Leonardo DiCaprio hopeful of first Oscar + full list of nominees

The nominees for the Oscar were announced on Thursday morning during a special two-part news conference that took place inside the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, USA.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro G. Inarritu’s The Revenant, which tells the story about a frontiersman seeking revenge against the man who left him for dead, tops the list with 12 nods including Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Directing, Best Screen Editing and Best Actor.

The movie will battle it out in various categories with Mad Max; Fury Road; an equally thrilling movie, which snagged 10 nominations.

DiCaprio, who has never won an Oscar is expected to finally go home with a best actor statuette this year for this work in The Revenant.

“It does feel great especially when you worked on something for this long a period of time,” the actor said on Thursday at the London premiere of the gritty saga.

“This was, I keep saying to people, this was almost like going on a grand voyage together with a crew. It was unlike any other filmmaking experience I’ve had and to have so many different departments recognized the way they were, especially my friend Tom Hardy, my make-up artist that I’ve worked with for—what is it?—almost 23 years now, to see all their efforts and work connecting with the Academy and our community, it does feel great.

“You know, it’s not often that films like this even get made, but the fact that it’s gotten recognized means we’re going to get to do more like it, so that’s encouraging,” he said.

Other movies with multiple nominations include Spotlight and The Martian.

The 88th Annual Academy Awards will be hosted by comedian, Chris Rock and held on Sunday, February 28, at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood & Highland Centre.

Here are the nominees for the 2016 Oscars:

Best Picture

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

Best Actor

Bryan Cranston – Trumbo

Matt Damon – The Martian

Leonardo DiCaprio- The Revneant

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

Best Directing

Adam McKay – The Big Short

George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road

Alejandro González Iñárritu – The Revenant

Lenny Abrahamson, Room

Tom McCarthy – Spotlight

Best Film Editing

The Big Shot – 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 Foreign Language Film

Colombia – Embrace of the Serpent

France – Mustang

Hungary – Son of Saul

Jordan- Theeb

Denmark- A War

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 Production Design

Bridge of Spies Production Design- Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration -Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich

The Danish Girl Production Design- Eve Stewart; Set Decoration- Michael Standish

Mad Max: Fury Road -Production Design- Colin Gibson; Set Decoration – Lisa Thompson

The Martian -Production Design -Arthur Max; Set Decoration – Celia Bobak

The Revenant Production Design – Jack Fisk; Set Decoration – Hamish Purdy

Best Visual Effects

Ex Machina – Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett

Mad Max: Fury Road – Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams

The Martian -Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner

The Revenant- Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer

Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Big Short – Charles Randolph and Adam McKay

Brooklyn – Nick Hornby

Carol – Phyllis Nagy

The Martian – Drew Goddard

Room – Emma Donoghue

Best Original Screenplay

Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen

Ex Machina – Alex Garland

Inside Out – Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen

Spotlight – Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy

Straight Outta Compton – Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff

Best Animated Feature Film

Anomalisa – Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran

Boy and 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

Best Cinematography

Carol – Ed Lachman

The Hateful Eight – Robert Richardson

Mad Max: Fury Road -John Seale

The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki

Sicario – Roger Deakins

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 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 Makeup and Hairstyling

Mad Max: Fury Road -Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Love Larson and Eva von Bahr

The Revenant – Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini

Best Original Song

Earned It, Fifty Shades of Grey -Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio

Manta Ray, Racing Extinction -J. Ralph and Antony Hegarty

Simple Song #3 – Youth, David Lang

Til It Happens to You – The Haunting Ground, Diane Warren and Lady Gaga

Writings on the Wall – Spectre, Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith

Best Animated Short Film

Bear Story – Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala

Prologue – Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton

Sanjay’s Super Team – Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos – Konstantin Bronzit

World of Tomorrow – Don Hertzfeldt

Best Live Action Short Film

Ave Maria – Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont

Day One -Henry Hughes

Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut) – Patrick Vollrath

Shok – Jamie Donoughue

Stutterer – Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage

Best Sound Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road – Mark Mangini and David White

The Martian – Oliver Tarney

The Revenant – Martin Hernandez 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