We're finally here! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences begins its final round of Oscars voting today, and for the second straight year on this day, I present my own set of nominees for the categories in which I saw 3 or more movies. This year, that means no nominees in the Foreign Language category for me(only got to see one), in addition to the 3 Short Film categories: Best Live Action, Animated, and Documentary Short Film. But enough about the movies I didn't see, let's talk about the 20 other categories for which I do have nominees. One of those categories of course, is Best Picture, but you won't see that one here because I'll be revealing it next sunday in my 3rd annual 10 Best Movies of the Year list(2013 & 2014 if you're curious). But just like in my 2014 Nominees list, you can get a pretty good idea of which movies are in my Top 10 from the ones that make the most appearances in the remaining 19 categories.
In the end, I nominated 33 movies at least once out of a total of 86 movies I saw from 2015. 12 movies received just one nomination, including the first 2015 movie I saw about 11 months ago now, Cinderella. On the contrary, 12 movies received 5 or more nominations, including the last movie to enter the nominees list which I saw just 2 weeks ago, The Revenant. My nominations for those 2 movies match perfectly with the Academy's, but there are many discrepancies between my list and theirs, starting with 7 other nominations for The Revenant that didn't make my list, most notably my snub of Leonardo DiCaprio in the Best Actor category. One of the male actors replacing Leo on my list was the biggest(pun intended) acting snub of the year for me, Jacob Tremblay from Room.
Another notable difference between my list and the Academy's is my total omission of one of their Best Picture nominees, The Big Short. The closest it got in any category for me was Best Adapted Screenplay, but 3 of my favorite movies of 2015 that the Academy totally ignored - The End of the Tour, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and Anomalisa(only nominated for Best Animated Feature) - replaced it there. Four other movies that received at least one Oscar nomination were totally absent from my list: two I didn't see, Joy and Trumbo, and two I did see but ended up outside the Top 5 in every category, Steve Jobs and Straight Outta Compton.
Now, before you start thinking that I'm even more racist than the Academy, let me quickly give my take on the #Oscarssowhite controversy. This is not an Academy problem, it's a film industry problem. I'm happy to see the Academy continuing to add more diversity to their membership, but until quality roles for minorities don't match or even come remotely close to those available for white actors, this problem will continue, and many great actors like Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson, Don Cheadle, Idris Elba and others will have to keep settling for Emmy nominations in the future.
Going back to Straight Outta Compton, Jason Mitchell's performance as Eazy E was very close for me in the Best Supporting Actor category, but this year that category turned out to be the toughest of the acting categories and he just missed along with other minorities and some white actors. The older, white, male members of the Academy will say race is not a factor, and, as I just explained, I partially agree. Blacks weren't the only ones snubbed, they'll say. but where those old white men, and some old white women(looking at you Charlotte Rampling) are way out of touch is that they fail to mention that for every 20 or 30 chances a white actor had of getting nominated, black actors had just 1 or 2 chances, hispanics and asians less so.
All of that being said, 2 of the actors who also replaced Leonardo DiCaprio on my Best Lead Actor list are African-Americans: Michael B. Jordan and Samuel L. Jackson, and one of the actors on my Best Supporting Actor list is Hispanic: Oscar Isaac. That's still just 3 minorities out of 20 total acting nominations, or 15%. And if I add my nominees from last year, which only included one minority in the group(David Oyelowo) it adds up to 4 out of 40 for a whopping total of 10%. Talk about a discrepancy!
Enough of that topic, right? On sunday I'll post my 3rd annual 8 Top 8 Lists where I get to go into a little more detail about the moments, quotes, performances, and other fun lists about what I loved from the movies of 2015. For now, let's get going with the nominees, first the Academy's and then my own so you can see where I differed the most from them.
And the nominees are ...
In the end, I nominated 33 movies at least once out of a total of 86 movies I saw from 2015. 12 movies received just one nomination, including the first 2015 movie I saw about 11 months ago now, Cinderella. On the contrary, 12 movies received 5 or more nominations, including the last movie to enter the nominees list which I saw just 2 weeks ago, The Revenant. My nominations for those 2 movies match perfectly with the Academy's, but there are many discrepancies between my list and theirs, starting with 7 other nominations for The Revenant that didn't make my list, most notably my snub of Leonardo DiCaprio in the Best Actor category. One of the male actors replacing Leo on my list was the biggest(pun intended) acting snub of the year for me, Jacob Tremblay from Room.
Another notable difference between my list and the Academy's is my total omission of one of their Best Picture nominees, The Big Short. The closest it got in any category for me was Best Adapted Screenplay, but 3 of my favorite movies of 2015 that the Academy totally ignored - The End of the Tour, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and Anomalisa(only nominated for Best Animated Feature) - replaced it there. Four other movies that received at least one Oscar nomination were totally absent from my list: two I didn't see, Joy and Trumbo, and two I did see but ended up outside the Top 5 in every category, Steve Jobs and Straight Outta Compton.
Now, before you start thinking that I'm even more racist than the Academy, let me quickly give my take on the #Oscarssowhite controversy. This is not an Academy problem, it's a film industry problem. I'm happy to see the Academy continuing to add more diversity to their membership, but until quality roles for minorities don't match or even come remotely close to those available for white actors, this problem will continue, and many great actors like Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson, Don Cheadle, Idris Elba and others will have to keep settling for Emmy nominations in the future.
Going back to Straight Outta Compton, Jason Mitchell's performance as Eazy E was very close for me in the Best Supporting Actor category, but this year that category turned out to be the toughest of the acting categories and he just missed along with other minorities and some white actors. The older, white, male members of the Academy will say race is not a factor, and, as I just explained, I partially agree. Blacks weren't the only ones snubbed, they'll say. but where those old white men, and some old white women(looking at you Charlotte Rampling) are way out of touch is that they fail to mention that for every 20 or 30 chances a white actor had of getting nominated, black actors had just 1 or 2 chances, hispanics and asians less so.
All of that being said, 2 of the actors who also replaced Leonardo DiCaprio on my Best Lead Actor list are African-Americans: Michael B. Jordan and Samuel L. Jackson, and one of the actors on my Best Supporting Actor list is Hispanic: Oscar Isaac. That's still just 3 minorities out of 20 total acting nominations, or 15%. And if I add my nominees from last year, which only included one minority in the group(David Oyelowo) it adds up to 4 out of 40 for a whopping total of 10%. Talk about a discrepancy!
Enough of that topic, right? On sunday I'll post my 3rd annual 8 Top 8 Lists where I get to go into a little more detail about the moments, quotes, performances, and other fun lists about what I loved from the movies of 2015. For now, let's get going with the nominees, first the Academy's and then my own so you can see where I differed the most from them.
And the nominees are ...
And now my nominees ...
Best Actor in a Leading Role
5. Samuel L. Jackson - The Hateful Eight
4. Matt Damon - The Martian
3. Michael B. Jordan - Creed
2. Colin Farrell - The Lobster
1. Jacob Tremblay - Room
Best Actress in a Leading Role
5. Rooney Mara - Carol
4. Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn
3. Juliette Binoche - Clouds of Sils Maria
2. Brie Larson - Room
1. Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
5. Sylvester Stallone - Creed
4. Oscar Isaac - Ex Machina
3. Tom Hardy - The Revenant
2. David Morse - Concussion
1. Jason Segel - The End of the Tour
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
5. Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anomalisa
4. Phyllis Smith - Inside Out
3. Kristen Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria
2. Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
1. Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
Best Achievement in Directing
5. Ryan Coogler - Creed
4. Ridley Scott - The Martian
3. George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Lobster
1. Lenny Abrahamson - Room
Best Original Screenplay
5. Spotlight - Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
4. Clouds of Sils Maria - Olivier Assayas
3. Ex Machina - Alex Garland
2. Inside Out - Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve & Josh Cooley
1. The Lobster - Yorgos Lanthimos
Best Adapted Screenplay
5. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - Jesse Andrews
4. The End of the Tour - Donald Margulies
3. The Martian - Drew Goddard
2. Room - Emma Donoghue
1. Anomalisa - Charlie Kaufman
Best Achievement in Cinematography
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Dan Mindel
4. The Hateful Eight - Robert Richardson
3. Sicario - Roger Deakins
2. Mad Max: Fury Road - John Seale
1. The Revenant - Emmanuel Lubezki
Best Achievement in Film Editing
5. Clouds of Sils Maria - Marion Monnier
4. The Martian - Pietro Scalia
3. Creed - Claudia Costello & Michael P. Shiwver
2. Spotlight - Tom McArdle
1. Mad Max: Fury Road - Margaret Sixel
Best Achievement in Production Design
5. The Lobster - Jacqueline Abrahams
4. Bridge of Spies - Rena DeAngelo & Adam Stockhausen
3. Room - Ethan Tobman
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Rick Carter & Darren Gilford
1. Ex Machina - Mark Digby
Best Achievement in Costume Design
5. The Revenant - Jacqueline West
4. Carol - Sandy Powell
3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Michael Kaplan
2. Brooklyn - Odile Dicks-Mireaux
1. Cinderella - Sandy Powell
Best Achievement in Makeup & Hairstyling
5. The Danish Girl
4. The Hateful Eight
3. Concussion
2. The Revenant
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
5. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
4. The Walk
3. The Martian
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Original Score
5. The Danish Girl - Alexandre Desplat
4. The Hateful Eight - Ennio Morricone
3. Bridge of Spies - Thomas Newman
2. The Martian - Harry Gregson-Williams
1. Inside Out - Michael Giacchino
Best Original Song
5. "Dreamsong" - The Diary of a Teenage Girl
4. "Feels Like Summer" - Shaun the Sheep Movie
3. "None of Them Are You" - Anomalisa
2. "Til it Happens to You" - The Hunting Ground
1. "Fighting Stronger" - Creed
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
5. Creed
4. The Martian
3. Inside Out
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
4. The Hateful Eight
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Revenant
1. Anomalisa
Best Documentary Feature
5. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
4. The Hunting Ground
3. Amy
2. Best of Enemies
1. Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
Best Animated Feature Film
4. The Good Dinosaur
3. Shaun the Sheep Movie
2. Inside Out
1. Anomalisa
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