Oscar host, producer, others honor black women in Hollywood

Brie Larson’s performance in Room has received rave reviews from the jump, and her momentum continues with victories at various award shows.

As comedian Jeff Ross, who has written for the Oscars in the past, told Carter: “I can’t remember the last time I was this excited to watch an awards show”. I was not a fan of Brooklyn – I hear the book was quite good, but I was bored to tears by the movie; this immigrant girl comes and everything wonderful happens to her and so what? But the actor would quickly become better known for a different role: Jack Dawson in Titanic.

While The Martian and Mad Max are more crowd-pleasing fare, The Revenant’s noteworthy box-office haul – $165.5 million and counting – and DiCaprio’s performance probably won over moviegoers, says Fandango Oscar expert Dave Karger.

This year, Deadline.com estimates a 95 percent increase in sales for Best Picture nominees between the announcement of Oscar nominations in mid-January and the Oscars on Sunday. “This is a hard but important conversation, and it’s time for big changes”.

He declined to join the fray, even after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose 6,200 members vote on the Oscars, announced it would double the number of minorities and women in its ranks in the next four years. “There has never been, in the history of movies, a plethora of black movies made because people believe we don’t want to see movies with black people in them”.

As for you, talk to us about all the movies you loved and thought should be nominated this year.

Speaking to the station, she said: “You need people who are in a position of power to green light movies that have us in them”. With 12-year-old Indian-American Neel Sethi playing Mowgli, and featuring voices by iconic actors like Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Idris Elba and Christopher Walken, the film relates the story of a young boy’s captivating journey of self-discovery when he is forced to abandon the only home he has ever known. I see that as a key component to keeping your composure is that ‘I have a little secret and it’s down there and nobody else knows.

Wish you were here: Helen Mirren, “Trumbo” (but mostly so I could look at those hats again). Even if we won’t admit it, a lot of us enjoy the quality assurance an Oscar nomination or win lends to a film.

35 – that’s how many times iconic Hollywood costume designer Edith Head was nominated for her work on films such as All About Eve, A Place in the Sun and The Great Gatsby.

Christian Bale (“The Big Short”) and Mark Ruffalo (“Spotlight“) also could pull off a major surprise.