Jill Serjeant

The Academy Awards ceremony kicks off to rousing start without a host.

Rapper also distances himself from a campaign that encourages black Americans to quit the Democratic Party.

DiCaprio has also initiated the return of other unidentified items that the actor said he accepted as gifts for a charity auction.

A PwC accountant handed presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway the wrong envelope.

The makers of the movie could be laughing all the way to the bank.