What made the Oscars SO DIFFERENT this year

Two African American actors won Oscars for Best Supporting Actor.

The first Egyptian American won the Best Actor award.

A Mexican film-maker won three Oscars, including his second in the Best Director category.

And -- this is big -- Spike Lee won his first competitive Oscar. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences finally did the right thing to him.

To add to that, African American costume designer Ruth Carter, who started her career with Spike Lee's School Daze in 1988 and has worked on a range of films like Do The Right Thing {1989}, Malcolm X {1992}, Amistad {1997} and Selma {2014}, won for her work on Black Panther.

Carter is the first African American to win an Oscar in the costume design category.

So at least now no one can say #OscarsSoWhite!

In casting these votes, Academy members essentially said to their critics -- look we can clean up our house and become politically correct, well, at least to the extent we want to be.