Host Chris Rock has been noticeably silent since the nominations were announced, only addressing the #OscarsSoWhite controversy in a tweet shortly after. Check out our Oscars 2016 Best Actor prediction here. Between guessing what host Chris Rock might say, and whether Jennifer Lawrence will trip again, we talk to celebrities in the city about their favourite nominees. Black actors such as Jada Pinkett Smith, Spike Lee and Will Smith called for a boycott of the show, none of them will be attending. Many people are picking The Revenant, but it doesn’t have a screenplay nomination (no film has won without one since 1997) nor did it get any screenplay nomination in any other award shows. In a very simple, yet cryptic message Chris said “See You Sunday” and followed it with #blackout #Oscars.
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If a weather forecast can never be entirely reliable, analysts have predicted with an unusual degree of certainty that Sunday will be a night of long overdue glory for old Hollywood hands who have previously missed out.
“All the tea leaves are pointing in a different direction”.
Spotlight got the DGA award and The Big Short has the PGA.
Motion Picture Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said she expected nothing less from him this year. Will Leonardo DiCaprio win his first Academy Award?
Adele won Best Original Song in 2013 for “Skyfall”.
It’s a tough choice between The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Road and Bridge of Spies. We all want to know: Will this be the year Leonardo DiCaprio finally takes home an Oscar? Though I feel a shocker coming and if there was one, this could be it. Winslet’s performance is the best of the bunch that manages to matches Michael Fassbender’s.
For Best Actress award, Cate Blanchett and Brie Larson are in the discussions.
Best supporting actress: Of the acting categories, this is the most unsettled, but oddsmakers are leaning toward “The Danish Girl’s” Alicia Vikander.
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Even in uncontroversial years, hosting the Oscars can be a thankless task in which a good host may be praised briefly but a bad job – like the awkward 2011 stint by Anne Hathaway and James Franco – is remembered for years. In a bid to speed up the 3 and 1/2 hour ceremony and encourage more interesting acceptance speeches, a scrolling list will run on screens of the agents, managers, director and friends that each victor wishes to acknowledge.
