Oscar Awards 2016: Finally! Leonardo DiCaprio bags his first Academy Award

Leonardo DiCaprio bagged his first Academy Award for his performance in ‘The Revenant’ and accepted it with utmost humility.

Leonardo DiCaprio accepts the award for best actor in a leading role for 'The Revenant'.

Mumbai: Leonardo DiCaprio fans will have all the reasons to wear a broad smile on their face as the man in question has finally bagged his first Oscar Award in the Best Actor category for ‘The Revenant’.

"Making 'The Revenant' was about man's relationship to the natural world...climate change is real," Leonardo said in his acceptance speech.

“It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.” He added.

And he concluded by saying, “I do not take this night for granted.”

‘The Revenant’ is about a frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s who fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.