‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ won six awards, while Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander and – surprise!
But it wasSpotlightwhich took the nights biggest honor: best picture.
In addition to DiCaprio, the acting trophies were all awarded to first-time winners.
(For the second straight year, every acting nominee at the Oscars was white.)
People are like, Chris you should boycott, Chris you should quit, Rock joked.
How come its only unemployed people that tell you to quit something?
I thought about quitting.
I thought about it really hard.
But I realized theyre gonna have the Oscars anyway.
Theyre not gonna cancel the Oscars because I quit.
And the last thing I need is to to lose another job to Kevin Hart, okay?
Rock added, Why are we protesting this Oscars?
Its the 88th Academy Awards, which means this no black nominees thing happened at least 71 other times.
You got to figure that it happened in the 50s, in the 60s.
One of those years, Sidney [Poitier] didnt put out a movie.
Im sure there were no black nominees some of those years, say 62 or 63.
Black people did not protest.
Because we had real things to protest at the time.
We were too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won best cinematography.
When your grandmothers swinging from a tree, its really hard to care about best documentary foreign short.
He closed the show calling out the Black Lives Matter movement.
Check out the full list of Oscars 2016 winners below.
