How to Watch The Oscars 2016

Shane McGhie, acting student: “I was glad to see people like Jada taking a stance”, McGhie, a black senior at the University of Southern California, says.

Yet the male-dominated race is indicative of the larger gender gap in Hollywood, observers say.

The leading best-picture nominees split the guild awards: “Spotlight” claimed the Screen Actors Guild’s top prize, “The Big Short” won with producers and “The Revenant” brought Alejandro Inarritu a second consecutive Directors Guild of America award. “Revenenat”/Inarritu wins, following last year’s “Birdman”/Inarritu wins, will make the highest-profile minority nominee the first director ever to claim back-to-back best-picture Oscars. “You come in, do something really amusing and get out of there”, he told The Hollywood Reporter. “They (studios) have never been convinced that a female market 100 percent exists”.

Win or lose, it’s going to be Leo that everyone is talking about – but there are some other awards being handed out that night.

But that won’t change the way studio executives think about audiences or decide what kinds of films to make. Before one of these movies must can be crowned a victor they will have to make it through the four prerequisites for Oscar glory.

Academy Awards show producer Reginald Hudlin said in January that Rock was rewriting his monologue, though a rep for Rock quickly said that the comedian had made “no decisions about the content of the show”.

Three of the eight nominated films have raked in more than $100 million at the box office.

But sometimes, it’s just easier to just turn on the telly.

Hollywood’s biggest night is nearly here!

Given all the brouhaha this year’s Oscars are generating, we thought the time’s right to take a look at few of those men and women “of colour” who were given their dues – through the years.

Other presenters at the overcrowded ceremony will include J.J. Abrams, Sacha Baron Cohen, Henry Cavill, Patricia Arquette, Cate Blanchett, Emily Blunt, Louis C.K., Steve Carell, Russell Crowe, Chris Evans, Tina Fey, Ryan Gosling, Jennifer Garner, Abraham Attah, Priyanka Chopra, Jared Leto, Rachel McAdams, Julianne Moore, Olivia Munn, Benicio del Toro, Dev Patel, Eddie Redmayne, Daisy Ridley, Sofia Vergara, Margot Robbie, Jason Segel, Byung-hun Lee, Andy Serkis, Sarah Silverman, J.K. Simmons, Charlize Theron and Reese Witherspoon.

The spotlight on Los Angeles comes at a time when brands are rejigging the runway-to-retail model and making new fashion available faster to customers.

McGarry recommends giving your guests the opportunity to show off their personal flair by inviting them to glam up their own Irish cream cheesecake pops.

Tune in to ABC at 7 p.m.to view the red carpet, followed by the ceremony beginning at 8:30 p.m.

“One red carpet hit at the Oscars is equivalent to a year’s worth of marketing for a designer”, Wilson said. “My brother’s sittin” there, he says, “Thank God we don’t have to listen to any more”.

When the list of 2106 nominees was released in January, black Hollywood saw that it had once again been snubbed.

At the Grammy awards, Justin Bieber and Beck wore Saint Laurent Paris while British singer Florence Welch, Gucci’s new celebrity spokesperson, wore a blush pink dress by the brand on the red carpet.