The three major guild awards – the Screen Actors, the Directors and the Producers – have spread their top honors among three films seen as the front-runners: Alejandro Inarritu’s frontier epic “The Revenant”, Adam McKay’s financial meltdown tale “The Big Short” and Tom McCarthy’s newsroom drama “Spotlight”.
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The 88th Oscars was the year Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Academy Award after four previous acting nominations over 22 years. DiCaprio has been vocal about climate change over the past year, and noted that 2015 was the hottest year on earth ever recorded.
This whole year he has been winning the awards in different shows but had never actually won as Oscar. Kate was visibly proud of the actor after he won Best Actor at the Oscars. Best actress went to Brie Larson, the 26-year-old breakout of the mother-son captive drama “Room“.
In doing so, he transformed a glittering awards show long known for self-reverential pomp into a 3 1/2-hour live ABC telecast punctuated by withering satire riffing on issues of inclusion and diversity raised by the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite social media campaign and the Black Lives Matter movement. “They’re gonna have the Oscars anyway!”
Several nominees gave Rock a thumbs-up for striking the right balance on a tricky theme. Let us not take this planet for granted. “Really impressive and really amusing”.
“I (am) very lucky to be here tonight, but unfortunately many others haven’t had the same luck”, Inarritu said, expressing the hope that, in the future, skin color would become as irrelevant as the length of one’s hair.
Gasps went around the Dolby when Mark Rylance won best supporting actor over Sylvester Stallone.
“I grew up in east Los Angeles and my parents took me to auditions every day after school”. “I think you can sort of feel it, and I think everybody wants it for him”. Gaga, singing to a piano and occasionally stretching her arms out with emotion, performed “Till It Happens To You” which was nominated for the Oscar for best original song for “The Hunting Ground”, a documentary about rape on campus.
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Alicia Vikander won Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the supportive wife of a pioneering transgender woman in “The Danish Girl”. It was “Mad Max: Fury Road” making most of the early noise, with six wins including Sound Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, and Costume Design.
