Dear Spotlight, it was you all along. We had fun with all these momentary flings with The Revenant and The Big Short, but we were always meant to come back to our one true love.
As you surely know by now, Spotlight won the top prize in an eventful Oscar ceremony, which featured its fair share of upsets, topical humor and a lot of Mad Max: Fury Road. Indeed, George Miller's action extravaganza took home a whopping 6 statues, compared to Spotlight's paltry pair of wins for Picture and Screenplay. The main talking points on film twitter however, were Leo DiCaprio's win for Best Actor (capped by a wonderful speech) and the shocking surprises of Mark Rylance beating Sylvester Stallone and "Writings on the Wall" topping "Til It Happens To You", especially after Lady Gaga's powerful performance. But hey, you win some, you lose some. I certainly didn't do much winning with my predictions, putting up my worst showing yet (17 out of 24 correct). Maybe next year I'll finally get that elusive 100% score.
Until then, I'm looking forward to another great year for film, hopefully with more diversity (yes, I had to stick that in there). Here are your Oscar winners for 2015:
Best Picture
Spotlight
Best Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Best Actress
Brie Larson, Room
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short
Best Original Screenplay
Spotlight
Best Animated Feature
Inside Out
Best Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul
Best Documentary Feature
Amy
Best Original Score
The Hateful Eight
Best Original Song
"Writing's On The Wall", Spectre
Best Production Design
Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Cinematography
The Revenant
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Costume Design
Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Visual Effects
Ex Machina
Best Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Sound Mixing
Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Documentary Short
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Best Animated Short
Bear Story
Best Live Action Short
Stutterer
