Oscars 2016
CBC News brings you the latest from Hollywood as this year's awards season wraps up with the 88th Academy Awards.
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Cate Blanchett is up for best actress for her role in Carol.
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Even media is required to wear tuxes and gowns at the #Oscars . Everyone is looking pretttty sharp up here in the press room. #timeforflatsby Laura Thompson via twitter 2/29/2016 1:21:15 AM
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Another red carpet snap. This time, it is singer John Legend and his wife, Chrissy Teigen. She is pregnant right now and showing off her baby bump on the carpet. How fun!
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A few more red carpet pictures before the start of the ceremony.
Margot Robbie (Valerie Macon/Getty Images)
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A few more seconds to grab those snacks. The show is about to begin!
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Chris Rock talking why black people haven't boycotted in the past. It has been edgy so far.
We were too busy being raped and lynched to care about best cinematographer.
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Another edgy quote from host Chris Rock.
This year, in the 'In Memoriam' package its just going to be black people that were shot by the cops on the way to the movies.
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Chris Rock is now talking about if Hollywood is racist. He says it is not "burning cross" racist. He says it is a different type of racist.
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Is Hollywood racist? Your damn right its racist.
Chris Rock has been talking about race since the start of the show. That's more than 10 minutes now. -
Chris Rock's monologue is going over very well (for the most part) in the #Oscars press room. #captiveaudience #entertainedcrowdby Laura Thompson via twitter 2/29/2016 1:42:49 AM
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We want opportunity. We want black actors to get the same opportunities as white actors.
He says Leonardo DiCaprio gets a good role every year. The camera panned to Leo, who was rather expressionless. -
Toronto gets a shout out in the Spotlight writer speech!
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The Oscar orchestra is now playing Bittersweet Symphony to welcome Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. Gotta love The Verve.
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They are now presenting the award for Adapted Screenplay. Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue is up for an award in this category.
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We are on commercial break right now. Just to recap the award winners so far:
- Original screenplay: Spotlight
- Adapted screenplay: The Big Short
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There is now a montage of black actors appearing in/spoofing some of the year's best movies. Here's who has appeared so far.
- Whoopi Goldberg in Joy
- Leslie Jones in The Revenant
- Tracy Morgan in The Danish Girl
- Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg in The Martian
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And now Sarah Silverman is here talking about James Bond's sexual life. And to introduce Sam Smith who is singing Writing's on the Wall from Spectre. It is nominated for best original song.
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Here's the other nominees for best original song. Chris Rock says his favourite song is Father Figure. Shout out to George Michael?
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#spotlight screenwriter winners say a script is "never realized without an incredible director".#Oscars2016 #RedCarpetby Zulekha Nathoo via twitter 2/29/2016 2:08:10 AM -
They are showing highlights from all of the best picture nominees throughout the evening. They just showed The Martian and right now, they are showing The Big Short.Here's the rest of the best picture nominees.
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I would be amiss if I didn't mention the appearance by Stacey Dash that took place about five minutes ago now. It was weird. Not sure if it was supposed to be a joke but it fell flat with the Oscars audience regardless.
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Right now, J.K. Simmons is presenting the award for best supporting actress. He took home the award last year for best supporting actor for his performance in Whiplash.
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#spotlight screenwriting winners in press room: @BostonGlobe reporter asks what it was like 2 spend time in her newsroom #poetic #oscarsby Zulekha Nathoo via twitter 2/29/2016 2:11:49 AM
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And the winner for Best Supporting Actress is Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl.
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#spotlight screenwriter winners say a script is "never realized without an incredible director". #Oscars2016by Zulekha Nathoo via twitter 2/29/2016 2:14:53 AM
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A teary Vikander thanked her parents in her acceptance speech for best supporting actress. She is from Sweden. Fun fact: she trained in ballet!
Thanks for giving me the belief that anything can happen, even though I never would have believed this.
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We are on another commercial break now. If you are just joining us, here who has won so far.
- Original screenplay: Spotlight
- Adapted screenplay: The Big Short
- Supporting actress: Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
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"Big money is taking over our governments."#Oscars2016 screenplay winner #AdamMackay @GhostPanther gets political in pressroom #TheBigShortby Zulekha Nathoo via twitter 2/29/2016 2:18:17 AM
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"We're black," says host Chris Rock as we return from the commercial break.And now Cate Blanchett is presenting for costume design.
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And the costume design winner is Jenny Beavan for Mad Max: Fury Road.She starts off her speech by saying, "What another lovely day."
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Tina Fey and Steve Carell are here to present for Production Design. Fey is being funny, obviously. Carell says Fey has been drinking. And Fey says the 'nomness' are. And here they actually are:
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And the winner for production design is Mad Max: Fury Road!
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Jared Leto drops a joke about merkins while presenting the award for best makeup and hairstyling. That is NSFW Googling.
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And the winner for best makeup and hairstyling is the third award in a row for Mad Max: Fury Road.
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They are showing some footage of more best picture nominees right now. But what is more exciting for live blog viewers who can't SEE that footage is the back to back to back wins for Mad Max: Fury Road.The movie just picked up:
- Best makeup and hairstyling
- Best production design
- Best costume design
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As we throw to yet another commercial break, the Oscar orchestra is playing Live and Let Die, a classic Bond song by Wings, Paul McCartney's band.
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#Oscar2016 #AliciaVikander :"If I can continue to work, that would be great!" I think she'll be ok... #bestsupportingactress #TheDanishGirlby Zulekha Nathoo via twitter 2/29/2016 2:35:18 AM
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No lack of journos waiting to ask Oscar winner Alicia Vikander questions in the #pressroom . In a gold dress holding a gold statue. #Oscarsby Laura Thompson via twitter 2/29/2016 2:36:20 AM
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Back again. And the Oscars orchestra is playing Kiss from a Rose. Go Seal! Go Batman Forever!
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The winner for Cinematography is The Revenant. It is the third consecutive (YES THE THIRD IN A ROW) win for Emmanuel Lubezki. He won last year for Birdman and the year before for Gravity.
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Here's a moment from Chris Rock's opening monologue.
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The minions count for tonight's ceremony is now three. Minions have appeared on the screen three times. That is groups of minions. So there's actually been more minions on the screen. They aren't nominated for best animated feature film, just in case you were wondering.