88th Academy Awards Winners
While Mad Max: Fury Road swept the technical awards with 6 wins including costumes, sound mixing, sound editing and more, Spotlight took home the top prize with Best Picture. Leo also finally won the Best Actor award for The Revenant and there was a huge upset in the Best Supporting Actor category with Mark Rylance besting the assumed shoe in Sly. See the entire list of winners below.
- Best Picture – Spotlight
- Best Actress – Brie Larson, Room
- Best Actor – Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
- Directing – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
- Best Supporting Actress – Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
- Best Supporting Actor – Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
- Animated Feature Film – Inside Out
- Documentary Feature – Amy
- Foreign Language Film – Son of Saul, Hungary
- Adapted Screenplay – Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short
- Original Screenplay – Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
- Original Score – Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight
- Original Song – “The Writing’s on the Wall” by Sam Smith
- Film Editing – Mad Max: Fury Road
- Production Design – Mad Max: Fury Road
- Sound Editing – Mad Max: Fury Road
- Sound Mixing – Mad Max: Fury Road
- Visual Effects – Ex Machina
- Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
- Costume Design – Mad Max: Fury Road
- Makeup and Hairstyling – Mad Max: Fury Road
- Animated Short Film – Bear Story
- Live Action Short Film – Stutterer
- Documentary Short Subject – A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness