Well ladies and gentlemen, it’s finally happened. All of the glad-handing and campaigning has paid-off for one Leonardo DiCaprio, because he is the proud owner of one shiny new Oscar! In case you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, DiCaprio was awarded Hollywood’s top prize for the film The Revenant, which was directed by Alejandro Innaritu, and widely predicted to be the favourite; a point on which The Academy did not disappoint. The fact that DiCaprio shilled hard for this win is such a well-known fact in Hollywood that the event’s organisers didn’t hesitate to poke a little fun at the situation by cutting-away to a shot of a bear sitting in the audience after one of the performance segments. The audience loved it, although both DiCaprio and Innaritu...
