“The Revenant” leads all films with 12 nominations and is considered the front-runner for best picture.
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Shoutout to Leonardo DiCaprio who not only won his first Oscar but used his speech to talk about climate change! “Making “The Revenant” was about man’s relationship to the natural world, a world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history” he said.
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’s awesome to receive this award tonight”, he said. Fury Road took home six awards over the course of the night, far surpassing any other film (its closest competitor was The Revenant, which earned just three). It swept up technical awards for production design, sound editing, sound mixing, makeup and hairstyling, and costume design. It was the most awarded film of the night.
Matthew Deaner, CEO of producers guild Screen Producers Australia, said Mad Max: Fury Road’s “outstanding success is a great accolade to the Australian screen industry”. But he instead lost to the famed stage actor who co-starred in Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies”.
Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl”. The 27-year-old Sweden-born actress was ubiquitous in 2015, also winning awards for her performance in the sci-fi “Ex Machina”. “Brooklyn”, “The Big Short” and “Spotlight” (which features Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron as a character) all benefited from awards-season box office bumps, a welcome indication that thoughtful, sophisticated films still have a place in the Hollywood ecosystem. Best documentary went to Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse portrait, “Amy”.
Foreign Language Film: “Son of Saul”.
Amid the outcry and protests over the lack of diversity in the acting nominees this year, Chris Rock is taking his second turn as Oscar host. “You’d be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now”.
In the video, tweeted out by Variety, the 41-year-old actor watches as his name is added to his Best Actor Oscar. Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who won in the Documentary Short category for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, said her film – which is about honor killings in Pakistan – showed the power of “determined women [working] together” and that it convinced the country’s prime minister to change the law. It’s like: “We like you Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa”.
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Rock’s hosting is only one of the big stories going into Sunday’s show. His much anticipated opening monologue left few disappointed.
