Oscars 2016 Highlights in Photos: The Big Winners & Best Moments

Mar 02, 2016, 14:33

The most anticipated victor of the evening for Best Actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, attended in a classic black tuxedo from Armani, Michael Fassbender in Tom Ford and Sacha Baron Cohen in Dolce & Gabbana.

Oscars host Chris Rock called attention to the lack of diversity in the 88th annual Academy Awards nominee pool Sunday night.

The diversity debate continued as Oscars host Chris Rock put his own spin on the matter.

Instead, the Hollywood actor's Oscar nominations have turned into one of the longest running jokes in the industry. What he did was seize the moment and tackle climate change in front of millions of people watching the Academy Awards, calling it 'the most existential crisis our civilization has ever known'.

Is Preity Zinta finally 'Goodenough'?
The actress is soon to have a grand Rajput style wedding reception in Mumbai where she will include whose who of the industry. But, coming to think about it, she has has a great equation with the two other Khans of Bollywood: Shah Rukh and Aamir.

The 51-year-old comedian quipped, "You realize if they nominated hosts I wouldn't even get this job". You should quit.' How come there's only unemployed people to tell you to quit something?

His Oscar speech gave considerable importance to the current crisis of climate change as actor Leonardo DiCaprio felt it was imperative to use the stage to speak about the issue. This year in the "In Memorian" it's just going to be black people who were shot by the cops on their way to the movies.

Variety reported in a statement through his National Action Network, Sharpton said that the decline in ratings is "heartening to those of us that campaigned around asking citizens to tune out".

"You do this every year?", he asked the engraver. No, no black nominees, you know, and people are like 'Chris, you should boycott. We got a Black Rocky.

Saudi police: 6 wanted in murder of anti-terrorism officer
The Sunni-dominated GCC comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Associated Press writers Abdullah al-Shihri in Riyadh and Zeina Karam in Beirut contributed reporting.

Back to the adorableness: Kate Winslet teared up as her Titanic costar finally won an Oscar!

As for the awards themselves, Spotlight won Best Picture, only taking home one other award for Best Original Screenplay (Thomas McCarthy, Josh Singer).

The biggest victor on the night was "Mad Max: Fury Road" sweeping with 6 Oscars on the night including for Sound, Sound Mixing, Hair and Makeup, Production, Film Editing and Costume Design.

Should tackling be banned in school rugby games?
More than 70 doctors and academics are calling for a ban on tackling in rugby matches played in United Kingdom and Irish schools. While the exact number of pupil players is unclear, the Rugby Football Union is driving a campaign to get a million playing.

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