Chris Rock Skewers Hollywood, Chris Rock addressed Hollywood’s assortment altercation and Leonardo DiCaprio and "Spotlight" took home two of the better awards at Sunday night's 88th Academy Awards.
“I counted at atomic 15 atramentous humans on that montage,” Rock joked as he hit the Oscar date afterwards clips from the year’s nominated films were shown. “You apprehend if they nominated hosts I wouldn’t even get this job. You’d be watching Neil Patrick Harris appropriate now.”
Rock addressed the burden on him to avoid the show, adage he "thought about quitting, I anticipation about it absolute hard,” afore realizing, “They’re gonna accept the Oscars anyway!”
Rock aswell gave his thoughts on racism in Hollywood.
“Everyone wants to apperceive in the world, is Hollywood racist?” he said. “Is it ‘burning cantankerous racist’? No. Is it ‘fetch me some lemonade racist’? No. It’s a altered blazon of racist. ... Hollywood is ‘sorority racist.’ It’s like, we like you Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa.”
“We wish opportunity,” Rock concluded. “We wish atramentous actors to get the aforementioned opportunities.”
After Rock’s much-anticipated monologue, the appearance got down to the business of the evening.
"Spotlight," a blur about a aggregation of Boston Globe journalists who apparent animal corruption in the Catholic Church, took home Best Picture, assault out admired "The Revenant."
Producer Steve Golin addressed the Vatican as he accustomed his award, adage "Pope Francis, it's time to assure the accouchement and restore the faith."Despite accident Best Picture, "The Revenant" calm three Oscars. Star DiCaprio got a continuing acclaim as he took home his aboriginal Best Actor Oscar in his sixth try for his assuming of frontiersman Hugh Glass in the adaptation epic. DiCaprio thanked administrator Alejandro G. Inarritu and co-star Tom Hardy, but adored the majority of his accepting accent for a appeal to action altitude change.
“Our assembly bare to move to the southern top of this planet just to acquisition snow. Altitude change is real. It is accident now,” he said. “Let us not yield this planet for granted; I do not yield this night for granted.”
Inarritu became the aboriginal being in 65 years and alone the third anytime to win back-to-back Best Administrator Academy Awards. (He won endure year for “Birdman.”) “Leo, you are The Revenant. Thank for giving your soul, your art, your life,” Inarritu said, comatose to DiCaprio, while aswell thanking Hardy and the film’s Native American casting members.
"The Revenant" cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki calm his third beeline Oscar in the category, accepting ahead won for his plan on Inarritu's "Birdman" and 2013's "Gravity."
Brie Larson took home Best Extra for "The Room," Swedish extra Alicia Vikander won Best Supporting Extra for her role in “The Danish Girl,” and Mark Rylance won Best Supporting Actor for "Bridge of Spies." Rylance exhausted out affected admired Sylvester Stallone, who was nominated for his reprise of Rocky Balboa in "Creed."
Winning his aboriginal Oscar at the sixth attempt, 87-year-old Ennio Morricone accustomed Best Original Score for "The Hateful Eight," while "Inside Out" won Best Animated Feature.
"Mad Max: Fury Road" fabricated a lot of of the night's aboriginal noise, acceptable six Oscars, including Sound Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, and Costume Design.
Still, it was the assortment affair that bedeviled the night, with Rock peppering in jokes about the altercation amid awards, interviewing African-American admirers alfresco a amphitheater in Compton, Calif., and co-starring in a absurdity with Tracy Morgan, Whoopi Goldberg, and Leslie Jones in which atramentous actors were digitally added to some of the night’s nominated films.
The Oscars accept been at the centermost of a bouncing storm over assortment in Hollywood, with protests abreast the red carpeting and some admirers and Hollywood heavyweights like Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee absence the advertisement altogether.
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences admiral Sheryl Boone Issacs took the Oscar date to abode her industry's assortment issue.
"The Oscars bless the storytellers who accept the befalling to plan in the able average of blur – and with that befalling comes responsibility," Boone Issacs said. "Everyone in the Hollywood association has a role to play in bringing about the basic changes the industry needs so we can accurately reflect the apple today."
"I am assured that calm we can appearance a approaching for which all of us can be proud," she added.
Actor Kevin Hart (who Rock joked makes "a cine a month") presented an accolade and took the befalling to appetite positivity, congratulating all of the night's nominees. Addressing his adolescent African-American ball professionals, Hart said "at the end of the day, we adulation what we do, and we're breaking above arena accomplishing it. These problems of today will eventually become problems of the old. Let's not let this abrogating affair of assortment exhausted us."
“I counted at atomic 15 atramentous humans on that montage,” Rock joked as he hit the Oscar date afterwards clips from the year’s nominated films were shown. “You apprehend if they nominated hosts I wouldn’t even get this job. You’d be watching Neil Patrick Harris appropriate now.”
Rock addressed the burden on him to avoid the show, adage he "thought about quitting, I anticipation about it absolute hard,” afore realizing, “They’re gonna accept the Oscars anyway!”
Rock aswell gave his thoughts on racism in Hollywood.
“Everyone wants to apperceive in the world, is Hollywood racist?” he said. “Is it ‘burning cantankerous racist’? No. Is it ‘fetch me some lemonade racist’? No. It’s a altered blazon of racist. ... Hollywood is ‘sorority racist.’ It’s like, we like you Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa.”
“We wish opportunity,” Rock concluded. “We wish atramentous actors to get the aforementioned opportunities.”
After Rock’s much-anticipated monologue, the appearance got down to the business of the evening.
"Spotlight," a blur about a aggregation of Boston Globe journalists who apparent animal corruption in the Catholic Church, took home Best Picture, assault out admired "The Revenant."
Producer Steve Golin addressed the Vatican as he accustomed his award, adage "Pope Francis, it's time to assure the accouchement and restore the faith."Despite accident Best Picture, "The Revenant" calm three Oscars. Star DiCaprio got a continuing acclaim as he took home his aboriginal Best Actor Oscar in his sixth try for his assuming of frontiersman Hugh Glass in the adaptation epic. DiCaprio thanked administrator Alejandro G. Inarritu and co-star Tom Hardy, but adored the majority of his accepting accent for a appeal to action altitude change.
“Our assembly bare to move to the southern top of this planet just to acquisition snow. Altitude change is real. It is accident now,” he said. “Let us not yield this planet for granted; I do not yield this night for granted.”
Inarritu became the aboriginal being in 65 years and alone the third anytime to win back-to-back Best Administrator Academy Awards. (He won endure year for “Birdman.”) “Leo, you are The Revenant. Thank for giving your soul, your art, your life,” Inarritu said, comatose to DiCaprio, while aswell thanking Hardy and the film’s Native American casting members.
"The Revenant" cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki calm his third beeline Oscar in the category, accepting ahead won for his plan on Inarritu's "Birdman" and 2013's "Gravity."
Brie Larson took home Best Extra for "The Room," Swedish extra Alicia Vikander won Best Supporting Extra for her role in “The Danish Girl,” and Mark Rylance won Best Supporting Actor for "Bridge of Spies." Rylance exhausted out affected admired Sylvester Stallone, who was nominated for his reprise of Rocky Balboa in "Creed."
Winning his aboriginal Oscar at the sixth attempt, 87-year-old Ennio Morricone accustomed Best Original Score for "The Hateful Eight," while "Inside Out" won Best Animated Feature.
"Mad Max: Fury Road" fabricated a lot of of the night's aboriginal noise, acceptable six Oscars, including Sound Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, and Costume Design.
Still, it was the assortment affair that bedeviled the night, with Rock peppering in jokes about the altercation amid awards, interviewing African-American admirers alfresco a amphitheater in Compton, Calif., and co-starring in a absurdity with Tracy Morgan, Whoopi Goldberg, and Leslie Jones in which atramentous actors were digitally added to some of the night’s nominated films.
The Oscars accept been at the centermost of a bouncing storm over assortment in Hollywood, with protests abreast the red carpeting and some admirers and Hollywood heavyweights like Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee absence the advertisement altogether.
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences admiral Sheryl Boone Issacs took the Oscar date to abode her industry's assortment issue.
"The Oscars bless the storytellers who accept the befalling to plan in the able average of blur – and with that befalling comes responsibility," Boone Issacs said. "Everyone in the Hollywood association has a role to play in bringing about the basic changes the industry needs so we can accurately reflect the apple today."
"I am assured that calm we can appearance a approaching for which all of us can be proud," she added.
Actor Kevin Hart (who Rock joked makes "a cine a month") presented an accolade and took the befalling to appetite positivity, congratulating all of the night's nominees. Addressing his adolescent African-American ball professionals, Hart said "at the end of the day, we adulation what we do, and we're breaking above arena accomplishing it. These problems of today will eventually become problems of the old. Let's not let this abrogating affair of assortment exhausted us."
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