Leonardo DiCaprio wins best actor Oscar for ‘The Revenant’

“Mad Max: Fury Road” revved it up at the ceremony, exploding with six wins in technical categories. Performances, films and crafts are honored, much of the time, because sentimentality obscures objectivity.

Miller refers to the mentioned list of best movies for 1985, in an article by The Leader when he talks about how “not” nervous about the nomination he is – where the Oscar for best director is pending – hinting that he might have gotten passed up back then. Brian Goegan, one of the amateur modelers we’ve been covering, had “The Revenant” taking each though, so it’s not like “Mad Max” was preordained to have the kind of night it’s having.

While it’s unfortunately not streaming for free on Amazon Prime Video just yet, it is available for purchase at an incredibly reasonable price of .99 for both HD and standard definition versions of the film. Blanchett won the best supporting actress Osca in 2004 for “The Aviator” and the best-actress Oscar for “Blue Jasmine” in 2013.

“Mad Max: Fury Road” is not the favorite type of movie of Matt Martin, chair of the communications department at the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University.

The first acting award: best supporting actress.

Predictions website Gold Derby has Inarritu as a strong favorite, and Scott Feinberg, the awards analyst for weekly magazine The Hollywood Reporter, told AFP he expected the historic double for the Mexican. Sometimes Academy voters end up splitting their decision and award a particular film the Best Picture award without recognizing its director, but about three-fourths of the time, the prizes match. “I can not wait to help my people out – Happy Black History Month!”, said Dash, who made headlines earlier this year when she spoke out about #OscarsSoWhite and questioned the celebration of Black History Month. Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar for his role in the brutal frontier epic, “The Revenant”. I doubt anyone really believes that the Oscar-winning “The Greatest Show on Earth” is a better movie than “High Noon” or that “Dances with Wolves” was better directed than “Goodfellas”. The film’s Emmanuel Lubezki won for cinematography. The role of a young woman who was kidnapped and held in a shed for seven years has been a breakthrough for Larson.

In a shocker, Sam Smith’s “Writing on the Wall”, from the James Bond film “Spectre”, won best song.

The nominees: Christian Bale, “The Big Short”; Tom Hardy, “The Revenant”; Mark Ruffalo, “Spotlight”; Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies”; Sylvester Stallone, “Creed“. The winners will be announced at Sunday’s 88th annual Oscar award ceremony. George Miller’s searing vision of post-apocalyptic Australia walked away with six awards: film editing, costume design, makeup and hairstyling, sound mixing, sound editing, and production design.

Rock wasn’t alone in putting people of color in the spotlight on the movie industry’s biggest night. He stressed that if Black did not protest in the 60s, that they had other more important causes: when your grandmother is hanging on a tree, you have other concerns as Oscar best short film …