MUMBAI: Doesn’t it feel extremely pleasant when you get rewarded or appreciated for your work? That breathtaking moment when you don’t understand whether to weep or be gleeful. And winning an award after waiting for the past six years just makes that win even sweeter.
With almost the entire world praying for Leonardo DiCaprio to bag his first Oscar at this year’s 88th Academy Awards, the actor and his fans were not disappointed. DiCaprio finally walked off the stage with the coveted golden trophy for Best Actor for his role in The Revenant. In his speech, the actor not only thanked the director Alejandro Iñárritu, but also expressed gratitude to his parents.
Adding further, the actor said, “Making The Revenant was about man’s relationship to the natural world, climate change is real. It is happening right now. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow. Calling 2015 as the hottest year in history he said, “It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species.Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.”
While Mad Max: Fury Road bagged six Oscars, The Revenant grabbed three and Spotlight took away two awards.
The complete list of winners is as follows:
Best Picture
Spotlight
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant
Best Actress
Brie Larson for Room
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Rylance for Bridge of Spies
Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl
Best Director
The Revenant, Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Best Original Screenplay
Spotlight, Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short, Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Best Costume Design
Jenny Beavan for Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Production Design
Mad Max: Fury Road production design, Colin Gibson; set decoration by Lisa Thompson
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road, Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki for The Revenant
Best Film Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road, Margaret Sixel
Best Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road, Mark Mangini and David White
Best Sound Mixing
Mad Max: Fury Road, Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
Best Visual Effects
Ex Machina, Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
Best Animated Short Film
Bear Story, Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Best Animated Feature Film
Inside Out, Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
Best Documentary, Short Subject
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Best Documentary Feature
Amy, Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
Best Live-Action Short Film
Stutterer, Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
Best Foreign-Language Film
Son of Saul, Hungary
Best Original Song
Writing’s on the Wall from Spectre; Music and lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
Best Original Score
The Hateful Eight, Ennio Morricone