Hittsville is the place to see a chunk of the Oscar contenders. Ragtag has a handful of them, and 9th Street Video has a slew. Those at Ragtag now (or coming up) are marked in red. Those in blue are at the video store.
Best picture
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Bridge of Spies (Feb 2)
Spotlight
The Big Short
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
Best actress
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years (2/19)
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Best actor
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs (Feb 16)
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo (Feb 16)
Best director
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Best original screenplay
Bridge of Spies -- Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Ex Machina -- Alex Garland
Inside Out -- Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley. Original story by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen
Spotlight -- Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
Straight Outta Compton -- Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff. Original story by S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff
Best original score
Bridge of Spies -- Thomas Newman
Carol -- Carter Burwell
The Hateful Eight -- Ennio Morricone
Sicario -- Jóhann Jóhannsson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- John Williams
Best adapted screenplay
The Big Short -- Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
The Martian -- Drew Goddard
Room -- Emma Donoghue
Brooklyn -- Nick Hornby
Carol -- Phyllis Nagy
Best production design
Bridge of Spies -- Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo and Bernard Henrich
The Danish Girl -- Eve Stewart and Michael Standish
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson
The Martian -- Arthur Max and Celia Bobak
The Revenant -- Jack Fisk and Hamish Purdy
Best supporting actress
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Best supporting actor
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Best costume design
Carol -- Sandy Powell
Cinderella -- Sandy Powell
The Danish Girl -- Paco Delgado
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Jenny Beavan
The Revenant -- Jacqueline West
Best original song
Earned It, Fifty Shades of Grey
Manta Ray, Racing Extinction
Simple Song #3, Youth
Til It Happens To You, The Hunting Ground
Writing’s on the Wall, Spectre (Feb 9)
Best animated film
Anomalisa (2/29)
Boy and the World (maybe?)
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep the Movie
When Marnie Was There
Best documentary
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Best cinematography
Carol -- Ed Lachman
The Hateful Eight -- Robert Richardson
Mad Max: Fury Road -- John Seale
The Revenant -- Emmanuel Lubezki
Sicario -- Roger Deakins
Best animated short Feb 5
Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Leave Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow
Best make-up and hair
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damien Martin
The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared -- Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
The Revenant -- Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini
Best visual effects
Ex Machina -- Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
The Martian -- Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner
The Revenant -- Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
Best sound editing
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Mark Mangini and David White
The Martian -- Oliver Tarney
The Revenant -- Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender
Sicario -- Alan Robert Murray
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Matthew Wood and David Acord
Best short film Feb 5
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay
Shok
Stutterer
Best sound mixing
Bridge of Spies -- Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
The Martian -- Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth
The Revenant -- Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson
Best short documentary
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
Best editing
The Big Short -- Hank Corwin
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Margeret Sixel
The Revenant -- Stephen Mirrione
Spotlight -- Tom McArdle
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey
Best foreign language film
Embrace of the Serpent
Mustang (March)
Son of Saul (2/26)
Theeb
A War