Oscars 2016: 'Spotlight' Surprises, Diversity Takes Center Stage

As a five-time Oscar-nominated Leonardo DiCaprio is finally home, "Mad Max: Fury Road" received a golden statue and the diversity of Hollywood's biggest night of the year, dominated.

88th Academy Award nominated their overwhelmingly white has been steeped in controversy - #OscarsSoWhite triggering and call for a boycott.

Host Chris Rock signaled early on that he would like to address the elephant in the room - the forthcoming "White BET Awards" event last month about a promo joking.

Dozens of protesters Sunday as "Hollywood must do better," the industry's most celebrated red carpet as they walked holding signs with slogans near the Oscars venue converged.

There was no doubt in the fact that he would like to tackle the issue head-on, rock on Sunday night in the opening moments of the show, which he immediately became known to the rest of the "white man's Choice Award."

"You realize, of hosts, if they choose, even I can not do this," he cracked.

Rock went on to deliver a scorching monologue, noted that the issue of how an Oscar this year, but the diversity of Blacks in the 1950s or 60s when it was not "substantive response."

"We are too busy to care about winning cinematographer best raped and those who are being lynched," he said. "You know, when your grandmother swinging from a tree, it's really hard to take care of the Best Documentary Short Foreign Affairs."

Rock snappy punchlines delivered a stream, wrapping the crowds with his simple statement took the time to send a message straight. "We would love the opportunity"

The flow of gold is rolled out - and some of the rising stars of the evening, the coveted prize, which is a veteran actor repeatedly touched on the theme of diversity and social justice, income.

"Spotlight," which child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the Boston Globe explosive investigation report, won best picture.

"We would not be here today without our reporters heroic effort," said producer Blye Pagon Faust the night, took the top honor. "Just the impact of global change, but they absolutely imperative for us to investigative journalism."

The film won the best original screenplay.

"Revenant" - went to the Academy Awards with a leading 12 nominations - Alexjandro ganjalesa Inarritu earned a second Best Director Oscar. Mexican director "Birdman" has been arrested for the same prize in 2015 and back-to-back Academy Awards on Sunday, winning for the first time in 60 years, became a filmmaker.

"What a great opportunity for our generation is to liberate ourselves from all prejudice and tribal thinking and once and for ever in our skin color is irrelevant as to ensure that the length of the hair," Inarritu said.

And then, there DiCaprio, the star attraction was a standing ovation from the packed audience.

In "Revenant" DiCaprio's portrayal of a fur trapper out "Trumbo" Brian Cranston, "Mars" and Matt Damon, "Danish Girl" and Eddie Redmayne, "Steve Jobs" Michael Fassbender beat.

A moment of Environment staff, thanks to friends and colleagues, took - but a message about climate change, too, used to send his acceptance speech.

"Let us not take this lightly," DiCaprio said. "I do not take for granted tonight. Thank you so much."

"Revenant" may be led to the number of nominations, "Mad Max: Fury Road" was the biggest winner of the night.

It's home to receive six Oscar - technical categories like the costumes and make-up - prompting celebrations as the film's sound editors cracked the secret of their peers to win the announcement did not hear another sound mixing.

Rock remains front and center in ensuring diversity. Oscar minority outreach program director - who recently drew fire for suggesting there should be no Black History Month - Actress Stacey Dash introduced the joke.

The joke fell flat, however, the comedian of the evening came with a plethora of punchlines. The Oscar-nominated film A Sketch extra special highlight was a black actor played.

Rock also at one stage that the audience may not Hollywood but "cross-racist burn," he said, "racist kind of a difference."

"It's like Hollywood racist sorority Rhonda :. We want you, but you are not a Kappa," he said.

Adam McKay, who won for Best Adapted Screenplay, The Rock's "good" approach was much appreciated.

"It's the same kind of time and evenhanded discussion of how we sort of diversity in a new era in the fight was still jabbing in Hollywood," he said. "I think it's a very evenhanded, and it was really impressive and really fun."

Not only smile and offering up Rock Entertainment - a sweet tooth satisfied with the Stars online. Comedian daughter and her girl scout troop was armed with Dolby Theatre Girl Scouts cookies, like Steven Spielberg and Christian Bale hungry celebrities hawking their wares.

Best Actress Award for her portrayal of a mother for the rising star Brie, Larson went to the prisoner indie hit "Room," Alicia Vikander best supporting actress in "Danish Girl." Won

Both he and the first candidate Mark Rylance - who "spy bridge" best supporting actor for his role in the won - offstage orchestra played horrible during their acceptance speeches of the stars fell.

Academy Awards producer warned the participants that they would like to on more than 45 of them on stage to say a piece.

"Amy," about the late singer Amy Winehouse, while taking home the award for best documentary feature film "Girl in the value of forgiveness," won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short.

The evening featured a moving performance of Lady Gaga's Oscar-nominated 'til it happens to you "- survivors of sexual assault following an introduction by Vice President Joe Biden to join the singer on stage for the song.

While ultimately the award for best song went to British singer Sam Smith. The James Bond movie "Spectre" theme song dedicated to the gay community for his victory, telling a list of the crowd, 'I stand here tonight as a proud gay man, and I hope that we can all stand together as equals one day. "

Italian composer Ennio Morricone, 87, in a separate house, for his work on the film received his first Oscar. Morricone - who is an honorary Academy Award in 2007 - best original score for his work on Sunday took a statue of "eight despicable."

Oscar for best foreign language film went to "the son of Saul," a Nazi death camp and forced to work tells the story of a Jewish man of Hungary won the second prize in this category.

Meanwhile, Pixar's "Inside Out" won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

The main theme of the night with diversity, how far it still has to go to Hollywood was at least one fresh example.

In arriving at the total beauty Oscar Whoopi Goldberg tweeted a picture - but mistakenly confused him with Oprah Winfrey.

And from the looks of an apology, says Goldberg and Winfrey's choice of $ 10,000 will be donated to charity - Error swift condemnation attraction.

President of the Academy Awards, Cheryl: Boone Isaacs, the problem facing the industry is still in the comments touched on the occasion.

"It's not enough just to listen and agree: we must take action," he said. "Although change is often difficult, it is necessary. Dr. Martin Luther King once said," where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in times of challenges and controversy. " I am sure that together we can shape the future in which all of us can be proud I am. "

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