Alicia Vikander won with her first nomination for The Danish Girl.
It was six in a row for George Miller’s epic Mad Max: Fury Road, as the film swept the technical awards.
Eight of the 13 Mad Max winners were Australians, while two of the awards were presented to the film’s crew by fellow Aussies Cate Blanchett and Margot Robbie, who could barely contain their hometown pride.
Another notable moment came when Mad Max sound editor Mark Mangini raised his arm and yelled “F— yeah” before accepting his award.
The F-bomb was such a surprise even Channel Nine’s censors didn’t catch it before it hit the live broadcast.
Backstage, Mangini expressed regret, telling Entertainment Weekly: “I’m gonna hear it from my wife, so that’s about as big a regret as one can have.”
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His Australian co-winner David added: “It’s pretty intense up there, you know… It’s typically Australians that do the swearing. So the fact that I didn’t swear, I deserve the Oscar just for that.”
The Mad Max reboot had 10 nominations (the most for any Aussie film ever) all up, while, Alejandro González Iñárritu (who won best director last year for Birdman) took home best director again and swept 12 nominations for The Revenant.
DiCaprio and Inarritu both took home an Oscar. Photo: Getty
Despite laughing all the way to the bank, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was snubbed completely, winning zero from five nominations.
Journalism film Spotlight was a surprising best picture win ahead of its blockbuster competition, while Brie Larson and Leonardo DiCaprio were shoe-ins for best actress and best actor respectively.
At 87, Ennio Morricone became the oldest Oscar winner ever, winning best score for Quentin Tarantino’s latest film The Hateful Eight after five fruitless nominations. He accepted in Italian with the help of a translator.
Here are all the winners in each category:
Nominees:
Spotlight
The Revenant
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Big Short
The Martian
Room
Brooklyn
On the same day Australian Cardinal George Pell began giving evidence to the abuse royal commission, Spotlight, the story of the Boston Globe investigative journalists who uncovered child sex abuse in the Catholic Church won best picture. The cast and crew took the opportunity to call for the church to stop protecting its priests and start protecting children. It was a redeeming win for the film, after Mark Ruffalo missed out on best supporting actor and Rachel McAdams best supporting actress.
Not exactly a shock win, but Spotlight had heady competition with Mad Max and The Revenant.
Nominees:
Brie Larson – Room
Jennifer Lawrence – Joy
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Cate Blanchett – Carol
Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years
First-time nominee, Larson was the leading contender for best actress ahead of Brooklyn’s 21-year old Soairse Ronan.
Brie Larson played a woman trapped by a rapist for seven years with a young son in Room.
Nominees:
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Matt Damon – The Martian
Everyone could feel this one coming. Sat in the front row, it was a short walk for DiCaprio to accept his first ever Oscar after five nominations. DiCaprio was old school and articulate in his thank you speech, praising director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “transcendental” film and using his soapbox to draw attention to an issue close to his heart – climate change. “Don’t take this world for granted – I won’t take this night for granted,” he said.
Leonardo DiCaprio was the crowd favourite to finally take home best actor.
Nominees:
The Big Short
The Revenant
Spotlight
Room
Mad Max: Fury Road
Inarritu beat out George Miller to take home Best Director.
Nominees:
Bridge of Spies
Spotlight
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Straight Outta Compton
Spotlight’s respectful treatment of weighty subject matter (sexual abuse in the Catholic Church) has earned it Hollywood kudos.
Spotlight tells the story of the Boston Globe investigative journalists who uncovered abuse in the Catholic Church.
Nominees:
Carol
The Big Short
Brooklyn
The Martian
Room
Ensemble comedy The Big Short satirises the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis in America.
Nominees:
Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara – Carol
Rachel McAdams – Spotlight
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
While Eddie Redmayne is a long shot to take out best actor for The Danish Girl, newcomer Alicia Vikander was a hot pick for supporting actress.
Breakout Swedish actress Alicia Vikander won with her first nomination for The Danish Girl.
Nominees:
Christian Bale – The Big Short
Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
Sylvester Stallone – Creed
Tom Hardy – The Revenant
Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
Mark Rylance played a KGB agent in the Steven Spielberg’s Cold War thriller, Bridge of Spies. Rylance has been historically a small-screen actor, but when he missed out on the lead for the Coen Brother’s 2009 film A Serious Man, he decided to hire an agent and get serious.
Mark Rylance was a shock win for Best Supporting Actor ahead of Sylvester Stallone and Mark Ruffalo.
Nominees:
Carol
Cinderella
Mad Max: Fury Road
Danish Girl
The Revenant
Costume design was the first of a hot streak for Mad Max: Fury Road in the technical categories.
Nominees:
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Production design was the Aussie production’s second win of the night.
Nominees:
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
The 100-year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared
Makeup was tipped to go to The Revenant after a publicity campaign made much of the painstaking process of creating DiCaprio’s injuries, but Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin (all Australian) took the honour.
Hair and makeup made it a hat trick for George Miller’s Mad Max reboot.
Nominees:
The Hateful Eight
The Revenant
Sicario
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant was shot in extreme conditions in Alberta, Canada, and was widely tipped to win this gong.
Nominees:
The Big Short
Spotlight
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
The fourth win of the night for Mad Max: Fury Road was for editing.
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
For its fifth and sixth awards for the night, Mad Max took out both Sound Mixing and Sound Editing.
Nominees:
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Nominees:
‘Earned It,’ Fifty Shades of Grey
‘Manta Ray,’ Racing Extinction
‘Simple Song #3,’ Youth
‘Til It Happens To You,’ The Hunting Ground
‘Writing’s On The Wall,’ Spectre
Songwriter Jimmy Napes (L) and singer-songwriter Sam Smith with their award for ‘Writing’s on the Wall’.
Nominees:
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Ex Machina was the first shock win of the night, taking Best Visual Effects with a $15 million budget ahead of two films with $150 million budgets: The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Futuristic flick Ex Machina took home best visual affects in a tight category.
Nominees:
Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow
Bear Story is the first Oscar win ever for Chile.
Nominees:
Anomalisa
The Boy and the World
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There
Pixar’s latest, Inside Out, was a safe bet for best animated feature.
Nominees:
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
Comedian Louis CK jokingly announced “Mad Max: Fury Road“, before announcing it was actually Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy – her second Oscar win.
A Girl in the River is about religiously motivated honor killings in Pakistan.
Nominees:
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Heartbreaking documentary Amy gave an unprecedented look into Amy Winehouse’s fall from grace.
Amy detailed the tragic life of talented musician Amy Winehouse.
Nominees:
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
Stutterer
Strutterer details a man whose inner thoughts are rendered mute by a crippling stutter.
Nominees:
Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)
A War (Denmark)
Mustang” (France)
Son Of Saul (Hungary)
Theeb (Jordan)
Son of Saul tells the story of a Hungarian prisoner who tries to find a Rabbi to bury his son.
Nominees:
The Hateful Eight
Carol
Bridge of Spies
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sicario
Morricone became the oldest Oscar winner ever at 87.