2015 (88th Annual Awards)
Nominations by Film

Listed below are the films nominated for Academy Awards in 2015. Beneath each film are the categories for which the film was nominated. The symbol appears next to those categories it ultimately won. 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 nominations by film for that year.

Amy, an On the Corner Films Production; A24. (UK)

Documentary (Feature). Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees.

Anomalisa, a Paramount Pictures Production; Paramount. (USA, UK)

Animated Feature Film. Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran.

Ave Maria, an Incognito Films Production. (Palestine, France, Germany)

Short Films (Live Action). Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont.

Bear Story, a Punkrobot Animation Studio Production. (Chile)

Short Films (Animated). Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala.

The Big Short, a Paramount Pictures Production; Paramount.

Best Picture. Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers.

Actor in a Supporting Role. Christian Bale.

Directing. Adam McKay.

Film Editing. Hank Corwin.

Writing (Adapted Screenplay). Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay.

Body Team 12, a RYOT Films and Vulcan Production. (Liberia)

Documentary (Short Subject). David Darg and Bryn Mooser.

Boy and the World, a Filme de Papel Production; GKIDS. (Brazil)

Animated Feature Film. Alê Abreu.

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

Best Picture. Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers.

Actor in a Supporting Role. Mark Rylance.

Music (Original Score). Thomas Newman.

Production Design. Production design by Adam Stockhausen; set decoration by Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich.

Sound Mixing. Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin.

Writing (Original Screenplay). Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen.

Brooklyn, a Wildgaze Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (UK, Canada, Ireland)

Best Picture. Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers.

Actress in a Leading Role. Saoirse Ronan.

Writing (Adapted Screenplay). Screenplay by Nick Hornby.

Carol, a Number 9 Films/Film4/Killer Films Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, USA)

Actress in a Leading Role. Cate Blanchett.

Actress in a Supporting Role. Rooney Mara.

Cinematography. Ed Lachman.

Costume Design. Sandy Powell.

Music (Original Score). Carter Burwell.

Writing (Adapted Screenplay). Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy.

Cartel Land, an Our Time Projects/The Documentary Group Production; The Orchard.

Documentary (Feature). Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin.

Chau, Beyond the Lines, a Cynasty Films Production; 7th Art Releasing. (USA, Vietnam)

Documentary (Short Subject). Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck.

Cinderella, a Walt Disney Pictures Production; Walt Disney. (USA, UK)

Costume Design. Sandy Powell.

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, a Jet Black Iris America Production. (USA, Germany, UK)

Documentary (Short Subject). Adam Benzine.

Creed, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and New Line Production; Warner Bros.

Actor in a Supporting Role. Sylvester Stallone.

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

Actor in a Leading Role. Eddie Redmayne.

Actress in a Supporting Role. Alicia Vikander.

Costume Design. Paco Delgado.

Production Design. Production design by Eve Stewart; set decoration by Michael Standish.

Day One, an American Film Institute Production.

Short Films (Live Action). Henry Hughes.

Embrace of the Serpent, a Ciudad Lunar Producciones Production; Oscilloscope Laboratories. (Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina)

Foreign Language Film.

Everything Will Be Okay (Alles wird gut), a Filmakademie Wien Production. (Germany, Austria)

Short Films (Live Action). Patrick Vollrath.

Ex Machina, a DNA Films Production; A24. (UK)

Visual Effects. Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett.

Writing (Original Screenplay). Written by Alex Garland.

Fifty Shades of Grey, a Universal Pictures/Focus Features Production; Universal.

Music (Original Song). “Earned It”. Music and lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio.

45 Years, a The Bureau Production; Sundance Selects. (UK)

Actress in a Leading Role. Charlotte Rampling.

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

Documentary (Short Subject). Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

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

Actress in a Supporting Role. Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Cinematography. Robert Richardson.

Music (Original Score). Ennio Morricone.

The Hunting Ground, a Chain Camera Pictures Production; Radius.

Music (Original Song). “Til It Happens to You”. Music and lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga.

Inside Out, a Pixar Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney.

Animated Feature Film. Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera.

Writing (Original Screenplay). Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley; original story by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen.

Joy, a Fox 2000 Pictures Production; 20th Century Fox.

Actress in a Leading Role. Jennifer Lawrence.

Last Day of Freedom, a Living Condition Production.

Documentary (Short Subject). Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman.

The Look of Silence, a Final Cut for Real Production; Drafthouse Films/Participant Media. (Denmark, Indonesia, Finland, Norway, UK, Israel, France, USA, Germany, Netherlands)

Documentary (Feature). Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen.

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

Best Picture. Doug Mitchell and George Miller, Producers.

Directing. George Miller.

Cinematography. John Seale.

Costume Design. Jenny Beavan.

Film Editing. Margaret Sixel.

Makeup and Hairstyling. Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin.

Production Design. Production design by Colin Gibson; set decoration by Lisa Thompson.

Sound Editing. Mark Mangini and David White.

Sound Mixing. Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo.

Visual Effects. Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams.

The Martian, a 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA, Hungary)

Best Picture. Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role. Matt Damon.

Production Design. Production design by Arthur Max; set decoration by Celia Bobak.

Sound Editing. Oliver Tarney.

Sound Mixing. Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth.

Visual Effects. Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner.

Writing (Adapted Screenplay). Screenplay by Drew Goddard.

Mustang, a CG Cinema Production; Cohen Media Group. (Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar)

Foreign Language Film.

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared, a Nice FLX Pictures/Nice Drama/FLX Comedy/Buena Vista International (Sweden)/Embassy Films/FLX/Film i Väst/Nordsvensk Filmunderhållning/TV4 Sweden Production; Music Box Films. (Sweden, Russia, UK, France, Spain, Germany)

Makeup and Hairstyling. Love Larson and Eva von Bahr.

Prologue, an Animation Masterclass Production. (UK)

Short Films (Animated). Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton.

Racing Extinction, a Ripple Effect Production; Abramorama. (USA, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mexico, UK, Japan)

Music (Original Song). “Manta Ray”. Music by J. Ralph; lyric by Antony Hegarty.

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

Best Picture. Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role. Leonardo DiCaprio.

Actor in a Supporting Role. Tom Hardy.

Directing. Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

Cinematography. Emmanuel Lubezki.

Costume Design. Jacqueline West.

Film Editing. Stephen Mirrione.

Makeup and Hairstyling. Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini.

Production Design. Production design by Jack Fisk; set decoration by Hamish Purdy.

Sound Editing. Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender.

Sound Mixing. Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek.

Visual Effects. Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer.

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

Best Picture. Ed Guiney, Producer.

Actress in a Leading Role. Brie Larson.

Directing. Lenny Abrahamson.

Writing (Adapted Screenplay). Screenplay by Emma Donoghue.

Sanjay’s Super Team, a Pixar Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney.

Short Films (Animated). Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle.

Shaun the Sheep Movie, an Aardman Production; Lionsgate. (UK, France, USA)

Animated Feature Film. Mark Burton and Richard Starzak.

Shok, an Eagle Eye Films Production. (UK, Kosovo)

Short Films (Live Action). Jamie Donoughue.

Sicario, a Thunder Road Production; Lionsgate. (USA, Mexico)

Cinematography. Roger Deakins.

Music (Original Score). Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Sound Editing. Alan Robert Murray.

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

Foreign Language Film.

Spectre, an Eon Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (UK, USA)

Music (Original Song). “Writing’s on the Wall”. Music and lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith.

Spotlight, an Anonymous Content/Participant Media/Rocklin/Faust/First Look Media Production; Open Road Films.

Best Picture. Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, Producers.

Actor in a Supporting Role. Mark Ruffalo.

Actress in a Supporting Role. Rachel McAdams.

Directing. Tom McCarthy.

Film Editing. Tom McArdle.

Writing (Original Screenplay). Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a Lucasfilm Production; Walt Disney.

Film Editing. Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey.

Music (Original Score). John Williams.

Sound Editing. Matthew Wood and David Acord.

Sound Mixing. Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson.

Visual Effects. Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould.

Steve Jobs, a Legendary Pictures/Scott Rudin Productions/The Mark Gordon Company/Entertainment 360/Decibel Films/Cloud Eight Films Production; Universal. (UK, USA)

Actor in a Leading Role. Michael Fassbender.

Actress in a Supporting Role. Kate Winslet.

Straight Outta Compton, a Legendary Pictures/CubeVision/Crucial Films/New Line Cinema Production; Universal.

Writing (Original Screenplay). Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff.

Stutterer, a Bare Golly Films Production. (UK)

Short Films (Live Action). Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage.

Theeb, a Bayt Al Shawareb Production; Film Movement. (United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, UK)

Foreign Language Film.

Trumbo, a ShivHans Pictures/Groundswell Production; Bleecker Street.

Actor in a Leading Role. Bryan Cranston.

A War, a Nordisk Film Production; Magnolia Pictures. (Denmark, France)

Foreign Language Film.

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos, a Melnitsa Animation Studio Production. (Russia)

Short Films (Animated). Konstantin Bronzit.

What Happened, Miss Simone?, a RadicalMedia/Moxie Firecracker Production; Netflix.

Documentary (Feature). Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes.

When Marnie Was There, a Studio Ghibli Production; GKIDS. (Japan)

Animated Feature Film. Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura.

Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, a Pray for Ukraine Production; Netflix. (UK, Ukraine, USA)

Documentary (Feature). Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor.

World of Tomorrow, a Bitter Films Production.

Short Films (Animated). Don Hertzfeldt.

Youth, an Indigo Films Production (Fox Searchlight); Fox Searchlight. (Italy, France, UK, Switzerland)

Music (Original Song). “Simple Song #3”. Music and lyric by David Lang.