Oscar Highlights: Everything From Rock’s Slammin’ to Leo Winning

The 88th Academy Awards had some real epic moments and here are the best of its most unexpected surprises.

Chris Rock made the 88th Academy Awards one helluva night as the main host (Photo: Twitter/@TheAcademy; altered by: The Quint)

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Winning Speech Was a True Winner

Kate Winslet’s hunch was bang on. Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his first Oscar. His performance in The Revenant was nothing short of deserving and his acceptance speech was as humble as his acting was epic. No wonder it got a standing ovation from the illustrious audience.

For Co-Star Tom Hardy & Director Alejandro Inarritu:

<i>The Revenant</i> was the product of the tireless efforts of an unbelievable cast and crew. First off, to my brother in this endeavour, Mr. Tom Hardy. Tom, your fierce talent on screen can only be surpassed by your friendship off screen. To Mr Alejandro Inarritu, as the history of cinema unfolds have forged your way into history these past two years. What an unbelievable talent you are. Thank you to you and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki for creating a transcendent cinematic experience for all of us.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Actor

The Oscar winning actor also had a political message about climate change being real.

On Climate Change:

I just want to say this, making The Revenant was about man’s relationship to the natural world, the world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow. Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support leaders around the world, who do not speak for the big polluters and the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the millions and millions of underprivileged people who will be most affected by this. For our children’s children and for those people out there whose voice have been drowned out by the politics of greed. I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted, I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so much.&nbsp;

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Dicaprio beat the likes of British star Eddie Redmayne, Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon and Michael Fassbender to take home the award for his role in The Revenant at the 88th Academy Awards. By the way, did you know that Leo was first nominated for an Oscar 23 years ago in a supporting role for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Wow, he’s come such a long way!

Sam Smith Took Home the Oscar for ‘Best Original Song’ as a Proud Gay Man

Sam Smith dedicates his win to the LGBT community (Photo: Twitter/@TheAcademy)

I want to dedicate this to the LGBT community all around the world. I stand here tonight as a proud gay man and I hope we can all stand as equals one day.

Sam Smith, Singer

Sam Smith took home the Oscar for Best Original Song (Writing’s On The Wall from Spectre) and his acceptance speech about being a proud gay man was touching. He was wrong about being the first gay person to have won the Oscar, a faux pas we’re simply going to ignore, because his message still makes so much sense.

Whoopi Goldberg Has a Tattoo?

Whoopi Goldberg shows off her tattoo on the Oscars red carpet (Photo: Reuters)

Now here’s something you probably hadn’t seen before. Whoopi Goldberg has a tattoo and it’s one mean piece of art. How come we never saw that ever before? Well, she picked a dress inspired by Hollywood legend Bette Davis to show it off. Check her out in her hilarious Joy stunt, that took the racial comment underlining Oscars 2016 to a whole new level. Goldberg is just as funny as ever. What a treat!

Stallone-Schwarzenegger Bromance <3

Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger might have been arch rivals all their lives, but Arnie tweeted a sweet message for the Creed star, who lost to Mark Rylance in the Best Supporting Actor category at the Oscars this year. Aww...that was touching and rare!

Sly just remember, no matter what they say, to me you are the best. You were the winner. I’m proud of you.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

Mad Max: Fury Road’s Costume Designer Was the Worst Dressed Winner Ever!

Kate Blanchett gives away the Oscar to Jenny Beaven for Best Costume Design (Photo: Reuters)

Mad Max: Fury Road won six Oscars this year including the one for Best Costume Design, that went home with Jenny Beaven, who was undoubtedly the worst dressed person in the room. But she had her reasons:

I am very happy to talk about my outfit. I don’t do frocks and absolutely don’t do heels, I have a bad back. I look ridiculous in a beautiful gown. This was a homage to <i>Mad Max </i>and I obviously didn’t get it quite right at the Baftas, the scarf was meant to be an oil rag.

Jenny Beaven, Costume Designer

Jenny Beaven at the Baftas 2016, was described by Stephen Fry as ‘bag lady’ (Photo: Twitter/@TheAcademy)

The stunning Kate Blanchett gave away this award and we hear many famous people in the audience didn’t clap for this one. Stephen Fry even described her as the ‘bag lady’ at the Baftas, can you believe that!

Chris Rock Took a Dig at #OscarsSoWhite Like Hollywood Could Never Have Imagined

Chris Rock takes on Hollywood and racism at one go (Photo: Twitter/@TheAcademy)

Chris Rock was simply unstoppable at slamming. He slammed the Academy, white actors, black actors, Hollywood...pretty much everything that came his way. Here are some ‘so wrong that they’re right’ comments from the entertaining host of the 88th Academy Awards:

Hey! Well, I’m here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the White People’s Choice Awards.

Chris Rock, Actor

This is the wildest, craziest Oscars to ever host because we’ve all this controversy. No, no black nominees, you know? People are like, “Chris, you should boycott. Chris you should quit. You should quit!” How come it’s only unemployed people that tell you to quit something? No one with a job ever tells you to quit. I thought about quitting. I thought about it real hard, but I realised they’re going to have the Oscars anyway.

Chris Rock

Chris Rock tries to explain the way in which Hollywood tends to be racist 

It’s the 88th Academy Awards. It’s the 88th Academy Awards, which means this whole black nominees thing has happened at least 71 other times.

Chris Rock

I’m sure there wasn’t no black nominees some of those years, say ‘62 or ‘63. And black people did not protest. Why? Because we had real things to protest at the time.We had real things to protest! Too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won best cinematographer. You know, when your grandmother is swinging from the tree, it’s really hard to care about best documentary foreign short.

Chris Rock

Tell you truth, I get it. You get mad. Said it’s not fair that Will was this good and didn’t get nominated. You’re right. It’s also not fair that Will was paid $20 millionfor “Wild Wild West,” OK?

Chris Rock

Chris Rock pissed off a few and cracked up the rest at 2016 Oscars (Photo: Twitter/@TheAcademy) 

You need to have black categories. You already do it with men and women. Think about it. There’s no real reason for there to be a man and a woman category in acting. There’s no reason. It’s not track and field. You don’t have to separate them. Robert De Niro has never said, I better slow this acting down so Meryl Streep can catch up.

Chris Rock

Is Hollywood racist? You damn right Hollywood’s racist, but it ain’t the racist that you’ve grown accustomed to. Hollywood is sorority racist. It’s like: “We like you Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa.” That’s how Hollywood is, but things are changing.

Chris Rock