Today, the 88th Oscar nominations were announced, and the Amsterdam News will return to Los Angeles to cover all of the glitz, fun and glamour that makes the award season exciting.
Hosting this year is Chris Rock, who Academy Awards producers David Hill and Reginald Hudlin predict will make a “phenomenal Oscar host!”
Rock hosted the 77th Oscars in 2005 and didn’t change his confrontational comedic style for the show and was praised by some critics for being himself.
For a bit of Oscar news, 2016 will be the fourth year of the “preferential voting” system, where five to 10 films get in based on the amount of films that receive a certain percentage of high rankings on voters’ ballots. The system resulted in eight nominees last year and nine both years prior to that.
Here are my predictions for the 2016 Oscars with the winners in each category listed first.
Best Picture
“The Revenant”
(Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon)
“The Big Short”
“Bridge of Spies”
“Brooklyn”
“Carol”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
(Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon)
“Straight Outta Compton”
Best Director
Alejandro G. Inarritu (“The Revenant”)
Adam McKay (“The Big Short”)
Todd Haynes (“Carol”)
Ridley Scott (“The Martian”)
Alejandro G. Inarritu (“The Revenant”)
Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”)
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”)
Bryan Cranston (“Trumbo”)
Johnny Depp (“Black Mass”)
Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”)
Eddie Redmayne (“The Danish Girl”)
Best Actress
Brie Larson (“Room”)
Cate Blanchett (“Carol”)
Charlotte Rampling (“45 Years”)
Saoirse Ronan (“Brooklyn”)
Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”)
Best Supporting Actor
Sylvester Stallone (“Creed”)
Christian Bale (“The Big Short”)
Idris Elba (“Beasts of No Nation”)
Mark Ruffalo (“Spotlight”)
Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies”)
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh (“The Hateful Eight”)
Rooney Mara (“Carol”)
Helen Mirren (“Trumbo”)
Alicia Vikander (“Ex Machina”)
Kate Winslet (“Steve Jobs”)
Best Adapted Screenplay
“Brooklyn” (Nick Hornby)
“The Big Short” (Adam McKay, Charles Randolph)
“Carol” (Phyllis Nagy)
“Room” (Emma Donoghue)
“Steve Jobs” (Aaron Sorkin)
Best Original Screenplay
“Straight Outta Compton” (Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus)
“Ex Machina” (Alex Garland)
“The Hateful Eight” (Quentin Tarantino)
“Inside Out” (Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve)
“Spotlight” (Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer)
The 88th Academy Awards will be broadcast live Feb. 28 on ABC.