Some 34.3 million Americans watched the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, the smallest TV audience for the Oscars in eight years, according to national ratings data, amid a Hollywood diversity controversy. And you just know he’s thinking about where he can put the statuette in his bedroom so he can see it when he’s having hot post-Oscars win sex with some (lucky?) swimsuit model he met at the party. DiCaprio’s first nomination was in 1993 for Best Supporting Actor in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”. The exclusion caused an uproar and led several prominent black celebrities, including actress Jada Pinkett Smith and filmmaker Spike Lee, to skip the show.
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“Everybody went mad [this year]…” Throughout the almost four-hour broadcast, it continued. Because we had real things to protest at the time.
The man was then asked if he was “upset” there were no black nominees this year and he said: “I mean, I wasn’t surprised but it kind of bothered me a little bit”. “Leo gets a great part every year and, you know, everybody, all you guys, get great parts all the time”.
The salvos actually started earlier Oscar Sunday.
Many argue that Tinseltown could make more money by using more minority actors.
This is the wildest, craziest Oscars to ever host because of all this controversy.
And we can’t blame them for coughing up the money.
A string of diversity moments played out during the show. A montage of some of the nominated movies replaced white actors with black actors. “This year, the In Memoriam package is just gonna be Black people shot by the cops on their way to the movies”.
Many years, the Oscars are television’s biggest event after the Super Bowl.
Awesome performances of the night were definitely from Best Original Song victor Sam Smith and nominee The Weeknd.
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“If you don’t want big money to control government, don’t vote for candidates that take money from big banks, oil or weirdo billionaires – stop”, said Adam McKay in his best adapted screenplay acceptance speech for “The Big Short”. “These problems of today will eventually become the problems of the old”. Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs even released a statement last month, revealing the organization’s plans to increase diversity among its members by the year 2020. “We need to all join together and vote for leaders who care about the future of this civilisation”.
