stephen Mirrione – our pick to WIN!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Maryann Brandon

Best Achievement in Production Design
Bridge of Spies – Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich
Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson, Katie Sharrock, Lisa Thompson – WINNER
The Martian – Arthur Max, Celia Bobak, Zoltán Horváth – our pick to WIN!
The Revenant – Jack Fisk, Hamish Purdy
The Danish Girl

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Carol – Sandy Powell – our pick to WIN!
Cinderella – Sandy Powell
The Danish Girl – Paco Delgado
Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan – WINNER
The Revenant – Jacqueline West

Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road – Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega, Damian Martin – WINNER – our pick to WIN!
Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann – Love Larson, Eva Von Bahr
The Revenant – Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman, Robert A. Pandini

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Carol – Carter Burwell
The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone – WINNER – our pick to WIN!
Sicario – Jóhann Jóhannsson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – John Williams
Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Spectre “Writing’s On The Wall” – Sam Smith, James Napier – WINNER – our pick to WIN!
Youth “Simple Song #3” – David Lang
Fifty Shades of Grey “Earned It” – The Hunting Ground
The Hunting Ground “Til It Happens to You”
Racing Extinction “Manta Ray”

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant – our pick to WIN!
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
The Martian
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
The Revenant – our pick to WIN!
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Ex Machina – WINNER
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian – our pick to WIN!
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Documentary, Feature
Amy – WINNER – our pick to WIN!
Cartel Land
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire
The Look of Silence

Best Documentary, Short Subject
Body Team 12
War Within the Walls
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness – WINNER
Last Day of Freedom

Best Short Film, Animated
Historia de un oso – Gabriel Osorio Vargas, Pato Escala Pierart – WINNER
Mi ne mozhem zhit bez kosmosa – Konstantin Bronzit
Prologue – Richard Williams, Imogen Sutton
Sanjay’s Super Team – Sanjay Patel
World of Tomorrow – Don Hertzfeldt – our pick to WIN!

Best Short Film, Live Action
Ave Maria – Basil Khalil
Day One – Henry Hughes
Alles wird gut – Patrick Vollrath
Shok – Jamie Donoughue
Stutterer – Benjamin Cleary – WINNER

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