REVIEW OF 2015 - BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

1. Mad Max: Fury Road

2. The Walk

3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

4. The Revenant

5. Avengers: Age of Ultron

6. Jupiter Ascending

7. Ex Machina

8. Spectre

9. Jurassic World

10. The Martian

OSCAR CONTENDERS WIN ART DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS

Since Cinderella failed to pick up a richly deserved Oscar nomination for its stunning production design, my prediction that it'd win an ADG award faltered. Instead, voters chose films for their three awards which not only carried corresponding Oscar nods but which also carried Oscar Best Picture nods. In particular, The Revenant's success in the Period category confirms its status as one to watch in Oscar's tech categories, where it has otherwise appeared to mostly lag behind Mad Max: Fury Road. See for yourself both the Art Directors Guild nominations, and, below, their award winners.

Excellence in Production Design - Period

Jack Fisk (The Revenant)

Excellence in Production Design - Fantasy

Colin Gibson (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Excellence in Production Design - Contemporary

Arthur Max (The Martian)

OSCAR CONTENDERS WIN ART DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS

Since Cinderella failed to pick up a richly deserved Oscar nomination for its stunning production design, my prediction that it'd win an ADG award faltered. Instead, voters chose films for their three awards which not only carried corresponding Oscar nods but which also carried Oscar Best Picture nods. In particular, The Revenant's success in the Period category confirms its status as one to watch in Oscar's tech categories, where it has otherwise appeared to mostly lag behind Mad Max: Fury Road. See for yourself both the Art Directors Guild nominations, and, below, their award winners.

Excellence in Production Design - Period

Jack Fisk (The Revenant)

Excellence in Production Design - Fantasy

Colin Gibson (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Excellence in Production Design - Contemporary

Arthur Max (The Martian)

2015 OSCAR NOMINATIONS ARE ABOUT AS SHIT AS YOU EXPECTED, YEP

On the bright side, there were 10 nominations for Mad Max: Fury Road, recognitions for World of Tomorrow, When Marnie Was There, Carol in Adapted Screenplay, The Look of Silence in Documentary, Theeb in Foreign Language Film, Charlotte Rampling in Actress for 45 Years, and Tom Hardy... but for The Revenant. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's latest pile of expensive, deeply dissatisfying movie masturbation leads the nominations with an outrageous tally of 12; double that of Carol, which is left off the Best Picture list. And thus, onto the dark, dark side of these Oscar nominations: no POC in the acting categories for the second consecutive frame, no women directors represented in either Picture or Director, no Carol nor Cinderella in Production Design, no Inside Out in Picture nor Original Score (I mean, not even in Original Score?!), and Spectre's utter dirge of a theme song is nominated for Original Song. Fuck this shit. The Oscars are on the 28th of February. Roll on March!

Best Picture

The Big Short (Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Brad Pitt)

Bridge of Spies (Kristie Macosko Krieger, Marc Platt and Steven Spielberg)

Brooklyn (Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey)

Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller and Doug Mitchell)

The Martian (Mark Huffam, Simon Kinberg, Michael Schaefer and Ridley Scott)

The Revenant (Steve Golin, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon)

Room (Ed Guiney)

Spotlight (Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar)

Best Directing

Lenny Abrahamson (Room)

Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant)

Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)

Adam McKay (The Big Short)

George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Bryan Cranston (Trumbo)

Matt Damon (The Martian)

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)

Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)

Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Cate Blanchett (Carol)

Brie Larson (Room)

Jennifer Lawrence (Joy)

Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)

Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Christian Bale (The Big Short)

Tom Hardy (The Revenant)

Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight)

Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)

Sylvester Stallone (Creed)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight)

Rooney Mara (Carol)

Rachel McAdams (Spotlight)

Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)

Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs)

Best Writing – Original Screenplay

Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge and Alan Wenkus (Straight Outta Compton)

Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Bridge of Spies)

Josh Cooley, Ronnie del Carmen, Pete Docter and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out)

Alex Garland (Ex Machina)

Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight)

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay

Emma Donoghue (Room)

Drew Goddard (The Martian)

Nick Hornby (Brooklyn)

Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (The Big Short)

Phyllis Nagy (Carol)

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins (Sicario)

Edward Lachman (Carol)

Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant)

Robert Richardson (The Hateful Eight)

John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Film Editing

Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Hank Corwin (The Big Short)

Tom McArdle (Spotlight)

Stephen Mirrione (The Revenant)

Margaret Sixel (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Production Design

Celia Bobak and Arthur Max (The Martian)

Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich and Adam Stockhausen (Bridge of Spies)

Jack Fisk and Hamish Purdy (The Revenant)

Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Michael Standish and Eve Stewart (The Danish Girl)

Best Costume Design

Jenny Beavan (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Paco Delgado (The Danish Girl)

Sandy Powell (Carol)

Sandy Powell (Cinderella)

Jacqueline West (The Revenant)

Best Sound Mixing

Chris Duesterdiek, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor and Randy Thom (The Revenant)

Chris Jenkins, Ben Osmo and Gregg Rudloff (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Drew Kunin, Andy Nelson and Gary Rydstrom (Bridge of Spies)

Paul Massey, Mac Ruth and Mark Taylor (The Martian)

Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Best Sound Editing

David Acord and Matthew Wood (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Lon Bender and Martín Hernández (The Revenant)

Mark A. Mangini and David White (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Alan Robert Murray (Sicario)

Oliver Tarney (The Martian)

Best Visual Effects

Mark Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris and Andrew Whitehurst (Ex Machina)

Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan and Patrick Tubach (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams and Tom Wood (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence, Richard Stammers and Steven Warner (The Martian)

Richard McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer (The Revenant)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert A. Pandini (The Revenant)

Love Larson and Eva von Bahr (The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared)

Damian Martin, Lesley Vanderwalt and Elka Wardega (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Music (Original Score)

Carter Burwell (Carol)

Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario)

Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight)

Thomas Newman (Bridge of Spies)

John Williams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Best Music (Original Song)

Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville, Stephan Moccio and Abel Tesfaye – ‘Earned It’ (Fifty Shades of Grey)

Stefani Germanotta and Diane Warren  - ‘’Til It Happens to You’ (The Hunting Ground)

Antony Hegarty and J. Ralph – ‘Manta Ray’ (Racing Extinction)

David Lang – ‘Simple Song #3’ (Youth)

Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith – ‘Writing’s on the Wall’ (Spectre)

Best Animated Feature Film

Anomalisa (Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman and Rosa Tran)

The Boy and the World (Alê Abreu)

Inside Out (Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera)

Shaun the Sheep Movie (Mark Burton and Richard Starzak)

When Marnie Was There (Nishimura Yoshiaki and Yonebayashi Hiromasa)

Best Documentary Feature

Amy (James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia)

Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin)

The Look of Silence (Signe Byrge Sørensen and Joshua Oppenheimer)

What Happened, Miss Simone? (Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes)

Winter on Fire (Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor)

Best Foreign Language Film

Embrace of the Serpent – Colombia (Ciro Guerra)

Mustang – France (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)

Son of Saul – Hungary (Nemes László)

Theeb – Jordan (Naji Abu Nowar)

A War – Denmark (Tobias Lindholm)

Best Short Film (Live Action)

Ave Maria (Eric Dupont and Basil Khalil)

Day One (Henry Hughes)

Everything Will Be Okay (Patrick Vollrath)

Shok (Jamie Donoughue)

Stutterer (Serena Armitage and Benjamin Cleary)

Best Short Film (Animated)

Bear Story (Pato Escala and Gabriel Osorio)

Prologue (Imogen Sutton and Richard Williams)

Sanjay’s Super Team (Nicole Grindle and Sanjay Patel)

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos (Konstantin Bronzit)

World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)

Best Documentary Short

Body Team 12 (David Darg and Bryn Mooser)

Chau, Beyond the Lines (Jerry Franck and Courtney Marsh)

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (Adam Benzine)

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy)

Last Day of Freedom (Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman)

OSCAR NOMINATIONS PREDICTIONS 2015!

For official record, here are my final predictions for the 2015 Academy Award nominations, due to be announced tomorrow.

Best Picture

The Big Short

Bridge of Spies

Carol

Inside Out
Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Room

Spotlight

alt: Sicario

Best Director

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant)

Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)

Adam McKay (The Big Short)

George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Ridley Scott (The Martian)

alt: Todd Haynes (Carol)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Steve Carell (The Big Short)

Bryan Cranston (Trumbo)

Matt Damon (The Martian)

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)

Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)

alt: Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Cate Blanchett (Carol)

Brie Larson (Room)

Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)

Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)

Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)

alt: Jennifer Lawrence (Joy)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Christian Bale (The Big Short)

Benicio del Toro (Sicario)

Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight)

Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)

Sylvester Stallone (Creed)

alt: Michael Shannon (99 Homes)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight)

Rooney Mara (Carol)

Rachel McAdams (Spotlight)

Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)

Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs)

alt: Helen Mirren (Trumbo)

Best Original Screenplay

Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Bridge of Spies)

Josh Cooley, Pete Docter and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out)

Alex Garland (Ex Machina)

Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight)

Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight)

alt: Taylor Sheridan (Sicario)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Emma Donoghue (Room)

Drew Goddard (The Martian)

Nick Hornby (Brooklyn)

Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (The Big Short)

Phyllis Nagy (Carol)

alt: Aaron Sorkin (Steve Jobs)

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins (Sicario)

Edward Lachman (Carol)

Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant)

Robert Richardson (The Hateful Eight)

John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road)

alt: Janusz Kaminski (Bridge of Spies)

Best Editing

Hank Corwin (The Big Short)

Tom McArdle (Spotlight)

Stephen Mirrione (The Revenant)

Pietro Scalia (The Martian)

Margaret Sixel (Mad Max: Fury Road)

alt: Joe Walker (Sicario)

Best Production Design

Judy Becker (Carol)

Rick Carter and Darren Gilford (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Dante Ferretti (Cinderella)

Colin Gibson (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Adam Stockhausen (Bridge of Spies)

alt: Eve Stewart (The Danish Girl)

Best Costume Design

Jenny Beavan (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Paco Delgado (The Danish Girl)

Odile Dicks-Mireaux (Brooklyn)

Sandy Powell (Carol)

Sandy Powell (Cinderella)

alt: Daniel Orlandi (Trumbo)

Best Sound Mixing

Bridge of Spies

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

alt: The Hateful Eight

Best Sound Editing

Inside Out

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

alt: The Hateful Eight

Best Visual Effects

Jurassic World

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Walk

alt: Ex Machina

Best Makeup

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

alt: Mr. Holmes

Best Original Score

Alexandre Desplat (The Danish Girl)

Michael Giacchino (Inside Out)

Johann Johannsson (Sicario)

Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight)

Thomas Newman (Bridge of Spies)

alt: John Williams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Best Original Song

'Feels Like Summer' (Shaun the Sheep Movie)

'Grip' (Creed)

'The Mystery of Your Gift' (Boychoir)

'See You Again' (Furious 7)

''Til It Happens to You' (The Hunting Ground)

alt: 'So Long' (Concussion)

Best Animated Feature

Anomalisa

The Boy and the World

Inside Out

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

Shaun the Sheep Movie

alt: When Marnie Was There

Best Documentary

Best of Enemies

Listen to Me Marlon

The Look of Silence

Meru

We Come as Friends

alt: Amy

Best Foreign Language Film

The Fencer

Mustang

Son of Saul

Theeb

A War

alt: Embrace of the Serpent

Best Live Action Short

Against the Grain

Ave Maria

Day One

Shok

Winter Light

alt: Stutterer

Best Animated Short

Bear Story

If I Was God...

Prologue

Sanjay's Super Team

World of Tomorrow

alt: We Can't Live Without Cosmos

Best Documentary Short

Body Team 12

Chau, Beyond the Lines

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

My Enemy, My Brother

The Testimony

alt: Last Day of Freedom

GONZALEZ INARRITU, MCCARTHY, MCKAY, MILLER, SCOTT - DGA NOMINATIONS

In the 2015 Boys' Club nominations, five big boys got nominations for their big boy films. There's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for his angsty big-boy Western The Revenant! There's Tom McCarthy for his working-boys drama Spotlight! There's Adam McKay for his banker-boy comedy-drama The Big Short! There's Ridley Scott for his space-boy thriller The Martian! And there's George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road, which isn't rly a boys' movie, and that's why PLZ MOVIE GODS LET IT WIN! But look: a new category, for debut directors, and the movie gods are already at work, nominating a w-, a wo-, a... w-o-m-a-n? Is that what they're called? Winners announced at the ceremony on the 6th of February. Noms, including for the Documentary category, can be viewed below:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant)

Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)

Adam McKay (The Big Short)

George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Ridley Scott (The Martian)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Meru)
Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?)
Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief)
Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land)
Asif Kapadia (Amy)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director

Fernando Coimbra (A Wolf at the Door)

Joel Edgerton (The Gift)

Alex Garland (Ex Machina)

Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl)

Nemes Laszlo (Son of Saul)

OSCAR HOPEFULS AND BLOCKBUSTERS IN CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY NOMINATIONS

The Martian misses, but at least one film had to. Otherwise, five of your six (or seven, if you include Inside Out, nominated in the Animated category here) Oscar Sound Mixing frontrunners show up on the Cinema Audio Society's 2015 nominations. A couple of blockbusters, though five moneymakers among these Oscar contenders, but who cares about the Oscars today? It's the day of CAS nominees, and hooray for that! Winners announced on the 20th of February. Check it out:

Best Sound Mixing - Live Action

Chris Duesterdiek, Conrad Hensel, Michael Miller, Frank A. Montano, Geordy Sincavage, Jon Taylor and Randy Thom (The Revenant)

Nerses Gezalyan, Chris Minkler, Michael Minkler, Mark Ulano and Fabio Venturi (The Hateful Eight)

Chris Jenkins, Thomas J. O'Connell, Ben Osmo, Gregg Rudloff and Ryan Squires (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Bobby Johanson, Drew Kunin, Chris Manning, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Thomas Vicari (Bridge of Spies)

Chris Manning, Shawn Murphy, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Charleen Steeves and Stuart Wilson (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Best Sound Mixing - Animated

Jason Butler, Bill Higley, Lora Hirschberg, Leff Lefferts, Casey Stone and Randy Thom (The Peanuts Movie)

Vince Caro, Brad Haehnel, Tom Johnson, Kyle Rochlin and Michael Semanick (The Good Dinosaur)

Brad Haehnel, Tom Johnson, Howard London, Michael Semanick and Randy Singer (Hotel Transylvania 2)

Joel Iwataki, Tom Johnson, Doc Kane, Mary Jo Lang and Michael Semanick (Inside Out)

Shawn Murphy, Gary A. Rizzo, Christopher Scarabosio, Carlos Sotolongo and Corey Tyler (Minions)

BRIDGE OF SPIES AND CAROL ARE SHOCK LEADERS OF BAFTA NOMINATIONS

This awards season just won't sit still! Prior to today's BAFTA nominations announcement, one might have expected Mad Max: Fury Road or The Martian to lead; instead, all films trail none other than current awards season punching bag Carol and outside contender Bridge of Spies, both of which make nine appearances! And next in line is The Revenant with eight mentions! There were major absentees too, such as Spotlight's Tom McCarthy missing out on a Best Director nod; that was taken by Ridley Scott for The Martian, though its six nominations do not include one among the Best Film top five. And Mad Max is entirely absent from all above-the-line categories, just in case the Carol sweep was too much good news for one day. It was a highly surprising slate, then, and one which promises more surprises to come, both in the BAFTA race and in the Oscar race overall. Winners will be revealed on the 14th of February. Here are all the nominees:

Best Film

The Big Short (Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Brad Pitt)

Bridge of Spies (Kristie Macosko Krieger, Marc Platt and Steven Spielberg)

Carol (Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon and Stephen Woolley)

The Revenant (Steve Golin, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon)

Spotlight (Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar)

Best Director

Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant)

Todd Haynes (Carol)

Adam McKay (The Big Short)

Ridley Scott (The Martian)

Steven Spielberg (Bridge of Spies)

Best Leading Actor

Bryan Cranston (Trumbo)

Matt Damon (The Martian)

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)

Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)

Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl)

Best Leading Actress

Cate Blanchett (Carol)

Brie Larson (Room)

Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)

Maggie Smith (The Lady in the Van)

Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)

Best Supporting Actor

Christian Bale (The Big Short)

Benicio del Toro (Sicario)

Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation)

Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight)

Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight)

Rooney Mara (Carol)

Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)

Julie Walters (Brooklyn)

Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs)

Best Original Screenplay

Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Bridge of Spies)

Josh Cooley, Pete Docter and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out)

Alex Garland (Ex Machina)

Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight)

Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Emma Donoghue (Room)

Nick Hornby (Brooklyn)

Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (The Big Short)

Phyllis Nagy (Carol)

Aaron Sorkin (Steve Jobs)

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins (Sicario)

Janusz Kaminski (Bridge of Spies)

Edward Lachman (Carol)

Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant)

John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Editing

Hank Corwin (The Big Short)

Michael Kahn (Bridge of Spies)

Stephen Mirrione (The Revenant)

Pietro Scalia (The Martian)

Margaret Sixel (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Production Design

Judy Becker and Heather Loeffler (Carol)

Celia Bobak and Arthur Max (The Martian)

Rick Carter, Darren Gilford and Lee Sandales (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Rena DeAngelo and Adam Stockhausen (Bridge of Spies)

Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Costume Design

Jenny Beavan (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Paco Delgado (The Danish Girl)

Odile Dicks-Mireaux (Brooklyn)

Sandy Powell (Carol)

Sandy Powell (Cinderella)

Best Sound

David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson and Matthew Wood (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Lon Bender, Chris Duesterdiek, Martín Hernández, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor and Randy Thom (The Revenant)

Scott Hecker, Chris Jenkins, Mark Mangini, Ben Osmo, Gregg Rudloff and David White (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Richard Hymns, Drew Kunin, Andy Nelson and Gary Rydstrom (Bridge of Spies)

Paul Massey, Mac Ruth, Oliver Tarney and Mark Taylor (The Martian)

Best Special Visual Effects

Mark Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris and Andrew Whitehurst (Ex Machina)

Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh and Neal Scanlan (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams and Tom Wood (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Chris Lawrence, Tim Ledbury, Richard Stammers and Steven Warner (The Martian)

Jake Morrison, Greg Steele, Daniel Sudick and Alex Wuttke (Ant-Man)

Best Makeup & Hair

Jerry DeCarlo and Patricia Regan (Carol)

Lorraine Glynn and Morna Ferguson (Brooklyn)

Sian Grig, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini (The Revenant)

Damian Martin and Lesley Vanderwalt (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Jan Sewell (The Danish Girl)

Best Original Music

Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario)

Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight)

Thomas Newman (Bridge of Spies)

Carsten Nicolai and Sakamoto Ryûichi (The Revenant)

John Williams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Best Animated Film

Inside Out (Pete Docter)

Minions (Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin)

Shaun the Sheep Movie (Mark Burton and Richard Starzak)

Best Documentary

Amy (James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia)

Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin)

He Named Me Malala (Davis Guggenheim, Laurie MacDonald and Walter Parkes)

Listen to Me Marlon (John Battsek, George Chignell, R. J. Cutler and Stevan Riley)

Sherpa (Bridget Ikin, Jennifer Peedom and John Smithson)

Best Film Not in the English Language

The Assassin (Hou Hsiao Hsien)

Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)

Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar)

Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)

Wild Tales (Damián Szifrón)

Outstanding British Film

45 Years (Tristan Goligher and Andrew Haigh)

Amy (James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia)

Brooklyn (John Crowley, Finola Dwyer, Nick Hornby and Amanda Posey)

The Danish Girl (Tim Bevan, Lucinda Coxon, Eric Fellner, Anne Harrison, Tom Hooper and Gail Mutrux)

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, Andrew MacDonald and Allan Reich)

The Lobster (Ceci Dempsey, Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ed Guiney and Lee Magiday)

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

Stephen Fingleton – writer / director (The Survivalist)

Alex Garland – director (Ex Machina)

Debbie Tucker Green – writer / director (Second Coming)

Rupert Lloyd – producer; and Naji Abu Nowar – writer / director (Theeb)

Sean McAllister – director / producer; and Elhum Shakerifar – producer (A Syrian Love Story)

Best British Short Film

Elephant (Nick Helm, Alex Moody and Esther Smith)

Mining Poems or Odes (Jack Cocker and Callum Rice)

Operator (Caroline Bartleet and Rebecca Morgan)

Over (Jeremy Bannister and Jörn Threlfall)

Samuel-613 (Cheyenne Conway and Billy Lumby)

Best British Short Animation

Edmond (Nina Gantz and Emilie Jouffroy)

Manoman (Simon Cartwright and Kamilla Kristiane Hodol)

Prologue (Imogen Sutton and Richard Williams)

The EE Rising Star Award

John Boyega

Taron Egerton

Dakota Johnson

Brie Larson

Bel Powley