For all the drama and controversy that plagued the lead-up to this year's Oscars, 2016 will be remembered for, well, not a lot.

Leo took out best actor and Mad Max cleaned up, winning many of their nominations. Here are all the winners from the 88th Annual Academy Awards.

Fashion experts, Spy Editor Ricardo Simich, The Hits host Polly Gillespie and NZME's Laura McGoldrick go through the best and worst dressed at this year's Oscar Awards.

The talented New Zealand born woman, who worked behind the scenes on Mad Max: Fury Road took home the Make-up and Hair styling Oscar.

We'll have all the action from the Oscars red carpet and beyond, live on nzherald.co.nz.

The 2016 Academy Awards kicked off with an epic montage of the year's movie highlights.

Chris Rock, a stand-up comedian and actor himself, quickly addressed the issue, branding this year's Oscars the "White People's Choice Awards" then turning to calls for him to quit as host.

WATCH: He was expected to get his hands dirty, and Chris Rock didn't waste any time getting down to business as host of the Oscars.

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Laura Carmichael thinks the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations is "disappointing".

Lady Gaga's song-writing partner has teased a "mind-blowing" performance from the singer at the Oscars.

From abandoned astronauts to testosterone-fuelled Wall Street traders, dogged reporters and frontiersmen bent on revenge, it is a man's world in the best picture race at Sunday's Oscars with women again taking supporting roles.

We'll have all the action from the Oscars red carpet and beyond, live on nzherald.co.nz from 11am on Monday.

We'll have all the action from the Oscars red carpet and beyond, live on nzherald.co.nz from 11am on Monday.

The actress beat Leo DiCaprio and Matt Damon to top a new rich list.

We'll have all the action from the Oscars red carpet and beyond, live on nzherald.co.nz from 11am on Monday.

Diversity - or the lack of it - among Academy Award nominees has overshadowed this year's Oscars, but 44 per cent of Americans do not support the idea of boycotting the movie industry's biggest night, according to a Reuters/Ispsos poll.

Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke says the movie industry is going backwards in terms of gender diversity with not one female director nominated for an Oscar this year.

A Leonardo DiCaprio video game has been created in which players help the star to try to win an Oscar.

A "Vampire Breast Lift". A laser skin-tightening procedure. A 10-day first-class trip to Israe

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg has urged Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bosses to rethink plans to take votes away from members in a bid to address the ongoing diversity issue in Hollywood.

Sylvester Stallone was ready to boycott the Oscars.

Do stars create dopplegangers in this year's nominated movies?

COMMENT: The white face is default. Anything else is jarring and needs to be justified, writes Raybon Kan. So for two years in a row, all 20 of the Oscar nominees for acting are white.

Chris Rock's publicist has dismissed reports suggesting the comedian is rewriting his Academy Awards monologue in the aftermath of the Oscars diversity row.

The announcement of this year's whites-only Academy Awards acting nominees produced a flurry of #OscarsSoWhite articles - about the older, white, male voters who picked them, about the performances by black actors some thought were snubbed.