Academy Awards: Jeremy Lin responds to Chris Rock’s Asian jokes

Will Leonardo DiCaprio finally win an Academy Award for Best Actor?

It was the fourth Oscar for Inárritu and came as little surprise after he won a Golden Globe, a British BAFTA award and a trophy from the Directors Guild Awards for the film.

Hollywood’s diversity crisis has loomed large over awards season and the big question going into the 88th annual Academy Awards was whether it would dominate the ceremony, too.

Andy Serkis also slams Trump: In the second and last zinger directed at Trump of the night (host Chris Rock never mentioned him) legendary motion capture performer Andy Serkis (of “Lord of the Rings” and “Planet of the Apes” fame) went out of his way to insult the GOP candidate, comparing him to a “meglomaniacal monster”.

Spotlight star Mark Ruffalo lost the Best Supporting Actor prize to Mark Rylance of Bridge of Spies. George Miller’s post-apocalyptic chase film, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, sped away with six awards in technical categories for editing, makeup, production design, sound editing, sound mixing and costume design.

He was nominated as the best actor in leading role for five times totally, including this year.

She had extra help from US Vice President Joe Biden, who introduced her set by speaking about the White House’s It’s On Us campaign that addresses sexual assault as well as a group of sexual assault survivors who joined her on stage and with whom she clasped hands.

You can also follow the Oscars on the official website for the show, which will include backstage streams of the winners after they collect their hardware or mingle with other celebrities. Several top African American filmmakers, Ryan Coogler (“Creed”) and Ava DuVernay (“Selma”) spent the evening not at the Oscars but in Flint, Michigan, raising money for the water-contaminated city.

“Last night’s ceremony, and particularly the “joke” involving Asian children, which played off more than one damaging stereotype of Asians and Asian Americans, exposed one of the failings of how we talk about race in America: race relations are not a black-white binary”, she said.

While Twitter and Facebook attracted high traffic during the Oscars, TV critic Chuck Barney notes that the event appears to be the lowest-rated Oscar telecast in eight years.

“You know, when your grandmother’s swinging from a tree, it’s really hard to care about best documentary foreign short”, Rock said, explaining why the issue blew up this year.