Journalism drama Spotlight, about a group of Boston Globe reporters who exposed the child sex abuse cases in Catholic church, triumphed at the 88th Academy awards by winning the best picture trophy.
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According to The Oscars, other nominees for Best Actor in a leading role includes Bryan Cranston for “Trumbo”, Matt Damon for “The Martian”, Michael Fassbender for “Steve Jobs” and Eddie Redmayne for “The Danish Girl”. Brie Larson won Best Actress for “Room”. Are you conscious of how many people are supporting you?
Some of what Rock did in his monologue was squarely aimed at Hollywood, including his opening remark that if the Academy nominated the hosts, he wouldn’t even be there. You got to go at that at the right way. Early on, it won Best Original Screenplay, then nothing until Best Picture. Maybe it wasn’t fair that Smith hadn’t been nominated for best actor for “Concussion“, he said, but it also wasn’t fair that he earned $20 million for “Wild Wild West”. Let us not take our planet for granted.
George Miller’s post-apocalyptic chase film, “Mad Max: Fury Road” sped away with six awards in technical categories for editing, makeup, production design, sound editing, sound mixing and costume design.
Former radio DJ Inarritu, just the third filmmaker to win back-to-back Academy Awards for best director, picked up the theme as he hailed his latest Oscar as a tribute to diversity. “Hollywood is sorority racist, its like: “We like you Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa”, he said. The three major guild awards – the Screen Actors, the Directors and the Producers – have spread their top honors among three films seen as the front-runners: Alejandro Inarritu’s frontier epic “The Revenant”, Adam McKay’s financial meltdown tale “The Big Short” and Tom McCarthy’s newsroom drama “Spotlight”.
Chris Rock is hosting the Oscars for the second time.
Common, who won an Oscar previous year for his song “Glory”, said the film community is aware there’s a problem, but now it’s time “to work toward a solution”.
In one prerecorded segment, African American actors including Whoopi Goldberg and “Saturday Night Live’s” Leslie Jones made parody cameos in faux clips from “Joy” and “The Revenant”, poking fun at stereotypes. “We have to do, make sure this never happens again”, McCarthy said. He said people were telling him to boycott the awards, which had no black nominees for the second year in a row.
“This will be the last night of an all-white Oscars”, Sharpton vowed at the rally. We want the black actors to get the same opportunities.
In a quick response to the growing crisis, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, led reforms to diversify the academy’s overwhelming white and male membership. “We were too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won best cinematographer”.
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The show had some other notable moments.
