In pictures: Oscars ceremony
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Alicia Vikander walked away with the best supporting actress award for her role alongside Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl. She played Gerda, the wife of transgender pioneer Einar Wegener.
Star Wars A-listers BB-8, R2-D2 and C-3PO took centre stage at Sunday's ceremony.
Kate Winslet - nominated for best supporting actress for her turn in Steve Jobs - presented an overview of one of the best film nominations, Spotlight, with Reese Witherspoon.
British actor Mark Rylance was named best supporting actor for his role as arrested Soviet spy Rudolf Abe in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies.
Show host Chris Rock revealed that $65,243.00 was raised when Girls Scouts sold cookies to this year's Oscars audience.
Lady Gaga performed her song 'Til It Happens To You, about the effects of sexual assault. It was nominated for best song but lost out to Sam Smith and Jimmy Napes's Bond theme song Writing's On The Wall.
Composer Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith were honoured with the best original song award for Bond theme tune The Writing's On The Wall - Smith said: "I want to dedicate this to the LGBT community."
Actress Brie Larson hugged her 9-year-old Room co-star Jacob Tremblay before accepting the award for best actress.
Julianne Moore had the pleasure of handing over the coveted best actor Oscar to Leonardo DiCaprio for his role in The Revenant - it was his first Academy Awards win, having been nominated six times.
Spotlight, based on the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, won best film. Many had expected The Revenant to win.
The four acting winners celebrated their success at the ceremony in Los Angeles.
- Published29 February 2016
