Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar on Sunday, taking home the
best actor statuette for his role in revenge movie "The Revenant."
DiCaprio, 41, had been nominated four times previously for an acting
Oscar over a career spanning 25 years. He was the favorite to clinch the
Academy Award this year for his grueling portrayal of a fur trapper
left for dead in an icy wilderness after being mauled by a bear.
In a fight for survival, his "Revenant" character Hugh Glass treks
through snow-covered forests, gets swept away in a waterfall, sleeps
inside the carcass of a disemboweled horse and hungrily eats raw bison
liver before making it back to his camp.
DiCaprio, a bachelor with a string of supermodel girlfriends, has
matured into one of the world's most admired and popular actors, as well
as a champion of environmental causes ranging from marine reserves to
the rights of indigenous people.
In his acceptance speech, DiCaprio, who received a standing ovation,
said: "Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight
for granted.DiCaprio added: "Our production needed to move to the southern tip of
this planet to find snow. Climate change is real, it is happening now.
It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to
work collectively together, and we need to support leaders around the
world who do not speak for the big polluters and the big corporations
but who speak for all of humanity."
DiCaprio had already won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild
trophies for the role, which transformed the heartthrob from movies like
"Titanic" and "Romeo + Juliet" into a greasy-haired 1820s fur trapper
who barely speaks after the bear ripped his throat.
DiCaprio won his first Oscar nomination in 1994 for his supporting
role as a mentally challenged boy in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape."
His romantic "Romeo + Juliet" and "Titanic" roles went unrecognized
by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and it was another
10 years before his obsessive-compulsive Howard Hughes in "The Aviator"
brought a second Oscar nomination.
Nominations for 2006's "Blood Diamond" and 2013's "The Wolf of Wall
Street" came and went without DiCaprio taking home the most coveted
trophy in show business.
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