Leonardo DiCaprio Wins First Oscar With 'Revenant'

 After five previous attempts, Leonado DiCaprio finally has an Oscar to call his own. The 41-year-old actor won Best Actor trophy for his jagged performance in The Revenant, a win that was expected and yet still satisfying based on the miles DiCaprio has had to travel to get to the podium.

Not that he complained about the wait. “Thank you all so very much,” he told the crowd, which had risen to its collective feet for a standing ovation. “Thank you to the Academy, thank you to all of you in this room.” 

DiCapro went on to honor some of the other key collaborators in his life, including Martin Scorsese and his manager, Rick Yorn.

But the most dramatic moment came towards the end of his speech, when he spoke forcefully about a cause that’s long been near and dear to his heart: climate change.

“The Revenant was about a man’s relationship to the natural world, a world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. 

''Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow. Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.”

Other Winners Of The Night

PICTURE
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight–WINNER

ACTOR
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant–WINNER
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room–WINNER
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies–WINNER
Sylvester Stallone, Creed

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl–WINNER
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

DIRECTOR
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant–WINNER
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Big Short–WINNER
Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Spotlight–WINNER
Straight Outta Compton

ANIMATED FEATURE
Anomalisa
Boy & the World
Inside Out–WINNER
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Amy–WINNER
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

SOUND EDITING

Mad Max:

Fury Road–WINNER

The Martian

The Revenant

Sicario

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

FILM EDITING
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Revenant
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

 CINEMATOGRAPHY

Carol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant–WINNER
Sicario

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Revenant

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant

COSTUME DESIGN
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Revenant

LIVE ACTION SHORT
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
Stutterer–WINNER

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness–WINNER
Last Day of Freedom

ANIMATED SHORT
Bear Story–WINNER
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow

ORIGINAL SONG
“Earned It,” Fifty Shades of Grey
“Manta Ray,” Racing Extinction
“Simple Song #3,” Youth
“Til It Happens to You,” The Hunting Ground
“Writing’s on the Wall,” Spectre–WINNER

ORIGINAL SCORE
Bridge of Spies
Carol
The Hateful Eight–WINNER
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Embrace of the Serpent, Colombia
Mustang, France
Son of Saul, Hungary–WINNER
Theeb, Jordan
A War, Denmark

VISUAL EFFECTS
Ex Machina–WINNER
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
SOUND MIXING
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road–WINNER
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens