Rock cracks tough race jokes to open 'whitewashed' Oscars

Oscars host Chris Rock opened the annual show of glitz and pageantry honoring cinema's finest Sunday with a salvo of hard-hitting jokes targeting the lack of racial diversity among the nominees. Tinseltown's elite gathered for the glittering celebration with survival epic "The Revenant" leading the charge for golden statuettes -- but a row over the lack of ethnic minority acting hopefuls overshadowed the proceedings. "Well, I'm here at the Academy Awards -- otherwise known as the white People's Choice awards.

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