Here's who took home the big awards at last night's Oscars...
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight - WINNER!
Bryan Cranston,Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant - WINNER!
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room - WINNER!
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies - WINNER!
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl - WINNER!
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant - WINNER!
Room
Spotlight
Amy - WINNER!
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
"Earned It," Fifty Shades of Grey
"Manta Ray," Racing Extinction
"Simple Song #3," Youth
"Til It Happens To You," The Hunting Ground
"Writing's On The Wall," Spectre - WINNER!
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Spotlight - WINNER!
Straight Outta Compton https://oscar.go.com/nominees/writing-original-screenplay/straight-outta-compton
The Big Short - WINNER!
Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Inside Out - WINNER!
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was Therehttps://oscar.go.com/nominees/animated-feature-film/when-marnie-was-there
Show host Chris Rock has addressed the #OscarsSoWhite controversy surrounding this year's Academy Awards.
Chris Rock has been quiet so far regarding the ongoing Oscars boycott... until his opening monologue in tonight's ceremony, where he's playing host.
The boycott, which was sparked by controversy concerning the lack of ethnic representation in this year's Oscar nominee list, has been backed by actors including Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith, George Clooney, Lupita Nyong'o and many more, who were absent from tonight's ceremony.
Chris Rock began his monologue by saying "Man, I counted at least fifteen black people in that montage."
Later in his monologue, he addressed Will and Jada's absence: "It's not fair that Will Smith was this good [in Concussion] and didn't get nominated, It's also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for Wild Wild West."
He went on: "What happened this year? Jada's going to boycott the Oscars. Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties. I wasn't invited. It wasn't an invitation I'd turn down..."
"Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like 'We like you Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa'," he later said.
As nominees of this year's Oscars - including Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio and Sylvester Stallone - gathered for the Oscar's Class of 2016 luncheon photograph, the extent of the Oscars boycott was glaringly obvious, with barely a black face in sight.
At the event, Sylvester Stallone admitted he was ready to boycott the Oscar's in solidarity with his Creed director, Ryan Coogler and co-star, Michael B. Jordan. He said: "I remember I spoke with Ryan Coogler when this [#OscarsSoWhite controversy] happened. I said, 'Ryan, how do you want to handle this? Because I really believe you are responsible for me being here.'"
He revealed that Coogler told him to attend in order to "stand up for the film."
Stallone then went on to comment on his co-star Michael B. Jordan's performance (which he didn't recieve any accolade for): "Michael Jordan, every time I looked in his eyes as an actor, I said, he was making me better. I think he should've been given a lot more respect and attention."
Comedian Chris Rock, who will be hosting the ceremony, failed to attend the luncheon.
The boycott, which was sparked by controversy concerning the lack of ethnic representation in the Oscar 2016 nominees, has been backed by actors including Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith, George Clooney, Lupita Nyong'o and many more.
Check out GLAMOUR's interview with Michael B. Jordan in which he speaks about Creed and working with Stallone.
SOURCE: The Wrap
Will Smith is joining a growing number of Hollywood stars -
including his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith - who have vowed to boycott
this year's Oscars.
The Academy Awards has been subject to criticism
over its all-white line-up of acting nominees and Will Smith has
spoken out about how he wanted to be part of the solution, not the
problem.
Will, who
was highly tipped to recieve a nomination for his role in
Concussion, told Good Morning America's host Robin Roberts he felt
there was a "regressive slide towards separatism, towards racial
and religious disharmony and that's not the Hollywood I want to
leave behind.
"That's not the industry, that's not the
America, I want to leave behind."
He added: "When I see this list and series of
nominations that come out, everybody is fantastic and that's the
complexity of this issue, everyone is very beautiful and deserving
and it's fantastic, but it feels like it's going in the wrong
direction."
Confirming he will not attend the Oscars
ceremony, he joked that it "would be awkward for me to show up with
Charlize [Theron]".
He added that he and Jada would be "uncomfortable to stand
there and say this is okay".
Lupita Nyong'o, who won the best supporting actress award in 2013 for
12 Years A Slave, wrote on Instagram: "I stand with my peers who
are calling for change in expanding the stories that are told and
recognition of the people who tell them."
A plethora of celebrities have
weighed in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy and given their
thoughts on the decision to boycott the ceremony, lead by stars
such as Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett-Smith.
Celebrities such as George Clooney and Whoopi Goldberg have spoken
out about the controversy surrounding the lack of ethnic
representation within the categories for this year's Oscars.
Clooney, who wrote an open
letter to Variety, took issue with the Academy and also the lack of
"options are available to minorities in film".
He explained: "I think we
have a lot of points we need to come to terms with … I think that
African Americans have a real fair point that the industry isn't
representing them well enough. I think that's absolutely
true.
"Let's look back at some
of the nominees. I think around 2004, certainly there were black
nominees - like Don
Cheadle, Morgan
Freeman. And all of a sudden, you feel like we're
moving in the wrong direction. There were nominations left off the
table," referencing films such as Concussion, Creed, Straight
Outta Compton and Beasts of No Nation which all feature black
actors.
Whoopi Goldberg, who was a
guest on The View this week, said that the problem does not lie
with the Oscars but rather with the filmmakers.
She explained: "It's not that
the problem is that the people who are nominated are too white.
They're not looking at a movie and saying, 'Oh, that's very white.
I'm not going to nominate that black movie,'
"They're not sitting
there like that! What the problem is, the people who can be helping
to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that
- that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's
no place for black movies."
The actress also expressed how
she thought that to boycott the Oscars would also be to boycott
Chris Rock, who is hosting: "To boycott him seems just as bad
as what everybody's saying."
She continued: "You
wanna boycott something? Don't go see the movies that don't have
your representation. That's the boycott you want."
Janet Hubert, who
acted alongside Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air as Aunt
Viv, posted a response video to Jada Pinkett Smith's call for
a boycott, suggesting there are wider issues that people should be
concerned with.
She said: "There's a lot
of shit going on in the world that you all don't seem to recognise.
People are dying. Our boys are being shot left and right. People
are starving. People are trying to pay bills. And you're talking
about some motherfucking actors and Oscars. It just ain't that
deep."
Oscars head Cheryl Boone Isaacs
is taking action to "alter the make-up" of their membership, after
Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith have refused to attend the
ceremony because of the lack of ethnic representation within the
categories.
Boone Isaacs praised the "wonderful work" of the nominees but said she was "heartbroken" at the lack of diversity.
Boone Isaacs added that "dramatic steps" were being taken, saying: "In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond."
Spike Lee said on Instagram he "cannot support" the "lily white" awards show.
Jada Pinkett Smith said in a video message on Facebook that she would not be attending the awards ceremony.
Pinkett Smith said: "Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power. And we are a dignified people and we are powerful."
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Talking about the changes needed for the 6,300 members who vote on who is nominated for the Oscars each year.
"This is a difficult but important conversation, and it's time for big changes," she said.
"As many of you know, we have implemented changes to diversify our membership in the last four years. but the change is not coming as fast as we would like. We need to do more, and better and more quickly."
The final nail in the Oscars 2016 coffin could be the show's host - could Chris Rock drop out as Oscars host over increasing calls to boycott Academy Awards? Only time will tell...
It's the big day - the Oscars nominations have been revealed during a two-part news conference.
The event, which takes place on Sunday 28 February in Hollywood and will be hosted by Chris Rock host the awards, saying "it's great to be back."
Leonardo DiCaprio is one step closer to getting an Oscar statue for his mantle, but he'll be going up against last year's best male, Eddie Redmayne.
Leo's movie The Revenant is leading the race with 12 nominations, and The Big Short, Brooklyn, Spotlight and The Martian also have nods.
We're getting deja-vu after last year's Selma snub, with #OscarsSoWhite trending on Twitter - this year's shocker is the lack of black actor/actress nominations:
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Idris Elba, Will Smith and Michael B Jordan were all potential best actor nominees. Plus, Straight Outta Compton was denied a best picture nomination.
It was widely believed that Will Smith would receive a nod for his role in Concussion, Idris Elba for Beasts of No Nation, and Michael B. Jordan for Creed.
Plus, there are NO female directors in the Best Director category.
Scroll down to see the full list of nominations…
Best Motion Picture
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
est Actress
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Best Director
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Best Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Costume Design
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Best Sounds Mixing
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Original Song
"Earned It"
"Manta Ray"
"Simple Song No. 3"
"Till It Happens to You"
"Writing's on the Wall"
We don't know who they will be yet but this year's Oscars will have two hosts.
"Two is better than one," David Hill, the man in charge of the show admitted. "Just imagine, you're in there. One of your hosts drops dead from cardiac arrest. What do you do? Second host goes on! And you keep going. … Note to self. Check out their heart rates."
Last year's Oscars host was Neil Patrick Harris but in 2011, James Franco and Anne Hathaway took on the task. 2010 saw Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin present and Chevy Chase, Paul Hogan and Goldie Hawn coordinated things in 1987.
The internet has already gone into overdrive over possible pairings, with favourites including Jennifer Lawrence and her BFF Amy Schumer, husband-and-wife duo Chris Pratt and Anna Faris, Golden Globe hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and pals Chelsea Handler and Jennifer Aniston.
Who would you like to see taking to the stage on 28 February? Let us know!
SOURCE: TIME
