88th Annual Academy Award Winners

(HOLLYWOOD) - The 88th annual Academy Awards took place last night in Hollywood with host Chris Rock overseeing talent and superstars in his charismatic form. Here are the big trophies that were handed out, some expected, many not so much.

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Costume Design

Production Design

Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

Best Cinematography

Editing

Achievement in Sound Editing

Achievement in Sound Mixing

Visual Effects

Best Animated Short Film

Best Animated Feature

Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Documentary Short Subject

Best Documentary Feature

Best Live Action Short Film

Best Foreign Language Film

Best Original Song

Best Original Score

Best Director

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Picture

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: LEONARDO DiCAPRIO:

Thank you, thank you all so very much. Thank you to the Academy, thank you to all of you in this room. I have to congratulate the other incredible nominees this year for their unbelievable performances.

“The Revenant” was a product of the tireless efforts of an unbelievable cast and crew I got to work alongside. First off to my brother in this endeavor, Mr. Tom Hardy. Tom, your fierce talent on-screen can only be surpassed by your friendship off-screen. To Mr. Alejandro Iñárritu, as the history of cinema unfolds, you have forged your way into history these past two years. What an unbelievable talent you are. Thank you to you and Chivo for creating a transcendent cinematic experience for all of us.

Thank you to everybody at Fox and New Regency, in particular Arnon Milchan. You were the champion of this endeavor. My entire team. I have to thank everyone from the very onset of my career. Mr. Caton-Jones for casting me in my first film. Mr. Scorsese for teaching me so much about the cinematic art form. To Mr. Rick Yorn, thank you for helping me navigate my way through this industry. And to my parents, none of this would be possible without you. And to my friends, I love you dearly, you know who you are.

And lastly, I just want to say this: Making “The Revenant” was about man’s relationship to the natural world, a world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow.

Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.

We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people who will be most affected by this, for our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed.

I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so very much.

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Ralph E. Stone March 1, 2016 7:05 am (Pacific time)

After the nominations were announced, many criticized the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the lack of diversity in the nominations — there were no Black nominees. Cheryl Boone Isaacs, President of the Academy gave a make-nice speech about the Academy's plan to increase diversity over the next few years. Chris Rock was brilliant with his jokes on the lack of diversity. And it seemed like there were more African-American award presenters this year. But I wonder if the humor was the Academy’s attempt to co-opt the issue of racism in Hollywood with humor and in doing so trivializing the issue. We shall see if next year’s Oscar nominees are as White as this year’s.

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