Posted on 02/29/2016 6:27:30 AM PST by LdSentinal
Chris Rock came out swinging in one of the best opening monologues in years and took on the diversity controversy from the get-go at the 88th Academy Awards. Last night also saw Brie Lawson win Best Actress, Leonardo DiCaprio snag Best Actor in his fifth nomination, Alejandro G. Iñárritu was named Best Director and Spotlight won Best Picture. With all that, the Oscars themselves had a not such a great night with a 23.1/37 in metered market results.
That’s down 6% from the 24.6/39 that the ceremony got last year in early results from the 56 markets across the country. That 2015 Neil Patrick Harris hosted Oscars were matched with the 2011 Oscars for the third worst the Academy Awards has done in MM ratings since the last time Rock fronted the gig in 2005 – only 2009’s 23.3 and 2008’s 21.9 were lower.
The 2005 Oscars were the best the show has done in the past decade with a 30.1/43 MM rating. That high has also remained true in later numbers for the show. With Million Dollar Baby winning Best Picture, the 2005 Oscars ended up with a massive 42.14 million viewers and 19.6 million among adults 18-49. In both categories, that was a dip from 2004’s results. Compared to the last time Rock hosted 11-years ago, last night’s 8:30 – midnight show was down 23% in metered market results.
Last year’s Oscars ended up with 37.3 million total viewers and an 11.0/26 rating in the key demo. That was the lowest performance among adults 18-49 since 2008 and the lowest viewership since 2009. We will update with more numbers from last night’s Oscars as they come in.
Both the Oscars and Super Bowl Half Time Show are radical black activist browbeating of whites - and demonstrations of the active discrimination against whites today.
And liberals wonder why people are supporting Trump, the only candidate actively standing up to this crap.
We didn’t watch it. Saw some stuff on the news but didn’t bother wasting 4 hours or so on listening to godless liberals trashing on God’s people.
Pretty sure most Crackas ain’t gonna go watch Affirmative Action movies either. Watch for a bunch of them next time.
To put Asian children on stage so that Rock could make a racist joke at their expense, humiliating the kids in front of millions of people, was disgusting. The left shows, once again, that they actually Practice what they accuse others of doing.
Sean Penn is that you in hiding?
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They were an item until recently.
It’s bad enough she is very liberal, now you tell me she’s been with Sean Penn. You’re testing my resolve.
Sasheen wasn’t an actual Indian either. She was an actress hired to play one.
What films do you think should have been honored?
You’re gonna have to prove that claim that Sasheen Little feather was a fake Indian like the Sicilian teardrop garbage one
Her website and Google say otherwise
Rare for you to be wrong though about your back yard
But if you start picking on me I will send Billy Jack to your house and tell him you beat up hippies
I had always heard she was an actress named Marie Cruz.
But it looks she really was an Indian though! In addition to being an actress.
I’m reluctant to argue Hollywood with you
But I got McLaughlin on speed dial if you get froggy
Tom..not John
I watched Forsaken last nite late during my TV time with my 8 gear old
Demi Moore to be almost my age looks good
Her and Jennifer Connelly.... Handsome weathering
Michael Winncott chewed it up though as a Doc Holiday sort
Regarding the political content of the Oscars: the producers actively discourage it. The winners who spout that stuff are like naughty children trying to get in some fun before the parents shoo them off the stage.
I always heard Yma Sumac was Amy Camus backwards, but apparently she was really Yma Sumac.
Sacheen Littlefeather (born Marie Louise Cruz,[1] November 14, 1946) is an actress and an activist for Native American civil rights.
Littlefeather is best known for presenting a speech on behalf of actor Marlon Brando, declining the Academy Award for Best Actor which he had won for his performance in The Godfather, at the 45th Academy Awards ceremony on March 27, 1973, which he also boycotted in protest of the treatment of Native Americans by the film industry. She wore an Apache dress on the occasion.[citation needed]
Littlefeather was born in Salinas, California.[2] Her ancestry is Apache, Yaqui, and Pueblo on her father’s side, while her mother is of French, German, and Dutch descent. On her official web site, she states that her father was from the White Mountain Apache and Yaqui tribes from Arizona and that “Cruz” is her father’s recognized tribal name.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacheen_Littlefeather
Birth name: Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo
Also known as: Yma Súmac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yma_Sumac
It’s a stage name, but they used to claim she was really a Jewish broad from NYC named Amy Camus. I guess they noticed it spelled a real name backwards. Otherwise, I don’t know.
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