Diamond Thug is an indie-electric rock band from Cape Town, South Africa and the band released their new album ‘Monday Will Have To Wait’ on Friday.
The new album is sitting at number five on the Alternative charts in South Africa on iTunes.
Diamond Thug is made up of Chantel Van T – Vox/Synth/Guitar, Adrian Culhane – Backing Vox/Synth/Guitar/Production, Danilo Queiros – Backing Vox/Bass/Production, and Ted Buxton – Drums.
Diamond Thug was born as an experimental project by Chantel Van T and Danilo Queiros in the Spring of 2012. The band explored and combined various electronic genres, using only a computer and voice. In early 2013 Adrian Culhane joined the band as a composer and drummer, as they began to perform their compositions live. Adrian later took the role of guitarist, leaving space for Ted Buxton to join as a drummer in early 2015.
Oooh ooh ooh
I feel your desire.
Oooh ooh ooh
and I can’t hide it.
Have you felt the lift of the light?
Felt the shadow and drifted at night?
Have you felt the release of your physical bounds
and held the hand of someone you love?
Do you know how it feels?
Do you know what it feels to feel like love?
Do you know what it means to love?
Oooh ooh ooh
I feel your desire.
Oooh ooh ooh
I can’t hide it.
I feel, I feel, it’s what I feel now
You won’t be fulfilled being a seeking man,
so find your desire, well if you can.
Will you know what it feels to feel like then? Oh!
Do you know how it feels?
Will you know what it feels like then?
Will you know what it means to love?
Oooh ooh ooh
I feel your desire.
Oooh ooh ooh
I can’t hide it.
I feel, I feel it’s what I feel now.
Have you felt something truer than true?
Well my mind’s eye is keeping me to you.
Oooh ooh ooh
I feel your desire.
Oooh ooh ooh
I can’t hide it.
I feel, I feel it’s what I feel now
Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel, Alien: Covenant, and Shane Black’s The Predator now have official release dates. One makes sense, another is a little odd.
The Predator will be released March 2, 2018. That’s a somewhat solid date for a fourth film in a franchise that’s been absent for a while. It will presumably be the week after the Oscars, which is a pretty solid place on the calendar as Hollywood pushes forward and gets their heavy hitters going for the year.
Meanwhile, Alien: Covenant has been moved from its initial October 2017 release date back to August 4, 2017. Yes, this is a summer release date technically. But most of the time, the big tentpole summer blockbusters are beginning to thin out when the calendar moves to the dog days. October is much better, at least if feels that way to me. Maybe this is reading too much into release dates (it is), but release dates can say quite a bit about studio confidence.
Fox has scheduled PREDATOR for release on March 2, 2018.
Alien: Covenant has collected a diverse and intriguing cast, including Inherent Vice’s Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, Billy Crudup, Demián Bichir, and Carmen Ejogo joining Michael Fassbender, the only returning star from Prometheus.
Oscars 2016 had a tough fight this year from the jump. With #OscarsSoWhite dominating the headlines leading into the night, racial inequality in the industry was sure to be a hot-button issue for host Chris Rock. Thankfully, Rock didn’t bow to the pressure and boycott himself, because his work here was important, amusing, and it inundated the telecast to the point where the sting was taken out of the negative press.
The Academy is making strides to ensure the outrage over Oscars 2016 was not a futile protest. It’s been time for change in the voting body for a while now; it’s sad it came to this, true, but at least now, moving forward, steps have been made. All that being said, Chris Rock handled the controversy with volume shooting, staying away from the edge but making enough clever quips and jabs along the way so everyone can hopefully move forward.
And now for the awards portion of our evening.
– The 88th Academy Awards was one of the better, more balanced ceremonies in a long time. Mad Max: Fury Road won six of its ten nominations, dominating the technical side of things. As it should have. Leonardo DiCaprio finally got his gold, and Alejandro Inarritu took home his second consecutive Best Director statue (the first time that’s happened since the 50s).
Some may scoff at Inarritu’s second win in as many years because of the relentless marketing campaign he mounted surrounding the grueling shoot of The Revenant. I preferred George Miller, but there is no denying the scope of his picture. It most certainly was a tough shoot, no matter how may times he thinks he has to tell us it was. I respect the work he and his team put in.
– And how about that DiCaprio acceptance speech? Great work Leo, we all know you had time to practice…
https://youtu.be/dyp_DVgT260
– It feels right that Spotlight won Best Picture. It’s been my favorite all along, as much as I loved Fury Road and enjoyed (yes, enjoyed) The Revenant. Spotlight is a grown-up picture about important things, told through a compelling lens of truth. Well deserved.
– Mark Rylance is fine in Bridge of Spies. But better than Stallone and Tom Hardy? I was in the Stallone camp, not just because he was due, but because he did great work in Creed. If it wasn’t him, I was pulling for Hardy, the best part of The Revenant. Alas, it went to Rylance, and he’s good. But not better.
– The most awkward moment of the night had to be Sam Smith winning Best Song for his dreadful Spectre tune, right after Lady Gaga (introduced by Joe Biden, no less) delivered a touching and emotionally devastating rendition of “Til it Happens to You” from The Hunting Ground. Gaga brought the house down – her specialty these days at awards shows – and then Sam Smith gets up there for an abysmal Bond theme? Bad move, Oscars.
– Not sure how the “In Memoriam” forgets Abe Vigoda.
– Louis C.K. and his intro of documentary short feature was great. Hilarious, and truthful, just like everything he does.
– I still don’t quite know what the Stacey Dash bit was about.
– I’m gonna miss Jacob Tremblay until he does another film.
Overall, despite the controversy surrounding it, Oscars 2016 delivered some wonderful balance to the winners, solid comedy, and memorable moments overall. I’m ready for next year, when we’ve hopefully corrected some of the diversity issues the industry faced this year and in decades past. It’s time.
When you think of the oldest examples of superheroes being translated to the movies or television, likely you think of a DC Comics character. And no wonder, because Marvel didn’t become a significant success until Fantastic Four in the 1960’s. Superman and Batman were in the comics in the late 1930’s and were quickly snatched up for movie serials, WWII war bond ads and, in the case of Superman and Captain Marvel, 1950’s TV. DC is credited with creating the superhero genre, having published the first superhero comic ever with Superman’s first appearance in 1938.
“I’m Stan Lee. This is Jack Kirby.”
Marvel, on the other hand, is credited with making comic book superheroes feel real. While DC’s characters are big, larger than life characters, loosely based on ancient mythology (with a sci-fi slant), Marvel’s characters, whether sci-fi or more mystical fantasy, were always characters you could relate to. They gave the secret (or not so secret) identities of these characters a life beyond waiting for something bad to happen to they could find a phone booth (or something) and become the costumed crime fighter in the front of the comic.
“Wanna watch Baywatch?”
Marvel was ‘late to the game”, so to speak, but they also upped the game, reinvigorating what was a dying art form at the time by creating real characters. To hear Stan Lee tell it, this all happened because he was sick of comics and tried to get fired by doing things his way. I wouldn’t recommend doing that at your job unless you have something to fall back on. But it worked for Stan Lee and the comic book medium as a whole because DC also started giving their secret identities more interesting private lives, in imitation of Marvel.
With movies it was the same way, DC was the first to put their characters on the big screen. It had been that way since the black and white movie serials. Christopher Reeve and Michael Keaton made us believe a man could either fly or play a dark Batman. Marvel was late to the game here too, having successes with The Incredible Hulk TV show and a few cartoon series, but watching DC get far more movie business from the 70s-90s.
Before he became a household name with his SpongeBob cameo.
But why didn’t Christopher Reeve ever hang out with Batman? Or Michael Keaton with Superman? Warner Bros. owns DC Comics. Adam West was a little older than Christopher Reeve. They could have done an older Batman in a Superman: The Movie follow-up, just like they’re doing now. Or recast. What did it take for DC Comics to do a shared universe in the movies, even after (thanks to Bruce Timm), they had a lot of success with that kind of thing in cartoons?
Well, Marvel did it. Just as DC Comics started the superhero genre so that Marvel could improve on it, now DC is scrambling to imitate the incredible success of the MCU with admittedly better-known characters than Iron Man. I don’t know if those Internet rumors about Warner execs being worried about Batman v. Superman and looking for a way to readjust by pushing a Ben Affleck Batman movie forward are true. But a good chunk of the reason that DC is pushing the Justice League movie forward first and then doing solo films is not to look like they’re imitating Marvel (again). They’re doing it backward, so it looks different, just like what some people do with copyrighted video on YouTube.
Or it could it be that someone who is in charge of these films pointed out that Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man were once second or third-tier characters and figured out that they would be justified in rushing things a bit because everybody knows who Superman and Batman are. They can put the Superman/Batman logo on a movie poster or in a department store and people will recognize it easier than “that astronaut riding the ant or whatever.”
“Holy…is that David Hasselhoff?”
What do you think, Marvel and/or DC fanboys? Is DC Comics the jealous sibling that tries to imitate what his (younger?) brother does? And why did we never get the Adam West/Christopher Reeve/Lynda Carter Super Friends movie that I dreamed about when I was six? Sound off in the comments section.
One of the first trailers we saw for Captain America: Civil War brought back a familiar face from the early days of the MCU, from their second movie in 2008. It was General Ross, from The Incredible Hulk (starring Ed Norton). Up until this point, the only thing from that particular movie that made its way to the rest of the MCU was the Hulk himself (in The Avengers) and a brief reference to General Ross in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Sure, they referenced the super soldier serum and S.H.I.E.L.D. in that movie before the first Captain America came out (and Tony Stark had a cameo), but being that Incredible Hulk was one of the lower-grossing MCU movies, a lot of the stuff they introduced got pushed aside. Later, we found out why.
“Because it was classified!”
I’ve always said that one of the reasons The Incredible Hulk didn’t do as well at the box office was because of the abysmal Ang Lee version, simply titled Hulk. Comic book fans were curious about this whole movie universe that Marvel was building, but mainstream audiences stayed away because the other Hulk movie sucked. They wanted something like the old TV show and instead got Hulk’s daddy issues and a lame battle with Hulk dogs. When the better version came out, the taste of that other movie was still in their mouths. So, they stayed away from a Hulk movie that blended the original comics and the Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno TV show very well while setting up better films.
Then, when The Avengers came out, THAT was when Hulk made his comeback, as he was one of the standout characters. Joss Whedon managed to make him funny without compromising who he is, the angry monster. The “rag doll” scene between him and Loki remains one of my favorite scenes in an MCU movie. (On a personal note, I met my wife the day The Avengers came out, and this scene was the first time she heard me laugh out loud.)
We know that Hulk will make his next appearance in Thor: Ragnarok and that he will team up with Thor. Fans are hoping for elements of the Planet Hulk and World War Hulk storylines from the comics in this film, which will take place mainly off-planet. We know that there is some kind of legal matter over Marvel sharing the rights with Universal (producers of the Ang Lee version) that would make a solo Hulk movie more expensive, not to mention the cost of keeping a CGI character on the screen for an extended period of time. The same reason the last TMNT movie focused on the human characters so much, as this film centered around four hulking monstrosities that couldn’t possibly be stealthy ninjas. I suspect Mark Ruffalo will shrink down to Banner or hide in the shadows a lot in Thor 3.
So, between the extra cost of CGI and the rights dispute with Universal, two characters from The Incredible Hulk have gotten brushed aside. Betty Ross, Hulk’s love interest/General Ross’ daughter, and Samuel Sterns, fellow scientist who, in the comics, turns into iconic villain The Leader.
Now, a hero’s girlfriend in a movie can very easily be written out of a series. James Bond has had twice as many “girlfriends” as he’s had movies. (cough…cough…Jane Foster.) Maybe there can be some dramatic reunion down the road, but they were apparently setting The Leader up to be the villain in a follow-up. And the last time we saw Samuel Sterns, he was on the ground with some of the gamma serum he had made from Hulk’s blood dripping into his head. His head was pulsating like a heart and a smile was spreading across his face as a knowing nod to the audience that he would be the villain in the sequel.
“I look better green.”
And he wasn’t. They never made another solo Hulk film or included him in anything else. Hulk will most likely not be in Civil War, and it’s unlikely that The Leader will show up in whatever planet or dimension that Thor: Ragnarok takes place. Now that General Ross is returning to the MCU, would you like to see a future Hulk movie (Phase Four? Five? Six?) where Bruce Banner is reunited with Betty Ross and fights The Leader? Let me know in the comments below.
Big Short
Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
Bridge of Spies Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
Brooklyn
Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
Mad Max: Fury Road
Doug Mitchell and George Miller, Producers
The Martian
Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam, Producers
The Revenant
Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon, Producers
Room
Ed Guiney, Producer
Spotlight – WINNER
Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, Producers
“Thank you, hello everybody. I love you, Lauren, we did it. This film gave a voice to survivors, and this Oscar amplifies that voice which we hope will become a choir that will resonate all the way to the Vatican. Pope Francis, it’s time to protect the children and restore the faith. Thank you very much,” said Michael Sugar.
“We would not be here today without the heroic efforts of our reporters. Not only do they effect global change, but they absolutely show us the necessity for investigative journalism,” said Blye Pagon Faust.
“We’d also like to thank our partners: Tom Ortenberg and everyone at Open Road, Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King and everyone at Participant, eOne, Anonymous Content, First Look, Michael Bederman, David Mizner. Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, your tenacity and vision is unparalleled. To our cast, if there ever was a perfectly calibrated ensemble, you are it. Thank you so much,” said Nicole Rocklin.
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant – WINNER
“Thank you, thank you all so very much. Thank you to the Academy, thank you to all of you in this room. I have to congratulate the other incredible nominees this year for their unbelievable performances. “The Revenant” was a product of the tireless efforts of an unbelievable cast and crew I got to work alongside. First off to my brother in this endeavor, Mr. Tom Hardy. Tom, your fierce talent on-screen can only be surpassed by your friendship off-screen. To Mr. Alejandro Iñárritu, as the history of cinema unfolds, you have forged your way into history these past two years. What an unbelievable talent you are. Thank you to you and Chivo for creating a transcendent cinematic experience for all of us. Thank you to everybody at Fox and New Regency, in particular Arnon Milchan. You were the champion of this endeavor. My entire team. I have to thank everyone from the very onset of my career. Mr. Caton-Jones for casting me in my first film. Mr. Scorsese for teaching me so much about the cinematic art form. To Mr. Rick Yorn, thank you for helping me navigate my way through this industry. And to my parents, none of this would be possible without you. And to my friends, I love you dearly, you know who you are,” said Leonardo DiCaprio.
“And lastly, I just want to say this: Making “The Revenant” was about man’s relationship to the natural world, a world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow. Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people who will be most affected by this, for our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed. I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so very much,” said DiCaprio.
Micheal Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room – WINNER
“Thank you. Thank you first to the Academy. I want to start big because the thing that I love about moviemaking is how many people it takes to make it, so I want to start first with the Telluride Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, who gave us a chance, who gave us a platform first. I’d like to thank A24 for taking this movie into their hands and sharing it with the world. I’d like to thank our director, Lenny Abrahamson, who is absolutely incredible. Emma Donoghue, who created this world. Jacob Tremblay, my partner through this in every way possible. My real partner, Alex Greenwald, I love you the whole thing. To my parents, my agent, my manager, Chris Fioto, Anne Woodward, Lindsay Galin, the rest of my team, my friends, my family. Thank you to everyone who participated in “Room.” Thank you to all of you who saw it. Thank you to the fans. Thank you to the moviegoers. Thank you for going to the theater and seeing our films. I appreciate it. Thank you,” said Brie Larson.
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge Of Spies – WINNER
“I’ve always just adored stories, hearing them, seeing them, being in them, so for me to have the chance to work with, I think, one of the greatest storytellers of our time, Steven Spielberg, it’s just been such an honor. And unlike some of the leaders we’re being presented with these days, he leads with such love that he’s surrounded by masters in every craft on his film, every craft, not the least, Mr. Tom Hanks. People, I’m so pleased that our film has been nominated so many times, and as a face of the film, I meet many people in the streets and it’s lovely to have them, they’re always saying to me, “would it help?” and all that stuff. And I think, if you ever wondered about acting with Tom Hanks, would it help. The answer’s clearly yes,” said Mark Rylance.
“I want to just say thank you to my fellow nominees. I don’t know how they separate my acting from your glorious acting in these wonderful films that you’re in, which everyone must see. I don’t know how they separated the five of us from all the other supporting actors who are making films at the moment. It’s a wonderful time to be an actor and I’m proud to be part of it. Thank you,” said Rylance.
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl -WINNER
“Wow. Thank you so much, the Academy, for this incredible recognition. I share this with our fabulous crew and cast, and I want to thank, I want to thank Gail and Anne and Nina and Working Title and Focus and Tom. Where are you? My director. Thank you so much for your support and belief in me. And Eddie, there you are. Thank you for being the best acting partner. I couldn’t have done it without you. You raised my game. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for my dream team which is Theresa, Angharad, Charles, Laura. I want to thank my friends [unintelligible] and my mom and dad. Thank you for giving me the belief that anything can happen, even though I would never have believed this. Thank you,” said Alicia Vikander.
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Directing
The Big Short
Mad Max
The Revenant – WINNER
“[Spanish.] Thank you to the Academy. I can’t believe this is happening. I—it’s amazing to receive this award tonight. But it’s much more beautiful for me to share it with all the talented and crazy cast and colleagues and crew members along the continent that made this film possible. To all and each of you, I thank you from my heart. Leo, you are “The Revenant.” Thank you for, give every soul, your soul, your art, your life. Tom Hardy, all the Native American cast, all the English American cast, thank you very much for your trust, for your talent. I want to thank Chivo. Thank you for bringing the light to this journey. And I want to thank too, to Arnon Milchan. Thank you for your unconditional support. My producers, Mary Parent, Steve Golin, all the people in Fox and New Regency. I, I, very lucky to be here tonight, okay, but unfortunately, many others haven’t had the same luck. There is a line in the film that says, Glass to his mixed-race son, “They don’t listen to you, they just see the color of your skin.” So what a great opportunity to our generation to really liberate ourselves from all prejudice and, you know, this tribal thinking, and make sure for once and forever that the color of the skin become as irrelevant as the length of our hair. This is for my father. Thank you very much,” said Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Room
Spotlight
Film Editing
Big Short
Mad Max – WINNER
“Charlize [waves to her]! Us Mad Maxers are doing okay tonight. Thank you so much to the Academy. You know, “Mad Max” was the best-reviewed film of 2015. Audiences loved it, and to be honored tonight is just more than we could ever have hoped for. But, it took enormous creative courage and guts to make this film, so I just want to say thanks to George Miller, Doug Mitchell and the whole crew that endured six months in that Namibian desert to bring back the most amazing footage. But honestly, it’s in the edit room that the final…that the film is finally forged. It’s the final rewrite, so I just want to salute my beloved picture department who are in Sydney, and all who work in post, who work with their hands, heads and most importantly, their hearts,” said Margaret Sixel.
The Revenant
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Original Score
Bridge of Spies Carol
The Hateful Eight – WINNER
[Ennio Morricone spoke in Italian, which was translated by an on-stage interpreter.]
“Thank you, the Academy, for this prestigious acknowledgement. My tribute goes to the other nominees, and in particular to the esteemed John Williams. There isn’t a great soundtrack without a great movie that inspires it. I want to thank Quentin Tarantino for having chosen me, Harvey Weinstein and the entire team who made this extraordinary film. I dedicate this award to my wife Maria, who is there watching me. Thank you,” said Morricone.
Sicario Star Wars
Production Design
Bridge Of Spies The Danish Girl
Mad Max – WINNER
“It never ceases to annoy me how many people it takes to make me look competent, so, uh. To get one of these, you got an idea of the multitudes, the multitudes of Australians, New Zealanders, Brits, Americans, South Africans, Namibians, who all came together under George’s vision to bring you a tale about a man with mental health issues, an amputee Amazon and five runaway sex slaves, so, uh. I’d like to chalk this one up as the first Oscar for diversity,” said Colin Gibson.
“Thank you, Academy, and thank you to the most amazing crew. Thank you,” said Lisa Thompson.
The Martian The Revenant
Visual Effects
Ex Machina – WINNER
“I’m really bad at predicting this, apparently. This is so utterly unexpected. Visual effects is massively a team game, more so maybe than any other department. And we have to thank people in two directions: we’ve got to thank the studio, we’ve got to thank the production. We’ve got to thank Alex for being an amazing director. We have to thank Alicia for being Ava. And we have to thank the teams of artists, production and technical personnel at Double Negative, Milk VFX, and Utopia, who are amazing. Without them we are nothing. Thank you so, so much,” said Andrew Whitehurst.
“Thank you,” said Mark Ardington.
Mad Max The Revenant Star Wars The Martian
Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short – WINNER
“Thank you so much to the Academy. Also thank you to Michael Lewis for writing an amazing book that inspired Charles and I so much. Thank you to Paramount for taking a risk on a movie that’s about financial esoterica and believing in it. Thank you to my beautiful wife, Shira Piven, there she is. And my children, Lili Rose, my two daughters, Lili Rose and Pearl, I love you so much. Most of all, if you don’t want big money to control government, don’t vote for candidates that take money from big banks, oil or weirdo billionaires: Stop!” said Adam McKay.
“Thank you very much Plan B. Thank you very much Paramount. To my wife, Mili [Hebrew]. To my kids, I am so happy to be your father. Thank you,” said Charles Randolph.
Brooklyn Carol Martian Room
Original Screenplay
Bridge Of Spies Ex Machina Inside Out
Spotlight – WINNER
“We’ve got to thank Open Road. We’ve got to thank Participant. We’ve got to thank our wonderful producers, Michael Sugar, Nicole Rocklin, Blye Faust, Steve Golin. We’ve got to thank our wonderful cast and crew from Boston and Toronto. My wife who, Laura Dave, makes me a better writer every day and makes me a better human every day. And my father Bruce Singer who taught me how to dream,” said Josh Singer.
“Thank you very much, Academy. We made this film for all the journalists who have and continue to hold the powerful accountable and for the survivors whose courage and will to overcome is really an inspiration to all. We have to do, make sure this never happens again. To Rhonda Price, the Gersh Agency, Andrew Hurwitz. To my beautiful wife Wendy, Nora and Vivian, my family and all our friends, we thank you. This one’s for you Geno, we love you. Love you Mom and Dad,” said Tom McCarthy.
Straight Outta Compton
Animated Feature Film
Anomalisa Boy And The World
Inside Out – WINNER
“We are so lucky. Not just us, but everyone in this room, because, regardless of a gold man or not, we get to make stuff,” said Pete Docter.
“Right, we do. And on this film, every single storyboard, every single frame, cut, line of dialogue, every single pixel, was done by the amazing artists we work with at Pixar, led by John Lasseter. They should be up here with us tonight. We love them. Along with our amazing cast—best cast ever assembled, animated or otherwise—we love you,” said Jonas Rivera.
“We want to thank our wives: Amanda…,” said Docter.
“…Michele,” said Rivera.
“Our kids. This film was really born from watching our kids grow up, which is not easy. Anyone out there who’s in junior high, high school, working it out, suffering. There are days you’re gonna feel sad, you’re gonna feel angry, you’re gonna be scared. That’s nothing you can choose, but you can make stuff. Make films. Draw. Write. It’ll make a world of difference,” said Pete Docter.
Shaun The Sheep Movie When Marnie Was There
Cinematography
Carol The Hateful Eight Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant – WINNER
“Academy, thank you so much. This is incredible. I want to share it with the cast and crew, especially with my compadre, Mr. Iñárritu. To your passion, Alejandro. And I want to share this also with Leo and Tom, for their great performance. All the producers, New Regency and Fox for all the freedom and the support. My wife Lauren, Ale, Dani, I love you so much. Daniela, happy birthday. To my parents, my friends. And to all the cinematographers that were nominated with me, I admire you so much. I love your work. Alejandro, thank you so much,” said Emmanuel Lubezki.
Sicario
Costume Design
Carol Cinderella The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
“What another lovely day. Very quickly, if Iain Smith, our amazing executive producer from Scotland hadn’t sent me a text saying, “Whatcha doing at the moment,” and then got me on a plane out to meet George Miller and Doug Mitchell, I wouldn’t obviously be standing here. It was a year of our lives in the Namibian desert. We had the most amazing crew. I hope that, I heard that they were on ticker tape, I thought the names were going on the screen. But honestly if anybody wants to know more about any of them, just get in touch with me through my wonderful agents Wayne Fitterman from William Morris and Sue Latimer from ARG. But it was an incredible experience. I just want to say one quite serious thing, I’ve been thinking about this a lot, but actually it could be horribly prophetic, “Mad Max,” if we’re not kinder to each other and if we don’t stop polluting our atmosphere, so you know, it could happen,” said Jenny Beavan.
The Revenant
Documentary Feature
Amy – WINNER
“Thank you, this is amazing. Thank you to everyone in the Academy, everyone who voted for us, all the love you’ve shown to the film. To the contributors, everyone who trusted us to actually make this film. Really, this film is all about Amy, this is all about showing the world who she really was: not her tabloid persona, the beautiful girl, the amazing soul, funny, intelligent, witty, someone special, someone who needed looking after. We just wanted to make a film to show the world who she really was,” said Asif Kapadia.
“Thank you to A24, the whole team in the U.S., the gang at On The Corner, our friends at Cinetic, everybody at Universal: David Joseph, Adam Barker. Chris King, our editor, this is for you, my friend. And lastly, this is for the fans, Amy’s fans who loved her through thick and thin, that’s all she ever really needed. Thank you very much,” said James Gay-Rees.
“And our families and our wives and our children. Thank you,” said Kapadia.
Cartel Land The Look of Silence What Happened, Miss Simone Ukraine
Documentary Short Subject
BODY TEAM 12
David Darg and Bryn Mooser
CHAU, BEYOND THE LINES
Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck
CLAUDE LANZMANN: SPECTRES OF THE SHOAH
Adam Benzine
A GIRL IN THE RIVER: THE PRICE OF FORGIVENESS – WINNER
“Thank God, I have two of them now [laughs]. This is what happens when determined women get together. From Saba, the woman in my film who remarkably survived an honor killing and shared her story, to Sheila Nevins and Lisa Heller from HBO, to Tina Brown, who supported me from day one. To the men who champion women, like Geof Bartz in my film, who’s edited the film, to Asad Faruqi, to my friend Ziad, who brought this film to the government. To all the brave men out there, like my father and my husband, who push women to go to school and work, and who want a more just society for women. Last week—this week the Pakistani Prime Minister has said that he will change the law on honor killing after watching this film. That is the power of film,” said Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
LAST DAY OF FREEDOM
Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
Makeup and Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
“Wow, amazing, you can pop the corks at home. We’re bringing home gold. Fantastic, thank you very much to the Academy. Thank you very much to Warner Bros. Thank you to all our fantastic crew across the globe; there were many of them as Colin said. A lot of it’s already been said by Jenny and Colin, but once again, we want to thank George, who is…you know, it’s his vision, yeah, his vision. And thank you for taking us all along. You’re amazing, George, we love you,” said Lesley Vanderwalt.
“I’d just like to thank my parents and my beautiful one-week-old today daughter Elvira, and her beautiful mother Heather,” said Damian Martin.
“And all our supporters back home,” said Elka Wardega.
“All our colleagues. Thank you so much. Thank you to the Academy,” said Lesley Vanderwalt.
100 Year Old Man The Revenant
Original Song
50 Shades Of Gray Racing Extinction Youth The Hunting Ground
Spectre – WINNER
“I actually can’t breathe right now, oh my gosh. Thank you to this man here, Jimmy Napes. To all the nominees, you’re incredible. Gaga, you’re incredible. I read an article a few months ago by Sir Ian McKellen and he said that no openly gay man had ever won an Oscar, and if this is the case, even if it isn’t the case, I want to dedicate this to the LGBT community all around the world. I stand here, I stand here tonight as a proud gay man and I hope we can all stand together as equals one day. Thank you so much,” said Sam Smith.
Animated Short Film
BEAR STORY – WINNER
Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
“Wow,” said Escala.
“We are really happy right now. We want to thank the Academy, our families and everyone in Chile that have supported us and trust in our work. Personally I want to dedicate this achievement to my grandfather, who is the one who inspire this story and to all the people like him who have suffered in exile. We really hope that this must never happen again. Thanks,” said Osorio.
“Thank you all. We are from a small country called Chile. This is the first Oscar for our country, so this is very important for us. Thank you all. Un gran aplauso para todos. Viva Chile!” said Escala.
PROLOGUE
Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
SANJAY’S SUPER TEAM
Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT COSMOS
Konstantin Bronzit
WORLD OF TOMORROW
Don Hertzfeldt
Live Action Short Film
Ave Maria Day One Everything Will Be OK Shock
Sutter – WINNER
“You know, when you make your, your first ever film, you’ve gotta convince a lot of people to jump on board and take a risk with a first-time director, and, you know, to every single member of the cast and crew of “Stutterer” for jumping on board and taking that risk with me I’m forever grateful. And to the Academy for this award. It’s such a huge honor. Thank you so much. To my amazing parents for all the support, thank you. Chloe Pirrie, you’re amazing, wherever you are up there. Matthew—to the wonderful Matthew Needham, you are this film, brother, thank you so much. Every day is a proud day to be Irish, but today even more so than usual. To everyone for all the support back home, thank you so much,” said Benjamin Cleary.
“On behalf of myself and Shan who produced this film with me, we just want to thank Ben for bringing on this journey, and to the Academy for honoring short films. Thank you,” said Serena Armitage.
Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
“For thousands of years, we’ve been telling stories in the dark around a flickering light, whether a campfire or a projector. David and I do it with sound. George Miller would tell us “Mad Max” is a film we see with our ears. I knew sound could tell my story, but nothing quite like this. Sound artists are storytellers. Thank you, George. I hope to see you around the next campfire,” said Mark Mangini.
“Yeah, I’m so proud, so proud to work on this loud, loud, loud film, that actually had silence in it. So good to work with this guy. And I’m proud to represent all my Australian colleagues. Yeah!” said David White.
The Martian The Revenant Sicario Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sound Mixing
Bridge Of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road – WINNER
“Thank you very much. First of all a big shout out to the Academy, thank you for all your support of our incredible creative craft. To our fellow nominees, we can’t say enough, we’re so proud to be in your company and we’re so proud to represent tonight. To George Miller, you’re the heart and soul of all this. We can’t say enough about you, thank you, thank you, thank you for giving us the opportunity. To Warner Bros., to all of our friends there and the people that support us. And most of all to our families, to our wives, to Jeanne and to Sue, to our families, to James up in the cheap seats. Thank you all very, very much,” said Chris Jenkins.
“Thanks everybody. Thanks to all the Australians, Namibians,” Ben Osmo.
The Martian The Revenant Star Wars: The Force Awakens
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT
Colombia MUSTANG
France
SON OF SAUL – WINNER
Hungary
“Wow, thanks to the Academy for this incredible honor. Thank you to Sony Pictures Classics, Tom Bernard and Michael Barker for supporting us. Thanks to Hungary for funding this film. I want to share this with Géza Röhrig, my main actor, and the incredible cast and crew that believe in this project when no one else did. You know, even in the darkest hours of mankind, when in the darkest hours of mankind, there might be a voice within us, that allows us to remain human. That’s the hope of this film. Thank you very much, thank you,” said László Nemes.
Alicia Vikander defeated a tough group to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for The Danish Girl.
Vikander edged out Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams, and Kate Winslet.
“Wow. Thank you so much, the Academy, for this incredible recognition. I share this with our fabulous crew and cast, and I want to thank, I want to thank Gail and Anne and Nina and Working Title and Focus and Tom. Where are you? My director. Thank you so much for your support and belief in me. And Eddie, there you are. Thank you for being the best acting partner. I couldn’t have done it without you. You raised my game. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for my dream team which is Theresa, Angharad, Charles, Laura. I want to thank my friends [unintelligible] and my mom and dad. Thank you for giving me the belief that anything can happen, even though I would never have believed this. Thank you,” said Vikander.
Chris Rock opened the 88th Academy Awards with a monologue that didn’t pull any punches when it came to diversity in the award show.
Here are the best quotes from Rock’s monologue.
“Man, I counted at least 15 black people in that montage,” said Rock.
“You realize if they nominated hosts, I wouldn’t get this job! You’d be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now,” said Rock.
“I thought about quitting. I thought about it really hard. And the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart,” said Rock.
“Why are we protesting this Oscars? It’s the 88th Academy Awards, which means this no black nominees thing happened 71 other times. You got to figure that it happened in the 50s, 60s. One of those years, Sidney Poitier didn’t put out a movie. … Black people didn’t 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 cinematographer. When you’re hanging from a tree, it’s really hard to care about best documentary short,” said Rock.
“Everybody went mad [this year]. Jada [Pinkett Smith] got mad. Jada said she’s not coming. Isn’t she on a TV show? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties. I wasn’t invited,” said Rock.
“Is Hollywood racist? You got to go at that the right way. Is it burning cross racist? It’s a different type of racist. The other night, I was at a fundraiser for president Obama – a lot of you were there. There were four black people there: me, Quincy Jones, Russell Simmons, Questlove. The usual suspects. … At some point you get to take a picture with the president. I’m like, Mr. President, you see all these writers producers and actors, they don’t hire black people – and they’re the nicest white people on Earth. Cheese … You’re damn right Hollywood is racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It’s like, we like you, Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa,” said Rock.
“I understand you’re mad. I’m not hating. … It’s not fair that Will Smith was this good and didn’t get nominated. It’s also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for Wild Wild West. This year, things are going to be a little different. This year, in the In Memoriam package, it’s just going to be black people who were shot by the cops on their way to the theater,” said Rock.
“We got a black Rocky this year. Some people call it Creed; I call it Black Rocky. That’s an unbelievable statement, because Rocky takes place in a world where white athletes are as good as black athletes. Rocky is a science fiction movie. There are things that happened in Star Wars more believable than what happened in Rocky,” said Rock.
“If you want black nominees every year, you need to have black categories. You already do it with men and women. There’s no real reason for there to be a man and a woman category in acting. There’s no reason. It’s not track and field. You don’t have to separate them. Robert De Niro never said, ‘I should slow this acting down so Meryl Streep can catch up.’ If you want black people every year at the Oscars, just have black categories. Like best black friend. And the winner for the 18th year in a row is Wanda Sykes. It’s Wanda’s 18th black Oscars,” said Rock.
“We want opportunity. We want the black actors to get the same opportunities. Not just once. Leo gets a great part every year. All you guys get great parts all the time. Jamie Foxx is one of the best actors in the world. Jamie Foxx is so good in Ray that they went to the hospital and unplugged Ray Charles,” said Rock.
