Here's Joaquin Phoenix's Oscar acceptance speech after Joker star wins Best Actor

Parasite became the first non-English-language movie to win the best picture Oscar last night, in a significant upset for the much-feted British war film 1917.

The film also took the Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature awards.

British hopefuls were shut out of the acting categories, with success for Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger, Laura Dern and Brad Pitt, but Sir Elton John did triumph in the original song category.

The night was full of eloquent acceptance speeches, as emotional winners thanked those they were most grateful for in helping them reach the top of the awards mountain.

But it was Phoenix's speech in particular - delivered as he collected his award for Best Actor portraying the origin of Batman's nemesis in Joker - that caught the global attention.

Touching on everything from veganism to equal rights, here's Best Actor winner Joaquin Phoenix's Oscars speech in full:

Jane Fonda, Best Actor award winner Joaquin Phoenix, and Olivia Colman stand backstage (Photo: Richard Harbaugh - Handout/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images)

"I’m full of so much gratitude now. I do not feel elevated above any of my fellow nominees or anyone in this room, because we share the same love – that’s the love of film.

"And this form of expression has given me the most extraordinary life. I don’t know where I’d be without it.

"But I think the greatest gift that it’s given me, and many people in [this industry] is the opportunity to use our voice for the voiceless. I’ve been thinking about some of the distressing issues that we’ve been facing collectively.

"I think at times we feel or are made to feel that we champion different causes. But for me, I see commonality. I think, whether we’re talking about gender inequality or racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights, we’re talking about the fight against injustice.