This is the wildest, craziest Oscars to ever host because of all this controversy. “People are like, ‘Chris, you should boycott”.
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In the end, Rock said the diversity debate boils down to one thing: “It’s not about boycotting anything”. So, I thought about quitting. I thought about it real hard, but I realized they’re going to have the Oscars anyway.
Rock, hosting the ceremony for a second time, got generally warm reviews from fellow celebrities and media critics.
The absence of Idriss Elba who won 2 Golden Globe awards early this year for Beast of No Nation in which he played a war lord and Will Smith who played a Nigerian doctor in Concussion reignited the #OscarsSoWhite chant which gathered momentum in 2015. “Maybe it is time we pull back our resources and we put them back into our communities”. “There are things that happened in Star Wars that are more believable than things that happened to Rocky”.
Leonardo – who won Best Actor for his role in “The Revenant” – has previously dated VS models including Gisele Bundchen, Bar Refaeli, Anne Vyalitsyna, Erin Heatherton and Toni Garrn. This year, he’s crying at Eazy-E’s funeral (in Straight Outta Compton). Hollywood is sorority racist. Is it burning-cross racist? “No. It’s a different kind of racist”, Rock said.
The singer-actor was clearly not a fan of Rock taking aim at Jada Pinkett Smith during his scathing commentary on Hollywood’s lack of diversity on Sunday night.
“But things are changing”, he added, building up to a joke.
Variety reported in a statement through his National Action Network, Sharpton said that the decline in ratings is “heartening to those of us that campaigned around asking citizens to tune out”. “Everyone went mad!” Rock said about the many people who chose to not attend the night’s festivities.
“It’s not about boycotting”.
“If you want black nominees every year, you need to have black categories”.
He began: “I’m here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the White People’s Choice Awards”.
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He asked one man: “In your own words, what is the Oscar controversy about?” Actor-comedian Hart joked on Twitter that academy voters are “Straight Out of Touch”.
