Sunday night's broadcast was capped by British director Steve McQueen accepting a best picture Oscar for his film 12 Years a Slave — the first film directed by a black man to earn that honor. His emotional acceptance speech was dedicated to "all of the people who endured slavery and the 21 million people who still suffer slavery today."
Right before McQueen took the stage, Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón became the first Latino to win best director honors for Gravity, a film that won seven Oscars. Songwriter Robert Lopez became the first Filipino-American to win a best song Oscar for co-writing the hit Let It Go from Frozen — also becoming one of only 12 people to have won Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe honors.
