Oscars 2016: Leonardo DiCaprio wins 1st Academy Award; ‘Spotlight’ wins best picture

This is great and movie makers and star cast felt happy because this is not a small thing of one movie got six Oscar awards.

Presenting the Oscar for Best Production Design, Steve Carell and Tina Fey attempted at honouring the art invovled in the category.

Meanwhile, Fury Road’s veteran Australian cinematographer John Seale missed out on the Oscar, with The Revenant’s Emmanuel Lubezki winning his second consecutive Academy Award. “Fighting for the same title were Cate Blanchett for ‘Carol, ‘ Jennifer Lawrence ‘Joy, ‘ Charlotte Rampling for ’45 Years” and Saoirse Ronan for ‘Brooklyn.’The 88th Academy Awards took place on February 28 at Los Angeles” Dolby Theatre. And Ex Machina, the contemplative sci-fi drama, beat out tough competition to take best visual effects. The previous record was held by the 1993 film The Piano, which picked up three awards.

Upon winning the Oscar for best animated film, Pete Docter, director of “Inside Out”, reminded teens that life can get hard.

The show’s not even over but it looks like George Miller and his Mad Max team will have a lot to celebrate this Oscars eve.

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In a possible historic moment, Sam Smith acknowledged that he may be the first openly gay man to win an Oscar, for his James Bond theme song “Writing’s on the Wall”, and dedicated it to the LGBT community.

While the box office speaks very loudly to Star Wars’ success, the Academy was having none of it. J.J. Abrams’ sci-fi blockbuster didn’t win a single award, despite being nominated in five categories.

“The Revenant” went into Sunday’s ceremony with a leading 12 nominations, and was among four movies believed to have the best chances for best picture after it won Golden Globe and BAFTA trophies.

“Mad Max: Fury Road” is set in a future desert wasteland where gasoline and water are scarce commodities and features Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoe Kravitz, Abbey Lee and Courtney Eaton.

In the biggest award of the night, best picture, Mad Max: Fury Road has blown out to 100/1 long-shot odds, placing it well behind 2/5 favourite The Revenant, Spotlight (10/3), The Big Short (13/2) and Room (40/1).

The huge upset of the evening was in supporting actor, which went to Mark Rylance as a pawn in global intrigue in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies.

For Pakistan, it was time for celebrations as filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won the Oscar for Best Documentary-Short Subject for her project based on honour killing titled “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”.