Russian fans present DiCaprio with homemade Oscar

But no one is talking about it. Chris Rock seems an iffy choice to host the stuffy ceremony, even if the racial imparity scandal wasn’t as prevalent as it is in 2016. Academy officials are staying mum. Plus, with the Oscars being Hollywood’s biggest night, they’re going to want to pick a big prestigious picture to hold up as their crowning achievement.

That leaves Hudlin and Hill with the unenviable challenge of presenting a show celebrating the best of the movie business when its worst features have been in focus. As lauded as her performance is, I still think the movie actually belonged to her co-star Jacob Tremblay, who was criminally overlooked by the Oscars, and it was Tremblay who actually carried the film on his slender young shoulders. “He’s the kind of guy who can treat all of this with the ideal amount of edge and humor”.

In regards to this year’s awards, Willmott would not say who he believed would win only that they would definitely be white. “That would be awkward”. The same goes for the network’s mobile application, Watch ABC, which you can download from the Apple and Google Play stores. Hometown local legend and Oscar victor Jamie Foxx?

Then there are the nominees, who’ve been somewhat overshadowed this awards season by the industry’s larger issues.

Another of the Best Picture nominees, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, is forecast to take six awards: Costume Design, Film Editing, Makeup & Hairstyling, Production Design, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing.

“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”. The first was Adam McKay’s scabrous financial crisis caper The Big Short, whose fractured, twitchy style hasn’t stopped it striking a chord with Academy voters – perhaps for its crusading spirit, throwback loopiness and punchy topicality.

Although he is up against some stiff competition from Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon, Michael Fassbender and Eddie Redmayne, fans and online polls suggest that this trophy might finally be his to keep. Larson is nominated alongside Cate Blanchett (“Carol”), Jennifer Lawrence (“Joy”), Charlotte Rampling (“45 Years”) and Saoirse Ronan (“Brooklyn”).

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. It’s been an fantastic year and I’ve been very, very lucky”.