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88th Academy Awards rocked by #OscarsSoWhite

The world famous cine prestigious awards event Oscars 2016 event has been started officially at Los Angles Dolby theater in America. Many popular Hollywood celebrities appeared for the function and made it colorful.

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Best film editing: “The Revenant“, “Mad Max: Fury Road“, “Spotlight“, “The Big Short“, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”. Fury Road marked her first Academy Award nomination.

Among them is the Oscar for best editing, won by Miller’s wife, Margaret Sixel. George Miller’s post-apocalyptic action film almost swept all the below-the-line categories, including Best Costume Design, Production Design, Makeup & Hairstyling, Film Editing, and both Sound Mixing and Editing.

The prizes for Best Actor and Actress went to Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant and Brie Larson for Room. “I stand here tonight as a proud gay man and I hope we can all stand together as equals one day”. He delivered hands down one of the best speeches of the night, tackling the importance issue of global climate change. Still with me? You’ve watched it; it’s much, much more complicated than my tongue-in-cheek, reductionist assessment makes it out to be.

“And last night, they picked up two fake Oscars that people tried to get in with”.

Best original screenplay went to the newsroom drama “Spotlight”, an ode to hard-nose, methodical investigative journalism penned by Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer.

A widely-anticipated best supporting actor Oscar for Sylvester Stallone, who reprises his turn as underdog boxer Rocky Balboa in ‘Creed, ‘ would be one of the stories of the night, nearly four decades after his only other nominations for the franchise’s original outing, ‘Rocky’. That being said, EW also notes “last year’s host was Neil Patrick Harris and that telecast had fallen to a six-year low”. Vice President Joe Biden introduced the pop star, who then delivered a stunning rendition of her song. “We want black actors to get the same opportunities as white actors”.

His director, Inarritu won back-to-back directing awards after the triumph previous year of “Birdman”. The film starred another South African Oscar victor, Charlize Theron, who won Best Actress for Monster 12 years ago.

The film was shot on a budget of $150 million – the most expensive film out of this year’s Best Picture nominees – and is also nominated for Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Picture and Best Director.

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Mark A. Mangini left and David White accept the best sound editing award for “Mad Max Fury Road,” which won the most awards on Sunday