Brie Larson won Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work in “Room“.
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A British star who scooped a surprise victory was Mark Rylance, who was named best supporting actor for his role in Bridge Of Spies, beating Sylvester Stallone, Mark Ruffalo and fellow Britons Christian Bale and Tom Hardy.
“The protest and boycott of the Oscars was a success!”, Ali said on Facebook.
For Pakistan, it was time for celebrations as filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won the Oscar for Best Documentary-Short Subject for her project based on honour killing titled “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”.
Vikander played an artist married to a man (Eddie Redmayne) who begins more closely identifying with being a woman. Besides flaunting a flawless red carpet appearance, she exuded confidence as she presented the Oscar in the Best Film Editing category to “Mad Max: Fury Road” along with Hollywood star Liev Schreiber. Smith co-wrote the song with James Napier. His cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki, won his third consecutive Oscar (a first) and Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar after six failed nominations in the past. Ennio Morricone won his first-ever competitive Oscar for his score to The Hateful Eight.
Spotlight, the favourite in the lead-up to the night for the top prize was successful in scooping the Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay awards, despite not being as commercially successful as some of its competitors, with The Revenant proving too polarising for the Academy.
Rock has been observing silence on the issue for the past six weeks, raising anticipation as to how he would approach the topic.
“They sent us their most dedicated, accurate and hard working representatives”, Rock said.
Speaking during his opening monologue, Chris said: “Jada got mad, Jada says she’s not coming, protesting, I’m like – doesn’t she have a TV show?”
Chris Rock made a joke about Asians at the Oscars on Sunday night and, considering the racial undercurrents that swirled around this year’s Oscars, you can guess how well it went over. “I counted at least 15 black people on that montage”. Smith known Rock for over 20 years, while Rock and Jada have worked together on three “Madagascar” films.
“In the In Memoriam package, it’s just going to be black people shot by the cops on the way to the movies”.
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One note from the “In Memoriam” segment, during which rocker Dave Grohl performed The Beatles’ “Blackbird”: Abe Vigoda was excluded.
