Chris Rock's Oscars 2016 Opening Monologue Skewers Oscars So White Backlash

Mar 02, 2016, 05:51

That made it the most-tweeted minute of an Oscars telecast ever, handily beating the previous record of 255,000 tweets per minute, set in 2014 when host Ellen DeGeneres tweeted a star-studded selfie.

"It would mean so much to my two little girls if we could beat Linda Dunn", he said. Rock quipped, "Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties". "I wasn't invited. Oh, that's not an invitation I would turn down".

He went on to berate Will Smith who was not nominated for "Concussion".

After five nominations, Leonardo DiCaprio finally got his Oscar.

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The "white elephant in the room" was addressed many times at yesterday's ceremony, a reminder that Hollywood's race issue can no longer be ignored.

Dunn, who lives in Englewood, says she had the awards broadcast on mute and had no idea what was unfolding on the other side of the country until "A gazillion people called me".

After DiCaprio's win, Spotlight's win for Best Picture received the most Twitter bizz, followed by Mad Max: Fury Road's Oscar for Sound Mixing, Twitter said. After his introduction for the Best Documentary Short Subject award at Sunday's (Feb. 28) Oscars, the Academy should seriously consider signing Louis CK up for the gig right this second.

Variety's Brian Lowry said Rock "brilliantly threaded the needle with his opening monologue". "Hollywood is sorority racist", he said, referring to how white industry power players politely exclude minorities from their projects.

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Morgan said: "I'm a Danish Girl".

"I understand that crude jokes and silly skits are probably the best Rock could do under these circumstances".

Listen, if you're upset by any of this, then you're missing the point.

"I thought about quitting. We had real things to protest; you know, we're too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won the best cinematographer".

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They added the proceeds go to the girls' troop council, who will decide how to use it to benefit their community. Jada gonna boycott the Oscars? Gonzalez Inarritu won last year for "Birdman" and won again this year for "The Revenant".

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