Fellow comedian, Kevin Hart, gave Rock some advice before the show telling him to make the audience uncomfortable then make them relax.
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Chris Rock’s opening monologue obviously dealt with the whole lack of racial diversity issues within Hollywood. As he always does, Rock tackled the touchy subject head-on, keeping it serious, yet lighthearted.
This season the friends have been getting particularly close on the red carpet, with affectionate hugs and laughter at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Because I think a lot of white folks act insane about stupid shit and that racism is a huge fucking problem in the states?
Lady Gaga, who is up for best original song for ‘Til It Happens To You with Diane Warren from documentary The Hunting Ground, also leant her support to Leo. Both the film and song were inspired by sexual assault survivors.
“It is time that we recognize your history and that we protect your indigenous lands”, he said in his acceptance speech. The Revenant also took home three awards including Achievement in Cinematography. DiCaprio was previously nominated for Oscars for The Wolf of Wall Street (2014), Blood Diamond (2007), The Aviator (2005) and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1994).
Besides DiCaprio, Alejandro G. Iñarritu bagged the Best Director award and Emmanuel Lubezki the Best Cinematographer award.
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The 41-year-old actor, who scooped the Best Actor accolade at the 88th Academy Awards, was caught on camera getting into a auto as he left Ago in Hollywood, reported Female First. Although critics point out there are a lot of unrealistic scenes in the movie such as sleeping inside the dead horse corpse and elements not found in the book, many movie fans believe that DiCaprio deserved the win.
