Leonardo DiCaprio wins Best Actor at 88th Academy Awards; complete list of winners

Leonardo DiCaprio wins Best Actor at 88th Academy Awards; complete list of winners

Leonardo DiCaprio

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