>> octavia spencer, no matter what happens tonight, do not take your eyes off the briefcase, got it?o bathroom breaks. no chitchat. >> larry: hold on a second. you can't make a joke about how white the oscars are and then turn around and literally make octavia spencer "the help"! not well done, sir. i'm going to have to take that back. look, these oscars were so white that when lonnie lynn and john stephens won for best song, they couldn't even use their black names. that's right, common's real name is lonnie lynn. good call on the name change, lonnie. just saying. but the theme of the night was speeches with substance. >> it's our time to have wage equality once and for all. >> this bridge transcends race, gender, religion. >> we are with you, we see you, we love you. >> that kid out there who feels like she is weird or she is different or she doesn't fit in anywhere, stay weird. stay different. >> larry: wow. stay weird, stay different. that's a very good message. let's see if anyone took that note. >> you, you my darling, my beautiful, my wickedly talented idina menzel. >> you got

and it's between kevin costner and octavia spencer, who are the grandparents.via spencer's son is a drug addict and not able to be a a father. so, the idea is, would the child be better served in brentwood with her grandfather or in south central with her grandmother? and that's where the conflict comes in. >> jimmy: here we go. we have a clip. here's anthony mackie in "black or white." take a look at this. >> now look, if you want to win custody from elliott, it won't help bringing him into this. now, i say we go with my original brief. you petition for custody. >> he is the father. >> he doesn't want the job! will you please tell her, andrea? >> auntie, you need to listen to him. >> mm-mm. mm-mm. don't give me that look. >> i'm not giving you a look. >> i don't care how many law degrees you went and got, doesn't give you the right to give me that look. there it is again. i mean it. i'll get daddy on the phone and he'll tell you what's what. giving me a look. oh, is that what you want? you want a call coming in from your dad? you know what? let me just get him

hey, oscars octavia spencer is not the help. you can watch that ballot box on your own. wins an oscar and is expected to work at the ceremony. but nothing sparked social media quite like the statement patricia arquette made for wage e equality. she said it's inexcusable that we go around the world and we talk about equal rights for women in other countries and we don't. it's time for all the women in america and all the men who love women and all the gay people and all the people of color that we've fought for to fight for us now. arquette's speech during the ceremony was heartfelt, but her pose showed a fundamental misunderstanding of a key feminist concept that they are not separate, they are fundamentally u intersecting. what is so aggravating is that her comments could best be. described as anti-intersectional. it states that you see your struggle as women for equal pay as if there aren't masses of people who live beneath the labels that benefit from such reforms. welcome to feminism 101. still with me former ohio state senator turner. so lori what was wrong? what we

. >> octavia spencer. you have been watching this box. this case all night long.as anyone fooled with it? >> no. >> has anyone paid you to say this? >> no. >> okay. very good. one last thing. octavia -- thank you very much. you've been awesome. i appreciate it. i will unlock the box. inside, a case. how does it open? um -- there we go. inside predictions. i will now read my predictions to you. i, neil patrick harris predict that after j.k.'s speech, we will all call or parents, not text. happened. i will my pronounce chiwetel ejio ejiofor's name. meryl streep will suddenly realize she is under paid. the birdman cinematographer will win again this year going dos for dos. terrence howard will be surprisingly emotional. common and john legend will get three well deserved standing ovations and will win the oscar mvps. tra voevolta will be back next year to apologize to idina for all the face touching. a birdman screenwriter will thank his dog larry. the winning screenwriter for "the imitation game" will thank oprah and inspire us to stay weird. backstage, eddie and ju

. >> octavia spencer. you have been watching this box. this case all night long.as anyone fooled with it? >> no. >> has anyone paid you to say this? >> no. >> okay. very good. one last thing. octavia -- thank you very much. you've been awesome. i appreciate it. i will unlock the box. inside, a case. how does it open? um -- there we go. inside predictions. i will now read my predictions to you. i, neil patrick harris predict that after j.k.'s speech, we will all call or parents, not text. happened. i will my pronounce chiwetel ejio ejiofor's name. meryl streep will suddenly realize she is under paid. the birdman cinematographer will win again this year going dos for dos. terrence howard will be surprisingly emotional. common and john legend will get three well deserved standing ovations and will win the oscar mvps. tra voevolta will be back next year to apologize to idina for all the face touching. a birdman screenwriter will thank his dog larry. the winning screenwriter for "the imitation game" will thank oprah and inspire us to stay weird. backstage, eddie and ju

>> and there was failures in the packaging too like using octavia spencer in a problem for an ongoing gag with neil patrick harris and it used her in an absolutely -- it was just terrible. >> neil patrick harris all but handed her a broom. it was like could you be my helper. >> sheer what that entire neil patrick harris element, when you put the opening joke against that bit, it is like how hollywood handles racism. we're acknowledge i'm not racist, but let's do a sort of racist bit. >> i know there is a lot of back story about what happened with sean penn closing out the night, making a green card joke, and there is that kind of -- i'm going to make that little funny racist jab but it's fun because we're all friends here. >> that there is an idea, the hollywood reporter academy reporter saying we're not creatonnist -- >> there is a last of self understanding about how it comes off and that was also in the patricia arquette speech. do we have the little bit of glory ending? can we show that? >> glory ♪ ♪ glory ♪ ♪ we'll cry glory ♪ >> if there has to be a debate about the reality of c

he told octavia spencer to look at his briefcase all night. >> i know.ewed her and she's as lovely as can be. >> she should have fired her agent. >> i do have to put in some love the opening was amazing and he's a very game host very reliable as a host. not every joke he was a very game host. >> i'll be a game host. >> i love lady gaga. >> what i really wanted to talk about patricia arquette. she won the phenomenal movie. to me it's crazy risky. she wins the award and this is what she says. >> the truth is even though we feel like we have equal rights in america right under the surface, there are huge issues that are at play that really do effect women. it's time for all the women in america and all the men that love women and all the gay people and all the people of clr that we've all fought for to fight for us now. >> so to be clear, that was so she had this acceptance speech and finally, she had a great message about gender paid quality and that was her having to explain it. interestingly, she got blow back for that. >> she did. let's talk about the b

some are calling him out for the whole thing with octavia spencer and her watching the cases and then two white guys appointed to watch her watch the cases. a lot of people are calling it racist, a lot of racist backlash on twitter for that. and then to have the image of him in his tidy whiteys. that's the image i think you will be left with from these oscars. >> jason, what are they going to take away from these oscars, nph and the political statements maybe made on stage. what's the take away moment you get a sense behind the scenes? >> the one moment i think had to be when common and john legend performed that brought down the house. they cut to david oyelowo in the crowd. tears streaming down his face. then when john legend and common made their speech, they cut back to david oyelowo again. more tears coming down their faces there. i think there were some great political speeches, not just john legend and common but a lot of people. i think that's what people will take from tonight. >> what an incredible evening tonight. abc's jason nathanson, thank you. >> our coverage of the aca

think not to the most best-advised effect because, you know i kind of cringed at the bit with octavia spencerp what are you, treating her like making her perform, in a way, and even with david yoe yellow. >> and neil patrick harris mispronounced his name several times. >> yoe yellow. >> and then it's a show that makes fun of travolta mispronouncing a name last year. >> we do not want to see a smooth academy awards. anybody who tells you that they're not disappointed in the academy awards is not being a true american. you're supposed to be disappointed in the academy awards. what's nice is that they resolutely traditionally, every year do disappoint us in one way or the other. and it's a very hard show to execute. there is no they don't capitulate to our modern need to be entertained. and i love that about them. so without these things, we wouldn't have, you know, something to talk about. >> and what happens now to "birdman", with these oscars? it's pretty much run its course its business cycle already, hasn't it? >> it will get a boost as the best picture winner usually does. one of the most

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. >> i did not think the octavia spencer bit was the -- >> how about the underwear? that worked for me. >> you don't know that was working middle america. i don't think they've seen ""birdman."" all of a sudden your oscar host is walking out in his underwear. >> i think some of hills timing was off. a little of the jokes weren't great. let's talk about the winners. requested "birdman"" won big taking home best picture. >> it was interesting to see. early on it felt like "budapest" had a fair amount of momentum. >> they were the ones with multiple awards going through the first half of the show. on the big awards directing, writing, ""birdman"" came through as the guilt awards indicated it pate. >> we were saying hollywood loves this film. it reminds it of itself. >> i believe it's the lowest grossing best picture winner ever meaning not a lot of folks saw this. >> which obviously will see it back in theaters. >> it's still in theaters. it will get a bigger run. it will benefit tremendously. because it's an acquired taste quite frankly, ""birdman"" beautifully done mo