'Spotlight' wins Oscar for best picture

Mar 02, 2016, 10:06

If the 2016 Oscars were a basketball game, we'd say the first half was convincingly won by "Mad Max: Fury Road", but "The Revenant" came back to even things up in the second half.

Another record breaker this year is Steven Spielberg, who produced and directed "Bridge of Spies".

The highest-grossing film of all time domestically, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens, " has five nominations - for film editing, original score, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects.

There were few surprises Sunday, but the supporting actor win for Mark Rylance drew gasps.

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In accepting his award, co-writer and director Adam McKay warned the audience and viewers at home "if you don't want big money to control government, don't vote for candidates that take money from big banks, oil, or weirdo billionaires". Still, the Oscar telecast was easily the most-watched program of the night and it remains far and away the most popular awards show on TV.

Hungary's "Son of Saul" won the foreign film award.

Throughout the night, Oscar spread the largesse around, with 11 different titles winning at least one of the 20 Oscars reserved for feature films. Especially since, as insiders predicted, indie movies like Spotlight, Room, The Danish Girl and Brooklyn were amongst the top contenders, and viewership tends to hinge on the popularity of the Best Picture titles.

The evening marked the climax of one of the most controversial Oscar seasons in Hollywood history, as a bitter debate over the lack of any acting nominees of color for the second year in a row roiled the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And the Best Documentary was "Amy", Asif Kapadia's deft, if hardly revelatory splicing of Amy Winehouse's home movies.

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"This will be the last night of an all-white Oscars", Sharpton vowed at the rally.

The nominees restored the Twitter hashtag OscarsSoWhite to prominence and led Spike Lee, an honorary Oscar victor this year, and Jada Pinkett Smith to announce that they would not attend the show. Let us not take this planet for granted.

Four years later, Rock might therefore have been the best possible person to host the Oscars, in a year when so much attention has been focused on the all-white acting nominees and the failure of Hollywood to make a very inclusive slate of films - and to recognize those films (and the people involved in them) when they're made at all.

"Us Mad Maxes are doing OK tonight", said editor Margaret Sixel, who is also Miller's wife. Also vying for the prize are Jennifer Jason Leigh ("The Hateful Eight"), Rooney Mara ("Carol"), Rachel McAdams ("Spotlight") and Kate Winslet ("Steve Jobs"). The latter film won the awards for Jenny Beavan's costume designs, for Colin Gibson's and Lisa Thompson's production design team, and for the film's makeup and hairstyling in the first of the evening's technical awards to be handed out.

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Canadian filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy wins the Oscar for her short doc, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness.