Ladies and gentlemen, the Oscar nominations are finally here!

Following its Golden Globe-winning success on Sunday evening, the survival drama The Revenant has collected a whopping twelve mentions, which include Best Picture and Best Director for filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. He’ll be hoping to achieve Oscar glory for the second year running, having guided Birdman to victory in 2015.

As expected, leading man Leonardo DiCaprio is shortlisted for Best Actor and will be looking to finally land his first Oscar win for his performance as vengeful explorer Hugh Glass. More surprisingly, British co-star Tom Hardy earned his first nomination for his role as the villainous John Fitzgerald, having been snubbed by other major award groups.

The film also dominated various technical categories, though it did miss out on a Screenplay nod.

On the subject of Hardy, it turned out to be a lovely, lovely day for his other major film Mad Max: Fury Road as the post-apocalyptic action sequel received ten nominations including Best Picture and Best Director for George Miller.

 

There were seven nominations for the sci-fi blockbuster The Martian, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Matt Damon (as stranded astronaut Mark Watney), but veteran filmmaker Ridley Scott was surprisingly ignored for Best Director.

The journalism drama Spotlight secured six nods, including Best Director for Tom McCarthy and Supporting Actor/Actress mentions for Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams as Boston Globe reporters Mike Rezendes and Sacha Pfieffer.

Another film with six nominations was the romantic drama Carol, which failed to be mentioned in Best Picture or Director, though actresses Cate Blanchett (as married socialite Carol Aird) and Rooney Mara (as her young lover Therese Belivet) were nodded in their respective categories.

 

The Best Picture line-up is rounded up by the financial crisis comedy The Big Short (five nods), the Cold War biopic Bridge of Spies, the romantic drama Brooklyn (three nods) and the indie flick Room (four nods).

In Best Director, Iñárritu, McCarthy and Miller are competing with surprise nominee Lenny Abrahamson (Room) and Adam McKay (The Big Short).

In Best Actor, Hollywood heavyweights Leo DiCaprio and Matt Damon are up against Bryan Cranston (as blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in Trumbo), Michael Fassbender (as Apple pioneer Steve Jobs in Steve Jobs) and last year’s Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (as transgendered Danish artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl).

In Best Actress, Cate Blanchett is bidding for her third Oscar win and will be battling it out with recent Golden Globe winners Brie Larson (as protective mother Joy in Room) and Jennifer Lawrence (as real-life businesswoman Joy Mangano in Joy) as well as veteran British actress Charlotte Rampling (as scorned married woman Kate Mercer in 45 Years) and young starlet Saoirse Ronan (as Irish immigrant Ellis Lacey in Brooklyn).

Best Supporting Actor sees Hollywood veteran Sylvester Stallone make the ultimate comeback, as he is nodded for reprising his iconic role as former boxer-turned-mentor Rocky Balboa in the sports drama Creed. By doing so, Sly makes history by becoming the sixth actor to be Oscar-nominated for playing the same character twice.

 

Stallone will be fighting it out with aforementioned nominees Tom Hardy and Mark Ruffalo, as well as British actors Christian Bale (as eccentric physicist Dr. Michael Burry in The Big Short) and Mark Rylance (as Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies).

In Best Supporting Actress, Rooney Mara and Rachel McAdams are up against Jennifer Jason Leigh (as sadistic prisoner Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight), Alicia Vikander (as Lili Elbe’s supportive wife Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl) and recent Golden Globe winner Kate Winslet (as Apple marketing analyst Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs).

Elsewhere, the sci-fi blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens has received five nods which include an incredible 50th nomination for legendary composer John Williams, who will be up against fellow veteran Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight) in the Best Original Score category.

Following his Golden Globe win on Sunday for singing “Writing’s On the Wall” in Spectre, British musician Sam Smith will be competing for Best Original Song along with Grammy Award winner Lady Gaga (The Hunting Ground) and The Weekend (nodded for Razzie contender Fifty Shades of Grey!) while the late Amy Winehouse’s documentary Amy is shortlisted in its own category.

 

Pixar’s Inside Out looks certain to land the Best Animated Film award but faces stern competition from the likes of Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa and the British animation Shaun the Sheep Movie.

In terms of major snubs, British duo Idris Elba and Dame Helen Mirren were snubbed for their supporting roles in Beasts of No Nation and Trumbo while high-profile films like Ant-Man, Black Mass, Concussion, The Good Dinosaur, Jurassic World, Love & Mercy, Southpaw and Suffragette were completely ignored.

The 88th Annual Academy Awards will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on February 28th with comedian Chris Rock hosting for the second time.

The full list of nominations are below (winner predictions in blue):

BEST PICTURE
THE BIG SHORT
BRIDGE OF SPIES
BROOKLYN
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
THE MARTIAN
THE REVENANT
ROOM
SPOTLIGHT

BEST DIRECTOR
Lenny Abrahamson, ROOM
Alejandro González Iñárritu, THE REVENANT
Adam McKay, THE BIG SHORT
Tom McCarthy, SPOTLIGHT
George Miller, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

 

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, CAROL
Brie Larson, ROOM
Jennifer Lawrence, JOY
Charlotte Rampling, 45 YEARS
Saoirse Ronan, BROOKLYN

BEST ACTOR
Bryan Cranston, TRUMBO
Matt Damon, THE MARTIAN
Leonardo DiCaprio, THE REVENANT
Michael Fassbender, STEVE JOBS
Eddie Redmayne, THE DANISH GIRL

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Jason Leigh, THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Rooney Mara, CAROL
Rachel McAdams, SPOTLIGHT
Alicia Vikander, THE DANISH GIRL
Kate Winslet, STEVE JOBS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale, THE BIG SHORT
Tom Hardy, THE REVENANT
Mark Ruffalo, SPOTLIGHT
Mark Rylance, BRIDGE OF SPIES
Sylvester Stallone, CREED

 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
THE BIG SHORT (Adam McKay & Charles Randolph)
BROOKLYN (Nick Hornby)
CAROL (Phyllis Nagy)
THE MARTIAN (Drew Goddard)
ROOM (Emma Donoghue)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BRIDGE OF SPIES (Matt Charman, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
EX MACHINA (Alex Garland)
INSIDE OUT (Josh Cooley, Pete Docter & Meg LeFauve)
SPOTLIGHT (Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer)
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus)

BEST EDITING
THE BIG SHORT
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
THE REVENANT
SPOTLIGHT
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
CAROL
THE HATEFUL EIGHT
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
THE REVENANT
SICARIO

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
BRIDGE OF SPIES
THE DANISH GIRL
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
THE MARTIAN
THE REVENANT

 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
CAROL
CINDERELLA
THE DANISH GIRL
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
THE REVENANT

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
THE 100 YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
THE REVENANT

 

BEST SOUND MIXING
BRIDGE OF SPIES
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
THE MARTIAN
THE REVENANT
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

BEST SOUND EDITING
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
THE MARTIAN
THE REVENANT
SICARIO
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
EX MACHINA
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
THE MARTIAN
THE REVENANT
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BRIDGE OF SPIES (Thomas Newman)
CAROL (Carter Burwell)
THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Ennio Morricone)
SICARIO (Jóhann Jóhannsson)
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (John Williams)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (“Earned It”)
THE HUNTING GROUND (“Till It Happens To You”)
RACING EXTINCTION, (“Manta Ray”)
SPECTRE, (“Writing’s on the Wall”)
YOUTH, (“Simple Song #3”)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
ANOMALISA
BOY & THE WORLD
INSIDE OUT
SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE
WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (Columbia)
MUSTANG (France)
SON OF SAUL (Hungary)
THEEB (Jordan)
A WAR (Denmark)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
AMY
CARTEL LAND
THE LOOK OF SILENCE
WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE?
WINTER ON FIRE: UKRAINE’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
BODY TEAM 12
CHAU, BEYOND THE LINES
CLAUDE LANZMANN: SPECTRES OF THE SHOAH
A GIRL IN THE RIVER: THE PRICE OF FORGIVENESS
LAST DAY OF FREEDOM

BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
BEAR STORY
PROLOGUE
SANJAY’S SUPER TEAM
WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT COSMOS
WORLD OF TOMORROW

BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
AVE MARIA
DAY ONE
EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY (ALLES WIRD GUT)
SHOK
STUTTERER