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Official poster
Date     February 28, 2016
Site     Dolby Theatre
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Host     Chris Rock[1]
Producer     David Hill
Reginald Hudlin[2]
Highlights
Most nominations     The Revenant (12)
TV in the United States
Network     ABC

    ← 87th Academy Awards

The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will honor the best English-language films of 2015 and is scheduled to take place on February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony will be televised in the United States by ABC, and will be produced by David Hill and Reginald Hudlin.[3] Actor Chris Rock will host the show for the second time, having previously hosted the 77th ceremony held in 2005.[4]
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Contents

    1 Schedule
    2 Winners and nominees
        2.1 Nominations
        2.2 Governors Awards
        2.3 Films with multiple nominations
    3 Presenters and performers
    4 Ceremony information
        4.1 Box office performance of nominated films
        4.2 Criticism regarding lack of diversity
    5 See also
    6 References
    7 External links
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Schedule
Date     Event
Saturday, November 14, 2015     The Governors Awards
Wednesday, December 30, 2015     Nominations polls open at 8:00 a.m. PST (05:00, 31 Dec. UTC) (11:00 a.m. EST)
Friday, January 8, 2016     Nominations polls close at 5:00 p.m. PST (01:00, 9 Jan. UTC) (8:00 p.m. EST)
Thursday, January 14, 2016     Nominations announced at 5:30 a.m. PST (13:30 UTC) (8:30 a.m. EST) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Monday, February 8, 2016     Nominees Luncheon
Friday, February 12, 2016     Final voting begins
Saturday, February 13, 2016     Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards presentation
Tuesday, February 23, 2016     Final polls close at 5:00 p.m. PST (01:00, 21 Feb. UTC) (8:00 p.m. EST)
Sunday, February 28, 2016     88th Annual Academy Awards presentation
Winners and nominees
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The nominees for the 88th Academy Awards were announced on January 14, 2016, at 5:30 a.m. PST (13:30 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by directors Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee, Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, and actor John Krasinski.[5][6] The Revenant received the most nominations with twelve total, with Mad Max: Fury Road coming in second with ten.[7] For the second consecutive year, a film directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu received the most nominations.
Nominations
Best Picture
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    The Big Short – Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
    Bridge of Spies – Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, and Kristie Macosko Krieger
    Brooklyn – Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
    Mad Max: Fury Road – Doug Mitchell and George Miller
    The Martian – Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, and Mark Huffam
    The Revenant – Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon
    Room – Ed Guiney
    Spotlight – Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, and Blye Pagon Faust

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Best Director

    Adam McKay – The Big Short
    George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
    Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
    Lenny Abrahamson – Room
    Tom McCarthy – Spotlight

Best Actor

    Bryan Cranston – Trumbo as Dalton Trumbo
    Matt Damon – The Martian as Mark Watney
    Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant as Hugh Glass
    Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs as Steve Jobs
    Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl as Lili Elbe / Einar Wegener

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Best Actress

    Cate Blanchett – Carol as Carol Aird
    Brie Larson – Room as Joy "Ma" Newsome
    Jennifer Lawrence – Joy as Joy Mangano
    Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years as Kate Mercer
    Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey
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Best Supporting Actor

    Christian Bale – The Big Short as Michael Burry
    Tom Hardy – The Revenant as John Fitzgerald
    Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight as Michael Rezendes
    Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies as Rudolf Abel
    Sylvester Stallone – Creed as Rocky Balboa

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Best Supporting Actress

    Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight as Daisy Domergue
    Rooney Mara – Carol as Therese Belivet
    Rachel McAdams – Spotlight as Sacha Pfeiffer
    Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener
    Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs as Joanna Hoffman

Best Original Screenplay

    Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen
    Ex Machina – Alex Garland
    Inside Out – Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and Ronnie del Carmen
    Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
    Straight Outta Compton – Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus

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Best Adapted Screenplay

    The Big Short – Adam McKay and Charles Randolph from The Big Short by Michael Lewis
    Brooklyn – Nick Hornby from Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
    Carol – Phyllis Nagy from The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
    The Martian – Drew Goddard from The Martian by Andy Weir
    Room – Emma Donoghue from Room by Emma Donoghue

Best Animated Feature Film

    Anomalisa – Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, and Rosa Tran
    Boy & the World – Alê Abreu
    Inside Out – Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
    Shaun the Sheep Movie – Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
    When Marnie Was There – Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura

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Best Foreign Language Film

    Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia) in Spanish – Ciro Guerra
    Mustang (France) in Turkish – Deniz Gamze Ergüven
    Son of Saul (Hungary) in Hungarian – László Nemes
    Theeb (Jordan) in Arabic – Naji Abu Nowar
    A War (Denmark) in Danish – Tobias Lindholm

Best Documentary – Feature

    Amy – Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
    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

   
Best Documentary – Short Subject

    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
    A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
    Last Day of Freedom – Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman

Best Live Action Short Film

    Ave Maria – Eric Dupont and Basil Khalil
    Day One – Henry Hughes
    Everything Will Be Okay – Patrick Vollrath
    Shok – Jamie Donoughue
    Stutterer – Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage

   
Best Animated Short Film

    Bear Story – Pato Escala Pierart and Gabriel Osorio Vargas
    Prologue – Imogen Sutton and Richard Williams
    Sanjay's Super Team – Nicole Paradis Grindle and Sanjay Patel
    We Can't Live Without Cosmos – Konstantin Bronzit
    World of Tomorrow – Don Hertzfeldt

Best Original Score

    Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman
    Carol – Carter Burwell
    The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone
    Sicario – Jóhann Jóhannsson
    Star Wars: The Force Awakens – John Williams

   
Best Original Song

    "Earned It" from Fifty Shades of Grey – Music and Lyrics by Ahamad Balshe (Belly), Stephan Moccio, Jason "Daheala" Quenneville, Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd)
    "Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction – Music by J. Ralph, Lyrics by Antony Hegarty
    "Simple Song #3" from Youth – Music and Lyrics by David Lang
    "Til It Happens to You" from The Hunting Ground – Music and Lyrics by Lady Gaga and Diane Warren
    "Writing's on the Wall" from Spectre – Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith

Best Sound Editing

    Mad Max: Fury Road – Mark A. Mangini and David White
    The Martian – Oliver Tarney
    The Revenant – Martin Hernández and Lon Bender
    Sicario – Alan Robert Murray
    Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Matthew Wood and David Acord

   
Best Sound Mixing

    Bridge of Spies – Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, and Drew Kunin
    Mad Max: Fury Road – Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff, and Ben Osmo
    The Martian – Paul Massey, Mark Taylor, and Mac Ruth
    The Revenant – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom, and Chris Duesterdiek
    Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, and Stuart Wilson

Best Production Design

    Bridge of Spies – Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich, and Adam Stockhausen
    The Danish Girl – Michael Standish and Eve Stewart
    Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson
    The Martian – Celia Bobak and Arthur Max
    The Revenant – Jack Fisk and Hamish Purdy

   
Best Cinematography

    Carol – Ed Lachman
    The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson
    Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale
    The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki
    Sicario – Roger Deakins

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

    The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
    Mad Max: Fury Road – Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega, and Damian Martin
    The Revenant – Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman, and Robert Pandini

   
Best Costume Design

    Carol – Sandy Powell
    Cinderella – Sandy Powell
    The Danish Girl – Paco Delgado
    Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan
    The Revenant – Jacqueline West

Best Film Editing

    The Big Short – Hank Corwin
    Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel
    The Revenant – Stephen Mirrione
    Spotlight – Tom McArdle
    Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

   
Best Visual Effects

    Ex Machina – Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst
    Mad Max: Fury Road – Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams, and Tom Wood
    The Martian – Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence, Richard Stammers, and Steven Warner
    The Revenant – Richard McBride, Matt Shumway, Jason Smith, and Cameron Waldbauer
    Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, and Neal Scanlan

Governors Awards

The Academy held its 7th Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 14, 2015, during which the following awards were presented:[8][9][10]

Academy Honorary Awards

    Spike Lee
    Gena Rowlands

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

    Debbie Reynolds

Films with multiple nominations

The following 16 films received multiple nominations:
Nominations     Film
12     The Revenant
10     Mad Max: Fury Road
7     The Martian
6     Bridge of Spies
Carol
Spotlight
5     The Big Short
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
4     The Danish Girl
Room
3     Brooklyn
The Hateful Eight
Sicario
2     Ex Machina
Inside Out
Steve Jobs
Presenters and performers

On January 28, 2016 producers David Hill and Reginald Hudlin announced the following first group of presenters and performers:[11][12]

    Benicio Del Toro
    Tina Fey
    Whoopi Goldberg
    Ryan Gosling
    Kevin Hart
    Lady Gaga
    Sam Smith
    Charlize Theron
    Jacob Tremblay
    The Weeknd
    Pharrell Williams

Ceremony information
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Chris Rock will host the 88th Academy Awards.

After the negative reception received from the preceding year's ceremony, Neil Meron and Craig Zadan announced that they would not be returning to produce the show for the fourth year.[13] Shortly afterwards, actor Neil Patrick Harris announced that he would not host the Oscars for a second time. In an interview released from The Huffington Post, he said "I don't know that my family nor my soul could take it. It's a beast. It was fun to check off the list, but for the amount of time spent and the understandable opinionated response, I don't know that it's a delightful balance to do every year or even again."[14] With re-elected Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs assuming leadership duties, the Academy hired David Hill and Reginald Hudlin in September 2015 to produce the ceremony. A day after they were announced as the producers, Hill said that the show would have two hosts.[15]

However in October 2015, it was announced that actor and comedian Chris Rock would be hosting the telecast.[1] They explained why they brought Rock back as host, saying, "Chris Rock is truly the MVP of the entertainment industry. Comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, documentarian — he's done it all. He's going to be a phenomenal Oscar host!"[16] Rock expressed that he was thrilled to be selected to emcee the gala again, commenting, "I'm so glad to be hosting the Oscars, it's great to be back."[17]
Box office performance of nominated films
North American box office gross for Best Picture nominees[18] Film     Pre-nomination
(Before Jan. 15)     Post-nomination
(Jan. 15-Feb. 28)     Post-awards
(After Feb. 28)     Total
The Martian     $226 million     $1 million     N/A     $227 milliion
Mad Max: Fury Road     $153 million     --     --     $153 million
The Revenant     $54.1 million     $70 million     N/A     $119 million
Bridge of Spies     $71.5 million     $676,034     N/A     $71 million
The Big Short     $44.6 million     $12.9 million     N/A     $56.7 million
Spotlight     $28.8 million     $4.5 million     N/A     $31.4 million
Brooklyn     $22.7 million     $5.6 million     N/A     $27.5 million
Room     $5.2 million     $2.6 million     N/A     $7.9 million

The combined gross of the eight Best Picture nominees at the United States and Canadian box offices was $704.2 million, at an average of $88 million which is the sixth-highest of all time in the past 33 years.[19][20] 2015's eight Best Picture nominees were in the second highest average number of theaters per film at 2,323, second only to 2003 where the average theater count per nominee was 2,368. However, the average gross per theater ranks 26th out of the 33 years evaluated with an average of $32,636 per theater.[19]

When the nominations were announced on January 14, 2016, The Martian was the highest-grossing film among the Best Picture nominees with $226.6 million in domestic box office receipts.[19] Mad Max: Fury Road was the second-highest-grossing film with $153.6 million; this was followed by Bridge of Spies ($70.7 million), The Revenant ($54.1 million), The Big Short ($44.6 million), Spotlight ($28.8 million), Brooklyn ($22.7 million) and Room ($5.1 million).[19]

Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 46 nominations went to 11 films on the list. Only Inside Out (4th), The Martian (8th), Straight Outta Compton (18th), Mad Max: Fury Road (20th), Creed (28th), Bridge of Spies (42nd), and The Revenant (44th) were nominated for Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, or any of the directing, acting, or screenwriting awards. The other top 50 box office hits that earned nominations were Star Wars: The Force Awakens (1st), Cinderella (9th), Spectre (10th), and Fifty Shades of Grey (16th).
Criticism regarding lack of diversity

Shortly after the nominations were announced, many media outlets observed a lack of diversity amongst the nominees in major categories for the second year running.[21][22][23][24] Shortly after, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs stated:

    "Of course I am disappointed, but this is not to take away the greatness (of the films nominated). This has been a great year in film...However, we are not stopping...We are moving forward and will continue to move forward with conversation and action. That needs to happen not just within the Academy, but the entire motion picture industry.[25]

Isaacs said the Academy is taking "dramatic steps to alter the makeup" of its membership and diversify it in areas of "gender, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation."[26] In response to the lack of diversity, several celebrities including Spike Lee, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith have stated their intention to boycott the ceremony.[27][28] George Clooney,[29] Lupita Nyong'o,[30] Viola Davis[31] and several others actors also criticized the Academy over the lack of diversity. President Barack Obama has also spoken up about the controversy saying, "I think that California is an example of the incredible diversity of this country. That’s a strength. I think that when everyone’s story is told then that makes for better art, it makes for better entertainment it makes everybody feel part of one American family, so I think as a whole the industry should do what every other industry should do which is to look for talent, provide opportunity to everybody. And I think the Oscar debate is really just an expression of this broader issue. Are we making sure that everybody is getting a fair shot?”[32] In addition, host Chris Rock has also faced pressure to step down as host.[33][34] However, it was later confirmed that Rock will still host the ceremony and has rewritten his entire opening monologue.[35]

While many celebrities, including Michael Caine, Ice Cube, Charlotte Rampling, Whoopi Goldberg and Penelope Ann Miller voiced their defense of the Oscars citing that the nominations are based on performance and merit not race. English actor and past Oscar winner, Michael Caine, spoke up against the allegations by saying "There’s loads of black actors. In the end you can’t vote for an actor because he’s black. You can’t say ‘I’m going to vote for him, he’s not very good, but he’s black, I’ll vote for him."[36] Ice Cube, who produced the hit biopic film Straight Outta Compton, stated that "It’s crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It’s just ridiculous.”[37] Penelope Ann Miller responded to the criticism by stating “I voted for a number of black performers, and I was sorry they weren't nominated. To imply that this is because all of us are racists is extremely offensive. I don't want to be lumped into a category of being a racist because I'm certainly not and because I support and benefit from the talent of black people in this business. It was just an incredibly competitive year.” [38] Former Oscar winner, Whoopi Goldberg, defended the Academy nominations as well by saying “The issue is not the Academy. Even if you fill the Academy with black and Latino and Asian members, if there’s no one on the screen to vote for, you’re not going to get the outcome that you want,”.[39]

On January 22, 2016, Academy issued the statement to reform the voting rights and membership rules,[40] with increasing the numbers of women in membership, new member's voting status of ten-years and lifetime voting rights to a member after three ten-year terms; or if they have won or been nominated for an Academy Award. Issacs said, "The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up, these new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition."[41] In order to increase the diversity Academy assures to establish three new governor seats that will be nominated by the Academy President for three-year terms and confirmed by the Board.[42] To address this issue Academy also confirms to add new members who are not Governors to its executive and board committees where key decisions about membership and governance are made.[43]
See also
Portal icon     Academy Award portal

    22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards
    36th Golden Raspberry Awards
    58th Grammy Awards
    68th Primetime Emmy Awards
    69th British Academy Film Awards
    70th Tony Awards
    73rd Golden Globe Awards
    List of submissions to the 88th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

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