Leonardo DiCaprio (finally) takes the Best Actor prize for 'The Revenant'
DiCaprio has won the Best Actor Oscar for his work in the film 'The Revenant.' 'I felt that this is one of the greatest actors,' his director for 'Revenant,'聽Alejandro G. I帽谩rritu, said of DiCaprio's work in the film.
DiCaprio has won the Best Actor Oscar for his work in the film 'The Revenant.' 'I felt that this is one of the greatest actors,' his director for 'Revenant,'聽Alejandro G. I帽谩rritu, said of DiCaprio's work in the film.
Leonardo DiCaprio has won the Oscar for Best Actor.
The actor has won the Best Actor statuette for his role as nineteenth-century figure Hugh Glass, who guides a party of trappers through the dangerous wilderness of 19th-century South Dakota. Glass is brutally mauled by a bear and left for dead by his companions.聽
DiCaprio takes the prize after being nominated several times, both for his work onscreen (as with his Best Actor nominations for the movies 鈥淏lood Diamond" and "The Aviator," among others) and for his work as a producer, as with his nomination for the movie 鈥淭he Wolf of Wall Street.鈥�
His first Oscar nomination came for the 1993 film 鈥淲hat鈥檚 Eating Gilbert Grape,鈥� for which he was considered for the Best Supporting Actor prize.
Monitor movie critic Peter Rainer wrote of DiCaprio鈥檚 performance in the film "Revenant," 鈥淒iCaprio has by now shucked his hyperyouthfulness and aged into聽someone who can convincingly play a mountain man complete with聽shaggy beard ... Still, his Glass is a fragile stick figure amid the rugged, snow-capped terrain.鈥澛�
Filming 鈥淭he Revenant,鈥� which is directed by Alejandro G. I帽谩rritu, was a famously arduous process, but DiCaprio told the Associated Press that the shoot reminded him how much a person can get through.
鈥淲hen you're out in the elements like this 鈥� and there are people who have much harder jobs than people making a movie 鈥� but you just appreciate the endurance of man and how we're able to adapt to circumstances," the actor said. "You're signing on to find elements that will ultimately transform the narrative and find the poetry. ... It was all basically us really putting ourselves in this environment and seeing what happens.鈥�
Director I帽谩rritu called DiCaprio 鈥渙ne of the greatest actors.鈥�
鈥淟eo thinks like a filmmaker more than an actor," he told the AP. "He understands the whole. He was able to be not only a machine doing exactly what we agreed in a natural way but at the same time be absolutely present to react to any improvisation.鈥�
DiCaprio used part of his acceptance speech to talk about climate change: