‘The Revenant’ crew fete Oscar nominations at London premiere

When up to 10 titles can get Oscar nominations in the best film category, some directors will be left out in a category that’s limited to five nominees.

The two films will battle it out for the Best Picture award along with The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, The Martian, Room and Spotlight. Fury Road, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens are also among the nominated. In the supporting role category I believe Sylvester Stallone’s lovable portrayal of the timeless Rocky Balboa in Creed will win him his first Oscar after nearly forty years of not even being nominated.

Redmayne secured his nomination for his role as a transgender artist in The Danish Girl and will compete with Irish actor Michael Fassbender for Steve Jobs, Matt Damon for The Martian and Bryan Cranston for Trumbo.

In the Best Actress category, Saoirse Ronan will be joined by “Room’s” Brie Larson, whose performance in that harrowing film has already won her a Golden Globe.

“Mad Max Fury Road” is at the Lagoon…but you can also check it out on HBO and Amazon video. Also nominated were Tom Hardy (“The Revenant”) and Christian Bale (“The Big Short”). More than two decades after his breakout role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the esteemed actor won the Oscar on his first (and so far only) nomination.

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who had led efforts to diversify the academy’s memberships, acknowledged she was “disappointed”.

The 88th Academy Awards ceremony will be held on February 28. This year I think Alejandro González Iñárritu will take home his second consecutive Best Picture win for the movie that defied the standards of what it takes to make a film yet again, The Revenant.

Jennifer Lawrence’s nomination for best actress might be a stretch, as she was the protagonist in a film that only received a 60 percent favorable rating on the critics’ aggregator, website Rotten Tomatoes.

Did you see any of the nominated movies? “(…) The nominations mean so much because it comes from your peers, it comes from fellow actors”.

These audience-friendly 2016 Oscar noms promise a happy ending to an unusually volatile awards season, where for many months it seemed as if nobody could settle on a likely Best Picture champion. “I hope that this wonderful moment becomes an opportunity for us to value and respect the infinite traditional knowledge of the peoples of the Amazon, who are the real stars of this film, and with whom we share the joy“, said Director Ciro Guerra, whose film Embrace of the Serpent, was nominated for best foreign language film. Paul Newman had the previous mark – 26 years – for being nominated for playing Fast Eddie Felson in 1960’s “The Hustler” and 1986’s “The Color of Money”. If there is any kind of split among the guilds – especially actors, the largest group – we could easily walk up on Oscar Sunday with a wooly scrum for Best Picture.

As expected, Pixar’s “Inside Out” landed a best animated feature nod, as did the Charlie Kaufman-penned stop-motion animation “Anomalisa”, “Shaun the Sheep Movie”, “Boy and the World” and “When Marnie Was There”.