Ed Lachman won the cinematography award for “Carol”, a romance set in 1950s New York City. 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.
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It was a historic night, as Mya Taylor became the first transgender woman to win a major film award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the drama “Tangerine”. Each drew hearty applause. “You better get out there and put it in your movie”.
Here’s the list of all the Oscar winners.
The cast and crew of “Spotlight” accept the award for best feature at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.
During the Academy Awards aired live Monday morning, “Spotlight” producers Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, and Blye Pagon Faust accepted the Oscar statue for best picture.
The spotlight on diversity at the Spirit Awards comes amid a furor in Hollywood over the 20 all-white acting nominees for this year’s Oscars, fueling the #OscarsSoWhite debate.
Elba, who has already won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as a warlord in Beasts Of No Nation, took his young co-star Abraham Attah on stage with him as he collected his gong. It’s nice to finally see some love for Beasts of no Nation, Cary Fukunaga himself still hasn’t won a single award.
Spirit Award host Kumail Nanjiani, who is Pakistani-American, introduced himself and his co-host, openly gay comedian Kate McKinnon, as “a gay woman and a Pakistani man. Or as Hollywood thinks of us, a straight woman and her IT guy”.
Lou Gossett Jr., an Oscar victor for “An Officer and a Gentleman”, said on the red carpet that often Hollywood is ahead of society, but in the case of diversity, “society is ahead of us”.
Oscar frontrunner Brie Larson was the evening’s predictable victor, honoured with Best Female Lead for her powerful display of a protective mother in the drama Room. After going home empty-handed four times previously, Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar, for a best actor in “The Revenant” – a gruff, grunting performance that traded little on the actor’s youthful charisma.
‘Spotlight, ‘ directed by Tom McCathy, gets the spotlight of the 2016 Oscar night as it bagged the golden lady for ‘Best Film’.
SANTA MONICA-Well awards season continues to be a whirlwind. He also shared in best screenplay with his cowriter, Josh Singer.
The “Spotlight” announcements evoked a strong response from the audience at the 31st Spirit Award ceremonies at a tent on Santa Monica beach on Saturday afternoon.
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The Mark Ruffalo-starrer also bagged the best screenplay, best editing and best ensemble prizes. “I call dibs”, Heller said of her actress.
