Winner 88th Academy Awards
The 2015 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.
Year
2015
Nominations
135
Categories Decided
All 29
Top Winner
Mad Max: Fury Road
Ceremony at a glance
Best Picture went to Spotlight. The winning leader is Mad Max: Fury Road with 6 wins. The most nominated title is The Revenant with 12 nominations. 38 winners named across 29 categories.
Most awarded titles
- Mad Max: Fury Road 6 wins10 nominations
- The Revenant 3 wins12 nominations
- Spotlight 2 wins6 nominations
- Bridge of Spies 1 win6 nominations
- The Big Short 1 win5 nominations
Best Picture Nominees
The major races
Spotlight took Picture; Mad Max: Fury Road controlled the board. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 23 nominees in all.
Best Picture Winner
- Bridge of Spies Steven Spielberg | Marc Platt | Kristie Macosko Krieger
- Brooklyn Finola Dwyer | Amanda Posey
- Mad Max: Fury Road Doug Mitchell | George Miller
- Room Ed Guiney
- The Big Short Brad Pitt | Dede Gardner | Jeremy Kleiner
- The Martian Simon Kinberg | Ridley Scott | Michael Schaefer | Mark Huffam
- The Revenant Arnon Milchan | Steve Golin | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Mary Parent | Keith Redmon
Best Director Winner
Best Actor Winner
Best Actress Winner
Complete Ceremony Ledger
Every winner and nominee in every category, with film, person and review links.
24 categories135 records38 winners
1 winner8 records
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Brooklyn
Credit: Finola DwyerAmanda Posey
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The Revenant
Credit: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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Mad Max: Fury Road
Credit: George Miller
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Room
Credit: Lenny Abrahamson
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Spotlight
Credit: Tom McCarthy
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The Big Short
Credit: Adam McKay
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Spotlight
Credit: Josh SingerTom McCarthy
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Ex Machina
Credit: Alex Garland
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Brooklyn
Credit: Nick Hornby
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Carol
Credit: Phyllis Nagy
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Room
Credit: Emma Donoghue
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The Martian
Credit: Drew Goddard
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Inside Out
Credit: Pete DocterJonas Rivera
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Boy and the World
Credit: Alê Abreu
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Son of Saul
Credit: Hungary
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A War
Credit: Denmark
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Embrace of the Serpent
Credit: Colombia
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Mustang
Credit: France
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Theeb
Credit: Jordan
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The Hateful Eight
Credit: Ennio Morricone
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Bridge of Spies
Credit: Thomas Newman
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Carol
Credit: Carter Burwell
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Sicario
Credit: Jóhann Jóhannsson
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Mad Max: Fury Road
Credit: Jenny Beavan
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Carol
Credit: Sandy Powell
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Cinderella
Credit: Sandy Powell
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The Danish Girl
Credit: Paco Delgado
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The Revenant
Credit: Jacqueline West
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The Revenant
Credit: Emmanuel Lubezki
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Carol
Credit: Ed Lachman
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Mad Max: Fury Road
Credit: John Seale
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Sicario
Credit: Roger Deakins
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The Hateful Eight
Credit: Robert Richardson
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Mad Max: Fury Road
Credit: Margaret Sixel
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Spotlight
Credit: Tom McArdle
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The Big Short
Credit: Hank Corwin
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The Revenant
Credit: Stephen Mirrione
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The Martian
Credit: Arthur MaxCelia Bobak
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The Revenant
Credit: Jack FiskHamish Purdy
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Bear Story
Credit: Gabriel OsorioPato Escala
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World of Tomorrow
Credit: Don Hertzfeldt
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Ave Maria
Credit: Basil KhalilEric Dupont
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Day One
Credit: Henry Hughes
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Shok
Credit: Jamie Donoughue
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Sicario
Credit: Alan Robert Murray
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The Martian
Credit: Oliver Tarney
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Ceremony Highlights
On Lunara Film
Lunara Film reviews of films from this ceremony.
Categories in this ceremony
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actress
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Production Design
Best Picture
CINEMATOGRAPHY
COSTUME DESIGN
Best Director
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)
FILM EDITING
HONORARY AWARD
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
MUSIC (Original Score)
MUSIC (Original Song)
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Special Award)
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
SHORT FILM (Animated)
SHORT FILM (Live Action)
SOUND EDITING
SOUND MIXING
VISUAL EFFECTS
WRITING (Adapted Screenplay)
WRITING (Original Screenplay)
Winner Circle
Spotlight
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Brie Larson
Leonardo DiCaprio
Alicia Vikander
Mark Rylance
Spotlight
The Big Short
Inside Out
Son of Saul
The Hateful Eight
Writing's On The Wall
Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
Jenny Beavan
Emmanuel Lubezki
Margaret Sixel
Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson
Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Gena Rowlands
Spike Lee
Debbie Reynolds
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
BRIAN McLEAN and Martin Meunier
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
Jack Greasley, Kiyoyuki Nakagaki, Duncan Hopkins and Carl Rand
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Special Award)
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
DAVID McINTOSH, Steve Smith, Mike Branham and Michael Kirilenko
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
J Robert Ray, Cottalango Leon and Sam Richards
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Jim Hourihan, Alan Trombla and Seth Rosenthal
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Keith Goldfarb, Steve Linn, Brian Green and Raymond Chih
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Michael John Keesling
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Richard Chuang, Rahul C. Thakkar, Andrew Pilgrim, Stewart Birnam and Mark Kirk
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Ronald Mallet and Christoph Bregler
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Trevor Davies, Thomas Wan, Jon Scott Miller, Jared Smith and Matthew Robinson
Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
Mark Mangini and David White
Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
Sortable ledger
Every nomination from this ceremony as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.