Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Our clean sweep at the Oscars
Alicia Vikander won with her first nomination for The Danish Girl.
It was six in a row for George Miller’s epic Mad Max: Fury Road, as the film swept the technical awards.
Eight of the 13 Mad Max winners were Australians, while two of the awards were presented to the film’s crew by fellow Aussies Cate Blanchett and Margot Robbie, who could barely contain their hometown pride.
Another notable moment came when Mad Max sound editor Mark Mangini raised his arm and yelled “F— yeah” before accepting his award.
The F-bomb was such a surprise even Channel Nine’s censors didn’t catch it before it hit the live broadcast.
Backstage, Mangini expressed regret, telling Entertainment Weekly: “I’m gonna hear it from my wife, so that’s about as big a regret as one can have.”
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His Australian co-winner David added: “It’s pretty intense up there, you know… It’s typically Australians that do the swearing. So the fact that I didn’t swear, I deserve the Oscar just for that.”
The Mad Max reboot had 10 nominations (the most for any Aussie film ever) all up, while, Alejandro González Iñárritu (who won best director last year for Birdman) took home best director again and swept 12 nominations for The Revenant.
DiCaprio and Inarritu both took home an Oscar. Photo: Getty
Despite laughing all the way to the bank, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was snubbed completely, winning zero from five nominations.
Journalism film Spotlight was a surprising best picture win ahead of its blockbuster competition, while Brie Larson and Leonardo DiCaprio were shoe-ins for best actress and best actor respectively.
At 87, Ennio Morricone became the oldest Oscar winner ever, winning best score for Quentin Tarantino’s latest film The Hateful Eight after five fruitless nominations. He accepted in Italian with the help of a translator.
Here are all the winners in each category:
Best Film
Nominees:
Spotlight
The Revenant
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Big Short
The Martian
Room
Brooklyn
Winner: Spotlight
On the same day Australian Cardinal George Pell began giving evidence to the abuse royal commission, Spotlight, the story of the Boston Globe investigative journalists who uncovered child sex abuse in the Catholic Church won best picture. The cast and crew took the opportunity to call for the church to stop protecting its priests and start protecting children. It was a redeeming win for the film, after Mark Ruffalo missed out on best supporting actor and Rachel McAdams best supporting actress.
Not exactly a shock win, but Spotlight had heady competition with Mad Max and The Revenant.
Best Actress
Nominees:
Brie Larson – Room
Jennifer Lawrence – Joy
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Cate Blanchett – Carol
Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
Winner: Brie Larson – Room
First-time nominee, Larson was the leading contender for best actress ahead of Brooklyn’s 21-year old Soairse Ronan.
Brie Larson played a woman trapped by a rapist for seven years with a young son in Room.
Best Actor
Nominees:
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Matt Damon – The Martian
Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Everyone could feel this one coming. Sat in the front row, it was a short walk for DiCaprio to accept his first ever Oscar after five nominations. DiCaprio was old school and articulate in his thank you speech, praising director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “transcendental” film and using his soapbox to draw attention to an issue close to his heart – climate change. “Don’t take this world for granted – I won’t take this night for granted,” he said.
Leonardo DiCaprio was the crowd favourite to finally take home best actor.
Best Director
Nominees:
The Big Short
The Revenant
Spotlight
Room
Mad Max: Fury Road
Winner: Alejandro González Iñárritu – The Revenant
Inarritu beat out George Miller to take home Best Director.
Best Original Screenplay
Nominees:
Bridge of Spies
Spotlight
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Straight Outta Compton
Winner: Spotlight
Spotlight’s respectful treatment of weighty subject matter (sexual abuse in the Catholic Church) has earned it Hollywood kudos.
Spotlight tells the story of the Boston Globe investigative journalists who uncovered abuse in the Catholic Church.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Nominees:
Carol
The Big Short
Brooklyn
The Martian
Room
Winner: The Big Short
Ensemble comedy The Big Short satirises the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis in America.
Best Supporting Actress
Nominees:
Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara – Carol
Rachel McAdams – Spotlight
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
Winner: Alicia Vikander – Room
While Eddie Redmayne is a long shot to take out best actor for The Danish Girl, newcomer Alicia Vikander was a hot pick for supporting actress.
Breakout Swedish actress Alicia Vikander won with her first nomination for The Danish Girl.
Best Supporting Actor
Nominees:
Christian Bale – The Big Short
Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
Sylvester Stallone – Creed
Tom Hardy – The Revenant
Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
Winner: Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
Mark Rylance played a KGB agent in the Steven Spielberg’s Cold War thriller, Bridge of Spies. Rylance has been historically a small-screen actor, but when he missed out on the lead for the Coen Brother’s 2009 film A Serious Man, he decided to hire an agent and get serious.
Mark Rylance was a shock win for Best Supporting Actor ahead of Sylvester Stallone and Mark Ruffalo.
Best Costume Design
Nominees:
Carol
Cinderella
Mad Max: Fury Road
Danish Girl
The Revenant
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
Costume design was the first of a hot streak for Mad Max: Fury Road in the technical categories.
Best Production Design
Nominees:
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
Production design was the Aussie production’s second win of the night.
Best Makeup and Hairstyle
Nominees:
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
The 100-year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
Makeup was tipped to go to The Revenant after a publicity campaign made much of the painstaking process of creating DiCaprio’s injuries, but Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin (all Australian) took the honour.
Hair and makeup made it a hat trick for George Miller’s Mad Max reboot.
Best Cinematography
Nominees:
The Hateful Eight
The Revenant
Sicario
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
Winner: The Revenant
The Revenant was shot in extreme conditions in Alberta, Canada, and was widely tipped to win this gong.
Best Editing
Nominees:
The Big Short
Spotlight
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
The fourth win of the night for Mad Max: Fury Road was for editing.
Best Sound Editing
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road – Mark Mangini and David White
For its fifth and sixth awards for the night, Mad Max took out both Sound Mixing and Sound Editing.
Best Sound Mixing
Nominees:
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road – Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
Best Original Song
Nominees:
‘Earned It,’ Fifty Shades of Grey
‘Manta Ray,’ Racing Extinction
‘Simple Song #3,’ Youth
‘Til It Happens To You,’ The Hunting Ground
‘Writing’s On The Wall,’ Spectre
Winner: ‘Writing’s On The Wall,’ Spectre
Songwriter Jimmy Napes (L) and singer-songwriter Sam Smith with their award for ‘Writing’s on the Wall’.
Best Visual Effects
Nominees:
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Winner: Ex Machina – Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
Ex Machina was the first shock win of the night, taking Best Visual Effects with a $15 million budget ahead of two films with $150 million budgets: The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Futuristic flick Ex Machina took home best visual affects in a tight category.
Best Animated Short
Nominees:
Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow
Winner: Bear Story
Bear Story is the first Oscar win ever for Chile.
Best Animated Feature
Nominees:
Anomalisa
The Boy and the World
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There
Winner: Inside Out
Pixar’s latest, Inside Out, was a safe bet for best animated feature.
Best Documentary Short
Nominees:
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
Last Day of Freedom
Winner: A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Comedian Louis CK jokingly announced “Mad Max: Fury Road“, before announcing it was actually Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy – her second Oscar win.
A Girl in the River is about religiously motivated honor killings in Pakistan.
Best Documentary Feature
Nominees:
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Winner: Amy
Heartbreaking documentary Amy gave an unprecedented look into Amy Winehouse’s fall from grace.
Amy detailed the tragic life of talented musician Amy Winehouse.
Best Live Action Short
Nominees:
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
Stutterer
Winner: Strutterer
Strutterer details a man whose inner thoughts are rendered mute by a crippling stutter.
Best Foreign Film
Nominees:
Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)
A War (Denmark)
Mustang” (France)
Son Of Saul (Hungary)
Theeb (Jordan)
Winner: Son of Saul
Son of Saul tells the story of a Hungarian prisoner who tries to find a Rabbi to bury his son.
Best Score
Nominees:
The Hateful Eight
Carol
Bridge of Spies
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sicario
Winner: Ennio Morricone – The Hateful Eight
Morricone became the oldest Oscar winner ever at 87.
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