Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his first Oscar for wilderness epic The Revenant, after six nominations at the 88th Academy Awards, while Brie Larson picked up the award for best actress and journalism drama Spotlight won the award for best picture.
Best Picture
- Winner: Spotlight
- The Big Short
- Bridge of Spies
- Brooklyn
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Martian
- The Revenant
- Room
Best actor
- Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
- Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
- Matt Damon – The Martian
- Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
- Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl
Best actress
- Winner: Brie Larson – Room
- Cate Blanchett – Carol
- Jennifer Lawrence – Joy
- Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
- Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Best supporting actor
- Winner: Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
- Christian Bale – The Big Short
- Tom Hardy – The Revenant
- Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
- Sylvester Stallone – Creed
Best supporting actress
- Winner: Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
- Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
- Rooney Mara – Carol
- Rachel McAdams – Spotlight
- Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
Best director
- Winner: Alejandro Inarritu – The Revenant
- Lenny Abrahamson – Room
- Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
- Adam McKay – The Big Short
- George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Best adapted screenplay
- Winner: The Big Short
- Brooklyn
- Carol
- The Martian
- Room
Best original screenplay
- Winner: Spotlight
- Bridge of Spies
- Ex Machina
- Inside Out
- Straight Outta Compton
Best animated film
- Winner: Inside Out
- Anomalisa
- Boy and the World
- Shaun the Sheep Movie
- When Marnie Was There
Best foreign language film
- Winner: Son of Saul – Hungary
- Embrace of the Serpent – Colombia
- Mustang – France
- Theeb – Jordan
- A War – Denmark
Best animated short
- Winner: Bear Story
- Prologue
- Sanjay’s Super Team
- We Can’t Live without Cosmos
- World of Tomorrow
Best cinematography
- Winner: The Revenant
- Carol
- The Hateful Eight
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Sicario
Best costume design
- Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
- Carol
- Cinderella
- The Danish Girl
- The Revenant
Best documentary feature
- Winner: Amy
- Cartel Land
- The Look of Silence
- What Happened, Miss Simone?
- Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Best documentary short
- Winner: A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
- Body Team 12
- Chau, Beyond the Lines
- Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
- Last Day of Freedom
Best editing
- Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Big Short
- The Revenant
- Spotlight
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best live action short
- Winner: Stutterer
- Ave Maria
- Day One
- Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
- Shok
Best make-up and hair
- Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
- The Revenant
Best original score
- Winner: The Hateful Eight, Ennio Morricone
- Bridge of Spies
- Carol
- Sicario
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best original song
- Winner: Writing’s on the Wall, Sam Smith – Spectre
- Earned It, The Weeknd – Fifty Shades of Grey
- Manta Ray, J Ralph & Antony – Racing Extinction
- Simple Song #3, Sumi Jo – Youth
- Til It Happens To You, Lady Gaga – The Hunting Ground
Best production design
- Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
- Bridge of Spies
- The Danish Girl
- The Martian
- The Revenant
Best sound editing
- Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Martian
- The Revenant
- Sicario
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best sound mixing
- Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
- Bridge of Spies
- The Martian
- The Revenant
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best visual effects
- Winner: Ex Machina
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Martian
- The Revenant
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
