PIERS MORGAN: This was the worst, wokest Oscars in history

It took all of ten seconds for the first winner at last night’s Oscars to unleash an angry political statement against President Trump. Brad Pitt, who’d spent the entire awards season until now making light, fun, self-deprecating speeches, decided it was time to go ‘very serious’ on us. Brad Pitt, who’d spent the entire awards season until now making light, fun, self-deprecating speeches, decided it was time to go ‘very serious’ on us at Sunday's Oscars awards ‘They told me I only had 45 seconds up here,’ he said, as he received the Best Supporting Actor award, ‘which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week. The weirdest moment came when Eminem suddenly and inexplicably appeared on stage, to perform a song 18 years after he won an Oscar but didn’t turn up to accept it He was rewarded for all that homophobic ranting with a standing ovation from the Oscars crowd, most of whom have spent the past year loudly proclaiming their LGBTQ ‘ally’ credentials A good host is the glue for any awards show, holding everything together and ensuring there’s a strong narrative arc to the night by reacting to stuff that happens in the same way we all do watching at home. The Academy can now point to a non-English speaking film winning the top award, and several dozen jubilant Koreans wildly celebrating on stage as the show ended, and say: ‘There you go, DIVERSITY!’ But at least it threw up the one truly bright light of the night – Parasite’s brilliantly charismatic director Bong Joon-Ho who declared ‘I’m bloody ready to drink all night!’ By the end of the worst, wokest Oscars of all time, I shared his sentiment.