Hollywood: Hollywood hits the Oscars red carpet Monday for its annual show of glitz and pageantry honoring cinema’s finest 0151 with a broiling row over diversity an awkward guest at the party. Tinseltown’s elite are looking forward to the usual sparkling night of celebration, with survival epic The Revenant leading the charge for golden statuettes and a panoply of rivals snapping at its heels. But controversy over the “whitewashing” of nominations — there are no ethnic minority nominees in the acting categories for the second year running — threatens to steal the limelight. An audience expected to number several hundred million around the world will be hanging on every word uttered by black comedian and actor Chris Rock, who is hosting despite calls for him to join a boycott. Insiders say the 51-year-old has completely rewritten his opening monologue in the wake of the scandal, which could prove embarrassing for the Academy’s 6,000-plus voting members, overwhelmingly white men. The funnyman appeared in relaxed mood hours before the ceremony, posting a picture of Oscars note paper bearing the phrase “Get ready” and, soon after, a video of him ordering breakfast at a McDonald’s drive-thru. Hopes for a safe, predictable start looked promising, with the rain clouds that have marred previous red carpet arrivals nowhere in sight for the 88th Oscars ceremony, which begins at 5.30 am on Monday at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. Old Hollywood hands If the weather can never be entirely reliable, analysts have predicted with an unusual degree of certainty that Monday will be a night of long overdue glory for old Hollywood hands who have previously missed out. Jaws will drop if best actor doesn’t go to Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant, 22 years after his first of five acting nominations. “Good luck Leo! Everyone loves you because you’re the best,” pop superstar Adele tweeted. A widely-anticipated best supporting actor Oscar for Sylvester Stallone, who reprises his turn as underdog boxer Rocky Balboa in Creed, would be one of the stories of the night, almost four decades after his only other nominations — for best actor and screenplay for the franchise’s original outing, Rocky. The 69-year-old shared a picture on Instagram of him dressed in a dark blue dinner jacket with black and blue lapels and a black shirt and bowtie, captioned: “On my way to the Oscars… It’s been a memorable year.” First-time nominee Brie Larson looks to be a lock for best actress, having dominated the awards season with her performance as a kidnapped mother in Room. Best supporting actress favorite Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) faces tough competition from Carol star Rooney Mara, on her second nomination, and previous best actress winner Kate Winslet, acclaimed for her work in Steve Jobs. Spotlight, about child abuse in the Catholic Church, and Wall Street satire The Big Short look like safe bets for the original and adapted screenplay honors after being recognized by the Writers Guild. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s The Revenant is the overall frontrunner, with 12 nominations, followed by George Miller’s stark action epic Mad Max: Fury Road with 10 and Ridley Scott’s space adventure The Martian, with seven. ‘Surprises will happen’ The Gold Derby website, which aggregates experts’ predictions, has The Revenant in the lead for best film, but analysts are split on whether Inarritu will also pick up best director for the second year running following his win for Birdman. “I think ‘The Revenant’ will win best picture and the director will go to Miller,” said Hollywood analyst Anne Thompson. “It would be unlikely that the Academy would reward a genre sequel like ‘Fury Road’ with best picture, but they have gone with directors like Ang Lee and Alfonso Cuaron for well-mounted spectacles like ‘Life of Pi’ and ‘Gravity.’” “As many people are saying, this is an unusual year when surprises will happen,” she added. The night will also feature some social activism: several stars including Oscar winner Patricia Arquette and past nominee Steve Carell will wear bracelets to promote a campaign against gun violence. And Vice President Joe Biden will introduce a song by Oscar nominee Lady Gaga to push an initiative tackling sexual assault on US university campuses. Gaga sang a duet with Elton John on Saturday at his pre-Oscars pop-up concert in West Hollywood, which drew thousands of fans to the Sunset Strip. John organized the free event to thank the city for hosting his annual Academy Awards viewing party to raise funds for his AIDS foundation. AFP
Oscars 2016 as it happened: 'Spotlight' wins Best Film; Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins Best Actor
Hollywood hits the Oscars red carpet Sunday for its annual show of glitz and pageantry honoring cinema’s finest 0151 with a broiling row over diversity an awkward guest at the party.
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Spotlight (Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Blye Pagon Faust) wins the Oscar for ‘Best Motion Picture of the Year’
Nominations included:
The Big Short
Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
The Martian
Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Mark Huffam
Brooklyn
Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
The Revenant
Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon
Bridge of Spies
Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger
Room
Ed Guiney
Mad Max: Fury Road
Doug Mitchell, George Miller
“I do not take night for granted, do not take this planet for granted,” DiCaprio after winning his first Oscar.
Leonardo DiCaprio wins the Oscar for ‘Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role’ for The Revenant
Nominations included:
Bryan Cranston
Trumbo
Michael Fassbender
Steve Jobs
Matt Damon
The Martian
Eddie Redmayne
The Danish Girl
Brie Larson wins the Oscar for ‘Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role’ for Room
Nominations included:
Cate Blanchett
Carol
Charlotte Rampling
45 Years
Saoirse Ronan
Brooklyn
Jennifer Lawrence
Joy
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‘Real fight’ is between Karisma Kapoor and Priya Sachdev: Sunjay Kapur's mother's lawyer says in HC: 'Rani Kapur does get impacted by it but...'Kesha embroiled in a sexual assault case with Dr Luke, thanks Lady Gaga and Joe Biden for their support
Alejandro González Iñárritu wins the Oscar for ‘Best Directing’ for The Revenant
Nominations included:
Adam McKay
The Big Short
Lenny Abrahamson
Room
George Miller
Mad Max: Fury Road
Tom McCarthy
Spotlight
Sam Smith and James Napier win the Oscar for ‘Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song’ for Spectre’s “Writing’s On The Wall”
Nominations included:
Fifty Shades of Grey
“Earned It”
The Weeknd, Belly, Jason ‘DaHeala’ Quenneville, Stephan Moccio
The Hunting Ground
“Til It Happens to You”
Diane Warren, Lady Gaga
Racing Extinction
“Manta Ray”
J. Ralph, Antony Hegarty
Youth
“Simple Song #3”
David Lang
Ennio Morricone wins the best Oscar for ‘Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score’ for The Hateful Eight
Nominations included:
Bridge of Spies
Thomas Newman
Sicario
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Carol
Carter Burwell
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
John Williams
Son of Saul (Saul fia) of Hungary wins the Oscar for the ‘Best Foreign Language Film’
Nominations included:
_El abrazo de la serpiente (_Colombia)
_Krigen (_Denmark)
_Theeb (_Jordan)
_Mustang (_France)
Stutterer (Benjamin Cleary, Serena Armitage) wins the Oscar for the ‘Best Short Film, Live Action’
Nominations included:
Ave Maria
Basil Khalil, Eric Dupont
Shok
Jamie Donoughue
Day One
Henry Hughes
Alles wird gut
Patrick Vollrath
Amy (Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees) wins the Oscar for the ‘Best Documentary, Feature’
Nominations included:
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby, Justin Wilkes
Cartel Land
Matthew Heineman, Tom Yellin
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Evgeny Afineevsky, Den Tolmor
The Look of Silence
Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy) wins the Oscar for the ‘Best Documentary, Short Subject’
Nominations included:
Body Team 12
David Darg, Bryn Mooser
War Within the Walls
Courtney Marsh, Jerry Franck
Last Day of Freedom
Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
Adam Benzine
Mark Rylance wins the Oscar for the ‘Best Actor in a Supporting Role’ for Bridge of Spies
Nominations included:
Christian Bale
The Big Short
Tom Hardy
The Revenant
Sylvester Stallone
Creed
Mark Ruffalo
Spotligh
2015 in film
Relive the year in film. #Oscars https://t.co/VJ8Zg6T9hn
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) February 29, 2016
Chris Rock have his daughters sell Girl Scout cookies.
Inside Out (Pete Docter, Jonas Rivera) wins the Oscar for the ‘Best Animated Feature Film’
Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, Rosa Tran
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
O Menino e o Mundo
Alê Abreu
Omoide no Mânî
Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiaki Nishimura
Bear Story (Historia de un oso) (Gabriel Osorio Vargas, Pato Escala Pierart) wins the Oscar for the ‘Best Short Film, Animated’
Nominations included:
Sanjay’s Super Team
Sanjay Patel, Nicole Paradis Grindle
Mi ne mozhem zhit bez kosmosa
Konstantin Bronzit
World of Tomorrow
Don Hertzfeldt
Prologue
Richard Williams, Imogen Sutton
Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Williams Ardington and Sara Bennett win the Oscar for ‘Best Visual Effects’ for Ex Machina
Nominations included:
The Revenant
Richard McBride, Matt Shumway, Jason Smith, Cameron Waldbauer
Mad Max: Fury Road
Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
Roger Guyett, Pat Tubach, Neal Scanlan, Chris Corbould
The Martian
Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence, Steven Warner
Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo win the Oscar for the ‘Best Sound Mixing’ for Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max has won six Oscars so far.
Nominations included:
Bridge of Spies
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, Drew Kunin
The Revenant
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom, Chris Duesterdiek
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson
The Martian
Paul Massey, Mark Taylor, Mac Ruth
Mark A Mangini and David White win the Oscar for the ‘Best Editing’ for Mad Max: Fury Road
Nominations included:
Sicario
Alan Robert Murray
The Martian
Oliver Tarney
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
Matthew Wood, David Acord
The Revenant
Martín Hernández, Lon Bender
Margaret Sixel wins the Oscar for the ‘Best Editing’ for Mad Max: Fury Road
Nominations included:
The Big Short
Hank Corwin
Spotlight
Tom McArdle
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
Maryann Brandon, Mary Jo Markey
The Revenant
Stephen Mirrione
Emmanuel Lubezki wins the Oscar for the Best Cinematography for the The Revenant
Nominations included:
Carol
Edward Lachman
The Hateful Eight
Robert Richardson
Sicario
Roger Deakins
Mad Max: Fury Road
John Seale
Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin win the Oscar for the ‘Best Makeup and Hairstyling’ for Mad Max: Fury Road
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann)
Love Larson, Eva Von Bahr
The Revenant
Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman, Robert A. Pandini
Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson wins the Oscar for the ‘Best Production Design’ for Mad Max: Fury Road
Nominations included:
Bridge of Spies
Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo, Bernhard Henrich
The Martian
Arthur Max, Celia Bobak
The Danish Girl
Eve Stewart, Michael Standish
The Revenant
Jack Fisk, Hamish Purdy
Jenny Beavan wins the Oscar for the ‘Best Costume Design’ for Mad Max: Fury Road
Nominations included:
Carol
Sandy Powell
Cinderella
Sandy Powell
The Revenant
Jacqueline West
The Danish Girl
Paco Delgado
Alicia Vikander wins the Oscar for the ‘best actress in a supporting role’ for The Danish Girl
Nominations included:
Jennifer Jason Leigh
The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara
Carol
Kate Winslet
Steve Jobs
Rachel McAdams
Spotlight
Oscar for the best ‘Writing (Adapted Screenplay)’ goes to The Big Short
Nominations included:
Carol
Brooklyn
Room
The Martian
Here we go
Oscar for the best ‘Writing (Original Screenplay)’ goes to Spotlight
Nominations included:
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Straight Outta Compton
Chris Rock delivers opening monologue dominated by #OscarsSoWhite row
Roger Federer just did a shot of tequila on Oscars. Also, Federer says he will be rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio.
Roger Federer just did a shot of tequila on #Oscars red carpet. pic.twitter.com/TcYuKMraSN
— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) February 29, 2016
Titanic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet at the Oscars