Social media chatter: The Oscars, UP polls and more

Here is a lowdown of what is keeping social media abuzz this morning

Oscars. Photo: Reuters

The 89th Academy Awards for excellence in cinema

The Oscars - as they are commonly known - were presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor the best films of 2016. The show was hosted by TV presenter Jimmy Kimmel at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Most of the trends on Twitter and Facebook are related to one or the other aspect of these awards this morning. Marked by an irreverence for the newly inducted American President Donald Trump, the awards seem to be underlining the importance of dissent. La La Land was the big winner at the awards. Mahershala Ali got the Oscar for best performance in a supporting role for the movie Moonlight and Viola Davis won the Oscar for best supporting actress for the movie Fences. Emma Stone won the best actress award for movie La La Land.

Read more about the Awards here: Oscars 2017: Dev Patel loses best supporting actor award to Mahershala Ali

Asghar Farhadi

Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. His movie ' The Salesman' won the oscar in the best foreign language category. But Asghar Farhadi didn't attend the award ceremony to protest Donald Trump's travel ban. Iranian astronaut Anousheh Ansari accepted the awatd on the behalf of director Asghar Farhadi.

ALSO READ: Oscars 2017: Casey Affleck slams Trump's 'un-American' policies

UP Assembly election

Phase 5 of UP polls is underway today. Voting is on in 51 assembly constituencies spread across 11 districts of Uttar Pradesh. 1.84 crore voters, including 96 lakh women, will decide the fate of many leaders. Till 9 am voter turnout was 10.8%.

For detailed coverage of UP polls, read the following stories on business-standard.com

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Ramjas college violence

The clash between ABVP and other students at Ramjas College continues to make news even now. 20 year old Gurmehar Kaur, student of Lady Sri Ram College in Delhi University launched a social media campaign that went viral and she is still getting bouquets and brickbats from people for this campaign.

Read this story to know more about this issue I got threatened with rape for opposing ABVP: Kargil martyr's daugther