After finishing in a close second place the previous two weekends, 20th Century Fox’s The Revenant moved into first place last weekend with $16.01 million. The Alejandro González Iñárritu directed western starring Leonardo DiCaprio was down 50 percent from the previous weekend, as the box office in general was slowed by Winter Storm Jonas hitting the East Coast. Sunday’s NFL Conference Championship Games were also expected to negatively impact Sunday’s grosses. Even with last weekend’s slowing, The Revenant continued to impress with $119.20 million after 17 days of wide release and an additional two weeks of limited release. The Revenant is likely to stabilize next weekend thanks in part to healthy word of mouth and the continued buzz around the film’s 12 Academy Award nominations.

The Revenant, which received 12 Oscar nominations, moved into first place at the box office last weekend. (Photo: Kimberly French/20th Century Fox)

Walt Disney Studios’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens was up one spot from the previous weekend to claim second place with $14.08 million. The seventh chapter of the Star Wars franchise was down 47 percent from the previous weekend. Without adjusting for inflation, The Force Awakens claimed the 10th largest sixth weekend gross on record. The Force Awakens continues to pad its total as the highest grossing film of all-time domestically with $879.11 million through 38 days of release. That leaves the film just $20.89 million away from becoming the first ever the reach the $900 million domestic mark. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is currently running 59 percent ahead of the $551.74 million 38-day take of 2009’s Avatar and 44 percent ahead of the $611.23 million 38-day gross of last year’s Jurassic World.

Universal Pictures’ Ride Along 2 was down two spots and 65 percent from its debut weekend to land in third with $12.46 million. The PG-13 rated comedy sequel starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart held up much worse in its second weekend than 2014’s Ride Along, which fell 49 percent to take in $21.30 million. Word of mouth isn’t as strong for Ride Along 2 as it was for Ride Along, although last weekend’s winter storm obviously had an effect on the film’s hold as well. Ride Along 2 has grossed $58.61 million in 10 days. While that’s solid with the film’s price tag in mind, it’s below expectations and places the film 22 percent behind the $75.54 million 10-day start of Ride Along.

As expected, last weekend’s three new wide releases were fairly bunched together with one another. Only $785,519 separated the top opener from the lowest.

Dirty Grandpa opened in fourth place with $11.11 million. The R-rated comedy from Lionsgate starring Robert De Niro and Zac Efron performed towards the lower end of expectations. Poor critical reviews and Sunday’s NFL Conference Championship Games appear to have had more of an effect on Dirty Grandpa than they did on The Boy and The 5th Wave.

STX Entertainment’s The Boy debuted in fifth place with $10.78 million. The low-budget PG-13 rated horror film starring Lauren Cohan opened towards the lower end of expectations and was off to a solid start with its reported $10 million production budget in mind.

Sony Pictures’ The 5th Wave was off to a sixth place start of $10.33 million. The young adult adaptation starring Chloë Grace Moretz also opened towards the lower end of expectations. The film is performing stronger overseas than it is domestically.

Meanwhile, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi followed in seventh place with $9.03 million. The Michael Bay directed action thriller from Paramount Pictures was down 44 percent from the previous weekend, which represented one of the weekend’s better holds among wide releases. 13 Hours was helped out by healthy word of mouth and by expanding into 528 additional locations, which included an expansion into Canada. 13 Hours has grossed $32.76 million in 10 days. That is a bit below expectations.

The Revenant led the Oscar race with 12 nominations announced early Thursday morning including best picture, director (Alejandro González Iñárritu) and actor (Leonardo DiCaprio). The wilderness drama is one of eight films to fill the available 10 best-picture slots.

Actor John Krasinski from The Office and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announce the nominees for best picture. (Photo: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

Others strong performers included sci-fi epic Mad Max: Fury Road with 10 nominations and The Martian with seven. Spotlight, about The Boston Globe‘s Catholic Church sex abuse investigation which was an awards season favorite, earned six, while recent release and Wall Street drama The Big Short earned five.

Surprises included Sylvester Stallone with a best supporting actor nod for bringing back Rocky Balboa in Creed, but director Ryan Cogler and start Michael B. Jordan were shut out, and celebrated English actress Charlotte Rampling for her work as a woman who learns of her husband’s devastation over his first love shortly before their anniversary party in 45 Years.

Oscar snubs included Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which although it got nominated for a bunch of technical awards, missed out on the big one including director for J.J. Abrams and best picture. Also, Idris Elba for Beasts of No Nation, Netfilx’s first original film and Will Smith for his work in Concussion, which received critical acclaim. Johnny Depp was passed over for his role as Whitey Bulger in Black Mass. And finally, a snub and a surprise for Straight Outta Compton, which got a nomination for best original screenplay only despite the N.W.A. biopic’s strong showing at the box office.

Below is the full list of nominations. The 88th Academy Awards will be handed out on Feb. 28.

Best motion picture of the year

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. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon, Producers
Room Ed Guiney, Producer
Spotlight Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, Producers

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Bryan Cranston in Trumbo
Matt Damon in The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant
Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Cate Blanchett in Carol
Brie Larson in Room
Jennifer Lawrence in Joy
Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Christian Bale in The Big Short
Tom Hardy in The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight
Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone in Creed

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

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

Best animated feature film of the year

Anomalisa Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
Boy and the World Alê Abreu
Inside Out Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
Shaun the Sheep Movie Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
When Marnie Was There Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Achievement in directing

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

Achievement in cinematography

Carol Ed Lachman
The Hateful Eight Robert Richardson
Mad Max: Fury Road John Seale
The Revenant Emmanuel Lubezki
Sicario Roger Deakins

Achievement in costume design

Carol Sandy Powell
Cinderella Sandy Powell
The Danish Girl Paco Delgado
Mad Max: Fury Road Jenny Beavan
The Revenant Jacqueline West

Best documentary feature

Amy Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
Cartel Land Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
The Look of Silence Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
What Happened, Miss Simone? Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor

Best documentary short subject

Body Team 12 David Darg and Bryn Mooser
Chau, beyond the Lines Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah Adam Benzine
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Last Day of Freedom Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman

Achievement in film editing

The Big Short Hank Corwin
Mad Max: Fury Road Margaret Sixel
The Revenant Stephen Mirrione
Spotlight Tom McArdle
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

Best foreign language film of the year

Embrace of the Serpent Colombia
Mustang France
Son of Saul Hungary
Theeb Jordan
A War Denmark

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

Mad Max: Fury Road Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
The Revenant Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

Bridge of Spies Thomas Newman
Carol Carter Burwell
The Hateful Eight Ennio Morricone
Sicario Jóhann Jóhannsson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens John Williams

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

Earned It from Fifty Shades of Grey
Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
Manta Ray from Racing Extinction
Music by J. Ralph and Lyric by Antony Hegarty
Simple Song #3 from Youth
Music and Lyric by David Lang
Til It Happens To You from The Hunting Ground
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
Writing’s On The Wall from Spectre
Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith

Achievement in production design

Bridge of Spies Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich
The Danish Girl Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish
Mad Max: Fury Road Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson
The Martian Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
The Revenant Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy

Best animated short film

Bear Story Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Prologue Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
Sanjay’s Super Team Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
We Can’t Live without Cosmos Konstantin Bronzit
World of Tomorrow Don Hertzfeldt

Best live action short film

Ave Maria Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
Day One Henry Hughes
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut) Patrick Vollrath
Shok Jamie Donoughue
Stutterer Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage

Achievement in sound editing

Mad Max: Fury Road Mark Mangini and David White
The Martian Oliver Tarney
The Revenant Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender
Sicario Alan Robert Murray
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Matthew Wood and David Acord

Achievement in sound mixing

Bridge of Spies Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
Mad Max: Fury Road Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
The Martian Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth
The Revenant Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

Achievement in visual effects

Ex Machina Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
Mad Max: Fury Road Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
The Martian Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner
The Revenant Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

Adapted screenplay

The Big Short Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Brooklyn Screenplay by Nick Hornby
Carol Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
The Martian Screenplay by Drew Goddard
Room Screenplay by Emma Donoghue

Original screenplay

Bridge of Spies Written by Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Ex Machina Written by Alex Garland
Inside Out Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Spotlight Written by Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy
Straight Outta Compton Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff

Walt Disney Studios’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens took in $42.35 million to lead the weekend box office for a fourth consecutive week. The seventh chapter of the Star Wars had the second largest fourth weekend gross of all-time; behind only the $50.31 million fourth weekend take of Avatar back in January 2010. The Force Awakens was down 53 percent from the previous weekend, because so many moviegoers have already seen it, the end of the holidays and The Revenant entered theaters last weekend (Jan. 8-10).

Star Wars: The Force Awakens led the box office for the fourth consecutive weekend and has earned the second largest gross ever. (Photo: David James/Lucasfilm)

Still, Star Wars: The Force Awakens passed the $800 million mark over the weekend and continues to add to its total as the highest grossing film of all-time domestically with $812.73 million in 24 days of release. It is running 89 percent ahead of the $430.85 million 24-day take of Avatar and 46 percent ahead of the $556.54 million 24-day gross of last year’s Jurassic World. When adjusting for inflation, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now in 12 place on the all-time adjusted domestic list, as the film moved past Return of the Jedi, The Exorcist and The Empire Strikes Back last weekend.

Twentieth Century Fox’s The Revenant had a terrific expansion into wide release with a close second place take of $39.83 million. The Alejandro González Iñárritu directed western starring Leonardo DiCaprio exceeded expectations and claimed the fourth largest January opening weekend of all-time without adjusting for inflation. It was especially important for The Revenant to get off to a strong start considering the film’s expensive price tag. The Revenant is another strong performer for DiCaprio. Last weekend’s performance was just ahead of the $37.85 million debut of 2014’s Lone Survivor and 63 percent ahead of the $24.44 million Zero Dark Thirty took in during its first weekend of wide release in January 2013. After two weeks in limited release, The Revenant has grossed $41.38 million in 17 days. It will hope to hold up well going forward, thanks in part to its awards season buzz, which was strengthened by its three Golden Globe wins Sunday night.

Paramount Pictures’ Daddy’s Home finished in third place with $15.02 million. The PG-13 rated comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg was down a 49 percent from the previous weekend, as the end of the holiday season and the stronger than expected performance of The Revenant affected holdovers in general last weekend. Even with the decline, Daddy’s Home continues to impress with a stronger than expected 17-day take of $116.33 million.

The Forest debuted in fourth place with $12.74 million. The PG-13 horror film from Focus and Gramercy starring Natalie Dormer exceeded expectations and was off to a solid start considering its modest $10 million reported production budget. January tends to be a good month to open horror films and that trend continued for The Forest. Going forward, it should be front-loaded given its genre and the upcoming direct competition from STX Entertainment’s The Boy beginning Jan. 22.

Sisters rounded out the weekend’s top five with $7.19 million. Universal Pictures’ R-rated comedy starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler fell 44 percent, which represented one of the weekend’s stronger holds. The movie continues to impress with a 24-day gross of $73.90 million.

The Weinstein Co.’s The Hateful Eight and Paramount’s The Big Short took sixth and seventh place with respective grosses of $6.40 million and $6.17 million. The break-out performance of The Revenant took a toll on both films, as The Hateful Eight was down 59 percent despite adding 464 theaters and The Big Short was down 32 percent despite adding 941 locations. Respective total grosses stand at $42.72 million for The Big Short in 31 days and at $41.53 million for The Hateful Eight in 17 days.

Universal Pictures’ Dumb and Dumber To took in $36.11 million last weekend to claim first place. The long awaited comedy sequel starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels outpaced Big Hero 6 for the period, in what turned out to be a close race for first place. Dumb and Dumber To slightly exceeded expectations, as the film proved to be critic-proof. Pre-release buzz for the film had been relatively soft also, but fans of the original 1994 film came out.

Kathleen Turner (l to r), Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels star in Dumb and Dumber To. (Photo: Universal Pictures)

Big Hero 6 placed in a close second with $34.66 million. The 3D computer animated film from Walt Disney Animation Studios held up well, as it declined 38 percent from the previous weekend’s strong start. Big Hero 6 surpassed the $100 million mark last weekend and has grossed $110.31 million through 10 days. That is in line with pre-release expectations and places Big Hero 6 18 percent ahead of the $93.65 million 10-day take of 2014’s Wreck-It Ralph, which fell 33 percent in its second weekend to gross $33.01 million. Big Hero 6 represents another strong performer for Disney, joining the likes of Wreck-It Ralph, 2010’s Tangled and last year’s Frozen. The film will likely continue to hold up well through the holiday season.

Also holding up well last weekend was Paramount Pictures’ Interstellar. The Christopher Nolan directed sci-fi film was down 40 percent from the previous weekend’s lower than expected debut to place in third with $28.31 million. Last weekend’s hold was especially encouraging given the new competition the film faced for older moviegoers from Dumber and Dumber To. Interstellar is being helped by its continued strong IMAX grosses, from good word of mouth and from its long running time and older-skewing audience. Interstellar is on the verge of reaching the $100 million mark with $96.93 million after 10 days of wide release.

Beyond the Lights opened in fourth place last weekend with $6.20 million. Despite strong reviews and strong pre-release online buzz, the low-budget drama from Relativity opened below expectations.

Twentieth Century Fox’s Gone Girl rounded out the weekend’s top five with $4.56 million. The critically acclaimed David Fincher directed film surpassed the $150 million domestic mark over the weekend. Gone Girl continues to display terrific holding power, as it was down just 27 percent from the previous weekend. The 45-day total for the film stands at $152.64 million.