Oscars 2016: The calm after the storm?

Mar 06, 2016, 01:45
Oscars 2016: The calm after the storm?

He won an oscar for best actor in The Revenant.

And Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, whose "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" spoke to the impact of her film.

After winning an Oscar, DiCaprio proclaimed, "Climate change is real". "That is the power of film". "But she was also an Oscar favourite because throughout the awards season she had just been collecting win after win, at the Screen Actors Guild, the Golden Globes, so it really wasn't a surprise and definitely well deserved".

The Nielsen company said Monday preliminary estimates showed 34.3 million people watched Sunday night's telecast, where "Spotlight" won best picture.

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Rock received his biggest and most awkward laugh from the audience during his opening monologue when he said, "I'm sure there were no black nominees some of those years".

Rock ensured that the topic remained at the forefront throughout the proceedings, usually finding hearty laughs in the process.

Gasps went around the Dolby when Mark Rylance won best supporting actor for Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" over Sylvester Stallone. The biggest award of the night went to "Spotlight".

Jenny Beavan, who won for Mad Max: Fury Road, best costume design, echoed DiCaprio's climate change speech at Sunday's Academy Awards. "The Revenant", which competed in each of the categories again the Tom Hardy-Charlize Theron starrer, however took home Best Cinematography, making it Mexican cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki's third Oscar in a row. Lady Gaga's powerful performance was introduced by Vice President, Joe Biden, who promoted the White House's "It's On Us", a campaign to bring public awareness to sexual assault. Asif Kapadia's Amy Winehouse portrait, "Amy", took best documentary.

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But the wins at times felt secondary to the unflinching host.

While the faith film was the evening's last highlight, many other films are basking in the glow of an Oscar. "Maybe it is time we pull back our resources and we put them back into our communities". But, I realized, they're gonna have the Oscars anyway. Some people call it 'Creed.' I call it 'Black Rocky'. Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs even released a statement last month, revealing the organization's plans to increase diversity among its members by the year 2020.

A lot of people were nervous about the monologue that would open the 88th Annual Academy Awards this year. The journalists at ABC were thrilled over the movie star's advocacy.

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