Best Picture:

• The Big Short
• Bridge of Spies
• Brooklyn
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• The Revenant
• Room
• Spotlight

Will Win: Spotlight
Could Win: The Revenant
Want to Win: The Martian

Best Director:

• Adam McKay – The Big Short
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – The Revenant
• Lenny Abramson – The Room
• Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
• George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road

Will Win: George Miller
Could Win: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Want to Win: George Miller

Best Actor:

• Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
• Matt Damon – The Martian
• Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
• Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl

Will Win: Leonardo DiCaprio
Could Win: No Contest
Want to Win: Leonardo DiCaprio (FINALLY!)

Best Actress:

• Cate Blanchett – Carol
• Brie Larson – Room
• Jennifer Lawrence – Joy
• Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
• Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn

Will Win: Brie Larson
Could Win: Saoirse Ronan
Want to Win: Brie Larson

Best Supporting Actor:

• Christian Bale – The Big Short
• Tom Hardy – The Revenant
• Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
• Sylvester Stallone – Creed
• Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies

Will Win: Sylvester Stallone
Could Win: Tom Hardy
Want to Win: Tom Hardy

Best Supporting Actress:

• Jennifer Jason Leigh – Hateful Eight
• Rooney Mara – Carol
• Rachel McAdams – Spotlight
• Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
• Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

Will Win: Alicia Vikander
Could Win: Kate Winslet
Want to Win: Alicia Vikander

Best Original Screenplay:

• Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen – Bridge of Spies
• Alex Garland – Ex Machina
• Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Ronnie del Carmin – Inside Out
• Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
• Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus, Andrea Berloff –Straight Outta Compton

Will Win: Spotlight
Could Win: Straight Outta Compton
Want to Win: Inside Out

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Nick Hornby – Brooklyn
• Adam McKay and Charles Randolph – The Big Short
• Drew Goddard – The Martian
• Phyllis Nagy – Carol
• Emma Donoghue – Room

Will Win: The Big Short
Could Win: The Martian
Want to Win: The Martian

Best Animated Feature Film:

• Anomalisa
• Inside Out
• Boy and the World
• Shaun of the Sheep
• When Marnie Was There

Will Win: Inside Out
Could Win: Anomalisa
Want to Win: Inside Out

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Embrace of the Serpent
• Mustang
• A War
• Son of Saul
• Theeb

Will Win: Son of Soul
Could Win: No Contest
Want to Win: Son of Soul

Best Documentary — Feature:

• Amy
• Cartel Land
• The Look of Silence
• What Happened Miss Simone?
• Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

Will Win: Amy
Could Win: The Look of Silence
Want to Win: Amy

Best Documentary — Short Subject:

• Body Team 12
• Chau, Beyond the Lines
• Last Day of Freedom
• Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
• A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

Blind Guess: Body Team 12

Best Live Action Short Film:

• Day One
• Everything Will Be Okay
• Stutterer
• Ave Maria
• Shok

Blind Guess: Ava Maria

Best Animated Short Film:

• Sanjay’s Super Team
• An Object at Rest
• If I Was God…
• Bear Story
• World of Tomorrow

Blind Guess: Sanjay’s Super Team

Best Original Score:

• The Hateful Eight
• Sicario
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Bridge of Spies
• Carol

Will Win: The Hateful Eight
Could Win: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Want to Win: The Hateful Eight

Best Original Song:

• “Earned It” – 50 Shades of Gray
• “Writing’s on the Wall” – Spectre
• “Manta Ray” – Racing Extinction
• “Simple Song #3” – Youth
• “Till it Happens to You” – The Hunting Ground

Will Win: Till it Happens to You
Could Win: Writing on the Wall
Want to Win: Till it Happens to You

Best Sound Editing:

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• The Revenant
• Sicario
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Will Win: Mad Max: Fury Road
Could Win: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Want to Win: Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Sound Mixing:

• Bridge of Spies
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• The Revenant
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Will Win: Mad Max: Fury Road
Could Win: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Want to Win: Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Production Design:

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• The Revenant
• Bridge of Spies
• The Danish Girl

Will Win: Mad Max: Fury Road
Could Win: The Martian
Want to Win: The Martian

Best Cinematography:

• Edward Lachman – Carol
• Robert Richardson – The Hateful Eight
• John Seale – Mad Max: Fury Road
• Emmanuel Lubezki – The Revenant
• Roger Deakins – Sicario

Will Win: The Revenant
Could Win: Mad Max: Fury Road
Want to Win: The Revenant

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Revenant
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared