The 88th Academy Award- REVIEWED

The Oscar for 2016 came and gone. The coverage was about 2hr 52mins long and that was without the commercial. The official results can be found here at imdb.

As we all know the Oscar for this year was faced with controversy even before it got started. The big issue was no blacks were nominated. Although there were  a few notable performances like Will Smith in Concussion and M B Jordan in Creed or even the director of Straight Out of Compton, they were all not listed. Some actors also boycotted the ceremony this year like Spike Lee with Will Smith and his wife.

To show that the Oscar is not about racism or they are trying to eliminate such notion, they have Chris Rock to host the show. And they were sporting enough to make jokes of the situation like putting footage of Blacks appearing on notable movie scene like LD Carpio was mauled by a black girl instead of the bear, Chris Rock stucked on Mars and Mission control were reluctant to rescue as he was black and a few more. But those are all accepted in good taste.


The film with the most wins I reckoned would be Mad Max Fury Road followed by The Revenant. A film that had made lots of money but loosed even to the low budget movie was Star Wars The Force Awakens. So did the Martian.

Now here are my review on some interested and important categories which I dont agree.

Special Effects
Although I like Ex Machina, it should not win this category beating Star Wars and even Mad Max. The effects of the film is good when you are watching it as a film. But when comparing to other bigger films it is not that great.

Soundtrack
Not Spectre ! This is after listening to the songs played live that night. Lady Gaga's song is more diversified and meaningful.

Best Male Supporting Actor 
Stallone should have won not the one in Bridges of Spies. It took real skill to do a character like Rocky in Creed as someone who is not only sick with Cancer but a coach. The character in BOS was contained all the time - who cant do that ?

Best Male Actor
Leonardo D Carpio won. If you judge from acting Eddie of Danish Girl is superb. But if you take into consideration the preseverance to be and act a character then LDC should win. But this is Best Male Actor not Best Male Committed Actor.

Best Female Actor
Have said it before. Alicia Vikander won as Best Supporting female actor which many said not to be her category. If she was in Best Female, and I am one of the judges, shes my winner not overated Bree Larson.

Well thats my review, see you next year.