Oscar Winners

Well the Oscars were last night and finally ends one of the strangest award seasons. One of the fun things about this years Oscars was lack of predictability so I don't feel bad I didn't do so well with my predictions.

Of course as we got closer to the Oscars The Revenant took over frontrunner status but I kept telling everyone you can't count out Spotlight, The Big Short, or Mad Max. So while Spotlight winning Best Picture was a bit of a surprise wasn't total shocker like when Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan or Crash beat Brokeback Mountain.

The biggest surprise of the night was Ex Machina winning Best Visual Effects. With Mad Max winning almost every other technical award and stiff competition from Star Wars (my pick) and The Revenant it seemed very unlikely that Ex Machina would pull out the win.

Another surprise was Stallone losing Best Supporting Actor. Mark Rylance had a lot of early wins in award season but this was seen as more of a career a acheivement award for Stallone than based on an individual performance.

In total Mad Max won the most awards with 6 but mostly technical awards. Although it's win for Best Costume still feels odd.

The Revenant won three awards. After being nominated 5 times Leo finally got his Best Actor Oscar. Alejandro González Iñárritu
made history by becoming only the third Director to win the award two years in a row. And Emmanuel Lubezki took his third Oscar home in a row for Cinematography one of the rare technical categories Mad Max lost.

Lastly while short categories are always a crap shoot to predict the Animated Short winner was a bit of a surprise. Bear Story was up against the PIXAR movie Sanjay's Super Team and World of Tomorrow which thanks to being on Netflix has picked up a lot of support.

Full list of winners below

BEST PICTURE
Spotlight

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Brie Larson, Room

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Inside Out

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Revenant

COSTUME DESIGN
Mad Max: Fury Road

DIRECTING
The Revenant

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
Amy

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

FILM EDITING
Mad Max: Fury Road

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Son of Saul

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Mad Max: Fury Road

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
The Hateful Eight

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Writing’s On The Wall,” Spectre – Sam Smith

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Mad Max: Fury Road

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Bear Story

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Stutterer

SOUND EDITING
Mad Max: Fury Road

SOUND MIXING
Mad Max: Fury Road

VISUAL EFFECTS
Ex Machina

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
The Big Short

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Sporlight