Alicia Vikander wins Oscar for ‘Danish Girl’ role

For example, the victor of the Directors’ Guild award for best director (Alejandro G. Inarritu, for “The Revenant”) will in all likelihood be the Academy’s choice as well.

Beyond that, the major awards are largely up in the air. The other nominees: The Big Short, which has revived the draw of business movies; Brooklyn & Room, proving that little films with modest aims can still rub shoulders with the big studio titles; Bridge of Spies; Mad Max: Fury Road; The Martian.

Adapted Screenplay: “The Big Short”.

Inarritu, who picked up a second Directors Guild of America award (DGA) in a row and a BAFTA earlier this month, won the Oscar for best picture past year for dark comedy “Birdman”.

Carol being denied Best Picture and Best Director nominations left many including me all furious. “Mad Max” is the best movie of the year, hands down, but it’s also an action movie and a big-budget summer blockbuster, which the Academy is usually hesitant to recognize. Will her movie Mad Max bag top Oscars? It could even steal the best-costume statuette from “Carol”, but the academy loves designer Sandy Powell who created the gorgeous 1950s outfits for Haynes’ romance.

The three other best picture nominees, The Martian, Bridge of Spies and Brooklyn, are also pegged at 100/1. Redmayne took home the Oscar a year ago for “The Theory of Everything”.

It feels like a lock for Brie Larson in “Room”.

Brie Larson will win best actress for “Room”, because she’s spectacular, and she has won every other industry prize (although not every critical award) leading up to tonight.

Should Win: Mark Rylance made his subtlety affecting Soviet spy more lovable than Tom Hanks in “Bridge of Spies”. The second-time Oscar host, clad in a white tuxedo, said in his rip-roaring monologue that if hosts were nominated like people in the acting categories, people would be watching Neil Patrick Harris instead. She won for “Silver Linings Playbook” in 2012.

These are two categories where “The Revenant” has a chance to demonstrate wide-ranging support.

Best supporting actress went Alicia Vikander for the transgender pioneer tale “The Danish Girl”.

The category included Sylvester Stallone, who was widely believed to be the front-runner for his performance as Rocky Balboa in “Creed” – 39 years after he first played the role in “Rocky”.

Veteran actor Louis Gossett Jr. sympathizes with the protesters who say the Oscars should better represent the nation’s diversity, but he and colleague Whoopi Goldberg had no interest in boycotting the event.

The 38-year-old actor was the star of the “Mad Max” reboot, taking over for Mel Gibson in “Mad Max: Fury Road” – which landed 10 Oscar nominations and was a box-office smash.

Filling out the category: “Boy & the World”, “Shaun the Sheep Movie”, and “When Marnie Was There”.

In the original song category, the nominees are “Earned It” (from “Fifty Shades of Grey”), “Manta Ray” (“Racing Extinction”), “Simple Song 3” (“Youth”), “Til It Happens to You” (“The Hunting Ground“) and “Writing’s On the Wall” (“Spectre“), with music and lyrics by Jimmy Napes and Grammy-winner Sam Smith. Then he makes Laird’s skin look mottled, paints on veins and adds bags under her eyes. But “Danish Girl” could pop through for costumes, “The Big Short” could spoil in film editing and either “The Martian” or “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” could rally in sound or visual effects.

“Well, you know what I look like – I’m small and fat and old, and I don’t do frocks”.

Beavan asserts to The Straits Times that she is not at all offended by Fry, whom she had previously worked with on films such as Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (2011) and Gosford Park (2001). Protesters are countering the gleaming whiteness of the nominations, a subject we can trust that co-producer Reginald Hudlin and host Chris Rock will address.

Editor Margaret Sixel joined in the celebration at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood earlier with her first Oscar win for Best Editing. He also led the ceremony in 2005.

Being angry at the Oscars is a pointless endeavor, since it’s an essentially pointless show.

The Oscars will be aired on ABC and televised in more than 225 countries.