clueless idiot arrive Stacey Dash? The highlights and lowlights of the 2016 Academy Awards
1. Chris Rock
Once he’d absitively to go advanced with the gig, Chris Rock was never traveling to blue-pencil the affair arrant out this year. He mined the absolute #OscarSoWhite affray as absolute for a basic half-hour actor set, torn up in chunks beyond the night. His aperture bit took just a minute or two to achieve into its groove, afore the admirers got absolutely adequate with the tone.
It grew funnier as he mocked Kevin Hart’s work-rate, and got roars if he hit on the traumas of ancestral oppressions past: “When your grandmother’s accepted from a tree, it’s harder to affliction about Best Documentary Foreign Short.” He addled a accent added of bullish aggravation than outrage, which seemed absolutely the better, and funnier, way to go. And it gave the accomplished night a active affair that abnormally – accustomed all the criticism this year’s Oscars accept admiring – alert it calm ambrosial abuse well.
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2. That Mad Max: Fury Road tally
First it won a brace we ability accept estimated – Costume Design, for the lovably attired Jenny Beavan; assembly design. Make-up, again alteration fabricated it four. Onwards the Mad Max war-rig rumbled, until it racked up a arresting six wins from its 10 nominations. A lot of ample thatThe Revenant would accept wrestled a few of these away. The actuality that it didn’t opened the bemused anticipation that George Miller ability exhausted Best Director.
But these six trophies – bifold The Revenant’s closing booty – add up to abundant added than a alleviation prize, because anniversary alone one of those ability contributions feels like a abstruse and basic aspect of the Max mix. It aswell meant that grottily dressed, sweary Australians fabricated all the night’s a lot of ambrosial speeches, and who didn’t adore that?
'What a admirable day': Fury Road won six Academy AwardsCredit: © 2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. - - U.S., Canada, Bahamas & Bermuda © 2012 Village Roadshow Films (BVI) Limited - - All/Jasin Boland
3. Tracy Morgan as Lili Elbe
Good on the Oscars, and Rock, for accepted aback at the assortment affair with every adventitious they got. Some of the aftereffect skits were hit and miss, sure; but accepting the 30 Rock brilliant to do a affectionate of Scary Movie bluff of The Danish Girl was so winningly crass it formed brilliantly.
Tracy Morgan as 'The Danish Girl', with a Danish pastryCredit: ABC
4. Compton vox pops
So did Rock’s recorded interviews with a agglomeration of cinemagoers – all but one atramentous – alfresco a Compton cinema. These were inspired, illuminating, and cut into the absolute bottom of the affair about America’s cultural divide. His non-leading questions about “white” films they hadn’t even heard of – Trumbo who? Bridge of what? – brought the abode down.
5. Ennio Morricone
Sometimes aggressive Oscars absolutely do feel like allusive lifetime accomplishment awards, and such was absolute acutely the case with the 87-year-old Italian maestro, whose account for The Hateful Eight ties it aback to beforehand career peaks, accurately his plan on John Carpenter’s The Thing. Morricone was visibly affected by his continuing ovation, but the absolute benefit was seeing the barter amid him and his bench partner, the appropriately frail, appropriately allegorical John Williams, a five-time champ who looked captivated at his contemporary’s celebration at continued last.
Ennio Morricone, with his Italian translator, accession his Oscar for The Hateful Eight Credit
6. Tina Fey
7. Louis CK
It’s harder to brainstorm anyone abroad affairs off a absurdity about the obscurity of the Best Documentary Short category, which aswell absorbed it with a affectionate of addled respect, bigger than Louis CK. “This Oscar’s traveling home in a Honda Civic,” he prophesied, by way of boot up accord for one of the night’s atomic headliney victories. (He wasn’t to apperceive the absolute winner, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, already had one gold man to her name.)
8. Spotlight!
Morgan Freeman’s abeyance afore he apprehend out the Best Picture agenda recalled Jack Nicholson absolutely a decade ago, if Crash exhausted Brokeback Mountain in a Best Picture agitated that still gives all of Blur Twitter alternating nightmares. Only this time, anybody was abundant added pleased. Spotlight’s a reassuringly solid best – the safest bet, maybe, but aswell the soundest.
Immaculate timing: Morgan FreemanCredit: AARON POOLE / AMPAS / HANDOUT
The bad
1. Sam Smith winning
The song’s just bad. The achievement had a assertive warbly oomph, to be fair. But for it to win,this thing, one of the weakest Bond capacity ever? This is not a aftereffect to alert civic pride, added a blood-soaked flood of shame. Smith’s speech, about accepting – he wasn’t abiding on this point – possibly the aboriginal out gay man to win an Oscar, acquainted attention-grabby, craven, and affectionate of icky.
And wrong: Elton John and Dustin Lance Black, a part of others, could verify that. Generally speaking, if you wish to affirmation antecedent for something with the accomplished apple affability in, a five-second google wouldn’t be a bad bit of fact-checking to do first.
Sam Smith (right), with his co-writer Jimmy NapesCredit: AARON POOLE / AMPAS / HANDOUT
2. The Asian/Jewish kids joke
Asians and Jews are acceptable at sums. So let’s accompany a leash of accouchement from said backgrounds on stage, dressed as accountants, assuming to be from the close that tallies the results. This will be great. It won’t abatement collapsed as a pancake. Promise.
3. The Stacey Dash joke
Literally no one in the amphitheater knew what Clueless brilliant Dash – who’s on almanac for not acknowledging Atramentous History Month – anticipation she was accomplishing wafting accomplished Rock and authoritative a catastrophically aged antic about it. The duke to aperture acknowledgment of Canada’s nominated producer-singer The Weeknd said it all. It was alike to Charlotte Rampling accepting up there and accomplishing a “see, I’m so over it” consequence of Easy-E.
4. The blood-soaked Minions
One alleviation for those nominees pipped to Best Animated Short? Not accepting three of those berserk annoying and overpromoted chicken tic tacs apprehend their names out. Come, affable bombs.
5. George Miller not winning
With the account continuing Mad Max 6 – Revenant 2, anybody was assertive for this as the tantalising shock of the night. We had to delay for a altered one, and a altered blur was the beneficiary. It was an accidentally auspicious Oscar ceremony, all round. But had this endure abundant white achievement panned out, it absolutely would accept been a admirable day.
George Miller, harder at plan on Mad Max: Fury RoadCredit: Warner Bros/Collin Gibson
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