2016 Oscar Nominations

BEST PICTURE

• The Big Short
• Bridge of Spies
• Brooklyn
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• The Revenant
• Room
• Spotlight

BEST ACTOR

• Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
• Matt Damon, The Martian
• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
• Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
• Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

BEST ACTRESS

• Cate Blanchett, Carol
• Brie Larson, Room
• Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
• Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
• Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Christian Bale, The Big Short
• Tom Hardy, The Revenant
• Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
• Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
• Sylvester Stallone, Creed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
• Rooney Mara, Carol
• Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
• Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
• Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

DIRECTOR

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

Academy Awards Picks

Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave

Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

Best Animated Feature Film: Frozen

2012 Academy Awards Nominees

The nominees for the Oscars have been announced. Who will win? Or, perhaps a better question, have you heard of or seen any of these movies?

Best Picture:

The Artist

The Descendants

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The Help

Hugo

Midnight in Paris

Moneyball

The Tree of Life

War Horse

(Wow. I must have slept through the last year. I saw.... 0 of those. Not even Moneyball. Least Eddie Murphy is hosting, wait what?)

Best Director:

Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

Alexander Payne, The Descendants

Martin Scorsese, Hugo

Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris

Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

(Couple big names, still don't care.)

Best Actor:

Demian Bichir, A Better Life

George Clooney, The Descendants

Jean Dujardin, The Artist

Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Boy

Brad Pitt, Moneyball

(Love Gary Oldman, the guys might be the best actor out there aside from Daniel Day-Lewis. Check out some of the roles Oldman has played sometime when you're bored. I also find it very hard to believe that Pitt could win Best Actor for portraying Billy Beane. I mean come on.)

Best Actress:

Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs

Viola Davis, The Help

Rooney Mara, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady

Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn

(Powerhouse crew right here, still haven't seen a damn thing nominated.)

There are a lot of other awards including Nick Nolte getting a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in Warrior, which I heard was good, but still did not see it.

The 84th Annual Academy Awards will air live on February 26th. I will be in at least one Oscar Pool, so I got one month to do some homework. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised with some of these, we shall see.

Movie side note: The Dark Knight Rises comes out in July! Pumped.

-Keefe