“It’s unbelievable to receive this award tonight, but it is much more handsome for me to share it with all of the talented and insane cast and colleagues and crew members”.
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Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Catholic priests won over the favoured frontier epic The Revenant.
The night’s most-awarded film, however, went to neither “Spotlight” nor “The Revenant”. “I’m sure there were no black nominees in some of those years … and black people did not protest”, he said. You hear it on the Internet, you hear it from other people, and you know the truth is… you know, we always strive for the best in what we do.
Since 1990, only two Academy Awards telecasts had fewer viewers: in 2008, when “No Country For Old Men” won best picture, and in 2004, when “Chicago” was honoured. “It’s been awesome for me to be able to sit there and not only talk about the film, but to talk about something that I’ve been duly as obsessed with besides cinema, our environment and climate change”.
“The star ended his speech with, “Let us not take this planet for granted”.
“Mad Max Fury Road” took home the most Oscars, six overall, all in technical categories. “I mean, cause ‘Rocky” takes place in a world where white athletes are as good as black athletes”.
Mark Rylance, left, victor of the award for best actor in a supporting role for “Bridge of Spies”, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw attend the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph won the Oscar trophy for adapting Michael Lewis book about a group of traders wh realise about the upcoming economic collapse and decide to benefit from it.
However, Ellen’s post is likely to retain the title of most-tweeted Oscars moment ever, as it has been retweeted a staggering 3.34 million times to date. He noted that this problem is not necessarily a new one, because the Oscars have been around for decades. Hungary scored its second best foreign language Oscar for Laszlo Nemes’ Son of Saul, a harrowing drama set within a concentration camp.
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The best animated film Oscar went to popular Disney-Pixar movie “Inside Out”.
