Ensemble film “Spotlight” took home the night’s final award, best picture.
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“Climate change is real”.
In the end, Rock said, “We want black actors to get the same opportunities, that’s it”.
Previous South African winners at the Oscars include director Gavin Hood for the movie Tsotsi, winning Best Foreign Language film in 2006, and producer Eric Abraham for the Polish film Ida, which won Best Foreign Language film past year. “I can’t believe this is happening”.
Mexico’s Emmanuel Lubezki made history with his third consecutive Oscar for cinematography, for his dramatic work on “The Revenant”.
First-time nominee Brie Larson looks to be a lock for best actress, having dominated the awards season with her performance as a kidnapped mother in ‘Room’.
Meanwhile, here is the full list of awards Mad Max won, and its other nominations.
So far, “Mad Max: Fury Road” has only lost one of its 10 nominations to writer and director Alex Garland’s sci-fi drama “Ex Machina” for Best Visual Effects.
Another big victor Sunday was Mad Max: Fury Road, which swept the technical categories and garnered the Oscars for Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Hair and Makeup.
Best production design: “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “Bridge of Spies”, “The Martian”, “The Danish Girl”, “The Revenant”. Fury Road has everything, executed with a grace that is frankly astonishing.
Mark Rylance poses backstage with the Oscar®.
And Adam McKay and Charles Randolph took the adapted screenplay Oscar for “The Big Short”-another best picture contender”.
Animated Feature Film: “Inside Out”.
Chris Rock, a former Oscar host, masterfully addressed the #OscarsSoWhite issue in his monologue and bits. “You’d all be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now”, he joked early on.
“I know we have the SAG [Screen Actors Guild] Awards and all of that sort of stuff, but to get a little more recognition wouldn’t be a bad thing”, he said.
Among them is the Oscar for best editing, won by Miller’s wife, Margaret Sixel.
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Best documentary short subject: “Body Team 12”, “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”, “Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah”, “Chau, Beyond the Lines”, “Lasy Day of Freedom”. But Rock hardly gave Hollywood a pass, saying “Hollywood is sorority racist. It’s like, ‘We like you Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa, ‘” Rock quipped at the start of the awards.
