The Revenant took home two of the biggest prizes on offer at the 88th Annual Academy Awards. The gruelling survival thriller, having earned 12 nominations, took home Best Director Oscar for Alejandro González Iñárritu and Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio. But the biggest prize of the night – Best Picture – was scooped by real-life journalism drama Spotlight.
Iñárritu becomes only the third director in history to win back-to-back directing Oscars, while DiCaprio – to the audible relief of certain corners of the internet – finally made good on his six nominations. The actor was first nominated in 1993, for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
The Revenant also earned Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki his third Best Cinematography Oscar in a row. But it was Mad Max: Fury Road that went home with the most awards, sweeping the technical categories to earn six Oscars, including Best Production Design.
Many categories fell as expected: Brie Larson took Best Actress for her performance in Room, and Alicia Vikander won Best Supporting Actress for her turn in The Danish Girl. Inside Out won Best Animated Feature for Pixar, a category the studio has dominated since it was first introduced in 2001.
Elsewhere, the Academy’s fondness for British talent remains undimmed, with Asif Kapadia winning Best Documentary Feature for Amy, and Mark Rylance beating bookies' favourite Sylvester Stallone to Best Supporting Actor. And in one of the biggest and happiest surprises of the evening, Ex Machina (budget: $15m) beat out Star Wars: The Force Awakens (budget: $200m) to scoop Best Visual Effects.
During a typically uneven ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, host Chris Rock addressed the #OscarsSoWhite elephant in the room head on, devoting most of his opening monologue to the entirely-white acting nominations, and suggesting the Academy introduce separate black categories.
The full list of winners and nominees are below. Read the full story of how it all went down here.
BEST PICTURE
Winner: Spotlight
The Big Short
Bridge Of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
BEST ACTOR
Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
BEST ACTRESS
Winner: Brie Larson, Room
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Mark Rylance, Bridge Of Spies
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, The Big Short
Emma Donoghue, Room
Drew Goddard, The Martian
Nick Hornby, Brooklyn
Phyllis Nagy, Carol
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight)
Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen (Bridge Of Spies)
Alex Garland (Ex Machina)
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley (Inside Out)
Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
Ed Lachman, Carol
John Seale, Mad Max: Fury Road
Roger Deakins, Sicario
Robert Richardson, The Hateful Eight
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Winner: Jenny Beavan, Mad Max: Fury Road
Sandy Powell, Carol
Sandy Powell, Cinderella
Paco Delgado, The Danish Girl
Jacqueline West, The Revenant
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Winner: Amy
Cartel Land
The Look Of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Winner: A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond The Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres Of The Shoah
Last Day Of Freedom
BEST HAIR & MAKE-UP
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Winner: Writing On The Wall from Spectre (Sam Smith)
Earned It from Fifty Shades Of Grey (The Weeknd)
Simple Song #3 from Youth (David Lang)
Til It Happens To You from The Hunting Ground (Diane Warren and Lady Gaga)
Manta Ray from Racing Extinction
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Winner: Inside Out
Anomalisa
Boy & The World (O Menino E O Mundo)
Shaun The Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Winner: Bear Story (Historia De Un Oso)
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
World Of Tomorrow
We Can't Live Without Cosmos
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
Winner: Stutterer
Ave Maria
Day One
Shok
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
BEST SOUND EDITING
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST SOUND MIXING
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
Bridge Of Spies
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BEST FILM EDITING
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
The Big Short
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Revenant
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Winner: Son Of Saul
Mustang
Theeb
A War
Embrace The Serpent
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Winner: Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight
Carter Burwell, Carol
John Williams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Thomas Newman, Bridge Of Spies
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Sicario
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road
Bridge Of Spies
The Danish Girl
The Martian
The Revenant
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner: Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens