Oscar Nominees 2016 List: A Nominations Refresher Before The 88th Academy Awards

The biggest night in movies is right around the corner. The 88th annual Academy Awards will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 28. There are many questions going into this year's awards ceremony as to who will win Oscars. Will Leonardo DiCaprio finally take home the award for Best Actor? What will be named Best Picture? Who will win Best Actress?

If you're watching this year's Academy Awards, you may need a reminder of what the categories are and exactly who is nominated. Here are the nominees for the major categories for the 88th Academy Awards:

Best Picture

• "The Big Short"
• "Bridge of Spies"
• "Brooklyn"
• "Mad Max: Fury Road"
• "The Martian"
• "The Revenant"
• "Room"
• "Spotlight"

Best Actor

• Bryan Cranston for "Trumbo"
• Matt Damon for "The Martian"
• Leonardo DiCaprio for "The Revenant"
• Michael Fassbender for "Steve Jobs"
• Eddie Redmayne for "The Danish Girl"

Best Actress

• Cate Blanchett for "Carol"
• Brie Larson for "Room"
• Jennifer Lawrence for "Joy"
• Charlotte Rampling for "45 Years"
• Saoirse Ronan for "Brooklyn"

Best Supporting Actor

• Christian Bale for "The Big Short"
• Tom Hardy for "The Revenant"
• Mark Ruffalo for "Spotlight"
• Mark Rylance for "Bridge of Spies"
• Sylvester Stallone for "Creed"

Best Supporting Actress

• Jennifer Jason Leigh for "The Hateful Eight"
• Rooney Mara for "Carol"
• Rachel McAdams for "Spotlight"
• Alicia Vikander for "The Danish Girl"
• Kate Winslet for "Steve Jobs"

Best Director

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

Best Original Screenplay

• Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen for "Bridge of Spies"
• Alex Garland for "Ex Machina"
• Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley for "Inside Out"
• Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy for "Spotlight"
• Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff for "Straight Outta Compton"

Best Adapted Sceenplay

• Charles Randolph and Adam McKay for "The Big Short"
• Nick Hornby for "Brooklyn"
• Phyllis Nagy for "Carol"
• Drew Goddard for "The Martian"
• Emma Donoghue for "Room"

Best Cinematography

• Ed Lachman for "Carol"
• Robert Richardson for "The Hateful Eight"
• John Seale for "Mad Max: Fury Road"
• Emmanuel Lubezki for "The Revenant"
• Roger Deakins for "Sicario"

Best Animated Feature Film

• "Anomalisa"
• "Boy & the World"
• "Inside Out"
• "Shaun the Sheep Movie"
• "When Marnie Was There"

Best Costume Design

• "Carol"
• "Cinderella"
• "The Danish Girl"
• "Mad Max: Fury Road"
• "The Revenant"

Best Film Editing

• "The Big Short"
• "Mad Max: Fury Road"
• "The Revenant"
• "Spotlight"
• "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• "Mad Max: Fury Road"
• "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared"
• "The Revenant"

Best Original Score

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

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")

Best Production Design

• "Bridge of Spies"
• "The Danish Girl"
• "Mad Max: Fury Road"
• "The Martian"
• "The Revenant"

Best Sound Editing

• "Mad Max: Fury Road"
• "The Martian"
• "The Revenant"
• "Sicario"
• "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

Best Sound Mixing

• "Bridge of Spies"
• "Mad Max: Fury Road"
• "The Martian"
• "The Revenant"
• "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

Best Visual Effects

• "Ex Machina"
• "Mad Max: Fury Road"
• "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
• "The Martian"
• "The Revenant"

Best Foreign Language Film

• "Embrace of the Serpent" (Colombia)
• "Mustang" (France)
• "Son of Saul" (Hungary)
• "Theeb" (Jordan)
• "A War" (Denmark)

Best Documentary Feature

• "Amy"
• "Cartel Land"
• "The Look of Silence"
• "What Happened, Miss Simone?"
• "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom"

Best Documentary Short

• "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 Short Film

• "Ave Maria"
• "Day One"
• "Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)"
• "Shok"
• "Stutterer"

Best Animated Short

• "Bear Story"
• "Prologue"
• "Sanjay's Super Team"
• "We Can't Live Without Cosmos"
• "World of Tomorrow"

The 2016 Academy Awards airs Sunday on ABC beginning with the red carpet at 7 p.m. EST. The actual show begins at 8:30 p.m. EST. Who do you think will take home Oscars this year? Sound off in the comments section below.