Amanpour and Company

SO LET ME JUST ASK YOU TO START BRIEFLY WITH YOUR TAKE-AWAYS. AISHA, WHAT WAS YOUR TAKE-AWAY LAST NIGHT IN GENERAL? >> I THINK OVERALL IT WAS GREAT TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE OF COLOR NOMINATED ACROSS ALL THE CATEGORIES. LAST YEAR THERE WERE BARELY ANY PEOPLE OF COLOR NOMINATED IN THE ACTING CATEGORIES AND THIS YEAR WE HAD THEM IN EVERY CATEGORY. ALSO THERE WERE SOME DISAPPOINTING MOMENTS OF THE NIGHT, LIKE THE FACT THAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN DID NOT WIN THE AWARD AND THEY SWAPPED AROUND THE CATEGORY OF BEST PICTURE AND THE ACTING CATEGORY, THE BEST ACTOR CATEGORY WAS LAST. THAT WAS A LITTLE STRANGE AND IT WAS A LITTLE ANTICLIMACTIC AFTER THAT GREAT OPENING OF REGINA KING. >> DO YOU THINK IT WAS A BIT ANTICLIMACTIC? AND WHY? BECAUSE USUALLY BEST ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS, THOSE ARE BIG TICKET ITEMS? >> THEY'RE SIGNIFICANT. IT WAS A BIT OF A GAMBLE TO BANK ON BEST ACTOR BEING MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEST PICTURE THIS YEAR. CLEARLY THEY WERE HOPING THAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN, WHO WAS THE FAVORITE, WAS GOING TO WIN AND HIS WIDOW WOULD MAKE A VERY EMOTIONAL SPEECH TO CLOSE OUT THE CEREMONY. THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. THE WINNER WAS ANTHONY HOPKINS AND HOPKINS WAS IN WALES, NOT IN LOS ANGELES. SO WE ENDED THE CEREMONY WITH ESSENTIALLY NOBODY ACCEPTING AN AWARD. ANTI-CLIMAX IS PUTTING IT MILDLY. >> I'M GOING TO PLAY THE SOUND BITE FROM ANTHONY HOPKINS, 83 YEARS OLD, THE OLDEST EVER TO WIN THAT OSCAR. YES, HE WAS IN WALES POTENTIALLY BECAUSE OF THE TRAVEL, POTENTIAL BECAUSE OF HIS HEALTH AND MAYBE BECAUSE HE DIDN'T EXPECT TO WIN IT.