The curse is finally broken!
While announcing the winner of the award for Best Actor, Presenter Julianne Moore, who won Best Actress at last year’s awards, waited a respectable amount of time before announcing DiCaprio’s name.
Born in 1974, Leonardo Willhelm DiCaprio has starred in over two dozen films, including Gangs of New York and The Basketball Diaries.
To date, DiCaprio has won over 40 awards and has been nominated six times for an Oscar. This is his first win.
He received a standing ovation as he picked up his award.
He said making The Revenant was “about man’s relationship to the natural world”.
“Climate change is real – it is happening right now,” he said. “It is the most urgent threat right now to our entire species and we need to work now.
“Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.”
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