The Golden Girl: Oscar Nomination for Saoirse Ronan in ‘Brooklyn’

The 88th annual Academy Awards won’t be doled out until 28 February, but today we finally know who’s in the running for Hollywood’s top honours.

Congrats to our Leading Actress nominees #Oscars #OscarNoms pic.twitter.com/jbvO8opwqC

— The Academy (@TheAcademy) January 14, 2016

Saoirse Ronan was announced this past lunchtime as having secured a nomination for Best Actress for her role in Colm Toibín’s Brooklyn, released to Irish cinemas late last year.

She’ll go head to head with Cate Blanchett, Brie Larson (who won the Golden Globe), Jennifer Lawrence and Charlotte Rampling for Actress in a Leading Role.

Listen: The moment Saoirse Ronan is announced for her Oscar nomination

Much like the Golden Glones, the Oscars will have a great Irish flavour to them this year with nominations for Brooklyn, Room, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Fassbender, Lenny Abrahamson and Emma Donoghue.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest, The Revenant, topped the award nods with a total of 12 nominations. Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Spotlight and Max Max: Fury Road bring up the rear with a handful of nominations each.

All 2016 Oscar Nominations

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

Actor in a leading role
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Matt Damon, The Martian
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

Actress in a leading role
Brie Larson, Room
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years

Best director
Alejandro Iñárritu, The Revenant
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Adam McKay, The Big Short
Lenny Abrahamson, Room

Actress in a supporting role
Rooney Mara, Carol
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight

Actor in a supporting role
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant

Best foreign language film
Son of Saul
Mustang
A War
Embrace of the Serpent
Theeb

Best animated feature film
Inside Out
When Marnie Was There
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Shaun the Sheep Movie

Best adapted screenplay
Carol
The Big Short
Brooklyn
The Martian
Room

Best original screenplay
Spotlight
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Straight Outta Compton
Inside Out

Best original score
The Hateful Eight
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Carol
Bridge of Spies

Best film editing
The Revenant
Mad Max: Fury Road
Spotlight
The Big Short
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best cinematography
The Revenant
Mad Max: Fury Road
Carol
Sicario
The Hateful Eight

Best production design
Mad Max: Fury Road
Bridge of Spies
The Martian
The Danish Girl
The Revenant

Best visual effects
Mad Max: Fury Road
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Revenant
The Martian
Ex Machina

Best original song
Simple Song 3, Youth
Manta Ray, Racing Extinction
Writing’s on the Wall, Spectre
Til it Happens to You, The Hunting Ground
Earned It, Fifty Shades of Grey

Best documentary short subject
Body Team 12
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Lasy Day of Freedom

Best documentary feature
Amy
What Happened, Miss Simone?
The Look of Silence
Cartel Land
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

Best costume design
Carol
Cinderella
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Danish Girl
The Revenant

Best sound mixing
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Bridge of Spies

Best live action short film
Ave Maria
Shok
Day One
Stutterer
Everything Will Be Okay

Best animated short film
Sanjay’s Super Team
Bear Story
World of Tomorrow
Prologue
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

Best makeup and hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared
The Revenant

Best sound editing
The Revenant
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens