Leonardo DiCaprio winning Best Actor

these five actors have rewarded moviegoers with fully dimensional characters some drawn from real life all of them larger-than-life the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo the resourceful astronaut abandoned on Mars the vengeful frontiersman betrayed by his companions the brilliant and complicated co-founder of Apple and one of the first people to undergo gender confirmation surgery here are the outstanding nominees for performance by an actor in a leading role Bryan Cranston Trumbo Matt Damon the Martian Leonardo DiCaprio the revenant Michael Fassbender Steve Jobs Eddie Redmayne the Danish boom and the Oscar goes to Leonardo DiCaprio and sink nomination thank you thank you all so very much thank you to the Academy thank you to all of you in this room I have to congratulate the other incredible nominees this year for their unbelievable performances the revenant was a product of the tireless efforts of an unbelievable cast and crew a lot I got to work alongside first off to my brother in this endeavor mr. Tom Hardy Tom your fierce talent on the screen can only be surpassed by your friendship off screen - mr. Alejandro Inarritu as the history of cinema unfolds you have forged doorway into history these past two years what an unbelievable talent you are thank you to you and Chivo for for creating a trend Cendant cinematic experience for all of us thank you to everybody at Fox and New Regency in particular on Mill Shawn you were the champion of this endeavor my entire team I have to thank everyone from the very onset of my career mr. Cate and Jones for casting me in my first film mr. Scorsese for teaching me so much about the cinematic art form - mr. Ricky ORN thank you for helping me 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 and lastly I just want to say this making the revenant was about 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 and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating procrastinating we need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters of the big corporations but who speak for all of humanity for the indigenous people of the world for the billions and billions of underprivileged people who will be 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 much

Channel: Oscars

Views: 42,232,529

Rating: 4.9487185 out of 5

Keywords: oscars, academy awards, 88, best actor, leonardo dicaprio, The Revenant, julianne moore

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Length: 4min 30sec (270 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 23 2016

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[u/ShittDickk]

That and the Cubs winning, what a weird year.