2015 Best Actor Nominee- Steve Carell

Movie: Foxcatcher

Role: John Du Pont

MA Connection: Carell was born on August 16, 1962 in Concord, MA.

2015 Supporting Actor- Edward Norton

Movie: Birdman

Role: Mike Shiner

MA Connection: Norton was born on August 18, 1969 in Boston, MA.

2015 Supporting Actor- Robert Duvall

Movie: The Judge

Role: Judge Joseph Palmer

MA Connection: The film The Judge was filmed in several locations in MA, including: Ashfield, Attleborough, Belmont, Boston, Buckland: Charlemont, Colrain, Dedham, Plymouth, Milton, Shelburne Falls, Sunderland, and Worcester. 

2015 Original Song - Shawn Patterson

Movie: The Lego Movie

Song: "Everything is Awesome"

MA Connection: Patterson was born in Athol, MA 

2015 Best Actor Nominee -Bradley Cooper

Movie: American Sniper

Role: Chris Kyle

MA Connection: Cooper was in the 2013 hit "American Hustle," which was filmed in Worcester, MA and was nominated for 10 Oscars last year. 

2007 Supporting Actor - Mark Wahlberg

Movie: The Departed

Role: Staff Sgt. Sean Dignam

MA Connection: Wahlberg was born June 5, 1971 in Dorchester, MA.

2007 Best Film- The Departed

Movie: The Departed

MA Connection: The Departed was filmed on location in Boston. Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg were both born in Massachusetts. 

2015 Best Actress- Rosamund Pike

Movie: Gone Girl

Role: Amy Dunne

MA Connection: Played opposite of Ben Affleck, who grew up in Cambridge, MA.

2011 Best Adapted Screenplay

Movie: The Social Network

MA Connection: Social Network was filmed in Boston and at Wheelock College in Boston.

Best Supporting Actor- Christian Bale

Movie: The Fighter

Role: Mickey 

MA Connection: The Fighter was filmed in Lexington and Lowell, MA. It starred Mark Wahlberg who was born in Dorchester, MA and played Mickey Ward, a boxer from Lowell. 

2004 Best Actor- Sean Penn

Movie: Mystic River

Role: James "Jimmy" Markum

MA Connection: Mystic River was filmed at Boston-Franklin Park Costello's Package Store, South Boston - a bar and Miller's Market, East Boston - Monmouth Street, Border Street, Condor Street, Jamaica Plain - Doyle's Pub, Charlestown; Canton; Dorchester; Mattapan; Chelsea.

2004 Best Supporting Actor- Tim Robbins

Movie: Mystic River

Role: Dave Boyle

MA Connection: Mystic River was filmed at Boston-Franklin Park Costello's Package Store, South Boston - a bar and Miller's Market, East Boston - Monmouth Street, Border Street, Condor Street, Jamaica Plain - Doyle's Pub, Charlestown; Canton; Dorchester; Mattapan; Chelsea.

Best Supporting Actor- Robin Williams

Movie: Good Will Hunting

Role: Sean Maguire

MA Connection: The late Williams played opposite to Matt Damon from Boston, MA.

Good Will Hungting was filmed in MA at South Boston-Woody's L Street Tavern, Municipal Court, Fley Field; Cambridge-Harvard Square's The Tasty and Au Bon Pain, MIT; The Charles River; MBTA Red Line; Revere-Wonderland Dog Track

Best Original Screenplay

Movie: Good Will Hunting

MA Connection: The script was written by Matt Damon from Boston, MA and Ben Affleck who grew up in Cambridge, MA

Good Will Hungting was filmed in MA at South Boston-Woody's L Street Tavern, Municipal Court, Fley Field; Cambridge-Harvard Square's The Tasty and Au Bon Pain, MIT; The Charles River; MBTA Red Line; Revere-Wonderland Dog Track

Best Actor- Jack Lemmon

Movie: Save the Tiger (1973)

Role: Harry Stoner

MA Connection: Born in Newton, MA on February 8, 1925

Best Film Editing

Movie: Jaws (1975)

MA Connection: Filmed on Martha's Vineyard; Menemsha; Edgartown; Oak Bluffs; Chappy Ferry; Falmouth

Best Supporting Actor- Denzel Washington

Movie: Glory (1989)

Role: Private Silas Trip

MA Connection: Story about Colonel Robert Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (the first formal unit of the U.S. Army to be made up entirely of African American men). 

Much of the filming took place in Boston

2012 Best Film- Argo

Movie: Argo

MA Connection: Directed by Ben Affleck, who grew up in Cambridge

1990 Best Actress- Kathy Bates

Movie: Misery

Role: Annie Wilkes

MA Connection: Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) answers the door and sheriff (Richard Farnsworth) asks her questions about author Paul Sheldon (James Caan). She states Paul Sheldon was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.

2010 Supporting Actress- Melissa Leo

Movie: The Fighter

Role: Alice Eklund-Ward 

MA Connection: The Fighter was filmed in Lexington and Lowell, MA. It starred Mark Wahlberg who was born in Dorchester, MA and played Mickey Ward, a boxer from Lowell.