Oscars 2016: Chris Rock tears into racism debate in scathing opening monologue

Mar 10, 2016, 13:47
Oscars 2016: Chris Rock tears into racism debate in scathing opening monologue

Complete numbers are expected later in the week, but even with low ratings, the Oscar telecast will remain one of the most-watched shows of the year, with roughly 34 million viewers.

After all, give a comic as sharp and smart as Chris Rock a target like this year's all-white slate of acting nominees, and surely everyone in the audience for Sunday's Academy Awards had to realize he'd hit it and hit it hard. That was followed by the show's pairing of Steve Carell and Tina Fey at 9:22 p.m. ET. The 2015 show hosted by Neil Patrick Harris followed the 2011 Oscars for the third-worst ratings an Academy Awards show has received since the last time Rock hosted in 2005.

"This is the wildest, craziest Oscars to ever host because there are no black nominees", he said at the start of his opening monologue Sunday night, in reference to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.

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The 41 year-old bagged himself Best Actor at this year's ceremony after having been nominated for the award four times.

Here's the thing, I don't care who won the Academy Award for Best Cinematographer, and I really don't care what designer Jennifer Lawrence wore on the red carpet.

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Rock joked about why he decided not to boycott the show, saying that the show wouldn't be canceled because of him and he wasn't going to "lose another job to Kevin Hart".

"I want to take a moment to applaud all of my actors and actresses of color that didn't get nominated tonight". We got a black Rocky this year. We want opportunities. We want black actors to get the same opportunities.

"Let us not take this planet for granted, I do not take tonight for granted".

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