Question: Who has won the Best Actor award in 88th Oscar Awards?
(a) Leonardo DiCaprio
(b) Matt Damon
(c) Michael Fassbender
(d) Eddie Redmayne
Ans (a)
Related facts:
- The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles,USA.
- The complete list of awards are as follows:
- Best Picture award : ‘Spotlight’, the director of the film is Tom Tom McCarthy.
- Best Director:Alejandro Inarritu for ‘The Revenant’.
- Best Actor:Leonardo DiCaprio for his role as Hugh Glass in the movie The Revenant.
- Best Actress:Brie Larson for ‘Room’as Joy “Ma” Newsome.
- Best Supporting Actor:Mark Rylance for his performance in Bridge of Spies.
- Best Supporting Actress:Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl
- Best Animated Feature Film:Inside Out(Directors: Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen).
- Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki for the movie ‘The Revenant’.
- Best Costume Design: Jenny Beavan for the movie ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’.
- Best Documentary Feature Film:Amy(Director: Asif Kapadia)
- Best Foreign Language Film:Son of Saul(Director: Laszlo Nemes)
- Best Music Original Score: Ennio Morricone for‘The Hateful Eight’.
- Most awards are won by Mad Max: Fury Road (6 Awards) followed by The Revenant (3) and Spotlight (2).
- Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has become the first repeat winner in 65 years at the Academy Awards by taking home the best director Oscar for “The Revenant”.
- With this win, Inarritu has entered the history books, becoming the first director since 1950 to bag the best director trophy two years in a row.
- Before this John Ford won in 1940 and 1941, for “The Grapes of Wrath” and “How Green Was My Valley”, respectively; Joseph L Mankiewicz won in 1949 with “A Letter to Three Wives” and in 1950 with “All About Eve” bag the best director trophy two years in a row.
- Leonardo DiCaprio, who has won the award in Best Actor category has been earlier nominated thrice in the best actor category in year 2005,2007 and 2014.