Leonardo DiCaprio Thanks Hardy & Innaritu In Oscar Speech

Cast members Liev Schreiber (left) and Mark Ruffalo reacted with glee Sunday night as "Spotlight", the drama about The Boston Globe's investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, was named best picture at the 88th Academy Awards.

DiCaprio's road to this Oscars win was not easy.

Rock was chosen to host the event at the Dolby Theatre for a second time last October - long before the #OscarsSoWhite row erupted. "It was the 26-year-old actress" first Oscar nomination. But I understand. I understand you're mad - Jada's mad her man Will was not nominated for Concussion.

Apart from the actor's fans, celebrities congratulated DiCaprio in Twitter.

On his position as host: "I'm here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the white people's choice awards".

Did you react the same way Kate did when Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar?

"Do you realise if they nominated hosts, I wouldn't even get this job?"

As soon as the camera cut to Winslet proudly looking on as DiCaprio made his acceptance speech, we started to get as weepy as she was. It's a whole thing: you have to "ask her more".

But as badly as 2016 failed on racial diversity - and as very, very far as Hollywood still has to go on gender diversity - 2016 was a surprisingly good year for women at the Oscars.

In a ceremony where no single movie stole the night, Mexico's Alejandro González Iñárritunabbed the best directing Oscar for The Revenant, becoming the first filmmaker in more than 60 years to win back-to-back Academy Awards.

During the three minute speech he sent an important message about climate change and being kind to the planet. "It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating", he said. "The world we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history". "Let us not take this planet for granted - I do not take tonight for granted", he capped, to rapturous applause from the evidently ecstatic crowd. Taking the stage after a montage of the movies of the year, Rock said, "Man, I counted at least 15 black people during that montage".

DiCaprio described himself as an "overly ambitious" child who had his heart set on becoming an actor, and it was his parents who "listened to a young child's dreams", he told ABC's Robin Roberts on the red carpet.

Director Spike Lee, who shunned the Academy Awards ceremony along with actor Will Smith, instead attended a New York Knicks basketball game on Sunday.