{"id":10951,"date":"2016-02-29T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T17:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=10951"},"modified":"2016-02-29T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T17:59:14","slug":"oscars-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/02\/29\/oscars-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"The 88th Oscars Was Actually Kind of Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/02\/roombrielarson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/02\/roombrielarson.jpg\" alt=\"roombrielarson\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/02\/roombrielarson.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/02\/roombrielarson-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/02\/roombrielarson-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a>Chris Rock probably gave one of the most entertaining Oscar monologues in Oscars history, covering the lack of diversity in the Academy Awards from all angles. Honestly, there isn&#8217;t another Oscars host that comes to mind that did a better job than Chris Rock; he killed it, and then dropped the mic with swagger. Rock was sharp throughout, and didn&#8217;t hold back, becoming what Ricky Gervais is for The Golden Globes. Describing his monologue doesn&#8217;t do it justice, so here are some highlights:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f5_gVOnxgyM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about some of the winners (and losers), shall we?<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu won Best Director for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/01\/11\/the-revenant-is-beautiful-and-savage\/\">The Revenant<\/a>,<\/em> making it a back-to-back win. He&#8217;s definitely an amazing talent, and nobody could really call him undeserving of the award. <em>The Revenant<\/em> isn&#8217;t his best film, but he did direct the hell out of it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em> won 6 Oscars, except the one it truly deserved: Best Picture. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/01\/19\/spotlight-named-best-picture-by-critics-choice-awards\/\"><em>Spotlight<\/em> <\/a>took home the big prize, and that isn&#8217;t a terrible choice, as it&#8217;s a wonderful film with a very important topic. It definitely won&#8217;t be one of those forgetful Best Picture films that movie fanatics can&#8217;t recall later down the road. <em>Spotlight<\/em> also took home Best Original Screenplay, which it deserved, but maybe not as much as <em>Ex-Machina<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Best Supporting Actor Award went to Mark Rylance for <em>Bridge of Spies, <\/em>although some think Sylvester Stallone should have won it for portraying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/11\/30\/review-creed\/\">Rocky Balboa<\/a> in<em> Creed<\/em>. Stallone was definitely considered the favorite, but came up empty-handed. Best Supporting Actress went to Alicia Vikander, and it was her first nomination and first win. Vikander gave two amazing performances in 2015: one for <em>The Danish Girl<\/em> and the other for <em>Ex-Machina<\/em>. Some believe that her role wasn&#8217;t a true supporting role, as it was more of a co-leading role, so let&#8217;s pretend she won for <em>Ex-Machina<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/28\/room-is-unforgettable\/\">Brie Larson<\/a> won Best Actress for <em>Room<\/em>, which she completely deserved. Larson should have been nominated for <em>Short Term 12<\/em> in 2013, but she kept at it and pulled her first nomination and first win for <em>Room<\/em>. Larson is one of the best young actors working today, and this should give her even more opportunities to shine on the silver screen. Leonardo DiCaprio finally won Best Actor for <em>The Revenant<\/em>. DiCaprio was first nominated back in 1994 for <em>What&#8217;s Eating Gilbert Grape<\/em>, and now the Leo memes can finally come to an end. They will be missed dearly. Next in line? Johnny Depp, Gary Oldman, \u00a0or Edward Norton.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, there was also an awkward Stacey Dash moment for good measure. Overall, it was an interesting show (for being the Academy Awards).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Rock probably gave one of the most entertaining Oscar monologues in Oscars history, covering the lack of diversity in the Academy Awards from all angles. Honestly, there isn&#8217;t another Oscars host that comes to mind that did a better job than Chris Rock; he killed it, and then dropped the mic with swagger. Rock<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/02\/29\/oscars-recap\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":10962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[1762,1977,3090,511,1499,384,1515],"class_list":{"0":"post-10951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-academy-awards","9":"tag-alicia-vikander","10":"tag-brie-larson","11":"tag-chris-rock","12":"tag-leonardo-dicaprio","13":"tag-mad-max","14":"tag-oscars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}