REPORT
Oscars: A Spotlight on
the 16 Things You Missed
A
s expected, this year's Oscars ceremony had diversity jokes to spare and a big win for Leonardo
DiCaprio. Here are 16 things you missed from the
show:
1) Spotlight won a couple awards - including the biggie.
The journalism drama was nominated for six awards
and won two, for best picture and best original screenplay. While the movie that wins best picture is often the
one that also wins best director, that wasn't the case this
year. Alejandro Inarritu won for his direction of The Revenant, but Spotlight director Tom McCarthy shared the
writing Oscar with Josh Singer.
2) Mad Max: Fury Road won a bunch of awards -- in
technical categories.
George Miller's operatic action movie
Mad Max: Fury Road
nearly swept the technical awards, raking
in six prizes, for costume design, sound
editing, sound mixing, makeup and hair,
production
design
and film editing. The
movie was singled
out so many times
that Louis CK jokingly
announced it as the
winner for best documentary short.
3) Lots and lots of
jokes from Chris Rock
about the lack of diversity.
In fact, the host had
very few jabs that
weren't about #OscarsSoWhite. Rock
jumped right in by referring to the show as the White
People's Choice Awards. In his comment that drew the
most gasps, he noted that when there were no black
Oscar nominees in the 1960s, no one cared. Why? "Because we had real things to protest at the time," Rock
said. "We were too busy being raped and lynched to
care about who won best cinematography. When your
grandmother is swinging from a tree, it's really hard to
care about best documentary foreign short."
He also