The guilds are starting to unveil their nominees and striking first is the Producers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America. Each helps paint a picture of what to expect from those Oscar nominees that will be revealed next Thursday, January 14.
More on that later today in our latest Oscar Watch column here at The Movie Mensch, but one thing leaps out already… the presence of Straight Outta Compton on both lists — a film that firmly sits on our top 15 of 2015!
Here are the nominees for both guild groups…
Producers Guild Nominees for Theatrical Motion Pictures:
- The Big Shirt
- Bride of Spies
- Brooklyn
- Ex Machina
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Martian
- The Revenant
- Sicario
- Spotlight
- Straight Outta Compton
Producers Guild Nominees for Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:
- Anomalisa
- The Good Dinosaur
- Inside Out
- Minions
- The Peanuts Movie
Writers Guild Nominees for Original Screenplay
- Bridge of Spies
- Sicario
- Spotlight
- Straight Outta Compton
- Trainwreck
Writers Guild Nominees for Adapted Screenplay
- The Big Short
- Carol
- The Martian
- Steve Jobs
- Trumbo
The Writers Guild will announce their winners on February 13, 2016 and the Producers Guild will unveil their “best of” on January 23, 2016.