2015 (88th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2015 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Spotlight, an Anonymous Content/Participant Media/Rocklin/Faust/First Look Media Production; Open Road Films. Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, a Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Actress in a Leading Role

Brie Larson in Room, an Element Pictures Production; A24. (Ireland, Canada, UK, USA)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies, a DreamWorks Pictures/Fox 2000 Pictures/Participant Media Production; Walt Disney/20th Century Fox. (Germany, India, USA)

Actress in a Supporting Role

Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl, a Working Title Films Production; Focus Features. (UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan)

Directing

The Revenant, a Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan) Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

Animated Feature Film

Inside Out, a Pixar Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney. Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera.

Cinematography

The Revenant, a Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan) Emmanuel Lubezki.

Costume Design

Mad Max: Fury Road, a Village Roadshow/Kennedy Miller Mitchell Production; Warner Bros. (Australia, USA, South Africa) Jenny Beavan.

Documentary

(Feature)

Amy, an On the Corner Films Production; A24. (UK) Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees.

(Short Subject)

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, an SOC Films Production. (USA, Pakistan) Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

Film Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road, a Village Roadshow/Kennedy Miller Mitchell Production; Warner Bros. (Australia, USA, South Africa) Margaret Sixel.

Foreign Language Film

Son of Saul, a Laokoon Filmgroup Production; Sony Pictures Classic. (Hungary)

Makeup and Hairstyling

Mad Max: Fury Road, a Village Roadshow/Kennedy Miller Mitchell Production; Warner Bros. (Australia, USA, South Africa) Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin.

Music

(Original Score)

The Hateful Eight, a Weinstein Company Production; The Weinstein Company. Ennio Morricone.

(Original Song)

Writing’s on the Wall from Spectre, an Eon Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (UK, USA) Music and lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith.

Production Design

Mad Max: Fury Road, a Village Roadshow/Kennedy Miller Mitchell Production; Warner Bros. (Australia, USA, South Africa) Production design by Colin Gibson; set decoration by Lisa Thompson.

Short Films

(Animated)

Bear Story, a Punkrobot Animation Studio Production. (Chile) Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala.

(Live Action)

Stutterer, a Bare Golly Films Production. (UK) Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage.

Sound Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road, a Village Roadshow/Kennedy Miller Mitchell Production; Warner Bros. (Australia, USA, South Africa) Mark Mangini and David White.

Sound Mixing

Mad Max: Fury Road, a Village Roadshow/Kennedy Miller Mitchell Production; Warner Bros. (Australia, USA, South Africa) Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo.

Visual Effects

Ex Machina, a DNA Films Production; A24. (UK) Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett.

Writing

(Adapted Screenplay)

The Big Short, a Paramount Pictures Production; Paramount. Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay.

(Original Screenplay)

Spotlight, an Anonymous Content/Participant Media/Rocklin/Faust/First Look Media Production; Open Road Films. Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy.

Honorary Award

To Spike Lee, filmmaker, educator, motivator, iconoclast, artist. [ [Statuette]]

To Gena Rowlands, who has illuminated the human experience through her brilliant, passionate and fearless performances. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

To Debbie Reynolds, for the irresistible optimism and unflagging support she has brought to the lives of those in need.

Scientific and Technical Award

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Brian McLean and Martin Meunier for pioneering the use of rapid prototyping for character animation in stop-motion film production. LAIKA’s inventive use of rapid prototyping has enabled artistic leaps in character expressiveness, facial animation, motion blur and effects animation. Through highly specialized pipelines and techniques, 3D printing capabilities have been harnessed with color uniformity, mechanical repeatability, and the scale required to significantly enhance stop-motion animated feature films.

To Jack Greasley, Kiyoyuki Nakagaki, Duncan Hopkins and Carl Rand for the design and engineering of the MARI 3D texture painting system. Combining powerful, multilayer painting tools and a unique texture-management system, MARI simplifies working with large, high-resolution texture sets. It has achieved broad adoption in the visual effects industry, often supplanting long-term in-house systems.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Michael John Keesling for the design and development of Image Shaker, an optical system that convincingly creates the illusion of the camera shaking in a variable and repeatable manner. The Image Shaker was unique and superior to alternatives in use when it was invented two decades ago, and it continues to be used today.

To David McIntosh, Steve Marshall Smith, Mike Branham and Mike Kirilenko for the engineering and development of the Aircover Inflatables Airwall. This system of modular inflatable panels can be erected on location, at lengths reaching hundreds of feet, with exceptional speed and safety. When used to support blue or green screens, the Airwall permits composite shots of unprecedented scale.

To Trevor Davies, Thomas Wan, Jon Scott Miller, Jared Smith and Matthew Robinson for the development of the Dolby Laboratories PRM Series Reference Color Monitors. The PRM’s pioneering and innovative design allows the stable, accurate representation of images with the entire luminance range and color gamut used in contemporary theatrical feature presentation.

To Ronald Mallet and Christoph Bregler for the design and engineering of the Industrial Light & Magic Geometry Tracker, a novel, general-purpose tracker and solver. Geometry Tracker facilitates convincing interaction of digital and live-action elements within a scene. Its precise results and tight integration with other ILM animation technologies solve a wider range of match-animation challenges than was previously possible.

To Jim Hourihan, Alan Trombla and Seth Rosenthal for the design and development of the Tweak Software RV system, a highly extensible media player system. RV’s multi-platform toolset for review and playback, with comprehensive APIs, has allowed studios of all sizes to take advantage of a state-of-the-art workflow and has achieved widespread adoption in the motion picture industry.

To Richard Chuang and Rahul Thakkar for the groundbreaking design, and to Andrew Pilgrim, Stewart Birnam and Mark Kirk for the review workflows and advanced playback features, of the DreamWorks Animation Media Review System. Over its nearly two decades of development, this pioneering system enabled desktop and digital theater review. It continues to provide artist-driven, integrated, consistent and highly scalable studio-wide playback and interactive reviews.

To Keith Goldfarb, Steve Linn, Brian Green and Raymond Chih for the development of the Rhythm & Hues Global DDR System. This consistent, integrated, production database-backed review system enables a recordable workflow and an efficient, collaborative content review process across multiple sites and time zones.

To J Robert Ray, Cottalango Leon and Sam Richards for the design, engineering and continuous development of Sony Pictures Imageworks Itview. With an extensive plugin API and comprehensive facility integration including editorial functions, Itview provides an intuitive and flexible creative review environment that can be deployed globally for highly efficient collaboration.

(Special Award)

To the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers: For one hundred years, the Society’s members have nurtured technology, provided essential standards, and offered the expertise, support, tools and infrastructure for the creation and post-production of motion pictures.