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.

Live coverage of the red carpet, the winners, reactions, mistakes and snubs with Spy Editor Ricardo Simich, The Hits host Polly Gillespie and NZME's Laura McGoldrick.

Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated five separate times for an Academy Award. But he's never won one - until, possibly, today.

The chances of Leonardo DiCaprio not winning the Best Actor gong this year are slimmer than those of surviving a bear attack.

It has taken me a while to process things in the aftermath of Zoolander 2.

Black artists will be conspicuous by their absence on Oscar night, writes Justin Moyer.

Zac Efron is having difficulties training to be a lifeguard for the upcoming movie adaptation of the Baywatch TV series, according to the show's star David Chokachi.

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 story of the Sonderkommando, the "special units" of Jewish prisoners in Nazi death camps forced to assist with the exterminations of the Final Solution, has been little-told in the cinema.

If you liked the arched eyebrow of the dowager countess at Downton Abbey, you just have to get a load of this.

Dominic Corry gives his recommendations of five must see movies from the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival.

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

The New Zealand-filmed sequel to Ang Lee's Oscar winner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon hits Netflix this Friday.

The official trailer for Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel, Sword of Destiny.

In 2016, after all - unlike a decade ago - few major superheroes get the luxury of standing alone.

Teenage Leo was so nervous around girls that he turned to his Growing Pains co-star Alan Thicke for flirting advice.

Soon a galaxy far, far away will become a lot closer.

Kiwi director Lee Tamahori's first New Zealand film in 20 years has premiered in Auckland.

It's not set to be released in New Zealand until mid-March, but people are already freaking out over the new horror mystery, The Witch.

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