Oscars 2016... Giving Out the Gold.

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All of the nominees are listed below, and I will bring them to the top in the order they're handed out. Tally so far: The Big Short 1, Bridge of Spies 1, The Danish Girl 1, Ex Machina 1, The Hateful Eight 1, Inside Out 1, Mad Max: Fury Road 6, The Revenant 3, Room 1, Spotlight 2.

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

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
*Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett, Carol
*Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

DIRECTING
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
*Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road

MUSIC (Original Song)
"Earned It," 50 Shades of Gray, music and lyrics by The Weeknd, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
"Manta Ray," Racing Extinction, music by J. Ralph, lyrics by Anohni
"Simple Song #3," Youth, music and lyrics by David Lang
"Til It Happens to You," The Hunting Ground, music and lyrics by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
*"Writing’s on the Wall," Spectre, music and lyrics by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith

MUSIC (Original Score)
Carter Burwell, Carol
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Sicario
*Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight
Thomas Newman, Bridge of Spies
John Williams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Embrace of the Serpent, Colombia
Mustang, France
*Son of Saul, Hungary
Theeb, Jordan
A War, Denmark

SHORT FILM (Live Action)
Ave Maria 
Day One 
Everything Will Be OK (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
*Stutterer

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
*Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
*A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Last Day of Freedom

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
*Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone, Creed

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
*Inside Out
Shaun The Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There

SHORT FILM (Animated)
*Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team;
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow

VISUAL EFFECTS
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams, Mad Max: Fury Road
Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer, The Revenant
Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner, The Martian
*Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett, Ex Machina

SOUND MIXING
*Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo, Mad Max: Fury Road
Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth, The Martian
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin, Bridge Of Spies
Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek, The Revenant

SOUND EDITING
*Mark Mangini and David White, Mad Max: Fury Road
Oliver Tarney, The Martian
Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender, The Revenant
Alan Robert Murray, Sicario
Matthew Wood and David Acord, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

FILM EDITING
Hank Corwin, The Big Short
Tom McArdle, Spotlight
*Margaret Sixel, Mad Max: Fury Road
Steven Mirrione, The Revenant
Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins, Sicario
Ed Lachman, Carol
*Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
Robert Richardson, The Hateful Eight
John Seale, Mad Mad: Fury Road

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini, The Revenant
Love Larson and Eva von Bahr, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared
*Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin, Mad Max: Fury Road

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Jack Fisk (Production Design) and Hamish Purdy (Set Decoration), The Revenant
*Colin Gibson (Production Design) and Lisa Thompson (Set Decoration), Mad Max: Fury Road
Arthur Max (Production Design) and Celia Bobak (Set Decoration), The Martian
Eve Stewart (Production Design) and Michael Standish (Set Decoration), The Danish Girl
Adam Stockhausen (Production Design) and Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich (Set Decoration), Bridge of Spies

COSTUME DESIGN
*Jenny Beavan, Mad Max: Fury Road
Paco Delgado, The Danish Girl
Sandy Powell, Carol
Sandy Powell, Cinderella
Jacqueline West, The Revenant

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
*Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

WRITING (Adapted Screenplay)
Emma Donoghue, Room
Drew Goddard, The Martian
Nick Hornby, Brooklyn
*Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, The Big Short 
Phyllis Nagy, Carol

WRITING (Original Screenplay)
Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Bridge of Spies
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley, Inside Out
Alex Garland, Ex Machina
Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff, Straight Outta Compton
*Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight 

Film Independent Spirit Awards Look Beyond Oscars

As film fans prepare to watch the Oscars tonight, it might be useful to see what happened at yesterday's Film Independent Spirit Awards. Indie films have continued to rise in importance and quality since the Findies began. With nominations and wins for movies like Blue Velvet; Sex, Lies and Videotape; The Secret of Roan Inish; Fargo; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; Memento; Precious and Boyhood; the Film Independent Spirit awards have highlighted just how good indie filmmakers can be, paving the way for innovation in studio films, too.

Sometimes -- as with Oscar favorite Birdman last year and 12 Years a Slave and The Artist before it -- the Spirit Awards seem to go to movies that don't seem all that indie. But this time out, as Indie Wire puts it, the awards "presented a striking contrast to the homogenized, fairly conservative set of Oscar nominees." The Oscars may be #SoWhite," but there was room for more diversity under the tent at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Idris Elba with Abraham Attah and Beasts of No Nations director Cary Fukunaga at the Academy's Governors Awards

British actor Idris Elba, shut out of Oscar nominations, won Best Supporting Male for Beasts of No Nation, Netflix's first original feature film. Filmed in Ghana, Beasts tells the harrowing story of boy soldiers pushed into war and violence. When Elba won his award, he brought Abraham Attah, the African teenager who played the lead role in Beasts of No Nation -- his first time as an actor -- up on stage with him to celebrate, but when it came time for the Best Male Lead award, Attah won, too, earning his own time on stage. In addition to acting, Elba was one of the producers on the film, which was nominated for five awards.

Brie Larson, who is expected to win Best Actress at tonight's Oscars for her performance in Room, took Best Female Lead at the Spirit Awards, as well. Best Supporting Female went to Mya Taylor for Tangerine, a movie shot entirely on iPhone 5s, involving two transgender prostitutes on a quest in Hollywood on Christmas Eve.

Spotlight, the story of how reporters at the Boston Globe doggedly investigated allegations of molestation and abuse within the local Catholic diocese, took several key awards, including Best Feature, Best Director for Tom McCarthy, Best Screenplay for McCarthy and Josh Singer, and Best Editing for Tom McArdle, as well as the Robert Altman award, given to the director, the casting director and the ensemble cast.

Other awards were spread around more. Ed Lachman took Best Cinematography for Carol, Emma Donoghue won Best First Screenplay for the script of Room, and Marielle Heller and her film The Diary of a Teenage Girl were recognized as Best First Feature.

The Look of Silence, about genocide in Indonesia, won Best Documentary, while Hungary's Son of Saul was named Best International Film.

The John Cassavetes Award, for the best feature film made for under $500,000 went to Krisha.

The Hollywood Reporter has the complete list of winners here. If you want to see all the nominees and winners listed by category, the Spirit Award nominees page has the list.