Last night also saw Brie Larson win Best Actress, Leonardo DiCaprio snag Best Actor in his fifth nomination, Alejandro G. Iñárritu was named Best Director and Spotlight won Best Picture. From Chris Rock’s monologue to sketches and shoutouts mid-ceremony, here’s how the Academy Awards unapologetically addressed the #OscarsSoWhite issue.
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Host Chris Rock opens the show at the 88th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 28, 2016. “Everyone went mad!” Rock said about the many people who chose to not attend the night’s festivities. Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties – I wasn’t invited.
The actor looks very excited as it happens, asking the engraver: ‘Do you do this every year?’ before quipping: ‘I wouldn’t know’.
“Why? Because we had real things to protest … we’re too busy being raped and lynched to care about best cinematographer”, he said.
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. (I’m totally convinced he was silently squealing internally just like any non-celeb would.) Is there anything better than watching a person’s dream come true live on camera? They’re not gonna cancel the Oscars because I quit.
He answered: “You know, if Leo did then you’d have to let him do that”.
“When your grandmother is swinging from the tree, it’s really hard to care about Best Documentary Foreign Short”.
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“We got a black Rocky this year, ” he said. The biggest films of 2015 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World, etc. – were all shut out of the major Oscars categories. “It’s unbelievable to receive this award tonight, but it is much more attractive for me to share it with all of the talented and insane cast and colleagues and crew members”.
