According to some critics, The Big Short, The Revenant and Spotlight are the favorites.
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Maybe the Oscars weren’t entirely willing to share when it came to diversity, but they treated most movies as equals in the final tally.
“We were too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won best cinematographer”, Rock added.
Spotlight was a beneficiary of the preferential ballot employed by the Academy and only one other major awards group, the Producers Guild of America.
Spotlight won the Oscar for Best Picture on Sunday here at the 88th Academy Awards ceremony.
The trend highlights the academy’s tendency to gravitate toward smaller, less flashy movies – which therefore are not in the running to vacuum up all the technical awards, like the effects-laden “Mad Max: Fury Road”, which won six Oscars last night.
After a second straight year of all-white acting nominees prompted industry-wide scrutiny, viewers and stars alike are hanging on the opening words of host Chris Rock.
The PGA’s employment of this system produced a PGA Award win for The Big Short, which, for a time, put that dramedy in the pole position in the view of most pundits. He played the role of a Soviet spy involved in a unsafe exchange. But Stallone had a good narrative: he hadn’t been nominated for an Oscar in 39 years – for 1977’s “Rocky” for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay- and the momentum and popularity appeared to be there. His director, Inarritu won back-to-back directing awards after the triumph a year ago of “Birdman”.
Despite some wonderful films up for nomination, the last award of the night, best picture, was given to Spotlight, a film about Boston Globe investigative reporters digging into a sexual abuse scandal involving Catholic priests.
“I think what (the film) is going to do is educate the general public as to what their response or lack of response has been”, said Costello, who agreed to a civil settlement with the archdiocese.
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.
Late in the evening, Vice President Joe Biden took the stage to issue a call to end sexual violence, introducing Lady Gaga’s rendition of her Oscar-nominated song ” ‘Til It Happens to You” from the documentary film “The Hunting Ground”, a performance that earned a standing ovation.
Rachel McAdams lost to Alicia Vikander of The Danish Girl for Best Supporting Actress.
Speaking backstage, Tom said: “It’s electric, it’s really exciting”.
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph took best adapted screenplay for their self described “trauma-dy” about the mortgage meltdown of 2008. And sure enough, Academy Awards host Chris Rock didn’t waste any time.
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The night’s most-awarded film, however, went to neither “Spotlight” nor “The Revenant”. Those were at the time the lowest number for the show in over five years. It’s not hyperbole to say that this was the most important Oscars to-date for bringing social issues to light.
