Oscars Predictery

The Academy Awards prediction game for Twitter

The 2016 Academy Awards take place on Sunday 28 February 2016. How many winners can you predict? The game is simple: select your predicted winner in all 23 categories (see below) and you get a point for each correct forecast. In the incredibly likely event that multiple players share the top score at the end, determining our outright winner(s) will use the following tie-breaker procedure:

  1. in memory of @jonjonnyp a correct prediction for the colour of the Best Actress's dress (as determined by @kirstieh)
  2. from those remaining after the dress colour tie-breaker, the best prediction(s) of the total number of people winning Oscars
  3. anyone still inseparable after that will get a share of the prizes

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When does the Oscars ceremony take place?

In the States, ABC's coverage of the Academy Awards ceremony begins at 8e|5p on Sunday 28 February 2016, which translates to 1am Monday morning in the UK. Sky Cinema usually have coverage of the ceremony for UK television from 00.30-04.00am GMT, but there may be livestreams available.

The Nominations in full

Number of nominees for each nomination in square brackets.

1. Best motion picture of the year

  • The Big Short - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner [3]
  • Bridge of Spies - Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, and Kristie Macosko Krieger [3]
  • Brooklyn - Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey [2]
  • Mad Max: Fury Road - Doug Mitchell and George Miller [2]
  • The Martian - Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, and Mark Huffam [4]
  • The Revenant - Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon [5]
  • Room - Ed Guiney [1]
  • Spotlight - Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, and Blye Pagon Faust [4]

2. Performance by an actor in a leading role

  • Trumbo - Bryan Cranston [1]
  • The Martian - Matt Damon [1]
  • The Revenant - Leonardo DiCaprio [1]
  • Steve Jobs - Michael Fassbender [1]
  • The Danish Girl - Eddie Redmayne [1]

3. Performance by an actor in a supporting role

  • The Big Short - Christian Bale [1]
  • The Revenant - Tom Hardy [1]
  • Spotlight - Mark Ruffalo [1]
  • Bridge of Spies - Mark Rylance [1]
  • Creed - Sylvester Stallone [1]

4. Performance by an actress in a leading role

  • Carol - Cate Blanchett [1]
  • Room - Brie Larson [1]
  • Joy - Jennifer Lawrence [1]
  • 45 Years - Charlotte Rampling [1]
  • Brooklyn - Saoirse Ronan [1]

5. Performance by an actress in a supporting role

  • The Hateful Eight - Jennifer Jason Leigh [1]
  • Carol - Rooney Mara [1]
  • Spotlight - Rachel McAdams [1]
  • The Danish Girl - Alicia Vikander [1]
  • Steve Jobs - Kate Winslet [1]

6. Achievement in directing

  • The Big Short - Adam McKay [1]
  • Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller [1]
  • The Revenant - Alejandro G. Iñárritu [1]
  • Room - Lenny Abrahamson [1]
  • Spotlight - Tom McCarthy [1]

7. Adapted screenplay

  • The Big Short - Adam McKay and Charles Randolph [2]
  • Brooklyn - Nick Hornby [1]
  • Carol - Phyllis Nagy [1]
  • The Martian - Drew Goddard [1]
  • Room - Emma Donoghue [1]

8. Original screenplay

  • Bridge of Spies - Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen [3]
  • Ex Machina - Alex Garland [1]
  • Inside Out - Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and Ronnie del Carmen [4]
  • Spotlight - Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer [2]
  • Straight Outta Compton - Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus [4]

9. Best animated feature film of the year

  • Anomalisa - Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, and Rosa Tran [3]
  • Boy & the World - Alê Abreu [1]
  • Inside Out - Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera [2]
  • Shaun the Sheep Movie - Mark Burton and Richard Starzak [2]
  • When Marnie Was There - Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura [2]

10. Best foreign language film of the year

  • Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia) - Ciro Guerra [1]
  • Mustang (France) - Deniz Gamze Ergüven [1]
  • Son of Saul (Hungary) - László Nemes [1]
  • Theeb (Jordan) - Naji Abu Nowar [1]
  • A War (Denmark) - Tobias Lindholm [1]

11. Production Design

  • Bridge of Spies - Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich, and Adam Stockhausen [3]
  • The Danish Girl - Michael Standish and Eve Stewart [2]
  • Mad Max: Fury Road - Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson [2]
  • The Martian - Celia Bobak and Arthur Max [2]
  • The Revenant - Jack Fisk and Hamish Purdy [2]

12. Achievement in cinematography

  • Carol - Ed Lachman [1]
  • The Hateful Eight - Robert Richardson [1]
  • Mad Max: Fury Road - John Seale [1]
  • The Revenant - Emmanuel Lubezki [1]
  • Sicario - Roger Deakins [1]

13. Achievement in costume design

  • Carol - Sandy Powell [1]
  • Cinderella - Sandy Powell [1]
  • The Danish Girl - Paco Delgado [1]
  • Mad Max: Fury Road - Jenny Beavan [1]
  • The Revenant - Jacqueline West [1]

14. Best documentary feature

  • Amy - Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees [2]
  • Cartel Land - Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin [2]
  • The Look of Silence - Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen [2]
  • What Happened, Miss Simone? - Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby, and Justin Wilkes [3]
  • Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom - Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor [2]

15. Best documentary short subject

  • Body Team 12 - David Darg and Bryn Mooser [2]
  • Chau, Beyond the Lines - Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck [2]
  • Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah - Adam Benzine [1]
  • A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy [1]
  • Last Day of Freedom - Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman [2]

16. Achievement in film editing

  • The Big Short - Hank Corwin [1]
  • Mad Max: Fury Road - Margaret Sixel [1]
  • The Revenant - Stephen Mirrione [1]
  • Spotlight - Tom McArdle [1]
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey [2]

17. Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Love Larson and Eva von Bahr [2]
  • Mad Max: Fury Road - Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega, and Damian Martin [3]
  • The Revenant - Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman, and Robert Pandini [3]

18. Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original score)

  • Bridge of Spies - Thomas Newman [1]
  • Carol - Carter Burwell [1]
  • The Hateful Eight - Ennio Morricone [1]
  • Sicario - Jóhann Jóhannsson [1]
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens - John Williams [1]

19. Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original song)

  • Earned It from Fifty Shades of Grey - Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio [4]
  • Manta Ray from Racing Extinction - J. Ralph and Antony Hegarty [2]
  • Simple Song #3 from Youth - David Lang [1]
  • Til It Happens to You from The Hunting Ground - Lady Gaga and Diane Warren [2]
  • Writing's on the Wall from Spectre - Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith [2]

20. Best animated short film

  • Bear Story - Pato Escala Pierart and Gabriel Osorio Vargas [2]
  • Prologue - Imogen Sutton and Richard Williams [2]
  • Sanjay's Super Team - Nicole Paradis Grindle and Sanjay Patel [2]
  • We Can't Live Without Cosmos - Konstantin Bronzit [1]
  • World of Tomorrow - Don Hertzfeldt [1]

21. Best live action short film

  • Ave Maria - Eric Dupont and Basil Khalil [2]
  • Day One - Henry Hughes [1]
  • Everything Will Be Okay - Patrick Vollrath [1]
  • Shok - Jamie Donoughue [1]
  • Stutterer - Serena Armitage and Benjamin Cleary [2]

22. Achievement in sound editing

  • Mad Max: Fury Road - Mark A. Mangini and David White [2]
  • The Martian - Oliver Tarney [1]
  • The Revenant - Martin Hernández and Lon Bender [2]
  • Sicario - Alan Robert Murray [1]
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Matthew Wood and David Acord [2]

23. Achievement in sound mixing

  • Bridge of Spies - Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, and Drew Kunin [3]
  • Mad Max: Fury Road - Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff, and Ben Osmo [3]
  • The Martian - Paul Massey, Mark Taylor, and Mac Ruth [3]
  • The Revenant - Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom, and Chris Duesterdiek [4]
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, and Stuart Wilson [3]

24. Achievement in visual effects

  • Ex Machina - Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst [4]
  • Mad Max: Fury Road - Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams, and Tom Wood [4]
  • The Martian - Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence, Richard Stammers, and Steven Warner [4]
  • The Revenant - Richard McBride, Matt Shumway, Jason Smith, and Cameron Waldbauer [4]
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, and Neal Scanlan [4]