On the night of Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, the Oscars premiered on ABC. It was a night filled with surprises, smiling faces, and laughter. The night began on the red carpet with celebrities pooling in one after another. Kerry Washington came in wearing a fabulous black and white dress, Leonardo DiCaprio bought his mother as his date, and Chris Rock made jokes that very much made the crowd laugh in tears. Rock begins the night on the controversy on how not a single black actor or actress had been nominated for an Academy Award. "I'm here at the Oscars, otherwise known as the White People's Choice Awards,” Rock begins his monologue, “If they nominated hosts, I wouldn't even be here right now. Y'all would be watching Neil Patrick Harris." He continues to say that people told him to quit and not be the host of The Oscars, his response, “How come it's only unemployed people who tells you to quit...the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart.”
Joke after joke, Rock didn’t disappoint. But what really made the night was who won. Below are the winners of the special night in Hollywood.
Original Screenplay:
Winner: "Spotlight"
Best Adapted screenplay
Winner: "The Big Short Charles"
Best supporting actor:
Winner: Alicia Vikander for "The Danish Girl": This is her first Oscar nomination and win
Best Costome Design
Winner: "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Best Production Design
Winner: "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Achievement makeup and Hairstyling
Winner: "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Achievement In cinema
Winner: "The Revenant"
Achievement In film editing
Winner: "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Achievement in sound editing
Winner: "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Sound Mixing
Winner: "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Achievement Vision affects
Winner: "Ex Machina"
Best Animated Short Film
Winner: "Bear Story"
Animated feature film
Winner: "Inside Out"
Supporting actor
Winner: Mark Rylance in "Bridge of Spies"
Best Documentary Short Film
"A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness"
Best Documentary Feature
Winner: "Amy"
Best Live Action Short
Winner: "Stutterer"
Foreign Language Film
Winner: "Son of Saul"
Best Original Scores
Winner: "The Hateful Eight"
Best Original Song
Winner: “Writing’s on the Wall” for the movie "Spectre" written and sung by Sam Smith
Achievement Director
Winner: "The Revenant," directed by Alejandor G. Iñárritu
Best Actress Leading Roll
Winner: Brie Larson in "The Room"
Best Actor Leading Roll
Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Revenant"
Best Picture:
Winner: "Spotlight"
Congratulations to all of the winners, and especially to Leonardo DiCaprio for winning the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Roll! Besides DiCaprio winning an Oscar, what also made the night is when Chris Rock bought out his children and asked everyone to help them raise money for Girl Scouts. They bought boxes of Girl Scout cookies and over $65,000 had been raised that night for them. Sam Smith came out to perform that night as well, looking almost unrecognizable after losing so much weight. There were a lot of memorable performances that night, especially Lady Gaga’s performance. To see her performance, and to watch the acceptance speech of the winners visit the Oscar website by clicking here.
