He said: “They said ‘Chris, you should boycott, Chris, you should quit.’ How come it’s only unemployed people that tell you to quit something?”
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HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 28: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, victor of the Best Actor award for ‘The Revenant, ‘ poses in the press room during the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Loews Hollywood Hotel on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. “There are things that happen in Star Wars that are more believable than Rocky”.
“Why? Because we had real things to protest … we’re too busy being raped and lynched to care about best cinematographer”, he said.
Most movie goers hadn’t seen this year’s Best Picture nominees, with one woman even convinced Chris had made up the titles.
All right now that we got the more serious part of this monologue out of the way, let’s go back to some more comedy.
Jackson argued that Chris Rock was responsible for the “worst performance” at the Oscars in years. This year, he’s crying at Eazy-E’s funeral (in Straight Outta Compton). Lee has argued in recent interviews that Hollywood needs not just more black Oscar nominees but also more minorities in positions of power at the movie studios.
On the other hand, he intentionally stepped on a lot of toes by calling Hollywood “racist”. “No. It’s a different kind of racist”, Rock said on Sunday. Hollywood is sorority racist. “But things are changing”. It’s just, we want opportunity. Black people did not protest. Why?
“It’s not about boycotting”.
“We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity”, said Leonardo DiCaprio in his best actor acceptance speech.
The ceremony’s producers kept hammering the diversity issue throughout the telecast. He did say how happy he was to win, giving a winning Leo grin.
Rock said Smith was understandably upset because her husband, Will Smith, wasn’t nominated for his critically acclaimed work in “Concussion, ” then added, “It’s also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for ‘Wild Wild West”‘.
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Picking up the climate-change issue again, DiCaprio said he is as obsessed with the issue as he is with filmmaking, and appreciated having the chance to reach millions of Oscar viewers with his message.
