“This is the wildest, craziest Oscars to ever host because there are no black nominees”, he said at the start of his opening monologue Sunday night, in reference to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.
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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.
The only reason I ended up watching the Oscars this year was to see how Chris Rock handled the race controversy. Holding his statue for “The Revenant” and the envelope with his name in it he speaks with one of the stage crew, then turns for a big hug from last year’s best actress victor Julianne Moore.
The energetic 51-year-old funnyman, sporting a white dinner jacket, shot down activists who urged him to boycott the Oscars in solidarity with other black actors. “You realize if they nominated hosts, I wouldn’t even get this job”, Rock said as he opened the show.
Speaking to TMZ about his Django Unchained co-star’s long-awaited triumph, he said: “It’s fantastic man. And my man Leo, I mean, come on man. You want to talk about an honorary black dude”.
“You know, when your grandmother’s swinging from a tree, it’s really hard to care about best documentary foreign short”, he quipped.
The movie that won the most awards was “Mad Max: Fury Road”. Thankfully, Variety captured the moment that DiCaprio is forced to part with his Oscar, after finally winning the trophy for Best Actor, in all its dropping-your-kid-off-on-the-first-day-of-school glory. “A world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history”.
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“Y’all would be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now, ” he said. “Thank you so very much”. Kendrick Lamar, who took home the most number of Grammys this year, from Best Rap Song to Best Music Video, chose to make a statement about racism. “Let us not take this planet for granted”.
