Alejandro G. Iñárritu made history on Sunday night at the Oscars, winning his second consecutive best director award.
"I can’t believe this is happening,” he said Sunday during the telecast, thanking costars DiCaprio and Tom Hady.
He closed his speech with a push for equality, saying he is “very lucky to be here tonight, but unfortunately, many others haven’t had the same luck.”
“There is a line in the film that [Glass says] to his mixed-race son, ‘They don’t listen to you, they just see the color of your skin,’” he continued.
“So what a great opportunity to our generation to really liberate ourselves from all prejudice and, you know, this tribal thinking, and make sure for once and forever that the color of the skin become as irrelevant as the length of our hair.”