Here are the nominations for six of the categories at the 2016 Academy Awards:

Best Picture:

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

Best Actor:

• Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant”
• Matt Damon, “The Martian”
• Michael Fassbender, “Steve Jobs”
• Bryan Cranston, “Trumbo”
• Eddie Redmayne, “The Danish Girl”

Best Actress:

• Brie Larson, “Room”
• Soairse Ronan, “Brooklyn”
• Cate Blanchett, “Carol”
• Jennifer Lawrence, “Joy”
• Charlotte Rampling, “45 Years”

Best Director:

• Alejandro González Iñárritu, “The Revenant”
• George Miller, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
• Tom McCarthy, “Spotlight”
• Adam McKay, “The Big Short”
• Lenny Abrahamson, “Room”

Best Supporting Actress:

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

Best Supporting Actor:

• Sylvester Stallone, “Creed”
• Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies”
• Mark Ruffalo, “Spotlight”
• Christian Bale, “The Big Short”
• Tom Hardy, “The Revenant”

Well, these are decent. Carol is either the second or third-best movie I saw last year, so not seeing it nominated for Best Picture is quite a letdown. (It was certainly better than The Martian, an enjoyable albeit wholly unoriginal film.) I have no intention of seeing Joy, so I cannot attest to the quality of Jennifer Lawrence’s performance, but I can say that Charlize Theron’s in Mad Max: Fury Road was a few thousand times better. Leo is going to win Best Actor—but he’s not overdue, no matter what the internet says—so the other four men might as well not be nominated. (I have no intention of seeing the seemingly vapid and self-gratifying Danish Girl, either.)

The asinine and suffocating white-ness of this year’s nominees is even more pathetic. Idris Elba’s performance in Beasts of No Nation was far superior to Tom Hardy’s in The Revenant, who just spent the movie garbling savagely, and even Sylvester Stallone’s in Creed, who everyone thinks is going to win. Jennifer Jason Leigh was pretty good in the hateful Hateful Eight, but she hardly compared to Mya Taylor in Tangerine, who would’ve been the first-ever transgender woman to be nominated for an Oscar had the Academy come to their senses.

As for movies Dominion students might have actually heard of, The Martian is nominated for seven awards, but not Best Director, which Ridley Scott had been predicted to win. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is nominated for five awards, but nothing big, whereas Inside Out is nominated for two.