Oscars 2016: Leonardo DiCaprio Finally Wins Best Actor For The Revenant
Leonardo DiCaprio can shake off that image of the perennial Oscar-loser as he’s finally gone and won one, picking up Best Actor for ‘The Revenant’ at the 2016 Oscars.
DiCaprio thanked his fellow actors in his emotional acceptance speech, paying tribute to his co-star Tom Hardy and using the platform to call for action on climate change for the sake of “our children’s children” as his proud mother watched on from the auditorium.
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Here’s his acceptance speech in full:
“Thank you. Thank you, thank you all so very much. Thank you to the Academy, thank you to all of you in this room. I’d like to congratulate the other incredible nominees this year for their unbelievable performances. ‘The Revenant’ was a product of tireless efforts of an unbelievable cast and crew that I got to work alongside.
“First off to my brother in this endeavour, Mr Tom Hardy. Tom, your fierce talent on screen can only be surpassed by your friendship off screen. Mr Alejandro Inarritu, as the history of cinema unfolds you have forged your way into history these last two years, what an unbelievable talent you are.
“Thank you to you and Chivo for creating a transcendent cinematic experience for all of us. Thank you to everyone at Fox and Regency in particular Arnon Milchan, you are the champion of this endeavor.
“My entire team, I want to thank everyone from the very onset of my career Mr. Caton-Jones for casting me in my first film. Mr. Scorsese for teaching me so much about the cinematic art form. To Mr. Rick Yorn, thank you for helping me to navigate my way through this industry and to my parents, none of this would be possible without you.
“And my friends, I love you dearly you know who you are.
“Lastly, I just want to say this: Making The Revenant was about man’s relationship to the natural world, the world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production had to move to the southern tip of the 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. We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity, for all the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people most affected by this, for our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed.
“I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so very much.”
Image credits: Rex
