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2016 Oscars: Grading the Nominees

As I've done for the past I'm-not-sure-how-many years, I intend to watch every single Oscar-nominated film, even the shorts and song nominees (yes, that means 50 Shades).  I'm going to rank every single nominated performance based on my letter grade of that film.  I still have many more to see, which I will put under TBS (for To Be Seen), and will update the list as I see each film.  (Reviews to come later, if I have time)

Ranking/Grades
A -- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Original Score, Visual Effects, Film Editing)
A -- Inside Out (Animated Feature, Original Screenplay)
A -- Room (Actress, Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay)
A -- Brooklyn (Picture, Actress, ADapted Screenplay) 
A -- Amy (Documentary Feature)
A -- The Big Short (Director, Picture, Supporting Actor, Film Editing, Adapted Screenplay)
A -- Shaun the Sheep Movie (Animated Feature) 
A -- World of Tomorrow (Animated Short)
A -- Shok (Live Action Short)   
A -- The Look of Silence (Documentary Feature) 
A- -- The Revenant (Director, Picture, Cinematography, Costume Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Actor, Film Editing, Production Design, Visual Effects, Make-up/Hairstyling, Supporting Actor)
A- -- Carol (Original Score, Actress, Cinematography, Supporting Actress, Costume Design, Adapted Screenplay)
A- -- The Martian (Actor, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Production Design, Visual Effects, Adapted Screenplay, Picture) 
A- -- Spotlight (Supporting Actor, Picture, Supporting Actress, Film Editing, Director, Original Screenplay) 
A- -- Racing Extinction (Original Song)
A- -- Cartel Land (Documentary Feature)
A- -- Cinderella (Costume Design) 
A- -- Bear Story (Animated Short)
A- -- Stutterer (Live Action Short) 
A- -- We Can't Live Without Cosmos (Animated Short)
B+ -- Bridge of Spies (Sound Mixing, Supporting Actor, Production Design, Picture, Original Score, Original Screenplay)
B+ -- Everything Will Be Okay (Live Action Short) 
B+ -- Creed (Supporting Actor)
B+ -- The Hateful Eight (Original Score, Supporting Actress, Cinematography)
B+ -- Straight Outta Compton (Original Screenplay)
B+ -- 45 Years (Actress)
B+ -- The Hunting Ground (Original Song) 
B+ -- Trumbo (Actor)
B+ -- The Danish Girl (Supporting Actress, Actor, Costume Design, Production Design)  
B+ -- When Marnie Was There (Animated Feature)
B+ -- Sicario (Sound Editing, Original Score, Cinematography)
B+ -- Anomalisa (Animated Feature)
B+ -- Ex Machina (Visual Effects, Original Screenplay)
B+ -- What Happened, Miss Simone?  (Documentary Feature)
B+ -- Last Day of Freedom (Documentary Short) 
B -- Steve Jobs (Actor, Supporting Actress) 
B -- Mad Max: Mury Road (Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, Picture, Director, Costume Design, Cinematography, Make-up/Hairstyling, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Production Design)
B --Ave Maria (Live Action Short)
B -- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Make-up/Hairstyling)
B -- Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (Documentary Feature)
B -- A War (Foreign Language Film)
B -- Chau, Beyond the Lines (Documentary Short)  
B- -- Spectre (Original Song) 
B- -- Day One (Live Action Short) 
B- -- Fifty Shades of Grey (Original Song)
C -- Youth (Original Song)   
C -- Joy (Actress)  
D -- Prologue (Animated Short)

Only Clips/Trailers Available
Body Team 12 (Documentary Short)
Boy and the World (Animated Feature)
Claude Lanzemann: Secrets of the Shoah (Documentary Short)
Embrace of the Serpent (Foreign Language Film)
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (Documentary Short)
Mustang (Foreign Language Film)
Sanjay's Super Team (Animated Short) 
Son of Saul (Foreign Language Film)
Theeb (Foreign Language Film)
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