‘The Revenant’ and DiCaprio are winners at BAFTA film awards

Leonardo DiCaprio cemented his Oscar-favorite status by taking the best-actor trophy for playing a bear-battling fur trapper in a brutally wild American West. “The Revenant” filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu was named best director for what he called a “human and tender story”.

DiCaprio, who is the front-runner to win the best actor trophy at Oscars this year for his physically-gruelling performance in the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s film, was previously nominated for “The Aviator“, “The Departed” and most recently “The Wolf of Wall Street“.

Brooklyn, the Irish immigrant drama starring Saoirse Ronan, was named outstanding British film, while Amy took the documentary award.

Rylance, who stars in Bridge Of Spies, was victorious over fellow Britons Idris Elba (Beasts Of No Nation) and Christian Bale (The Big Short) and also Benicio del Toro (Sicario) and Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight). “It’s her birthday today – Mom, happy birthday, I love you very much”. And our aim and mission was really to try and tell the truth about her’.

Meanwhile, The Guardian said the many considered one of the hardest ones to do as the director wanted to use everything natural with his creation.

As for Inarritu, the filmmaker tagged his win as an “overwhelming” achievement. Brie Larson won the best leading actress award for her role as a kidnapped mother in Room. Winslet scored the Best Supporting Actress honor for her role in Steve Jobs, and she dedicated her award to women who have suffered criticism, The Guardian notes.

“E!’s got a brilliant way of doing the whole live from the red carpet, so we did the British Fashion Awards at the end of a year ago, we did a Golden Globes party and now this is the big one, the BAFTAs!”. Winslet said that she was once told to go for “the fat-girl parts”.

So what should one make of the results from the 69th BAFTA Awards?

The 2016 BAFTA Awards took place in London on Sunday, February 14 at the Royal Opera House.

The Rising Star Award went to John Boyega, whose film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ruled the Visual Effects category.

The industry did not shy away from the big theme of the awards season: the outcry over the lack of diversity among Oscar nominees in the four acting categories for the second straight year, which revived the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.

“Titanic” star Kate Winslet was presented the Best Supporting Actress Award by Eddie Redmayne.

The obituary section included tributes to Alan Rickman, Maureen O’Hara, Omar Sharif, David Bowie, Ron Moody, Frank Finlay, Saeed Jaffrey and Christopher Lee.

With the exception of last year’s Boyhood, for the past seven years the best film victor chosen by Bafta voters has gone on to win an Academy Award.