Fifth time’s the Oscar charm for best actor DiCaprio

You realize if they nominated hosts, I wouldn’t even get this job.

He also suggested that what was needed at this point is for the Academy to have black categories.

Some of the signs included the slogans, “Hollywood Must do Better” and “Shame on You”. “No. It’s a different kind of racist”, Rock said on Sunday. You damn right Hollywood’s racist, but it ain’t the racist that you’ve grown accustomed to.

It was no small fortune that someone like Rock was hosting this year; it’s hard to imagine many others being able to plainly state, “Is Hollywood racist? But things are changing”.

He summed up what the #OscarsSoWhite protest is really all about in his eyes.

On “my favourite actor in the world” Paul Giamatti: ” Last year he’s in 12 Years A Slave, hates black people; this year he’s in Straight Outta Compton, loves black people.

It’s refreshing to hear a celebrity raise important issues on TV.

Actress Sonakshi Sinha sid she is glad that the Titanic star finally grabbed the Oscar award.

“Making “The Revenant” was about man’s relationship with the natural world”, he explained.

Picking up the climate-change issue again, DiCaprio said he is as obsessed with the issue as he is with filmmaking, and appreciated having the chance to reach millions of Oscar viewers with his message. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. Right off the bat, the symbolism of that let us know that the night was going to be one helluva ride, and Rock delivered that in just about every way.

Josh Singer, left, and Tom McCarthy accept the award for best original screenplay for “Spotlight” at the Oscars on February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Sam Smith dedicated his win to “LGBT people all around the world”. Taking the stage after a montage of the movies of the year, Rock said, “Man, I counted at least 15 black people during that montage”.

“I am very lucky to be here tonight but unfortunately, many others haven’t had the same luck…” “Leo, you are “The Revenant.'” Inarritu, the Mexican director, also spoke passionately about diversity in his speech, arguing to make “the color of our skin as irrelevant as the length of our hair”.

It was Inarritu who finally brought him Oscar gold. “Thank you to the Academy and the incredible cast & crew of #The Revenant”, he wrote. But this wasn’t the only reason Margaret Sixel’s win for Mad Max: Fury Road (directed by her husband, George Miller) was refreshing.