The 2015 Academy Awards has just recently wrapped up with Best Picture winner "Birdman" leading in majority of the categories.

Despite the excitement surrounding the ceremony when the nominations were announced in January, a large number of Internet users have expressed their discontent over the lack of diversity, prompting the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite on Twitter.

The main concern of the public was "Selma," which, according to Huffington Post, was snubbed in the acting and directing categories. Statistics and Latino advocates claim that the real issue for Latinos "isn't a lack of nominations but a lack of roles in the first place." Filmmakers are often left to create their own independent films, which majority of the audience don't get.

"Selma" may have been bypassed in the awards, but Alejandro G. Iñárritu's "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" triumphed in the recently concluded awards ceremony.

Mexican filmmaker Iñarritu bagged the Best Director award, while Emmanuel Lubezki (also a Mexican) won in the Best Cinematography category, Variety reported. The film, which stars Michael Keaton, also went home with the Best Original Screenplay award. Iñarritu wrote the movie alongside Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., and Armando Bo.

Check out Variety's report for the complete set of winners.

Aside from its victory in the Oscars, "Birdman" also received multiple awards and nominations from other award giving bodies. Keaton won Best Actor for his role in the flick as Riggan Thomson at the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, in which a veteran actor struggles to revive his career by staging a Broadway show, bagged the Best Screenplay as well.

For the Screen Actors Guild Awards held in January, "Birdman" won the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film also won big at the 30^th Independent Spirit Awards, taking home the Best Picture, Best Male Lead, Best Feature, and Best Cinematography awards, according to Fox News Latino.

Why 'Birdman' is unique

Iñarritu said the unedited takes in the movie are intended to imitate how people see and experience the world, Fox News Latino stated in a separate report.

"We open our eyes and go with a Steadicam all day, and we can't escape," the filmmaker said, as quoted by Fox News Latino. "When we get up, there are no edits. The only time our perspective is edited or cut is when we tell stories - fiction - or experience a memory from our lives. But in reality, our lives are - absolutely, all the time - only linear. They move in only one direction."

Iñarritu further explained that the long, single camera shots required pacing and tone which was then manipulated in post-production. Instead of multiple takes common in film production, the actors in "Birdman" had to go through multiple rehearsals to own their roles, the news outlet reports. As soon as filming began, it was like "an endless spaghetti that cannot be cut."