My 88th Annual Academy Awards Nomination Predictions

     Tomorrow at 8:30am EST the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards will be announced by Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Guillermo del Toro, John Krasinski and Ang Lee. So with that being said, I'm here to give you my predictions on what I believe will be nominated in each category for the Awards show. Now all of the technical (behind the scenes excluding director) categories have a random numbers of different nominees (one category could have 5 another could have 3). With that being said I will put down what I believe he top 5 contenders for each award is since I do not know which categories will have 5, less than 5 or more than 5. The awards for Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress and Director always have 5 nominees, so the ones you see are who I think will be nominated. So without further ado..........

Best Picture

Now Best Picture has a catch. There can be between 5 and 10 nominations. So I'll give you my 5 that will without a doubt make the list and then I will add what I believe would be the 6th, 7th etc.

1. The Revenant
2. The Big Short
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Carol
5. Spotlight

6. The Hateful Eight
7. Room
8. Joy
9. The Martian
10. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

Best Director

1. Alejandro González Iñárritu - The Revenant
2. Adam McKay - The Big Short
3. Ridley Scott - The Martian
4. George Miller- Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Tom McCarthy- Spotlight

Best Actor

1. Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
2. Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
3. Bryan Cranston - Trumbo
4. Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl
5. Matt Damon - The Martian

Best Actress

1. Cate Blanchett - Carol
2. Brie Larson - Room
3. Saoirse Ronan- Brooklyn
4. Jennifer Lawrence - Joy
5. Lily Tomlin- Grandma

Best Supporting Actor

1. Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies
2. Paul Dano - Love & Mercy
3. Sylvester Stallone - Creed
4. Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight
5. Christian Bale- The Big Short

Best Supporting Actress

1. Rooney Mara - Carol
2. Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
3. Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs
4. Jane Fonda - Youth
5. Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl

Best Original Screenplay

1. Quentin Tarantino - The Hateful Eight
2. Matt Charman, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - Bridge of Spies
3. Amy Schumer - Trainwreck
4. Bob Petersen & Pete Docter - Inside Out
5. Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer - Spotlight

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Aaron Sorkin - Steve Jobs
2. Drew Goddard - The Martian
3. Adam McKay & Charles Randolph - The Big Short
4. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu & Mark L. Smith - The Revenant
5. Emma Donoghue - Room

Best Animated Feature

1. Inside Out
2. The Peanuts Movie
3. Shaun The Sheep Movie
4. The Good Dinosaur
5. Anomalisa

Best Foreign Language Film

In Best Foreign Language Film I will list what country the films come from along with the film.

1. Son of Saul - Hungary
2. The Brand New Testament - Belgium
3. Theeb - Jordan
4. Mustang - France
5. A War - Denmark

Best Documentary Feature

1. Amy
2. Cartel Land
3. Where To Invade Next
4. Best of Enemies
5. Listen to Me Marlon

Best Cinematography

1. John Seale- Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Emmanuel Lubezki- The Revenant
3. Dariusz Wolski - The Martian
4. Robert Richardson- The Hateful Eight
5. Roger Deakins- Sicario

Best Film Editing

1. Jason Ballantine & Margaret Sixel - Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Joe Walker - Sicario
3. Maryann Brandon & Mary Ko Markey - Star Wars: The Force Awakens
4. Stephen Mirrione - The Revenant
5. Pietro Scalia - The Martian

Best Production Design

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Bridge of Spies
3. Carol
4. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
5. Cinderella

Best Costume Design

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Brooklyn
3. Carol
4. The Danish Girl
5. Cinderella

Best Original Score

1. Tom Holkenborg - Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Ennio Morricone - The Hateful Eight
3. Michael Giacchino - Inside Out
4. John Williams - Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
5. Thomas Newman - Bridge of Spies

Best Original Song

In this category I will give the song, the artist who sang the the song and the movie the song was made for

1. Phenomenal - Eminem - Southpaw
2. Writing's on the Wall - Sam Smith - Spectre
3. See You Again - Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth - Furious 7
4. Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding - 50 Shades of Grey
5. Till It Happens to You - Diane Warren & Lady Gaga - The Hunting Ground

Best Visual Effects

1. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. The Martian
4. Ant-Man
5. The Walk

Best Makeup & Hairstyling
For this category there are only three films that usually get nominated (only 3 times have there been less or more than 3 nominees), but I'm going to predict my top 3 and two possible contenders

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Black Mass
3. The Revenant

4. Legend
5. Concussion

Best Sound Mixing

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Martian
3. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
4. The Revenant
5. The Hateful Eight

Best Sound Editing

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Martian
3. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
4. The Revenant
5. The Hateful Eight

Best Live Action Short

1. Shok
2. Day One
3. Stutterer
4. Ava Marie
5. Winterlight

Best Animated Short
For this category there are only three films that usually get nominated (only 3 times have there been less or more than 3 nominees), but I'm going to predict my top 3 and two possible contenders

1. Prologue
2. If I Was God
3. World of Tomorrow

4. Bear Story
5. My Home

Best Documentary Short

1. My Enemy My Brother
2. 50 Feet from Syria
3. The Testimony
4. Body Team 12
5. A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

        So ladies and gentlemen who and what do you think will get nominated for the 88th Academy Awards? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.

                                                                                                                           Jonah Sparks