Oscars 2016: wins DiCaprio as Spotlight shocks and Mad Max scorched competition

Tom McCarthy's true-life drama About a team of Boston Globe WHO Journalists expose a ring of pedophile priests, pulled a surprise at the end reel Academy Awards on Sunday night. The film, Whose ensemble includes Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams, best picture Snatched from rival contenders The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road in the last minutes of the show.

The film HAD taken only one award - for best screenplay Original - in the ceremony Until That point, and momentum Appeared to be with The Revenant, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's epic western, Which HAD taken best director, actor and cinematography.

Morgan Freeman Announced the winner to gasps from the audience at the Dolby Theatre, after Which the cast and crew skipped, amazed, on stage. Accepting the award, producer Michael Sugar Said I Hoped the film's message - That silence over institutional child abuse was not to be tolerated - would "resonate all the way to the Vatican".

I continued with a direct call to the pontiff. "Pope Francis: it's time to protect the children and restore the faith."

It was end the call to arms in a ceremony dominated by controversy. In His speech accepting His first ever Best Actor award, DiCaprio Said I Hoped audiences would heed what The Revenant Said about "man's relationship With the natural world".

"Climate change is real," He Said. "It is happening right now. It is The most urgent threat Affecting our species. We need to work together and stop procrastinating. "

DiCaprio Concluded by Urging support for Those people whose "voices drowned out by Have Been the politics of greed". "Let us not taken for granted This Planet," He Said. "I do not take for granted tonight."

Inarritu was named best manager for the second consecutive year, following His success With Birdman in 2015, and used His speech to reference the race discussion That has dominated esta year's awards season, calling it a "great opportunity for our generation to liberate ourselves from prejudice and make sure the color of your skin is as irrelevant as the color of your hair. "

But Real the success story of the night was the storming performance of George Miller's belated installment in the Mad Max franchise, Fury Road, in Which Tom Hardy Took over from Mel Gibson and starred alongside a shaven-headed, one-armed Charlize Theron.

The movie ran away with the technical categories, taking six awards - three more than any other film - for costume design, production design, hair and makeup, editing, sound editing and sound mixing. The costume award was won by Jenny Beavan - the woman Described as a "bag lady" by host Stephen Fry at the BAFTAs a fortnight ago

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