FULL FINAL PREDICTIONS - 88th Academy Awards

Nominations for the 2016 Oscars will be announced in a short 10 hours, and so as an official entry for posterity, here are my full predictions for every category (sans the shorts). Come back tomorrow morning to see how many I got wrong (probably a lot).

Best Picture

• The Big Short
• Bridge of Spies
• Carol
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• The Revenant
• Room
• Spotlight
• Straight Outta Compton
• there are literally like eight movies that could fill a possible 10th spot

Best Directing

• Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant)
• Thomas McCarthy (Spotlight)
• Adam McKay (The Big Short)
• George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)
• Ridley Scott (The Martian)

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)
• Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)
• Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)
• Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)

Best Supporting Actor

• Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation)
• Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight)
• Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
• Sylvester Stallone (Creed)
• Jacob Tremblay (Room)

Best Supporting Actress

• Rooney Mara (Carol)
• Rachel McAdams (Spotlight)
• Helen Mirren (Trumbo)
• Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)
• Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs)

Best Original Screenplay

• Bridge of Spies (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Matt Charman)
• Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
• Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen, Josh Cooley, Meg LeFauve)
• Spotlight (Thomas McCarthy, Josh Singer)
• Straight Outta Compton (Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman)
• The Big Short (Adam McKay, Charles Randolph)
• The Martian (Drew Goddard)
• Room (Emma Donoghue)
• Steve Jobs (Aaron Sorkin)

Best Visual Effects

• Jurassic World
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• The Revenant
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Cinematography

• Bridge of Spies (Janusz Kaminski)
• Carol (Edward Lachmann)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (John Seale)
• The Revenant (Emmanuel Lubezki)
• Sicario (Roger Deakins)

Best Film Editing

• The Big Short (Hank Corvin)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (Jason Ballantine and Margaret Sixel)
• The Martian (Pietro Scalia)
• The Revenant (Stephen Mirrione)
• Spotlight (Tom McArdle)

Best Original Score

• Bridge of Spies (Thomas Newman)
• Carol (Carter Burwell)
• The Hateful Eight (Ennio Morricone)
• Inside Out (Michael Giacchino)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (John Williams)

Best Original Song

• “So Long” (Concussion)
• “Earned It” (Fifty Shades of Grey)
• “See You Again” (Furious 7)
• “Until It Happens to You” (The Hunting Ground)
• “Simple Song #3” (Youth)

Best Sound Mixing

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• The Revenant
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Straight Outta Compton

Best Sound Editing

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• The Revenant
• Sicario
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Black Mass
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Revenant

Best Production Design

• Bridge of Spies (Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Heinrich)
• The Danish Girl (Eve Stewart, Michael Standish)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (Colin Gibson, Katie Sharrock, Lisa Thompson)
• The Martian (Arthur Max, Celia Bobak, Zoltan Horvath)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Rick Carter, Darren Gilford, Lee Sandales)

Best Costume Design

• Brooklyn (Odile Dicks-Mireaux)
• Carol (Sandy Powell)
• Cinderella (Sandy Powell)
• The Danish Girl (Paco Delgado)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (Jenny Beavan)

Best Animated Feature Film

• Anomalisa
• The Good Dinosaur
• Inside Out
• The Peanuts Movie
• Shaun the Sheep Movie

Best Documentary Feature

• Amy
• Cartel Land
• Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
• Listen to Me Marlon
• The Look of Silence

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Brand New Testament (Belgium)
• Labyrinth of Lies (Germany)
• Mustang (France)
• Son of Saul (Hungary)
• A War (Denmark)