Academy Awards stage will be dressed up in golden 1970s glam

Given that Hollywood as a whole has been statistically proven to be a “straight, white boys club“, the fact that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is over 90% white is, unfortunately, not shocking. The Oscars may have lost some of its relevance, and this year’s ratings will be telling.

The nominations this year bear the element of predictability that hounded the awards bash over the past years and, if anything, the hullabaloo over members of the black community being ignored has only helped garner some unusual limelight.

Actor Bryan Cranston has experience being nominated for television projects during the season, but the Trumbo star, who is up for the best actor award, is now experiencing the film side of events. According to the site, The Revenant leads the pack with more than 21.9 million views, followed by Mad Max: Fury Road (21.6 million), The Martian (20.1 million), and The Big Short (5.4 million).

Least predictable but perhaps most important to the size of the audience is a large wave of criticism about the total dominance of white nominees.

He said: “This year in the Oscars there are 24 categories and British people are nominated in 21 of those categories so it’s not just in front of the camera, but there is a huge breadth of talent so we are all getting together and probably having a drink or two”.

But snubs by Hollywood’s most significant movie body is all the more personal because DiCaprio was born and raised in Tinseltown. If you look to box-office figures, the Best Picture breakdown changes drastically.

Because of the huge buzz and momentum that’s in The Revenant’s favour, it will enter Oscar night as the favourite, but The Big Short’s PGA win is very significant in that not only have the last eight years seen the PGA victor also triumph at the Oscars, but that the PGA also shares the Oscars’ preferential ballot system, which means that any of the consensus favourites like The Revenant, Spotlight or The Big Short could end up taking home the big prize.

One year ago, we were talking about how the Oscar race was one of the most hard to predict in years. So there is always a possibility this award will split, that best picture could be Spotlight, which was the former favorite and best director Alejandro Gonzalez Inirratu for The Revenant, but at this point I am predicting a win for The Revenant in both categories. Winslet made an impression in “Steve Jobs”, but the movie sure didn’t. There was no time limit to the awards, either, with Cicely Tyson being heralded for her 1978 portrayal of Harriet Tubman in A Woman Called Moses.

But the 69-year-old sentimental favorite is facing a late surge in the talent-heavy supporting actor category from BAFTA victor Mark Rylance, who played real-life Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in “Bridge of Spies”. “An Oscar win increases a given talent’s perceived value; not in all cases, but in most cases, and certainly in the short term….”

The search volume ranking sees Jennifer Lawrence as the victor for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Unfortunately this hasn’t translated into Academy Awards, despite three nominations.