Leonardo DiCaprio’s best actor win drew more than 440,000 tweets per minute, making it the most-tweeted minute of an Oscars telecast ever, according to Twitter.
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“It was also the first Oscars in memory that, nakedly and unapologetically, attempted to do something other than hand out a bunch of gold statues”, wrote Mary McNamara, the L.A. Times’ TV critic. We want black actors to get the same opportunities as white actors.
“The Revenant” star was seen leaving Ago restaurant in West Hollywood in the early hours of the morning after a hearty night of celebrating his breakthrough Best Actor nod, TMZ reported.
Host Chris Rock speaks at the Oscars on Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. DiCaprio addressed the pressing matter that is climate change during his Oscar acceptance speech and how we need to act now and “stop procrastinating” on protecting our environment.
“I do not take tonight for granted”, DiCaprio touchingly said before using the platform to speak to the audience about the reality of climate change.
Alicia Vikander won best actress in a supporting role for her work in “The Danish Girl” while Mark Rylance won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his work in “The Bridge of Spies”.
But if the Academy Awards was any indication of the overall problem with Hollywood, it’s that the conversation was too focused on black and white.
Diversity issues continue to plague the Oscars.
“The Academy has the right to acknowledge whoever they choose”, Pinkett Smith said in a video post on Facebook in January.
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He also joked about the people who had urged him to boycott the event and pull out of his hosting role. For our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed. “Though clearly we don’t take full credit for the decline, certainly one would have to assume we were effective and part of the decline”. Mad Max: Fury Road took home the most awards with six, although it was shut out of the major awards.
