The Revenant | film by González Iñárritu [2015] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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• discussed in biography
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    In Alejandro González Iñárritu
    The Revenant (2015), based on a true story, chronicles the travails of Hugh Glass, a fur trapper (Leonardo DiCaprio) whose companions murder his son and leave him for dead following an attack by a bear. González Iñárritu again won an Oscar for his direction of…
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• history of film
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    In history of film: Mexico
    …Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and The Revenant (2015). Guillermo del Toro also worked in both Hollywood and Mexico, and he was noted for his fantasy and horror films, including Cronos (1993), El espinazo del diablo (2001; The Devil’s Backbone), and El laberinto del fauno (2006; Pan’s Labyrinth); however, his most…
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• portrayal of Glass
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    In Hugh Glass
    …well as several films, including The Revenant (2015), in which Leonardo DiCaprio starred as Glass.
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Oscars for

• best actor to DiCaprio, 2015
• best cinematography to Lubezki, 2015
• best director to González Iñárritu, 2015

role of

• DiCaprio
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    In Leonardo DiCaprio
    …work in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant (2015), in which he evinced an aggrieved fur trapper on a quest for revenge after his companions kill his son and leave him for dead following an attack by a bear.
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• Hardy
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    In Tom Hardy
    …trapper, in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant. For his performance, Hardy earned his first Academy Award nomination, for best supporting actor.
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