'Star Wars...', 'The Martian' snubbed at Oscars

Highest-grossing movie of 2015 "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" lost the key technical categories to "Mad Max: Fury Road" at the 88th Academy awards which also snubbed "Carol", Sylvestar Stallone, Kate Winslet and "The Martian" as they failed to bag a trophy despite nominations.
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was up for five nominations including best visual effects, best sound mixing, best sound editing, best music (original score) and best film editing.
The film, touted as one of the highest grossing films, earlier won BAFTA Award for best special visual effects but was defeated by "Ex Machina" at the Oscars.

Ridley Scott's sci-fi film "The Martian" returned empty handed despite getting seven nominations in key categories including best picture and best actor for Matt Damon.
Historical period drama "Brooklyn", based on Colm Toibin's novel of the same name, also failed to impress the voters as it did not win a single award.
Similarly, Stallone fans, who were hoping that he would score his first Oscar for reprising his role as Rocky Balboa in the "Rocky" reboot "Creed", were disappointed after he lost the best supporting actor trophy to Mark Rylance for "Bridge of Spies".

Actresses Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Saoirse Ronan also returned empty-handed.

Director Todd Haynes' same sex drama "Carol" could not bag a single trophy despite six nominations.
Canadian-British-Irish drama "Room", directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Emma Donoghue, managed only win for Brie Larson in best actress category despite six nominations. Similarly, mystery film "The Hateful Eight" and Steven Spielberg's "Bridges of Spies" won one award apiece.
The widely criticised song "Writing's on the Wall" from James Bond film "Spectre" emerged as the surprise winner at the best original song category thereby causing a major upset for "Til It Happens to You" by Lady Gaga.