I don't think it has a chance of getting nominated in any category except for maybe visual effects, but even that may be pushing it.

One of the worst aspects about it for sure, unless the academy voters are dumb thinking good sound editing means turning up drone noise up to 11 in the ending

Not in response to Jake's net positive review of it, but just because I've made negative comments about it without explaining:

My prescription for The Martian would have been less pop-science-as-myth, more myth-as-myth. Basically, I despise hard sci-fi most of the time and I only like it when it can also give me a sense of wonder. If it can't, FUCK IT. I despise the Lawrence Krauss/Richard Dawkins aestheticization of not knowing anything about the beauty of traditional religion/myth/art and then saying instead we should incorporate aesthetics into their stale worldview and its "expansive definition of science." Whoo hoo, fuck Bach and the Sistine Chapel, let's all just watch Star Trek until the end of time! These people should be hunted down and murdered. The Martian to me felt like it was part of that ideologically. The whole cutting up of the crucifix was somehow both banal and disgusting as a bone thrown to trilby wearing reddit atheists. But more importantly, every joke was bad (especially the constant disco bullshit) and it wasn't good to look at. Matt Damon has no sense of comic delivery and never has. I can only understand the praise others give it in an arid way. I feel like I'm made emotional pretty easily by movies (I come close to crying in almost all Pixars and Capras and even the Harry Potter films that aren't bogged down in too much storyworld detail) but The Martian just felt soooo relentlessly paint by numbers to me that none of the feel good inspiration stuff could reach me. Idk, I was tempted to walk out. How it has the same RT score as Sicario is beyond me.

One of the worst aspects about it for sure, unless the academy voters are dumb thinking good sound editing means turning up drone noise up to 11 in the ending

They're not gonna give Mad Max best film. That's going to Tedious Love, the real life story of the romance between the two most tedious people that existed in 1950's England