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ByLindseyBahrand Jake Coyle The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Hollywood's diversity crisis has loomed large over awards season and the big question going into the 88th annual Acad- emy Awards was whether it would dominate the cer- emony, too. It did, of course, but it wasn't alone. The evening turned out to be a platform not just for racial representation in the movies, led by host Chris Rock's incisive insight and parody, but a wide array of causes, from global warm- ing and bank reform to sex- ual abuse in church and on campus. It was a subtle plea from the film community that the movies and artists honored at Sunday night's ceremony did have purpose and meaning — even in this second year of #OscarsSoW- hite. The "Spotlight" team, which won the first and last prize of the night — best original screenplay and best picture — and nothing else, celebrated the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of The Boston Globe journalists who exposed sex abuses in the Roman Catholic Church and the conversation the film has renewed around the world. Leonardo DiCaprio, the forgone best-actor winner for "The Revenant," used the platform to talk about his life's passion outside of acting — climate change, which got a "thank you" from the official White House Instagram account. Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, who won for best adapted screenplay for "The Big Short," spoke about the need for finance reform. And Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, whose "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" spoke to the impact of her film. "This week, the Paki- stani prime minister said he would change the law on honor killing of women," said Obaid-Chinoy, who was also the only female direc- tor to win an award at Sun- day's ceremony. "That is the power of film." In some ways, the Oscars have always been a place where winners use the po- dium and their 45 seconds to opine on causes directly or indirectly related to the movies, from Sacheen Lit- tlefeather's speech about Native American rights 43 years ago to Patricia Ar- quette's call last year for pay equality for women. But perhaps no cer- emony has had such a pointed target, and noth- ing this year could eclipse #OscarsSoWhite, which was woven into the fabric of the show, thanks to Rock. He launched immediately into the uproar over the lack of diversity in this year's nom- inees, and didn't let up, dub- bing the show "The White People's Choice Awards" at the start. Rock ensured that the topic remained at the fore- front throughout the pro- ceedings, usually finding hearty laughs in the pro- cess. In an award show tra- ditionally known for song- and-dance routines and high doses of glamour, Rock gave the 88th Acad- emy Awards a charged at- mosphere, keeping with the outcry that followed a second straight year of all- white acting nominees. Streaks, broken and ex- tended, dominated much of the evening, with an ex- pected best actress win to Brie Larson for her break- out performance in the mother-son captive drama "Room" and a best sup- porting actress win for Swedish actress Alicia Vi- kander for the transgen- der pioneer tale "The Dan- ish Girl." Gasps went around the Dolby when Mark Rylance won best supporting ac- tor for Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" over Syl- vester Stallone. Nominated a second time for the role of Rocky Balboa 39 years later, Stallone had been expected to win his first acting Os- car for the "Rocky" sequel "Creed." The night's most- awarded film, however, went to neither "Spotlight" nor "The Revenant." George Miller's post-apocalyptic chase film, "Mad Max: Fury Road," sped away with six awards in technical cate- gories for editing, makeup, production design, sound editing, sound mixing and costume design. Alejando Inarritu, whose win for "The Revenant" meant three straight years of Mexican filmmakers win- ning best director and his second consecutive win, was one of the few recipi- ents to remark passionately on diversity in his accep- tance speech. Best animated feature film went to "Inside Out," Pixar's eighth win in the category. Asif Kapadia's Amy Winehouse portrait, "Amy," took best documen- tary. Hungary's concentra- tion camp drama "Son of Saul" won best foreign lan- guage film. Composer Ennio Morri- cone, at 87, landed his first competitive Oscar for "The Hateful Eight." But the wins at times felt secondary to the unflinch- ing host. Rock said he de- liberated over joining the Oscars boycott and bowing out as host, but concluded: "The last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart." OSCARS AcademyAwardstakeon issues beyond #OscarsSoWhite JORDANSTRAUSS—INVISION—AP The top awards winners at the Oscars ceremony Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. From le : Mark Rylance, best supporting actor; Brie Larson, best lead actress; Leonardo DiCaprio, best lead actor; Alicia Vikander, best supporting actress. By Steve Peoples and Bill Barrow The Associated Press LEESBURG, VA. The final- days sprint to Super Tues- day sparked a scramble among Republican candi- dates Monday looking to stop billionaire business- man Donald Trump from becoming an "unstoppa- ble" force in the 2016 pres- idential contest. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio continued to ham- mer the GOP front-run- ner's character and lack of policy specifics in a series of attacks while courting voters across the South. Trump, meanwhile, un- apologetically bashed pro- testers at one of his rallies in Radford, Va., Monday, after he was interrupted during a speech about il- legal immigration and Mexico. "Are you from Mexico?" Trump shouted from the stage. Several minutes of shouting and booing en- sued. The crowd hooted and Trump briefly qui- eted them. Then he looked in front of the stage and asked a woman, "You have a problem? Get her out." Trump has won three of four early voting states, roiling a party divided over the prospect of the brash billionaire becom- ing its nominee. Cruz warned that the "Trump train" could be- come "unstoppable" if he rolls to big victories Tues- day. Cruz cast Trump as a carbon copy Democratic front-runner Hillary Clin- ton and suggested that not even Trump "knows what he would do" as president. Florida Sen. Marco Ru- bio picked up Monday where he left off, dogging the GOP front-runner for not disavowing Sunday a white supremacist and the Ku Klux Klan. Rubio says Trump's de- cision not to denounce the public support of former KKK leader David Duke disqualifies him from the nomination from "the party of Lincoln." Trump told NBC's "To- day" on Monday that he did not hear or under- stand the question Sun- day on CNN when he was asked about Duke and the KKK, blaming a "very bad earpiece." He did disavow Duke's comments earlier. Late Sunday, Nebraska's Ben Sasse became the first sitting Republican sena- tor to say explicitly that he would not back Trump if he does win the nomi- nation. "If Trump becomes the Republican nominee my expectation is that I'll look for some 3rd candidate — a conservative option, a con- stitutionalist," Sasse wrote on Twitter. The Duke debate seeped into the Democratic con- test, as Vermont Sen. Ber- nie Sanders also lashed out on Twitter: "America's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK." Asked about the issue on Monday, Trump said he had disavowed Duke and asked, "How many times do I have to continue to disavow people." In a phone-in inter- view with NBC's "Today" show, the real estate mo- gul was asked about ear- lier remarks in interviews where he had seemed to stop short of disavowing Duke. He said the questioner in the earlier interview had asked about Duke and var- ious "other groups," saying he had difficulty with an earpiece he was wearing for the phone-in interview and didn't want to disavow groups whose identity he didn't know. Trump also said he had clearly made separation with Duke over the weekend in posts on Twitter and Facebook. Feud erupts as GOP fights an 'unstoppable' Trump PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN DAVID GOLDMAN — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a campaign event at the InterContinental Hotel on Monday in Atlanta. 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