He didn’t, instead unleashing a monologue that spared no one but particularly not Pinkett-Smith.
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Music legend Quincy Jones told IE that he was not happen about those that boycotted the show, saying: “You have to fix the components at the bottom that allow for no diversity”.
“Jada [Pinkett Smith] is going to boycott the Oscars-Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties”. Say ’62 or ’63, and black people did not protest. Why?
The 88th Annual Academy Awards had controversy, Chris Rock, and a few surprises, but the big storylines on Hollywood’s biggest night brought in the third-lowest viewership in the show’s history.
The lead up to the Oscars was branded with the racist label, which led to a whole host of boycotts by some big names from Hollywood. The only other movie that won multiple awards was The Revenant, which won three Oscars, Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Director (Alejandro González Iñárritu) and Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki).
“Everyone wants to know is Hollywood racist?” “Leonardo, who received the standing ovation from the crowd said, “… climate change is real and it is happening now and it is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating”. “But it’s the racist you’ve grown accustomed to”.
It was sketch he did when he hosted for the first time in 2005, the one in which he went to the Magic Johnson Theatre in Crenshaw, Los Angeles, to ask moviegoers there about what they had seen versus the titles that had been nominated.
Biden introduced Lady Gaga for her haunting performance of Till It Happens to You, which was nominated for Best Original Song. After his introduction for the Best Documentary Short Subject award at Sunday’s (Feb. 28) Oscars, the Academy should seriously consider signing Louis CK up for the gig right this second.
While Straight Outta Compton did earn a Best Original Screenplay nod, the film about rap group N.W.A. was largely missing from the awards race.
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“We got a black Rocky this year, ” he said. “What a great opportunity to our generation”, he said, “to make sure for once and forever that the color of the skin becomes as irrelevant as the length of our hair”.
