Now that music comes out on the weekend, and not always on every streaming service, it can be hard to know where to find the next great song. So Business Insider is helping you with this rundown of the best of what's new in the music world that you can listen to right now.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - "Kevin" (feat. Leon Bridges)

Macklemore dropped his first album since 2012 on Friday, titled "This Unruly Mess I've Made." "Kevin," featuring Leon Bridges, sticks out as a track that both appeals to one's emotions and tells a vivid story. The song is Macklemore's tribute to his friend who overdosed on prescription medication in 2010.

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Miguel - "Waves (Tame Impala Remix)"

Who says rock is dead? This remix of R&B star Miguel by the band Tame Impala, with its stadium-ready drum fills and guitar crunch combined with the otherworldly, swirling echoes of Miguel's voice, will make you think otherwise: Rock is just getting started.

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Zayn Malik - "It's You"

Despite the incredibly moody and sappy music video, "It's You" is actually a pretty decent song. Malik shows off his incredible vocal range, and it seems as if he's beginning to find his niche as an R&B artist.

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Last year was very good for Tom Hardy.

The 38-year-old actor was the star of the "Mad Max" reboot, taking over for Mel Gibson in "Mad Max: Fury Road" — which landed 10 Oscar nominations and was a box-office smash.

He also sang in a film adaptation of a musical, played notorious English twin gangsters, and landed his first Oscar nomination for his incredible supporting performance in "The Revenant."

His first role was in HBO's "Band of Brothers," and he made his film debut in "Black Hawk Down," but Hardy was struggling through alcohol and drug addiction. After heading to rehab in 2003, Hardy got his life and career back on track and hasn't stopped since.

He's been lauded for portraying the infamous criminal Charles Bronson, and he's perhaps best known as the villainous Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises" — though his face is obscured. He learned how to cage-fight for "Warrior" and was a Jewish gangster in the series "Peaky Blinders." Next, Hardy will be producing and starring in the BBC One/FX series "Taboo" and starring in Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk."

Here's a look back at Hardy's career and how he became one of the best actors of his generation:

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Edward Thomas Hardy was born on September 15, 1977, and grew up in East Sheen, London.

He scored a brief contract with Models One after winning a modeling competition on "The Big Breakfast." He was 20.

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He was expelled from public school when he was younger for stealing. After two attempts, he ended up attending the Drama Centre in London, whose alumni include fellow Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender and Colin Firth.

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Ted Cruz apparently became annoyed during a Sunday interview with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace.

Toward the end of the exchange, Wallace brought up a list of "dirty tricks" allegations against the Cruz campaign.

"Do you take personal responsibility for this series of incidents and what does it say about the culture of the campaign you're running?" Wallace asked on "Fox News Sunday."

Among the things Wallace cited was Cruz's campaign incorrectly suggesting that Ben Carson was about to drop out of the race during the Iowa caucuses, and Cruz's spokesman sharing a news article that incorrectly quoted Marco Rubio commenting about the Bible.

But Cruz dismissed the premise of the question.

"Chris, every accusation you raised there is incorrect. I appreciate you reading the Donald Trump attack file on that," the Texas senator told Wallace.

Wallace then interjected as Cruz repeatedly said: "Chris, please don't interrupt me." The two continued to talk over one another.

"Oh come on," Wallace said. "You personally apologized to Ben Carson on a debate stage. You fired your communications director. Don't say that this is an oppo file on our part," he added.

"Chris, please don't interrupt me," Cruz said for the fourth time.

"Well, I mean, please don't accuse me of something I didn't do," Wallace replied.

"Go ahead. Go ahead Chris. Let me know when I'm allowed to answer," Cruz said.

"Well, don't accuse me of something I didn't do," Wallace reiterated.

Cruz then said he had been running a campaign of "the highest level of integrity." He also told Wallace it was "striking" that, earlier in the show, the Fox host didn't grill Trump for repeating a false quote from Sen. Tom Coburn, or for a reported robocall from a white-supremacist group that backed Trump.

"First of all, I don't think anybody is going to think I did an easy interview with Donald Trump," Wallace shot back. "I asked him about plenty of things. If you want to ask him those questions, guess what, you'll get the opportunity at the Fox debate next Thursday."

Watch part of their interview below:

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While the Academy Awards ceremony that honors the best in film is changing every year, and getting slightly more casual with the style of the times, these vintage photos of awards past are a peek into the glamour of old Hollywood stretching all the way back to the 1920s.

Check out the photos below, curated by Bob Ahern, Director of Archival Imagery at Getty Images.

The first organizational meeting of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927.

Actor Jimmy Stewart in US Air Force uniform at the Oscars podium in 1942.

Elizabeth Taylor with her husband, British actor Michael Wilding, at the 26th Academy Awards in 1954.

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Last year, Microsoft Bing's prediction engine correctly predicted 20 out of 24 Oscar winners, scoring a solid 84%. The year before that, it went 21 for 24. 

So if you're trying to fill a bracket ahead of the 88th Academy Awards on February 28th, for fun or for glory, it might do you some good to pay attention to Bing.

And there's some good news for Leonardo DiCaprio — Bing thinks this is finally the year when he'll take home his first win for best actor, pulling far ahead of competitors like Michael Fassbender, Matt Damon, and Bryan Cranston.

In fact, Leo's movie "The Revenant" is looking like the one to beat in many categories.

Here's a selection of Bing's picks for big winners:

• "The Revenant" for best picture, with a 37% chance to win.
• Leonardo DiCaprio for best actor, nominated for his role in "The Revenant," with a 73% chance to win.
• Brie Larson for best actress, nominated for her role in "Room," with a 76% chance to win.
• Sylvester Stallone for best supporting actor, nominated for his role in "Creed," with a 56% chance to win.
• Alicia Vikander for best supporting actor, nominated for her role in "The Danish Girl," with a 50% chance to win.
• Alejandro G. Iñárritu for best director, nominated for "The Revenant," with a 68% chance to win.

You can see all of Bing's Oscar predictions here (or just search Bing for "Oscar winners"). 

Microsoft has been using its Bing prediction engine to call the results of NFL games and the World Cup. So far, its track record is pretty good.

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Director Alejandro González Iñárritu may have insisted on making his new movie "The Revenant," which came out on Christmas Day, as authentic as possible — including having actors go through a week-long boot camp to correctly portray mountain men in the 1800s — but there was still some movie magic needed to pull off this gory revenge tale.

That's where legendary production designer Jack Fisk comes in. He's best known for the beautifully designed period settings in movies like "The Thin Red Line," " The New World," and "There Will Be Blood" over his three-decade career.

Here, Fisk reveals some of the secrets behind the making of "The Revenant," including how that now-legendary bear scene came to be.

Warning: spoilers ahead.

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There was no real bear used in the filming of the grizzly attack scene.

One of the most memorable scenes in the movie is the incredible bear attack on Leonardo DiCaprio's character Hugh Glass. The scene is intense, violent, and, according to Fisk, completely done though stunt men and CGI. And, no, of course there is no rape.

So there wasn't even a trained bear for some of it?

"None. We had no real bears on set," Fisk said. "We looked at bears, but they were all so fat. These trained bears in captivity that you see on TV shows, they don't look like a wild grizzly bear from the 1800s."

According to Fisk, the scene was rehearsed with the stunt department for months before they even got on set in Squamish, British Columbia. Then on the day, he dressed the area where the attack took place with 25-foot rubber trees so when DiCaprio smashed into them, he wouldn't get injured. The actor was then strapped to harnesses attached to cables the stunt team used to yank him around. The grizzly was then added digitally in postproduction.

Fake horses were created for the scene in which DiCaprio cuts one open to stay warm.

The bear scene was certainly not the only jaw-dropping sequence in "The Revenant." Later in the movie, as Glass sets out to enact his revenge on the people who left him after the grizzly attack, he must run from a group of angry Native Americans. To escape them, he and his horse jump a cliff and land on a giant pine tree. As it begins to snow, Glass cuts open the horse, takes out its guts, and crawls inside until the storm passes.

"The horse was built and the guts inside were created out of latex and hair," Fisk said. The props department built one horse for DiCaprio to crawl inside and another horse for the chase scene in which they go off the cliff.

"We brought in 15 big pine trees, some of them 50 feet tall. And we snowed in the area," Fisk said. "Like the bear scene, the snow around the horse was always being trampled on, so between takes we were constantly using the snow machine."

The location where DiCaprio finds the bison herd was discovered by accident.

Fisk says the biggest challenge he had on the film was finding the remote locations for shooting. That's largely because, as the movie was shot with only natural light, Fisk had to find locations with a south or southwest vista.

In one striking scene, Glass comes across a herd of bison, leading to a part with a Native American offering Glass the liver of one of the bison he's eating. Fisk said that that location was found by accident.

"We were checking out a river one day, stopped the boats at a point, and, walking up this hill, we found this large vista," Fisk said. "The sun was setting, it was the perfect time of day to see it. Everyone thought, 'My God, this is what we've been looking for.'"

Fisk and his team lined the top of the hill with bushes. Computer graphics were used to create the herd of buffalo. Fisk said only one prop bison was created for the liver scene.

"The AD said, 'Where's the second one?' and I told him a man can eat maybe 10 pounds of meat. Between the two of them they wouldn't even put a dent in it."

Fisk recalls seeing DiCaprio eat the real bison liver: "I thought Leo was vegetarian, but he went for it."

Since 2007, Mexico's drug war has resulted in the murder of more than 100,000 of Mexico's citizens and brought an influx of violence and drugs into the United States.

"Cartel Land," nominated for a 2016 Academy Award for Best Documentary, could easily take to the podium for the much-coveted award. The film sheds light on a less well-known part of the story: the existence of vigilante groups on both sides of the border to combat the cartels. The film, directed by Matthew Heinemen, focuses on the leaders of both vigilante groups, including a Mexican doctor who has lost faith in his government's ability to fight the drug lords.

As Heinemen explains, and the documentary reveals, initial assumptions about right and wrong and good and evil prove far too simplistic for this complex war. 

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If you've followed Oscar "predictions," you'll notice it's not so easy to actually predict the outcome of the awards.

But experts, gamblers, and fans alike all attempt it every year anyway.

The methods used for predicting elections, sports, and economics cannot be used for the Oscars because little or no data exists, Walt Hickey, FiveThirtyEight's lead lifestyle writer, told Business Insider. (Hickey has a background in mathematics and used to cover politics and finance for Business Insider.)

"You want to be able to poll people or have previous data... With the Oscars, that doesn't exist. You're talking about [more than 6,000] people [in the Academy's membership]. We don't know who they are, they are deliberately obscured, they don't like to talk, and there's really no way to just ask how they're feeling."

FiveThirtyEight, ESPN's data-driven site, assigns points to Oscar nominees based on what other awards they have been nominated for and/or won during the awards season. Certain awards are worth more points depending on how predictive they have been in the past and if they were given by likely voting Academy members. 

"We don't want to call it a 'predict the Oscars winner' model because we're skeptical," Hickey said. But the model is "pretty much set in stone."

"The reason we've kept with this model is that it's a very simple model," he said. "It's pretty unsophisticated when it comes to the nuance that goes on in the campaign. It just looks at the W's and L's. For some of them, it's going to be really helpful to gauge how far ahead things are... and to figure out what the state of the race is. That's really all we try to do." 

FiveThirtyEight also examines other models to try and "find folks who think that they have a way to, if not predict the Oscars, at least get a little bit better at it." They chose eight different models to help gauge the race in a sort of "bakeoff."

"Every year, one or two categories are hard... [and] if someone nails an upset, that's someone to pay attention to in later years," he said. 

As for how to improve Oscar prediction, new technology could help.

"I'd be excited to get a proxy on how much different groups are spending on 'For Your Consideration' campaigns," Hickey said. "One idea is isolating areas that have disproportionate Academy participation like Beverly Hills and see what they're looking for."

But, he added, "There's no silver bullet yet."

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Oscar night is Hollywood's most glamorous event of the year, and stars spend days if not weeks or months getting ready for their red-carpet looks. We'll be updating all the best looks from the show as nominees, presenters, and more arrive Sunday night.

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Following up on his acclaimed first documentary on the Indonesian genocide of 1965, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer has released a companion feature, "The Look of Silence," which is competing for Best Documentary at today's Academy Awards ceremony. With the film winning the Spirit Award for Best Documentary yesterday, this could be a bellwether ahead of the Oscars.

Oppenheimer's first piece, "The Act of Killing," also Oscar-nominated, was screened before some members of Congress and helped Oppenheimer win a prestigious MacArthur "genius" award.

In fall 1965, six army generals were killed in an attempted coup of the Indonesian government. As a result, some 500,000 to 1 million people were massacred over five months in an anti-communist purge of the alleged perpetrators.

"The Look of Silence" follows its main character, Adi, an optometrist, as he helps and confronts the men who allegedly killed his brother some 50 years ago.

Here, the director talks about two pivotal scenes in the film.

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The Oscars are notorious for not getting it right.

That's the reputation you earn when you don't reward "Citizen Kane" Best Picture, or when "Crash" topples "Brokeback Mountain," or "Dances with Wolves" nabs the big prize.

But there are also plenty of times that the Academy got it right.

In truth, there's no way of knowing whether a film will have staying power through the years. But sometimes, voters make truly great and interesting choices.

Here are the 12 greatest Best Picture winners of all time:

12. "Amadeus" (1984)

The stereotype of an Oscar movie is an overlong, stale, historical biopic. "Amadeus" could have been just that but, instead, it turns the whole formula on its head. It brings 1700s Austria to life by making it feel just as alive as the present day.

Portraying a rivalry that might not ever have existed and turning one of history's greatest composers into a spoiled, giggling buffoon, who might have been a genius by accident, the film says so much more about the past than any buttoned-up, historically accurate film could.

No movie can get the past completely right — that's both the power and the danger of the medium. The great thing about "Amadeus" is that it acknowledges that almost immediately by letting Salieri tell somebody else's story. And the fact that it works so well is a true stroke of genius.

11. "Schindler's List" (1993)

After years of snubs, Spielberg rightfully won his first Oscar ever for "Schindler's List," the true story of a German businessman who saved countless Jewish lives during the Holocaust. This is such difficult subject matter and it is truly incredible to see the way Spielberg handles it. He spares none of the awful details and yet finds a ray of light in a horrible world during a horrible period of time. This is quite simply essential viewing.

10. "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)

"The Silence of the Lambs" is notable for two big reasons.

First off, it's the only horror film to win Best Picture. The character of Hannibal Lecter himself is bigger than just one film, but "The Silence of the Lambs" delivers the goods. This is the perfect horror movie for the Academy, as it is one that relies less on gore (though it is there) and more so on mounting dread. If a horror movie was going to win the big prize, it was going to be the one with the most likable cannibal of all time.

Secondly, it was released on February 14, 1991, basically a full year before the actual Oscar ceremony. So it proved that awards aren't just for that stretch of movies released during the last two weeks of every year.

Kerry Washington felt her presence at the Oscars is more effective than boycotting the ceremony alongside many of her colleagues who are taking part in the #OscarsSoWhite protest.

"If you look at the history of movements, the history of change, a lot of voices are needed at the table," the "Scandal" and "Django Unchained" star told Robin Roberts during ABC's pre-Oscar show on Sunday. "So I really respected, actually admired, some of the people who are not here tonight. I mean, I really get it. But for me, my voice is best used at the table."

Washington, who said she joined The Academy just three years ago, continued, "I really want to be part of the conversation to make sure there's institutional change, so that we never have a year like this again, so that we can be as inclusive as possible."

The actress will be presenting one of the nominees for best picture. She was part of a group of diverse presenters announced after the nominations, of which all the acting nominees are white for the second year in a row.

Spike Lee, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, and other celebrities are sitting out this year's Oscars in protest, and others like George Clooney have expressed their anger over the lack of nominees of color.

In response, the Academy reiterated its intention to make diversity a priority, and is changing some rules to do so. And Rock reportedly went back to the drawing board to craft a show script that reflected the #OscarsSoWhite protests.

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The 88th Academy Awards are taking place tonight, and we're updating the winners list live. 

Hosted by Chris Rock, the ceremony has been heavily criticized for its lack of minority nominees this year. 

"The Revenant" has the most nominations of the evening, 12, and is followed by "Mad Max: Fury Road" with 10.  

The winners (in bold) from tonight's live telecast will be updated below:  

Original screenplay
"Bridge of Spies," Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen
"Ex Machina," Alex Garland
"Inside Out," Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
"Spotlight," Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy — WINNER
"Straight Outta Compton," Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; story by S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus, and Andrea Berloff

Adapted screenplay
"The Big Short," Charles Randolph and Adam McKay — WINNER
"Brooklyn," Nick Hornby 
"Carol," Phyllis Nagy 
"The Martian," Drew Goddard 
"Room," Emma Donoghue

Actress in a supporting role
Alicia Vikander, "The Danish Girl" — WINNER
Jennifer Jason Leigh, "The Hateful Eight" 
Rachel McAdams, "Spotlight" 
Rooney Mara, "Carol"  
Kate Winslet, "Steve Jobs"

Costume design
"Carol," Sandy Powell
"Cinderella," Sandy Powell
"The Danish Girl," Paco Delgado
"Mad Max: Fury Road," Jenny Beavan — WINNER
"The Revenant," Jacqueline West

Production design
"Bridge of Spies," Adam Stockhausen; Set decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich
"The Danish Girl," Eve Stewart; Set decoration: Michael Standish
"Mad Max: Fury Road," Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson — WINNER
"The Martian," Arthur Max; Set decoration: Celia Bobak  
"The Revenant," Jack Fisk; Set decoration: Hamish Purdy  

Makeup and hairstyling
"Mad Max Fury Road," Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega, and Damian Martin — WINNER
"The Hundred Year Old Men Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared," Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
"The Revenant," Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman, and Robert Pandini

Cinematography
"Carol," Ed Lachman
"The Hateful Eight," Robert Richardson
"Mad Max: Fury Road," John Seale
"The Revenant," Emmanuel Lubezki — WINNER
"Sicario," Roger Deakins

Film editing
"The Big Short," Hank Corwin 
"Mad Max: Fury Road," Margaret Sixel — WINNER
"The Revenant," Stephen Mirrione 
"Spotlight," Tom McArdle
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens," Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

Sound editing
"Mad Max: Fury Road," Mark Mangini and David White — WINNER
"The Martian," Oliver Tarney
"The Revenant," Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender
"Sicario," Alan Robert Murray
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens," Matthew Wood and David Acor

Sound mixing
"Bridge of Spies," Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, and Drew Kunin 
"Mad Max: Fury Road," Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff, and Ben Osmo — WINNER
"The Martian," Paul Massey, Mark Taylor, and Mac Ruth 
"The Revenant," Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom, and Chris Duesterdiek 
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens," Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

Visual effects
"Ex Machina," Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington, and Sara Bennett — WINNER
"Mad Max: Fury Road," Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver, and Andy Williams 
"The Martian," Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence, and Steven Warner 
"The Revenant," Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith, and Cameron Waldbauer 
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens," Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould

Animated short film
"Bear Story" — WINNER
"Prologue"
"Sanjay's Super Team" 
"We Can't Live without Cosmos"
"World of Tomorrow"

Animated feature film
"Anomalisa"
"Boy and the World"
"Inside Out" — WINNER
"Shawn the Sheep Movie"
"When Marley Was There"

Actor in a supporting role
Christian Bale, "The Big Short" 
Tom Hardy, "The Revenant" 
Mark Ruffalo, "Spotlight" 
Mark Rylance, "Bridge of Spies" — WINNER
Sylvester Stallone, "Creed"

Documentary short subject
"Body Team 12"
"Chau, beyond the Lines"
"Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah" 
"A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" — WINNER
"Last Day of Freedom"

Documentary feature
"Amy" — WINNER
"Cartel Land" 
"The Look of Silence"
"What Happened, Miss Simone?" 
"Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom"

Live action short film
"Ave Maria" 
"Day One"
"Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)" 
"Shok"
"Stutterer" — WINNER

Foreign language film
"Embrace of the Serpent"
"Mustang" 
"Son of Saul" — WINNER
"Theeb" 
"A War"

Original song
"Earned It" ("Fifty Shades of Grey")
"Manta Ray" ("Racing Extinction")
"Simple Song #3" ("Youth")
"Till It Happens To You" ("The Hunting Ground")
"Writing's On The Wall" ("Spectre")

Original score
"Bridge of Spies," Thomas Newman 
"Carol," Carter Burwell 
"The Hateful Eight," Ennio Morricone — WINNER
"Sicario," Jóhann Jóhannsson 
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens," John Williams

Directing
Adam McKay, "The Big Short"
George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Alejandro González Iñárritu, "The Revenant"
Lenny Abrahamson, "Room"
Tom McCarthy, "Spotlight"

Actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett, "Carol"
Brie Larson, "Room"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Joy"
Charlotte Rampling, "45 Years"
Saoirse Ronan, "Brooklyn"

Actor in a leading role
Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo"
Matt Damon, "The Martian"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant"
Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs"
Eddie Redmayne, "The Danish Girl"

Best picture
"The Big Short"
"Bridge of Spies"
"Brooklyn"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Martian"
"The Revenant"
"Room"
"Spotlight"

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Alicia Vikander just won her first Oscar for best supporting actress, and she's someone you should know.

Just in 2015, the Swedish actress played a famous painter, a secret agent, and an artificial intelligence that wants to be human.

She won at the Academy Awards Sunday night for "The Danish Girl." It's been quite a year for the 27-year-old.

Playing artist Gerda Wegener in "The Danish Girl," Vikander gives a scene-stealing performance as the wife of fellow artist Lili Elbe (played by Eddie Redmayne), one of the first identifiable recipients of sex-reassignment surgery.

But it's just the latest in a stellar series of performances Vikander has done, which also includes the hit indie film "Ex Machina."

Let's learn more about this star on the rise.

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Vikander's first taste of success came in 2007 with the Swedish soap opera "Andra Avenyn" ("Second Avenue"), which looked at the lives of a group of people living in the second-largest city in Sweden.

In 2009, she starred in her first feature film, "Pure," in which she plays a troubled 20-year-old who, in leaving her family life, ends up in the arms of a married man.

Vikander then found notice in the US playing Kitty in the 2012 adaptation of the Tolstoy classic "Anna Karenina," starring Keira Knightley in the lead role.

The Oscars approached the night's awards in a pretty cool way: It handed out the awards in a way that mimics the making of a film.

Right before presenting the first award of the night, "Into the Woods" actress Emily Blunt, who was co-presenting with "Mad Max: Fury Road" star Charlize Theron, explained, "Tonight's Oscar ceremony will follow a particular order that tracks the filmmaking process itself. So, we begin our presentation at the place where every great movie begins: with a story that simply had to be told."

Each year, the order of awards is up to the producers but this year's approach is unique.

The first awards of the night were for screenplays. In past shows, the screenplay awards were found near the middle of the show, according to Variety. It reported that it estimated the last time the screenplay awards were handed out near the beginning of the ceremony was in 2009.

They were followed by styling and design awards, then cinematography (the actual shooting of the movie), and so on.

See the night's order of awards below:

Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay
Actress in a Supporting Role
Costume Design
Production Design
Makeup and Hairstyling
Cinematography
Film Editing
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Visual Effects
Animated Short Film
Animated Feature Film
Actor in a Supporting Role
Documentary Short Subject
Documentary Feature
Live Action Short Film
Foreign Language Film
Original Song
Original Score
Directing
Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Leading Role
Best Picture

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One of the biggest questions going into Oscar night was how host Chris Rock would handle one of the major controversies surrounding the awards: the lack of diversity in the industry, highlighted by the fact that this year's Oscars marks the second-straight year that the actor categories included only white nominees.

Well, Rock took it head-on, and in the process delivered one of the best opening monologues in Academy Awards history.

"I counted at least 15 black people on that montage," said Rock as he came on the stage, referring to the footage of this year's big movies.

He followed that by welcoming everyone to the 88th Academy Awards, "also known as the white people's choice awards," Rock said.

Rock said he thought about quitting the hosting gig, but figured the show wouldn't be canceled because of him, and he wasn't going to "lose another job to Kevin Hart."

But then with a great mix of comedy and sobering reality that defines his best stand-up, Rock touched on that fact that this is not the first year the Oscars had a lack of diversity. But in the past, say the 1960s, black people had bigger issues to deal with than complaining about getting an Oscar nomination, like being "raped and lynched," Rock said.

"When your grandmother is swinging from a tree, you're not worried about who wins best short film," the host said in one of his boldest lines.

Rock then got into the people who decided to boycott this year's Oscars, like Spike Lee, Al Sharpton, and Jada Pinkett Smith.

He then delivered his best joke of the opening.

"Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties: I wasn't invited," Rock said.

The comedian then brought it home with the question: Is Hollywood racist? He said that Hollywood is not "burning-crosses racist," but that it's like being in a sorority and the black people are told, "We like you, but you're not a Kappa."

"Black people want the same opportunities, and that's it," he added. "Leo gets great parts every year, but what about the black actors?

"Jamie Foxx was so good in 'Ray' they went to the hospital and unplugged the real Ray Charles because we can't have two of the same guy," Rock joked.

It certainly seems Rock isn't going to be shy in addressing the elephant in the room, and his opening will not be forgotten anytime soon.

Watch it below.

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The Academy Awards are frequently a pretty staid affair for men's fashion. Being black-tie, there's not a whole lot of room for error.

Unless you're Michael Strahan. The former NFL star-turned-TV personality decided to spice up his black-tie ensemble by wearing a tuxedo in an odd turquoise color.

In fact, Strahan's outfit is so bad we're calling him the worst-dressed man at this year's Oscars.

Now, we know navy-blue tuxedos are pretty hot right now. But this color is nowhere near navy — not even if you squint and look at it sideways.

Aside from the dreadful color, the proportions are odd. The high cut of the vest makes the already very tall Strahan look like a giant. The large break of the pant leg brings him down to Earth, but it also makes him look a bit sloppy.

Another gaffe: the black tie calls for a bow tie. Strahan didn't even get that right.

The lapel color isn't terrible, but the matching with the buttons and tie is just too much. The contrast of the stark white shirt is jarring — the last straw for the whole outfit.

When it comes to trying to stand out with black tie, less is more. Strahan could have gone for something subtle like a lapel pin.

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Nobody expected this one, but maybe we all should have.

The night is still young, but "Mad Max: Fury Road" is currently leading the Oscars right now, sweeping in every single technical category. So far, it has picked up trophies for editing, sound editing, sound mixing, costume design, production design, and makeup and hairstyling. While it might not end up picking up best picture, where "The Revenant" is favored and "Mad Max" is considered a dark horse, it still could walk away with the most wins of the night.

One of the most acclaimed and visually stunning films of 2015, "Mad Max: Fury Road" currently holds a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $377.6 million worldwide.

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You may have noticed the scroll of names at the bottom of the screen after winners are called at this year's Oscars. Those are thank-yous the nominees gave to the broadcast in advance.

The new feature is the brainchild of this year's producers of the show, hoping for more heartfelt speeches instead of just names of agents, managers, and lawyers taking up a winner's time on the stage.

So far we haven't gotten any moments like the #StayWeird speech from "The Imitation Game" screenwriter Graham Moore or Patricia Arquette's demand for wage equality, which both went viral last year.

However, if you caught the scroll during the win for "Inside Out" there was this great little Easter egg at the end. Someone's getting a puppy!

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