Oscars brings in third-lowest viewership in history
There was a lot of pressure on Chris Rock before the 2016 Oscars to address the diversity issues facing the Academy. This year’s class of Oscar winners are no different-America is dying to stalk these people for the rest of eternity.
Many years, the Oscars are television’s biggest event after the Super Bowl.
Murphy said she thinks that point was underscored when Oscars host Chris Rock showed a clip of moviegoers in Compton being asked which nominated films they had seen and numerous names were unfamiliar to them, she said.
“I feel so overwhelmed with gratitude for what happened tonight, but I feel there is a ticking clock out there” demanding action, he said.
“This week, the Pakistani prime minister said he would change the law on honor killing of women”, said Obaid-Chinoy, who was also the only female director to win an award at the ceremony. But then “Spotlight”, a movie that featured a completely white cast, and which takes place in a historically white and racist city, won Best Picture.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu took home the golden statuette for “The Revenant“, repeating after his win for dark comedy “Birdman” a year ago. Is it burning-cross racist? It’s like, “We like you, Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa.’ That’s how Hollywood is”. “[Leonardo DiCaprio] gets a great part every year”. The presence of Dash, an African-American actress and a Fox news regular, whose controversial comments criticizing Black History Month have been widely denounced, appeared to leave the audience baffled as to what she was doing there. Fortune reported that among those who bought a box of cookies was Vice President Joe Biden.
DiCaprio, a committed environmental activist with a long record of backing campaigns added: “Climate change is real, it is happening right now”. All the women who won awards for their behind the scenes work on “Mad Max: Fury Road” provided a nice stretch in the broadcast, which ran past midnight on the east coast. So, you know, the joke is that they’ll make a movie about a white woman who makes a mop, but a black person has to be like Martin Luther King Jr.to star in a movie.
Things may stay the same tomorrow.