Six Oscars for the Mad Max!

Anybody who has seen Mad Max Fury Road in the big cinema theater will certainly feel that all the technical categories this movie has won are well-deserved.

When I saw the movie early last year - it was just f****ing IN YOUR FACE action! It was so thrilling to watch!

The movie has left the other Best Picture nominees in the dust with already six Oscars tonight - Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Hairstyling and Make-up, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing.

While a sector has been whining about diversity - as one of the winners pointed out - this movie was all about diversity - Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Namibians, Americans and British - all working on it.

Fitting that a movie with a diverse cast and crew is a big winner tonight.

The Swedish Girl Wins an Oscar for The Danish Girl

First scene palang ng The Danish Girl, you'd immediately know that Alicia Vikander deserved to win that Oscar for Best Supporting Actress tonight.

In that scene, she was painting the portrait of this gentleman and she says something like "Is this your first time? Your first time to have a woman LOOK at you! How does it feel? " And she says it in a very seductive and coy way, as if she were seducing this portly and not-so-goodloking gentleman into her bed.

She looked and sounded like a dominatrix in that scene.

And then you see her so feminine and womanly tonight going up the stage.

Wonderful Surprise Win for Ex-Machina

Ex-Machina won this year's Oscar Best Visual Effects award, upstaging Mad Max Fury Road, The Revenant and Star Wars The Force Awakens.

If you want to catch it, it's already in HBO. This year's Oscar Best Supporting Actress Alicia Vikander plays the robot in this movie. It was this movie that actually put her on the Hollywood map.

Even though I love sci-fi movies, I don't quite understand this one LOL

Yet Another Fantastic Work of Art from Emmanuel Lubezki

If you wowed and oohhed and aahhed at how beautifully photographed the movies Gravity, Birdman and The Revenant are, this is the guy you have to thank - Emmanuel Lubezki. This is his third straight Oscar award for cinematography.

Surprise Oscar for Mark Rylance

I kinda knew Sylvester Stallone wouldn't get the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor award tonight because the Academy wouldn't award you for doing a role doing almost the same thing from your previous nomination.

He was the boxer in Rocky and in Creed, he was the boxing trainer - not really a stretch of acting capability.

I was actually rooting for the two Marks - Mark Ruffalo and Mark Rylance. The latter plays the more sinister role though and if you've seen Bridge of Spies, you'd know how devious his character is in that movie.

Son of Saul: Second Best Foreign Language Film Winner from Hungary

After a remarkable awards season that started way back in the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Hungary's Son of Saul caps its run with an Oscar Best Foreign Language Film award - the second for that country.

Like my other film cineaste friends here, we think, although very popular here, Heneral Luna was the wrong film to send to the Oscars since the Oscar voters are not really familiar with the history of individual nations.

They are more interested in original compelling stories with a unique local flavour - something that a Himala or a Kubrador or On the Job can represent very well.

As I said before, I really feel that one of our current filmmakers have that ability and can bring us our first nomination in that category and put the Philippines in the Oscar map.

We are, after all, one of the most prolific film-making countries in the world!

We Need A New Pin-Up Boy!

Now that Leo, who was the pin-up boy of our generation who can actually act - has finally won an Oscar, we now have to find the next pin up boy of this present generation - who can actually act.....any suggestions?

Oscar Quality Theme Song for a James Bond Movie

Thanks Sam Smith for the heads up to the LGBT community! I'm glad that it was an openly gay couple who won the Best Original Song award for a James Bond movie.

If I'm not mistaken, James Napier was also his songwriting partner for Stay With Me - when they swept the Grammys last year.

Bongga ang mga lola mo ha - it's rare for any musician to win Grammys and an Oscar - back-to-back!

Third Straight Year for Mexico

This is the third straight year that the Oscar Best Director award has gone to a Mexican! So I don't understand why the black community in Hollywood is complaining about not being recognized enough.

If you just do the best work, I believe the film community will reward you, regardless of the colour of your skin......