The Oscar nominations are in.
The Irish are coming!
Benjamin Cleary – best live action action short (Stutterer)
Saoirse Ronan – best actress in a leading role (Brooklyn)
Michael Fassbender – best actor in a leading role (Steve Jobs)
Emma Donoghue – best adapted screenplay (Room)
Lenny Abrahamson – best director (Room)
Brooklyn – best picture
Room – best picture
Oscar nominations 2016 live: Carol, The Revenant and Spotlight battle it out (The Guardian)
Previously: Room For An Oscar?
Thanks Carlos Strange
‘sheet movie critic Mark Ryall writes:
The 2016 Oscar nominations are out and Irish interest is considerable this year, with Lenny Abrahamson, Saoirse Ronan, and Michael Fassbender all nominated in the main categories. Emma Donoghue is also nominated for best adapted screenplay.
Brooklyn and Room are both up for best picture alongside The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant and Spotlight.
Alejandro Iñárritu’s The Revenant is way out in front with 12 nominations, but the major surprise is that George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is just behind with 10. The consensus is that DiCaprio will bring home the shiny statue, but my own personal Punxsutawney Phil predicts that The Revenant will win for best picture and director.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (yay!) got five nods, all in technical categories (boo).
The full list of nominees is here. The 88th Academy Awards will be held on 28th February.
Think Chewbacca should get an Oscar. Best supporting role to Han for years.
Come on Academy Recognise him!!!!!
I don’t know what we are all getting so excited about. Sure they are all British, or at least will be by the end of Sky’s next bulletin.
Saoirse went from being a country girl to a ‘Story in a few months. Changing nationality shouldn’t be much of a stretch.
Ahhh Saoirse bleeedin ronin, she’s de salt of de earth so she is
Right? OK, she’s very talented and still only a kid with a great ear for accents – but, Lord, that Straight Outta Crumlin brogue really irks.
Fight like me Da as well!
@ Bertie: Ha! Lovin’ that timely B*Witched pull.
The BBC claimed Emma Donoghue
I claimed Emma Watson for all the good it did me.
They put a flag in her and renamed body parts after Welsh districts.
And fair play to Abrahamson. He didn’t think he’s get the nod himself but was hoping Larson and O’Donoghue would.
Delighted to see him getting this level of recognition, superb director. Can’t wait to see Room, everything else he’s done has been gold:
Adam & Paul
Garage
What Richard Did
Frank
Wasn’t mad about ‘What Richard Did’ myself
There are two exceptional scenes in that film that stood out for me: When Richard confesses to his father (and his father’s reaction) and when the mother stands up at the remembrance ceremony and calls out the congregation as conspirators in her son’s death. Those are powerful, emotional scenes.
Still, I wasn’t mad about it
I liked it. Will be rooting for him.
Fair play to them for getting that far.
Should feckin’ include Star Wars too. Best Use Of An Island
Skellig Michael should get nominated. It should be in the audience, gulls and all.
Claiming them as our own?
Fassbender was born in Germany and Saoirse Ronan in New York.
Sure Ireland is a global village.
It’s not that simple though. For example, I’ve never heard the Germans claiming Michael Fassbender, even when discussing German Oscar chances.
I think the Germans are a little wary of claiming things with vague German connections. It didn’t work out so well for them in the past
His mother is Irish and he left Germany when he was two. Both of Saoirse Ronan’s parents are Irish and she left America when she was 3. To suggest they’re not Irish is ridiculous.
Plus, she’d bleedin batter ye if she heard ye so she would. What’s de story
Yehbleedinmuppi
If Mark Rylance doesn’t win, I’m burning hollywood down.
He’s the type of talent that puts Leo’s “quest for an oscar” into perspective
Fantastic in Wolf Hall.
To my shame I hadn’t really heard of him before that.
Like that Public Enemy song, except it’s about Rylance instead of de blacks.
Lenny will win for sure ( Jewish conspiracy and Hollywood)
Fast Bender is German
Ronan is American
Fast Bender = Carl Lewis? Soooo funny, I should be writing bits for the Golden Globes in, like, the mid-to-late ’80s *I’ll get me shillelagh and Kelly green coat*
More like the Gleneagles
True that – it’s all gone a bit Syl Fox.
.. so tonight, enjoy yourselves because nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
Billy Crystal
Some contrast between Saoirse Ronan’s approach involving sending Irish Tea bags to critics and being all over the media more campaign with Mickey Fassbender’s more dignified approach.
Oh well said.
Was trying to, but if you say something objective about a trending and popular Irish actor / artist you get slapped with the oul Begrudgery Brush.
Seems to be an Irish actor and win an Oscar you need to be part Irish. Michael Fassbender, German-Irish, Saoirse Ronan, American-Irish, Lets not even start with Daniel Day-Lewis. Think Barry Fitzgerald and Brenda Fricker are the only two Irish actors to win an oscar and hold only an Irish passport.
Good point. You could apply the same to U2: Clayton is English, The Edge is Welsh…etc
Not to mention all those immigrants. How irish are they? Nigerian and Syrian more like
AMIRITE?
Lenny Abrahamson is a Paddy??
well oh be da’hogget
between him and that Fassbender Kerry tramp
twouldn’t a’ happened in Dev and McQuaid’s day I tell ya
Good luck to them all
In English please?
He’s from Cork don’t mind him
A great day for British film. #Skynews
Fassbender’s father is German, mother Northern Irish, left Ireland for London at the earliest opportunity. To consider him fully Irish is a moot point.
sure no irishman has a langer that big.
I left Carlow at the first opportunity I could; my Dad was from Kildare, my mother was from Tipp.
I’m still ‘from’ Carlow even if I haven’t lived there for 17 years.
His father was from Fermanagh his mother from Fiji neither a hurling stronghold