The film he won for – The Revenant – didn’t perform as well as expected, though director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki both collected prizes. It has won awards in the first three categories it was nominated in.
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For supporting roles, Mark Rylance (Bridge Of Spies) and Sylvester Stallone (Creed) lead this year’s running in the male category, with Rylance as critics’ favorite and BAFTA victor, and Stallone taking the Golden Globe back in January.
Actress in a supporting role: Rooney Mara, “Carol;” Jennifer Jason Leigh, “The Hateful Eight;” Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl;” Kate Winslet, “Steve Jobs;” Rachel McAdams, “Spotlight”. The Academy voters this year chose to scatter their love by awarding different films though George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” swept in technical categories with six wins in editing, production design, sound editing, sound mixing, costume and makeup & hairstyle. There’s no film that looks quite like Mad Max: Fury Road and no movie that tells a story even remotely as creative or that immerses you in a whole other world quite like this one.
10-time Oscar nominee Jenny Beavan won for Best Costume Design.
In a shocker, Sam Smith’s “Writing on the Wall”, from the James Bond film “Spectre”, won best song.
Oscars host Chris Rock took on the ceremony’s diversity problem head-on in his opening monologue on Sunday night, tossing out a barrage of topics that tackled the topic.
“Fury Road” rocks his team to battle with a giant flaming guitar.
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The evening may not be over for “Mad Max” and the other films up for awards but Miller’s film has already won the honorable distinction of being Australian’s most Oscar nominated and Oscar winning film.
In a particularly pointed jab, Rock joked that this year’s in memoriam segment is “just going to be black people who were shot by the cops”. But everyone knows that Oscars are sometimes a kind of ersatz lifetime-achievement award, and it’s hard to imagine anyone too upset that Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon and last year’s victor, Eddie Redmayne, didn’t get the trophy.
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Vice President Joe Biden earned a well-deserved standing ovation when he came out to introduce Lady Gaga’s performance of “Til It Happens to You”, from the Oscar-nominated film The Hunting Ground, about sexual abuse on college campuses.
