It might be Hollywood’s biggest night, but the funniest 2016 Oscar tweets are proof that Twitter knows how to bring their A-game to an awards show.
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The Titanic co-stars are both tipped to pick up gongs at the 88th Academy Awards, with this year’s ceremony hotly tipped as the night Leo finally gets his hands on a gold statue.
DiCaprio, who has never won an Oscar despite numerous nominations, received a nod in the same category for his role as a 1820s fur trapper in The Revenant.
Oscars host Chris Rock came out swinging like Adonis Creed in his opening monologue, delivering a few knockout punches to the Academy for the lack of diversity among its nominees. “You’d be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now”.
“My record with the academy is like nobody else’s”, said Jones, an academy member for 50 years and the first African American to produce the Oscar telecast. According to most experts, in addition to paintings, the nomination for the award “Golden Globe” in nomination also get the picture, which spared in this award, “bearish”, “Focus”, “Mad Max: Road Fury” as well as a number of other paintings. “Hollywood is sorority racist, we like you Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa”.
Sam Smith, who is nominated for best original song for Writing’s On The Wall from Spectre, arrived with his songwriting partner Jimmy Napes and sipped English tea with E! host Ryan Seacrest as he chatted on the red carpet. “So we know he’s going to do that”.
Christian Bale, The Big Short – 10%.
Protesters gathered outside the Dolby Theatre to sound off on the controversy. ABC takes over at 7 p.m. with its own red-carpet show, followed by the ceremony at 8:30 p.m. Officially, you can watch the broadcast online but only if you meet certain requirements.
Chris Rock hasn’t said much about the diversity issue in a year of all-white nominees. The show somehow distinguishes the best performances in the year of film in a sea of superb actors, directors, writers, and so on.
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The host then told a story about attending a fundraiser at the White House, and telling the President that his fellow – white – showbiz guests “don’t hire black people and they’re the nicest white people on earth; they’re liberals”.
