Eddie Redmayne, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sam Smith Receive Oscar Nominations

Who scored big? Who was left out in the non-“Revenant” cold? Most puzzling of all was the Best Original Song nomination for Writing’s on the Wall from Spectre. Only Walt Disney received more nominations; the studio founder had 59. Or that neither Oscar Isaac or Alicia Vikander got anything for acting.

“Fury Road” has been nominated under 10 categories. He’s now one of just a handful of performers who have been nominated twice for the same role, and the distance between his movies is far and away the longest.

Also earning an Oscar nod Thursday morning was actor Bryan Cranston, who was nominated for best actor for his performance in the New Orleans-shot biopic “Trumbo”. Below we’ve run down the biggest snubs, surprises, and genuine shockers of the 2016 Oscar nominations. He now joins a club whose membership includes Cate Blanchett, Bing Crosby, Paul Newman, Peter O’Toole and Al Pacino. Of these, only Bing Crosby and Paul Newman won Oscars (in 1944 and 1986, respectively).

‘I wrote it to him, I said, “few people have this sensitivity and the antenna to catch what you do which is so good it’s imperceptible, you are nearly invisible”. Did you see the standing ovation he got at the Golden Globes?

Costume Design: “Carol“, “Cinderella”, “The Danish Girl”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “The Revenant”. Miller says, “Needless to say we’re doing little happy jigs and it’s really nice to be invited to the party”.

Though it should win attention in technical categories, Oscar prognosticators do not expect J.J. Abrams’ box-office juggernaut “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” to land a best picture nomination.

As producer of “The Revenant”, Gonzalez Iñarritu is one of the nominees in the best picture category, in which seven other films made the short list: “Spotlight”, “The Big Short”, “Bridge of Spies“, “Brooklyn”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “The Martian” and “Room“.

Jasin Boland/Warner Bros. Pictures “Mad Max: Fury Road” has become a rare big budget popcorn flick that won over critics and industry types.

He will compete with Leonardo DiCaprio, who received a nod for revenge epic The Revenant, which leads the pack with 12 nominations.

The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Chris Rock, will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on February 28. This was never going to be a strong year for minority nominees, but the lack of Idris Elba for Beasts of No Nation, Michael B. Jordan for Creed, and picture nominations for Creed and/or Straight Outta Compton means it’s an all-white race.

The 88th annual Academy Award nominations for best visual effects have been announced. This is the first nomination for Abrahamson, who beat out directors like Ridley Scott, Ryan Coogler (“Creed”), Quentin Tarantino (“The Hateful Eight”) and Todd Haynes (“Carol”).

“Embrace of the Serpent”, “Mustang“, “Son of Saul“, “Theeb“, “A War“.

The best director nominees closely mirrored those of the Directors Guild of America, announced Tuesday.

Brie Larson nominated for Best Actress.

“The Revenant”, about a frontiersman’s bitter struggle to survive in the wilderness, leads this year’s Academy Award race with 12 nominations, including Best Picture.

And this looks to be the year that Leonardo DiCaprio will finally get the best actor trophy to complete his glittering life – and, in the great Oscar tradition of awarding pain and suffering, he’ll do it for growing a scraggly beard and freezing in the wilderness. It sets director Alejandro Inarritu for a possible back-to-back win following his best-picture winning “Birdman”. The composer extends his record number of music scoring nominations to 45, with his Original Score nomination for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”.