We always knew that Chris Rock was going to have some fun with this one, the glaring lack of black representation at this year’s Oscars a well-documented fact.
You can see the full list of winners HERE, including Leo DiCaprio’s acceptance speech.
So who and what did Rock poke fun at the most? Up top you get the full speech, with some highlights of the speech from Fox News:
Rock addressed the pressure on him to boycott the show, saying he “thought about quitting, I thought about it real hard,” before realizing, “They’re gonna have the Oscars anyway!”
Still, it was the diversity issue that dominated the night, with Rock peppering in jokes about the controversy between awards, interviewing African-American moviegoers outside a theater [sic] in Compton, Calif., and co-starring in a skit with Tracy Morgan, Whoopi Goldberg, and Leslie Jones where black actors were digitally added to some of the night’s nominated films.
Rock’s hosting skills have been lauded by most, with this critique below from the Daily Beast:
…Chris Rock’s monologue addressing #OscarsSoWhite will continue to be legend.
Wearing—quite pointedly—a white tuxedo jacket, Rock did what so many of us were waiting for him to do: He put a cultural conversation born out of embarrassing institutional racism into painful perspective. He shocked, prodded, and made those responsible for those failings wholly uncomfortable…
He was funny, brutal, divisive, and unapologetic, and, for the first time since, well, Rock himself belittled actors like Jude Law and was criticized for it, stopped the cycle of self-congratulation at the Oscars.
Better yet, it wasn’t a roast—it was Rock’s version of a sermon. A moral lecture told through a series of uncharacteristic (for this venue) personal stories, pearl-clutching jokes, and laid-bare truths…
It wasn’t easy to watch. That became acutely clear every time the camera cut to white celebrities in the audience for reaction shots and you could see the panic as they attempted to figure out how hard they’re allowed to laugh (My personal highlights of the monologue.)…
And with that, and the entrance of Emily Blunt and “somebody whiter,” Charlize Theron, the rest of the three-and-a-half hour slog was ready to commence. Business as usual.
You had to go and get a Charlize dig in there – not cool man.
I tell you who won’t be all that bothered by anything Chris Rock had to say – Leonardo DiCaprio, who will probably enjoy a festive afterparty before retiring to his room with four to five attractive ladies on his arm.
[sources:foxnews,dailybeast]
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