Who would win Oscars based off box office?

“But it just seemed like a good time”.

“This is not the year you want Ellen DeGeneres or Billy Crystal up there”, said Steve Pond, awards editor for TheWrap.com and author of “The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings at the Academy Awards”.

The 41-year-old star is favourite to win the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the epic and gruelling The Revenant.

Only two directors have won back to back Oscars for Best Director before this, John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

The Revenant has received 12 Oscar nominations also including Best Director for Alejandro G Inarritu and Best Supporting Actor for Britain’s Tom Hardy. “Too late for a write-in campaign for an ineligible movie?”

The scale of the Oscars also means that hosts feel obligated to do more than simply deliver a great monologue and be amusing; they have to sing, they have to dance and they generally have to work themselves into a flop sweat trying to keep the crowd engaged. Any other year, this award would probably go to Mark Rylance, who gives a quietly powerful performance as a Russian agent in “Bridge of Spies”.

“The show can’t solve the diversity problem in the academy, and the academy can’t solve the diversity problem in the entertainment industry, which is really the bigger problem – not what gets nominated for Oscars, but what gets made and who gets hired”, Pond said.

Actors of diverse backgrounds were recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press during the annual Golden Globe awards.

The Oscars are fast approaching, and film fans are already gossiping about Leonardo DiCaprio’s award hopes, how Jennifer Lawrence always trips over her dress – and of course, the contents of the goodie bag.

Gone are the days when you could gather around your Oscar pool sheet and truly wonder who was going to win the major categories, jolted by a win for Marlee Matlin or shocked by “Shakespeare in Love” beating “Saving Private Ryan”.

Gold was melted down for the Choron and silver for the figure holding it – silver being a metal sacred to the people of Yakutia holding powers to purify and protect its owner. “I don’t know if you remember his stand-up routine, Bigger & Blacker. People of color have to tend to kind of wait for those opportunities to show up and then once they get those opportunities you got to make the most of it because they’re a lot rarer”, said Willmott.