Ranked: Chris Rock’s 10 best Oscar jokes

“Is Hollywood racist? You’re damn right Hollywood is racist”. However, some people were concerned about the diversity of the diversity as Rock’s stereotypical Asian joke later in the show fell flat.

The “Spotlight” team, which won the first and last prize of the night – best original screenplay and best picture – and nothing else, celebrated the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of The Boston Globe journalists who exposed sex abuses in the Roman Catholic Church and the conversation the film has renewed around the world. Dystopian blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road swept the technical categories, scoring trophies for Costume Design, Production Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Film Editing.

“If you don’t want big money to control government, don’t vote for candidates that take money from big banks, oil or weirdo billionaires – stop”, said Adam McKay in his best adapted screenplay acceptance speech for “The Big Short”.

“Climate change is real, it is happening right now”, he said. Best actress went to Brie Larson, the 26 year-old breakout of the mother-son captive drama “Room”.

‘The Revenant’ won big at the Oscars, with Leonardo DiCaprio claiming best actor and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu winning best director on February 28, 2016.

He continued: “You realise if they nominated hosts, I wouldn’t even get this job”.

Leo has been nominated for an Oscar 4 times before, with this year being his first win in his 25 year acting career. The supporting actor win for Mark Rylance over Sylvester Stallone drew gasps.

Talk of election was largely absent from the ceremony, though Vice President Joe Biden was met by a standing ovation before talking about sexual assault on college campuses in an introduction to best-song nominee Lady Gaga.

After a second straight year of all-white acting nominees prompted industry-wide scrutiny, viewers and stars alike are hanging on the opening words of host Chris Rock.

The all-white slate of acting nominees restored the hashtag “OscarsSoWhite” to prominence and led Spike Lee (an honorary Oscar victor this year) and Jada Pinkett Smith to announce that they would not attend the show.

Meanwhile, Whoopi Goldberg kept up the race discussion in a skit imagining more black actors on screen.

“This year, in the “In Memoriam” package, it’s just going to be black people that were shot on their way to the movies”.

Rock addressed the controversy that roiled Hollywood since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled an all-white slate of nominees in the prestige categories for the second year in a row. “Y’all would be watching Neil Patrick Harris”. “When your grandmother’s swinging from a tree it’s really hard to care about best documentary foreign short”. Doesn’t she have a TV show?