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Chris.
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: All right, Mic.
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ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: (INAUDIBLE) exercise.
CUOMO: Art engagement increases happiness, confidence, self-esteem and reduces stress and social isolation. CAMEROTA: I can do that.
PEREIRA: I feel healthier and smarter already.
CAMEROTA: That's so great.
PEREIRA: I was at the theater yesterday.
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PEREIRA: All right. Hey, we're waiting because we've got a few moments until we learn who the big nominees are for this year's Oscars. Who will get the nod? Who will be snubbed? We're going to bring you to the live announcements right after this quick break.
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[08:37:51] PEREIRA: We're about a minute away from learning who the nominees are for the 88th Annual Academy Awards. I want to turn to our favorite gal, "Entertainment Tonight" host and CNN contributor Nischelle Turner.
They've given the one minute warning.
NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Yes.
PEREIRA: Big night, big day expected. How's it feel in the room?
TURNER: Well, first of all, there's a bit of an excitement in the room, Michaela. I don't know what it says about me that I still get butterflies right before we hear the Oscar announcements. Every year it never fails with me.
You know, there are a couple categories that I'm really looking at this year. One of them is best picture. Now if they pick 10 moves, because they can pick up to 10, I do think moves likes "Mad Max" and also "Straight Outta Compton" could get nominations. If they don't, I think those movies could be left out.
Also, I think the best actor race is a pretty big race this year. Matt Damon could sneak in there. Will Smith could sneak in there. We also could see Johnny Depp sneak in there and get a nomination. If not, that - I think that category goes to Leonardo DiCaprio hands down.
PEREIRA: All right, let's - Nischelle - Nischelle, let's go -
TURNER: Let's listen to the nominations, Michaela.
PEREIRA: Yes.
TURNER: Absolutely. Let's go to the podium.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Welcome. What an exciting morning. Thank you (INAUDIBLE) for kicking it off.
John, let's continue.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's do it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For performance by an actor in a supporting role, the nominees are, Christian Bale in "The Big Short," Tom Hardy in "The Revenant," Mark Ruffalo in "Spotlight," Mark Rylance in "Bridge of Spies," and Sylvester Stallone in "Creed."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For performance by an actress in a supporting role, the nominees are, Jennifer Jason Leigh, "The Hateful Eight," Rooney Mara in "Carol," Rachel McAdams in "Spotlight," Alicia Vikander in "The Danish Girl," and Kate Winslet in "Steve Jobs."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For achievement in visual effects the nominees are "Ex Machina," "Mad Max: Fury Roads," "The Martian," "The Revenant," and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
[08:40:11] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For achievement in film editing the nominees are, "The Big Short," "Mad Max: Fury Road," "The Revenant," "Spotlight," and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For achievement in production design, the nominees are, "Bridge of Spies," "The Danish Girl," Mad Max: Fury Road," "The Martian," and "The Revenant."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For adapted screen play the nominees are, Charles Randolph and Adam McKay for "The Big Short," Nick Hornby for "Brooklyn," Phyllis Nagy for "Carol," Drew Goddard for "The Martian," and Emma Donoghue for "Room."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For original screen play the nominees are, Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen for "Bridge of Spies," Alex Garland for "Ex Machina," Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley and Ronnie Del Carmen for "Inside Out," Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy for "Spotlight," and Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge and Alan Wenkus for "Straight Outta Compton."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE).
For original score the nominees are, Thomas Newman for "Bridge of Spies," Carter Burwell for "Carol," Ennio Morricone for "The Hateful Eight," Johann Johannsson for "Sicario," and John Williams for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In the best foreign language film category the nominees are, from Colombia, "Embrace of the Serpent," from France, "Mustang," from Hungary, "Son of Saul," from Jordan, "Theeb," and from Denmark, "A War." UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For achievement in directing the nominees are, Adam McKay for "The Big Short," George Miller for "Mad Max: Fury Road," Alejandro G. Inarritu for "The Revenant, Lenny Abrahamson for "Room" and Tom McCarthy for "Spotlight."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For performance by an actress in a leading role the nominees are, Cate Blanchett in "Carol," Brie Larson in "Room," Jennifer Lawrence in "Joy," Charlotte Rampling in "45 Years," and Saoirse Ronan in "Brooklyn."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For performance by an actor in a leading role the nominees are, Bryan Cranston in "Trumbo," Matt Damon in "The Martian," Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Revenant," Michael Fassbender in "Steve Jobs," and Eddie Redmayne in "The Danish Girl."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And finally we are pleased to announce the films selected as the best picture nominees. They are "The Big Short, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, producers, "Bridge of Spies," Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, producers, "Brooklyn," Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, producers, "Mad Max: Fury Road," Doug Mitchell and George Miller, producers, "The Martian," Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam, producers, "The Revenant, Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon, producers, "Room," Ed Guiney, producer, and "Spotlight," Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, producers.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For the complete list of all the nominations, please visit Oscar.com.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And join us Sunday night -
[08:44:55] PEREIRA: (INAUDIBLE) you can stick with us here on CNN. Let's bring you back in. I think there were a lot of surprises, but also a lot of sure pick this year.
TURNER: Yes. Yes. Yes, actually there definitely were. You know, in many of the categories we had some locks, probably three or four locks, and there were a couple of wildcards. I just told you before we came to the nominations, Michaela, that if there were 10 best picture nominations, I could see "Straight Outta Compton," I could see "Mad Max" getting a nomination. Though there were eight. "Mad Max" did get a nomination. "Straight Outta Compton" did not get a nomination. "Inside Out" did not get a nomination. But they were nominated for best animated feature.
Also Jennifer Lawrence was nominated in the best actress category. She's 25 years old. It makes her the youngest four-time nominee in the history of the Academy Awards. So that is a big, big feat for her.
Couple of other things, we did see Matt Damon get a nomination for best actor in "The Martian." That was one of the wild cards that I mentioned before. And also just personally my favorite performance of the year was Paul Dano in "Love and Mercy." He played Brian Wilson and he did not get a nomination this morning. So a little disappointment for him.
But I know we're going to come back with a lot more. I got a lot to talk about.
PEREIRA: Yep. We have some things to talk about, lady. All right. So take a breath. We'll take a short break. Larry Hackett is here and Nischelle will stay with us and we'll talk about all the nominations in just a moment.
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PEREIRA: All right. The nominees for the 88th annual Academy Awards just announced. Who got the nod? Who got snubbed? Who were the surprises?
[08:49:56] Want to bring in former "People" magazine editor, Larry Hackett. "Entertainment Tonight" host and CNN contributor, Nischelle Turner, who is in the room feeling the goose bumps in person.
So Larry, looking through this, eight best picture nominations. They didn't decide to go with ten this year. They have that option, the Academy does. Eight. Do you feel there were big oversights or no?
LARRY HACKETT, FORMER EDITOR, PEOPLE MAGAZINE: Well "Carol," which is a movie that came out that is -- would be considered Oscar bait with Cate Blanchett, didn't get a nomination. Nor did "Star Wars." Remember, the reason they added -- went to 10 nominations was to have animated movies and pictures like that. The idea that they couldn't find room or they couldn't add to the ten and give "Star Wars" a nomination is going to be surprising to some. "Inside Out," another reason. Another terrific movie. Animated, but a very, very well- respected and well-regarded movie, couldn't find a place here. That's kind of surprising.
PEREIRA: "Straight Outta Compton," Nischelle, I know you were hoping that that might have been on the list for Best Picture?
TURNER: Yeah. I was. I thought that if there were ten nominations I did think that "Straight Outta Compton" would get a nomination. I know Larry also mentioned "Inside Out" and I think that was one of the things, too. I think a lot of people thought that that would get a nomination because it was such a good movie. It did get the animated nomination, but it did not get a best picture nomination.
He also mentioned "Carol," which definitely will be a surprise for people because you also had nominations for Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in the individual acting category. So for the movie itself not to get nominated, that is a big surprise for people this morning.
PEREIRA: Why don't we pull up some of those graphics so we can show people the visual of who won for best supporting actor and best supporting actress. Christian Bale, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Rylance, Sylvester Stallone, Tom Hardy for best supporting actor.
On the women, Alicia Vikander for "The Danish Girl," Jennifer Jason Leigh in "The Hateful Eight," Kate Winslet, Rachel McAdams, and Rooney Mara all -- You know, it's interesting. These ones, too. There was a little room, Larry, for some outliers, if you will, but it sounds like this stayed kind of on point. We see a nomination for "Creed," Sylvester Stallone. This is kind of exciting. I know Chris was excited about this nomination.
HACKETT: It is. And I think from his win with the Golden Globes, you have to say he's kind of the odds on favorite. Tom Hardy is a bit of a surprise. It was a big morning for "Room."
PEREIRA: Big morning.
HACKETT: Brie Larson, people knew Brie Larson -- it's almost a lock, really, for best actress. But the fact that it got nominated for Best Picture and for best director is a surprise.
CUOMO: You think Sly's going to win?
HACKETT: I do. I think he's the sentimental favorite. I think the Golden Globes are a very good barometer for picking actor awards, or at least that kind of actor awards. So I think he should be in there.
PEREIRA: So you think --
HACKETT: Say -- Go ahead.
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TURNER: I was just going to say -- Larry makes a really good point with that saying that the Golden Globes is a good predictor. And by the way, Sylvester Stallone was nominated -- the last time in 1976 for playing the same character, of course. And so he's the -- only the sixth actor to have that happen.
Also he talked about "Room." And it was a very good morning for "Room." I was a little surprised that Jacob Tremblay, the little boy in "Room," did not get a nomination this morning. I was also surprised in the supporting category, I told you about Paul Dano because I think his performance was one of the best all year.
I was a little surprised that Idris Elba did not get a nomination for "Beasts of No Nation" because he's been getting a lot of love for that movie this year as well. And I think Kate Winslet now becomes the favorite because she won the Golden Globe, I think she becomes the favorite in that supporting actress category.
PEREIRA: Let's move on the best actor just so we can get all of these in. Best Actor, Best Actress. Best Actor, Bryan Cranston, Eddie Redmayne, Leonardo DiCaprio -- will this be his year? Matt Damon in "The Martian" and Michael Fassbender.
For actresses, Brie Larson -- as we were talking about "Room" -- Charlotte, Rampling, Cate Blanchett. Jennifer Lawrence, and Saoirse Ronan.
Let's talk about Jennifer Lawrence. Probably the biggest smile on her face this morning. HACKETT: I think so.
PEREIRA: This is fourth -- I mean third time pairing up with this director. She seems to have great luck working with him and very young to have all of these accolades already.
HACKETT: And I think there's a smile on his face with ABC executives who know he's going to be walking down the red carpet because they really need that kind of thing, right? This is all about -- it's not all about movies. It's about glamour and it's about Hollywood and she is delivering that --
CUOMO: Well then Leo's a twofer because you don't get a more glamorous guy. He's widely accepted as at least in the top of his generation of actors. You know, he's been so close so many times. "The Revenant" is a really different film.
HACKETT: It is. And I think, you know, the -- six weeks from now will be kind of a victory lap for him. I mean, again, I don't want to drain any suspense from this, but the odds are that he's the guy to beat.
CAMEROTA: Even with facial hair he's really cute.
TURNER: And sometimes they have those makeup years and I think that a lot of people thought Leo DiCaprio should have won for "Wolf of Wall Street." So this could be a year that they also say, you know what, this is your time.
And just really quickly, guys, I know in the best actress category we were talking about Jennifer Lawrence and I think that is a little bit of a surprise because the movie itself got some mixed reviews. I think she was the best thing in that movie. Most people go into this thinking that this is Brie Larson's category. But for me, Saoirse Ronan gave the best performance by an actress this year in "Brooklyn." She was phenomenal.
HACKETT: She was.
TURNER: So I'd love to see her get that award this year.
PEREIRA: The great thing about this day is that it always sends all sorts of people to the movie theaters over the weekend for sure.
Let's move on to best director. For "The Big Short," Adam McKay. For "The Revenant," which got a whole lot of love this morning, Alejandro Inarritu.
[08:55:00] Oh wait. Please hold. We have an Oscar nominee on the phone with us right now.
Joining me on the phone is best actress nominee, Brie Larson, just nominated for your role in "Room." Let me hear the smile in your voice.
BRIE LARSON, OSCAR-NOMINATED ACTRESS (on the phone): I can't stop laughing.
PEREIRA: Don't stop laughing, and you shouldn't. How does it feel?
LARSON: It's incredible. What did you say?
PEREIRA: Where were you when you heard?
LARSON: Oh, I'm in Australia right now filming. So I watched it on my computer.
PEREIRA: I think it's going to be hard to focus on work today.
LARSON: I don't know, I mean, it is kind of the funny thing about making an action movie is you get really engrossed in your climbing and your marching and your ducking. So it's kind of a nice escape from all of this. You can't get too stuck in it.
PEREIRA: This was the little move that could. Based on a novel by Emma Donoghue. What drew you to this role?
LARSON: It is just an incredible story that's an allegory for love and growing up. And to tell this story that is about the importance of stepping outside of a smaller life into something bigger is so apropos of what I'm going through right now. Absolutely a labor of love. So incredibly important to me. And it made me feel so connected to the world to see how much it's meant to others.
PEREIRA: Well Brie Larson, this is a moment to revel in. I hope you can enjoy every second of it. We can't wait to see you on the red carpet. Congratulations on your Oscar nomination and thank you for joining us on NEW DAY. All right.
LARSON: Thank you very much.
PEREIRA: Isn't that wonderful to hear?
CAMEROTA: Oh, it's so great.
PEREIRA: Well that's it for us on NEW DAY. Thanks to Larry and Nischelle. "NEWSROOM" with Carol Costello after the break. I guess that's it. Right?
CAMEROTA: See you tomorrow.
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