Warner Bros Mad Max: Fury Road was the biggest victor, clinching six Oscars, but all were in technical categories such as costume, make-up and editing.
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“We want to be able to prosecute people criminally for the crimes they committed and not have them hide behind the sanctity of the Vatican walls”, said MacPherson, who also received a civil settlement.
Accepting the Best Film Oscar for Spotlight – a movie which centres on the Boston Globe journalists who uncovered a Catholic Church cover-up that enabled priests to get away with child abuse – producer Michael Sugar called up the Vatican in Rome. It’s happening right now.
“I thought it was jabbing at Hollywood, yet at the same time even-handed, and kind of dealing with a new era of how we discuss diversity”, said Adam McKay, director and co-writer of best picture nominee The Big Short.
After five nominations and oh so many Internet memes, Leo DiCaprio finally took home an Oscar on Sunday night.
Chris Rock is an incredible comedian and was the right pick for the night. “And to my friends, I love you dearly, you know who you are”.
First-time nominee Brie Larson picked up a widely predicted best actress statuette, having dominated the awards season with her performance as a kidnapped mother in “Room”.
“What a great opportunity for our generation to really liberate ourselves from all prejudice and this tribal thinking and to make sure for once and forever that the colour of our skin becomes as irrelevant as the length of our hair”, said Inarritu. The star hit the famous Red Carpet in a sizzling white gown by Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad.
Sharpton led a rally Sunday near Hollywood’s Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to protest the lack of diversity among this year’s nominees, in which he slammed a “systemic problem of exclusion” and put members of the Academy “on notice”.
Popcorn in hand and wine nearby, I was eager to see how Chris Rock would tackle the much talked about subject of diversity. I could have never done it without you.
Here are nine more of the best quotes from the night.
There’s also a big difference between the top two Oscar moments.
“That’s a version of a joke that a lot of people have told, in reference to the Oscars So White controversy”.
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“Did you really use your STAGE to tear down and diminish one of the strongest most fearless black women IN this town as the world watched???” Rock was praised for introducing an unusual level of candor about race to the telecast, but his comments were nearly exclusively about blacks, and the show overall made only brief references to other minorities.
