2016 Oscars: Winners and Nominees

57 films were recognised at the 2016 Academy Awards, across 24 categories. 16 of them took home at least one award.

The biggest winner of the year was Mad Max: Fury Road, with 6 awards, ahead of The Revenant with 3. The categories below run from Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role and Actor in a Supporting Role to the smaller prizes, and in every one the winner is listed first, followed by the other nominees.

Each title links to the film's full award history at all four awards, and the links at the bottom step to the previous and next ceremony.

Last updated August 12, 2026

Best Picture

Spotlight(2015)
Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, Producers
Winner
Bridge of Spies(2015)
Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
Brooklyn(2015)
Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
Doug Mitchell and George Miller, Producers
Room(2015)
Ed Guiney, Producer
The Big Short(2015)
Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
The Martian(2015)
Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam, Producers
The Revenant(2015)
Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon, Producers

Actor in a Leading Role

The Revenant(2015)
Leonardo DiCaprio
Winner
Steve Jobs(2015)
Michael Fassbender
The Danish Girl(2015)
Eddie Redmayne
The Martian(2015)
Matt Damon
Trumbo(2015)
Bryan Cranston

Actor in a Supporting Role

Bridge of Spies(2015)
Mark Rylance
Winner
Creed(2015)
Sylvester Stallone
Spotlight(2015)
Mark Ruffalo
The Big Short(2015)
Christian Bale
The Revenant(2015)
Tom Hardy

Actress in a Leading Role

Room(2015)
Brie Larson
Winner
45 Years(2015)
Charlotte Rampling
Brooklyn(2015)
Saoirse Ronan
Carol(2015)
Cate Blanchett
Joy(2015)
Jennifer Lawrence

Actress in a Supporting Role

The Danish Girl(2015)
Alicia Vikander
Winner
Carol(2015)
Rooney Mara
Spotlight(2015)
Rachel McAdams
Steve Jobs(2015)
Kate Winslet
The Hateful Eight(2015)
Jennifer Jason Leigh

Animated Feature Film

Inside Out(2015)
Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
Winner
Anomalisa(2015)
Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
Boy & the World(2014)
Alê Abreu
Shaun the Sheep Movie(2015)
Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
When Marnie Was There(2014)
Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Cinematography

The Revenant(2015)
Emmanuel Lubezki
Winner
Carol(2015)
Ed Lachman
Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
John Seale
Sicario(2015)
Roger Deakins
The Hateful Eight(2015)
Robert Richardson

Costume Design

Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
Jenny Beavan
Winner
Carol(2015)
Sandy Powell
Cinderella(2015)
Sandy Powell
The Danish Girl(2015)
Paco Delgado
The Revenant(2015)
Jacqueline West

Directing

The Revenant(2015)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Winner
Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
George Miller
Room(2015)
Lenny Abrahamson
Spotlight(2015)
Tom McCarthy
The Big Short(2015)
Adam McKay

Documentary (Feature)

Amy(2015)
Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
Winner
Cartel Land(2015)
Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
The Look of Silence(2014)
Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
What Happened, Miss Simone?(2015)
Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom(2015)
Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor

Documentary (Short Subject)

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness(2015)
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Winner
Body Team 12(2015)
David Darg and Bryn Mooser
Chau, Beyond the Lines(2015)
Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah(2015)
Adam Benzine
Last Day of Freedom(2015)
Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman

Film Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
Margaret Sixel
Winner
Spotlight(2015)
Tom McArdle
Star Wars: The Force Awakens(2015)
Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey
The Big Short(2015)
Hank Corwin
The Revenant(2015)
Stephen Mirrione

International Feature Film

Son of Saul(2015)
Hungary
Winner
A War(2015)
Denmark
Embrace of the Serpent(2015)
Colombia
Mustang(2015)
France
Theeb(2014)
Jordan

Music (Original Score)

The Hateful Eight(2015)
Ennio Morricone
Winner
Bridge of Spies(2015)
Thomas Newman
Carol(2015)
Carter Burwell
Sicario(2015)
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens(2015)
John Williams

Music (Original Song)

Spectre(2015)
“Writing’s On The Wall” from Spectre; Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
Winner
Fifty Shades of Grey(2015)
“Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey; Music and Lyric by The Weeknd, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
Racing Extinction(2015)
“Manta Ray” from Racing Extinction; Music by J. Ralph, Lyric by Anohni
The Hunting Ground(2015)
“Til It Happens To You” from The Hunting Ground; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
Youth(2015)
“Simple Song #3” from Youth; Music and Lyric by David Lang

Production Design

Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson
Winner
Bridge of Spies(2015)
Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich
The Danish Girl(2015)
Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish
The Martian(2015)
Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
The Revenant(2015)
Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy

Short Film (Animated)

Bear Story(2016)
Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Winner
Prologue(2015)
Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
Sanjay's Super Team(2015)
Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
We Can't Live Without Cosmos(2014)
Konstantin Bronzit
World of Tomorrow(2015)
Don Hertzfeldt

Short Film (Live Action)

Stutterer(2015)
Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
Winner
Ave Maria(2015)
Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
Day One(2015)
Everything Will Be Okay(2015)
Patrick Vollrath
Shok(2015)
Jamie Donoughue

Sound Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
Mark Mangini and David White
Winner
Sicario(2015)
Alan Robert Murray
Star Wars: The Force Awakens(2015)
Matthew Wood and David Acord
The Martian(2015)
Oliver Tarney
The Revenant(2015)
Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender

Sound Mixing

Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
Winner
Bridge of Spies(2015)
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
Star Wars: The Force Awakens(2015)
Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson
The Martian(2015)
Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth
The Revenant(2015)
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek

Visual Effects

Ex Machina(2015)
Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
Winner
Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
Star Wars: The Force Awakens(2015)
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
The Martian(2015)
Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner
The Revenant(2015)
Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Big Short(2015)
Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Winner
Brooklyn(2015)
Screenplay by Nick Hornby
Carol(2015)
Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
Room(2015)
Screenplay by Emma Donoghue
The Martian(2015)
Screenplay by Drew Goddard

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Spotlight(2015)
Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
Winner
Bridge of Spies(2015)
Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Ex Machina(2015)
Written by Alex Garland
Inside Out(2015)
Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Straight Outta Compton(2015)
Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff

Makeup and Hairstyling

Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
Winner
The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared(2013)
Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
The Revenant(2015)
Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini