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Coming up next here on BBC News it's Talking Movies. | :00:00. | :00:32. | |
Hello from Hollywood, and the special Oscars edition of Talking | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
Movies. Today, we preview the 88th annual Academy Awards. We will be | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
rating the Oscar chances of many of the big names in the running, and | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
looking at the ongoing diversity controversy and finding out how | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
these protests have happened before. I will take us specifically | :00:55. | :01:04. | |
to 1962. Plus, the foreign language category, first nominations for | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Colombia and Jordan, with this differential competition from | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
Denmark and France. As a filmmaker it is a huge stage to be asked on | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
two. And again, a large contingent of British act as in the running. | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
Who are they and water chances? All that and more in this special Oscars | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
edition of talking movies. -- Talking Movies. This year's Oscars | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
contest is far from certain. That makes the Academy Awards, if he | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
regarded as a horse race, far more interesting. At the Oscars is more | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
than just nominees vying for the big prizes. That said, at Hollywood's | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
Chinese Theatre, the controversy surrounding it has meant there is a | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
big guessing game as to which film will win. I would have to say The | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
Revenant. Why is that? I like Leo, he is the man. I think The Revenant, | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
because it has a lot of buzz. I like mad Max, but probably The Revenant. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
The major category that is hardest to call seems to be that of best | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
picture. It is seen as a 3-way race. You have the big short, about the | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
financial crash of 2008. Also, Spotlight, about the sexual abuse | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
scandal. And then The Revenant, a revenge thriller starring Leonardo | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
DiCaprio. I think it could be between The Revenant and the Big | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
Short. I think those two are ahead of Spotlight at the moment. The | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
biggest issue to involve the academy has been the outcry that for the | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
second year in a row, all the acting nominees are white, despite well | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
reviewed performances by black actors in several films. Some stars | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
have said they will boycott, including Jaeger Pinkett Smith, in a | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
video posted online. Is it time that people of colour realise how much | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
power we have amassed? According to one count, just 2% of academy | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
members are black. The organisation has moved swiftly to institute | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
measures to diversify its membership, which were welcomed by | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
many. Interestingly, black protest against the Academy is nothing new. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
It is nothing new at all, and I will take us back specifically to 1962 | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
when we had African-American pickets outside the auditorium where the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Oscars were being held. It was an African-American FAQ who decided to | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
take up this course, and to hit not only racist representations but what | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
he called nebulous representations. -- act. Negative representations | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
towards black people in film. There will be black presenters and | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
performers as there have been in previous years, and the Oscars will | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
be hosted by Chris Rock. That is partially why you hire Chris Rock. | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
You want him to say provocative things, and he won't get up on stage | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
and not say anything. If he did that, it would be a huge controversy | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
in and of itself. While African-Americans will be frustrated | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
by the lack of black faces in the ranks of acting nominees. Another | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
group, Latinos, almost never get nominations, and very rarely win. I | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
would say it is very tough for a Latino to win an Oscar for Best | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Actor or Best Actress. We haven't seen that since the early 1950s. All | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
the other actors who have won Oscars up until now have been in supporting | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
roles, whether they are men or women. But at least it could be a | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
consolation prize for Latinos this year, it was a Latino director is | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
perhaps going to go home with the Best Director and best picture Oscar | :05:26. | :05:43. | |
for the second year in a row. Here on Hollywood Boulevard a star can be | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
found for George Arliss, the first British actor to win an Oscar. This | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
year, there is a big contingent for the UK vying for Oscar progress. | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
This year, six British actors are hoping to carry a statuette back to | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
the UK. In a funny twist of fate, most of them are not actually | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
playing the role of a Brit. Following on from his success last | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
year in The Theory of Everything, Eddie Redmayne will be hoping he can | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
become the first person since Tom Hanks in 1995 to win back-to-back | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Oscars. You will not tell anyone about this. He is hopeful that the | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
film of one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
will have the same effect on audiences as it did on him. I felt, | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
when I read the script, which was just really overwhelming emotional | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
reaction to a deeply unique love story. If we have retained that then | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
I am very lucky. The whole housing market is propped up on these bad | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
loans. Moving on to the supporting actor category, and it is one | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
dominated as Brits as Christian Bale, Mark Rylands, and Tom Hardy | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
are all vying for the win. For Tom Hardy, it is his first nomination. | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Reward perhaps for the gruelling shoot that the cast of The Revenant | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
had to go through. For Tom Hardy, the work will always take priority | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
over the awards. I don't personally go in thinking I am doing it for | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
awards, whether nominations come or not, that is not putt I suppose that | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
is not what I work for. I'm tremendously grateful to be | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
nominated, I didn't expect that to happen. Long known as one of the | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
world's finest theatre actors, Mark Rylands has been demonstrating his | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
talent in front of the camera. His performance in the Cold War drama | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Bridge of Spies, is a showcase the those not already familiar with his | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
talents. It has led to his first nomination and the opportunity to | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
work with Steven Spielberg, which lets face it, can't be that bad. | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
This will be a first for the both of us. You should be careful is not | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
quite there is something very open and enthusiastic about what was | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
happening. I never felt he was trying to shoot on the end of | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
something he had, he was very curious about what I had to bring to | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
it. Up for Best Actress in a leading role is Charlotte Rampling, who | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
takes on the part of a wife who must confront relationships from the past | :08:45. | :08:55. | |
in marriage drama 45 Years. Nominated in the Best Supporting | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
Actress category is Kate Winslet for her role as Steve Jobs's | :08:58. | :09:09. | |
long-suffering assistant. The film was disappointing in the box office | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
but has been widely praised for its structure, presenting Steve Jobs at | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
important parts of his life. You don't think you are having a bizarre | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
overreaction to a 19-year-old girl allowing her mother to list her | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
roadhouse? 45 minutes of real time, past -- fast paced dialogue that was | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
difficult for all of us to keep up with. I took away from the | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
experience and knowledge of Steve that he did have a soft side, he | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
really did, and he did have the ability to be emotional and really | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
feel things in ways that often people don't imagine someone like | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
him really could. The Best Supporting Actress category is | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
perhaps one of the most open in this year's competition, and while Alicia | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
Vikander might currently be the front-runner, don't be too surprised | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
if you see Winslet at the podium after a gap of 17 years. This year, | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
81 films were submitted for inclusion in the Oscars best foreign | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
language film award. At only five made it onto the short list. They | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
came from Hungary, Denmark, France, Jordan and Colombia. All the | :10:24. | :10:34. | |
nominated foreign-language films deal with characters operating under | :10:35. | :10:47. | |
pressure. Especially Son of Saul. Jewish prisoners at the bash which | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
concentration camp who were disposing of the bodies from the gas | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
chamber. I wanted to do this from the perspective of one person within | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
the camp. I wanted to be immersed in the experience, the experience of | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
one person. The academy is often blamed for being Eurocentric in its | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
selections. That has been partly remedied this year with nominations | :11:26. | :11:48. | |
for Colombia and German. In Embrace of the Serpent, from Columbia, there | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
is a story about... It was so timely, through the story I could | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
feel millennia worth of knowledge, million -year-old stories speaking | :12:01. | :12:12. | |
through men, which was moving. Theeb is a coming-of-age story of a young | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
boy who guides had Officer through the desert. The Danish film, Are | :12:18. | :12:38. | |
War, is about... It look simple world I didn't know existed. A world | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
of human suffering, and not just in Afghanistan where the world is | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
harmed not just there but the people at home. That is what we try to look | :12:49. | :12:57. | |
at. Finally, there is the French film Mustang, which had a lot of | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
academy support. The story of five was Lumb sisters who are controlled | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
by overbearing adults. The Oscar nomination has meant a lot to the | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Turkish director. It gives us a huge universal spotlight and strength. Of | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
course, the film generates a muscular debate and can possibly | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
open a little breach of discussion. Win or lose, all the countries | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
running for an Oscar have benefited from the nomination itself. The | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
accolade has boosted the filmmakers' profile. In some | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
instances, it has helped them secure distribution deals, and often it has | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
made the directors here is in their own country. It is like winning the | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
World Cup. Previously, investors were very confident in the idea of | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
locally made films, so now that we have an Oscar nomination it has | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
changed everything. Not just for myself and for the team that made | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Theeb but for all filmmakers in Jordan. All the foreign-language | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
films up for Oscars this year are considered strong contenders, | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
showing audiences as Sample of what world cinema has to offer. Although | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
it is a category that has historically been hard to predict, | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
how indication is that Son of Saul is the one to beat. | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
20 actors are up for either leading or supporting performances. Oscar | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
prognosticators say it's likely Leonardo DiCaprio will take home the | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Best actor Oscar for his performance in the reverend, but in other races | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
there could be surprises. Heralded as the biggest Irish actress since | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
home or in Ojha are, this actress is up for the Best actor award for | :15:01. | :15:10. | |
Brooklyn. She is torn between New York and Ireland. Immigrant story | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
connected with the director. It was very close to my heart because it | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
was about my people, it was about the journey my parents went on back | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
in the 80s, they moved to New York and they went through the same | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
things even though it was a decent different era and different time, | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
they went through the struggles. But Ronan has stiff competition, Brie | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
Larsson is the first favourite. She spent seven years captive in a | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
shared with her son. We're going to bake a birthday cake. It's a 1950s | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
and two women are in love. Carol. Critics describe Cate Blanchett's | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Carol as cold but it seemed to be powerful enough for the academy to | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
give her a nod for the Best actress in a leading role. We gave each | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
other the most breathtaking of gifts. Cate Blanchett believes the | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
appeal of the film is the universe than 80 of love. If you asked me why | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
I love my husband as madly and passionately as I do I would find it | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
hard to answer that question after 18 years. You think what could there | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
be between these two. That is what is so confusing and will bring and | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
enticing to both of them, they just don't know why. Other nominees in | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
the best actress category include Charlotte and Jennifer Lawrence. -- | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
Charlotte Rampling. Moving on to Best actor, the definite favourite | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
is Leonardo DiCaprio who gets mauled by a bear on the frontier in the | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
Resonant. This film has got an amazing reaction. I think certainly | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
from my colleagues, a lot of directors on spoken to, a lot of | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
actors feel like this is a special film and it feels great. And I | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
accused of a crime? Also up for best actor is asked the rookie Bryan | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
Cranston with his portrayal of Hollywood agitator Donald Trumbo | :17:20. | :17:29. | |
during the days of communist fear. Any time you're playing a | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
nonfictional character there's the added Spence of responsibility. In | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
some way that helps you keep it in context of where can go with a | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
character. Another Oscar hopeful for the best actor award is Michael | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
Fassbender, German born. He was nominated for his portrayal of the | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
late Apple CEO in the film Steve Jobs. His performance was compelling | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
enough to secure him an Oscar nod even after the film made a largely | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
unimpressive showing at the box office. Matt Damon has been | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
nominated for his role in the Martian and Eddie Redmayne in The | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Danish Girl. In cinemas 40 years ago the film Rocky was a big triumph, it | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
gave Sylvester Stallone his first box office hit. Now he's up for a | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
best supporting actor Oscar for reprising his role in the film | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
Creed. It seems that Sylvester Stallone has no opponents in this | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
category. He's a clear favourite to win. The credit is one person for | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
his nomination, filmmaker Ryan Kubler. He had this crazy idea to | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
resurrect Rocky when in 2006 it was done -- he credits. And I thought, | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
you know, he has this passion I can relate to because I have that | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
passion a long time ago when I did it at the same age. You really have | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
to take a chance nowadays and do something out of the box, this is as | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
far as it gets, he recreated Rocky for a new generation but it's not | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
Rocky, it's Creed. Also nominated for Best supporting actor are Mark | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
Rylance, Tom Hardy, Christian Bale and Mark Ross Lyon. In the best | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
supporting actress category, Alicia appeared alongside Eddie Redmayne in | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
The Danish Girl. She delivers one of the strongest performances of the | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
year, she struggles with and supports her husband's transition to | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
a woman in the film. Another favourite in the best supporting | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
actress category is Rooney Mara, who plays Cate Blanchett's unexpected | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
mother in the film Carol. You're going to fix it now. As we've | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
already reported, Kate Winslet is also vying for best supporting | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
actress for her portrayal of Joanna Hoffman in Danny Boyle's Steve | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
Jobs. Other nominees for best supporting actress other than those | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
we've already mentioned are Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rachel McAdams. Even | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
though each actress may have a favourite, nothing is the definite. | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
Anything can happen and there could be surprises. | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
Now it is time to stick our necks out as we try to predict the | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
Oscars. Here goes. Best documentary feature will go to | :20:20. | :20:33. | |
a knee, his portrait of the late singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse. | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
Best original screenplay will be won by the investigative journalism | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
drama spotlight. Best adapted streamline, screenplay will go to | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
The Big Short. That's good for us. The trophy for best animated film | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
will be the prize for Inside Out, ingeniously set largely within the | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
mind of an 11-year-old girl. Best foreign-language film looks likely | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
to go to Hungary for son of salt. Best supporting actress looks like | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
going to Alicia Yida candour for her role in The Danish Girl. -- son of | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
salt. It looks like being a good night for Sylvester is the loan | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
because we think he will get the best supporting actor trophy. How do | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
you know all this? Rest actress will go to award season favourite Brie | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Larsson for Room and Best actor, everything points towards Leonardo | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
DiCaprio getting that right. Finally he will take home an Oscar. Best | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
rector should go to Alejandro is for the Resonant. If he wins he will be | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
joining an exclusive club because only two... And finally to the most | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
uncertain big Oscars race of all, best picture. Talking movies | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
predicts the best picture award will go to... The rock macro red and it. | :21:47. | :21:59. | |
That brings a special Oscars preview to a close, we hope you've enjoyed | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
the programme. You can reach us [email protected] and you can find us | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
on Facebook too. So, from me, Tom Brook, and the rest of the talking | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
movies production team at Hollywood we leave you with writings on the | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
wall which has been nominated for original song. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
# I've been there before, but always here before. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
# I've spent a lifetime running, and I always get away. | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
# But with you I'm feeling something that makes me want to stay. | :22:41. | :22:58. | |
The chilly feel to the weather continues | :22:59. | :23:01. |