Courtney Eaton Reacts To ‘Mad Max Fury Road’ Oscar Nominations

He is nominated for “The Revenant” and will compete against Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”), George Miller (“Mad Max: Fury Road”), Adam McKay (“The Big Short”), and Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”).

Congrats to Courtney and the entire cast and crew!

No actors of color were nominated in the best acting or supporting acting categories this year, despite a backlash last year over a lack of diversity in the 2015 awards.

The Revenant also landed nominations for lead actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, supporting actor for Tom Hardy and director for Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Inarritu, whose Birdman won the best picture Oscar a year ago. A Best Picture upset by Mad Max over favorites The Revenant and Spotlight would be truly shocking, but once again it looks like the genre will have to settle for a seat or two at the table – just not at the head.

Sylvester Stallone is also being touted as a possible contender for best supporting actor for “Creed”, in which he reprised his iconic role of boxer Rocky Balboa.

Eight films made the cut for best picture, including The Revenant, which leads all nominees with a total of 12. Momentum may very well be on the side of “The Revenant”, which took home the Golden Globe awards for drama, actor, and director during Sunday’s much-hyped but overwhelmingly tiresome awards program, despite Ricky Gervais’s snarky hosting.

Industry watchers have been hard-pressed this year to predict which movies and actors will be headed for glory at the Academy Awards on February 28 – the pinnacle of Tinseltown’s awards season – and many are betting on some surprises. Toronto-native the Weeknd had his song Earned It from the film Fifty Shades of Grey, nominated for the best original song Oscar. This is the 25-year-old Lawrence’s fourth Oscar nomination.

DiCaprio, who has yet to win an Oscar, will compete with Bryan Cranston in Hollywood blacklist tale Trumbo, Matt Damon in space adventure The Martian, Michael Fassbender as technology visionary Steve Jobs and Eddie Redmayne as transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.

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