Monday 29 February 2016

88th Oscars: Leonardo DiCaprio FINALLY!

This year's Oscars were the 88th Academy Awards! And another great thing to add to your calendar was that Leonardo DiCaprio finally won! After 22 years of waiting and 6 nominations in between! Image how patient and frustrated he must have been after ALL that time!

Check out the highlights of the night below...

Brie Larson on the Red Carpet.
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Leonardo DiCaprio getting his award.
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The Awards:

Best Picture: 'Spotlight'
Actor in a Leading Role: Leonardo DiCaprio 'The Revenant'
Actress in a Leading Role: Brie Larson 'Room'
Actress in a Supporting Role: Alicia Vikander 'The Danish Girl'
Animated Feature Film: 'Inside Out'
Cinematography: 'The Revenant'
Costume Design: 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
Directing: 'The Revenant'
Feature Documentary: 'Amy'
Short Subject Documentary: 'A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness'
Film Editing: 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
Foreign Language Film; 'Son Of Saul'
Makeup and Hairstyling: 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
Original Music Score: 'The Hateful Eight'
Original Music Song: "Writing's On The Wall" by Sam Smith, 'Spectre'
Production Design: 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
Short Animated Film: 'Bear Story'
Short Live Action Film: 'Stutterer'
Sound Editing: 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
Sound Mixing: 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
Visual Effects: 'Ex Machina'
Adapted Writing Screenplay: 'The Big Short'
Original Writing Screenplay: 'Spotlight' 

This year's Oscars were hosted by Chris Rock. He hosted it for the second time since 2005. This year however, the viewer count was drastically lower, with only 34.3 million viewers unlike in 2005 when it was 42.1 million. The highest viewer count for the Oscars was in 2004 when 'Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King' won and was hosted by Billy Crystal; there were 43.5 million viewers!

Leonardo DiCaprio took the Oscar graciously and as well as thanking his friends he also reminded everyone of the environment! What a guy...



And there was also Chris Rock's monologue. After the controversy about the slightly 'racist' awards, I felt Chris handled the situation fine. He embedded both jokes and facts into his monologue making ti both entertaining and interesting to watch. Check it out...


AND what's more is that he sold girl scout cookies TOO!

2 comments:

  1. I seriously didn't think Leo would ever win the big one. I'm very happy to see that it happened!

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    1. YES! He truly deserved it after 22 years of astounding work! What did you think of the other winners?

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