Oscars 2016: The best quotes

Alejandro González Iñárritu accepting the Best Director award:

"I am very lucky to be here tonight, but unfortunately many others haven't had the same light. There is a line in the film that Glass says to his mixed-race son – 'They don't listen to you, they just see the colour of your skin.' So what a great opportunity for our generation to really liberate ourselves from all the prejudice and this tribal thinking and make sure for once and forever that the colour of our skin becomes as irrelevant as the length of our hair."

C-3PO on the iconic Oscars statue:

"I don't look like him! He happens to look a lot like me."

Host Chris Rock:

"Is Hollywood racist? You're damn right Hollywood's racist. But it isn't the racist 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."

Jacob Tremblay on attending his first Oscars red carpet:

"I can see lots of legs."

Kerry Washington on why she chose not to join the Oscars boycott:

"I really admire some of the people who are not here tonight, I really get it, but for me it felt like my voice is best used at the table, as a new member of the Academy."

Kevin Hart on what advice he would give host Chris Rock:

"Do what you do best. Address the elephant in the room. Make people feel awkward."

Leonardo DiCaprio accepting his Best Actor Oscar:

"Climate change is real and it's happening right now. It's the most urgent issue affecting our species…. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted."

Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling before presenting the award for Best Adapted Screenplay:

Ryan: "Let's not fight. We have two Academy Awards between us. This is beneath us."
Russell: "Did you win an Oscar?"
Ryan: "Well, you have two Academy Awards so, technically there's two between us."

Room's Jacob Tremblay presenting the award for Best Documentary Short with Beasts of No Nation's Abraham Attah:

"Thanks Chris! I loved you in Madagascar. He's the zebra – he's hilarious."

Sam Smith accepting his Best Original Song Oscar:

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

Tina Fey celebrity-spotting:

"I literally started clapping when I saw Charlize Theron. She's so beautiful."

Director Tom McCarthy accepting the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Spotlight:

"We made this film for all the journalists who have and continue to hold the powerful accountable, and for the survivors whose courage and will to overcome is really an inspiration. We have to make sure this never happens again."