Leonardo DiCaprio is opening up about his viral moment involving Lady Gaga at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 10) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The 41-year-old The Revanant actor squirmed in his seat as Gaga walked by on her way to the stage to accept her award.

Leo was shown a clip of the moment by Entertainment Tonight while backstage after the show.

“Oh lord — that’s trending, huh?” Leo said. “I just didn’t know what was passing me — that’s all!”

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet share a cute moment together during a commercial break at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 10) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The longtime friends and co-stars from the movies Titanic and Revolutionary Road were both winners at the event last night!

Leo won Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for his work in The Revenant while Kate picked up the award for Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her work in Steve Jobs.

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Here’s the full list of Golden Globe winners
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Alejandro González Iñárritu wins Best Director at Golden Globes
Brie Larson wins Best Actress – Drama at Globes

Leonardo DiCaprio has won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for his role as Hugh Glass in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s revenge tale The Revenant.

“I’ve never had an experience like this in my entire life,” he said in his acceptance speech Sunday, thanking Iñárritu and co-star Tom Hardy in particular.

DiCaprio also took time at the end of his speech to make special mention of the indigenous populations of the world. “It is time that we recognize your history,” he said.

For much of awards season thus far, the category was considered a three-way race between Michael Fassbender, Eddie Redmayne, and DiCaprio, with no clear favorite emerging out of the guilds and critics associations.

The most popular narrative driving Best Actor considerations was that it was both “time” for DiCaprio to take the gold, and that no other performance demanded as much physically. There’s also his star power, which should never be ignored when predicting the whims of the HFPA, a group that is notorious for honoring celebrity.

“I was cold basically every day, especially my hands,” DiCaprio told EW. “After almost every take, I couldn’t feel them. There was one particular warming machine on set, which was like an industrial-size dryer with eight black tubes extending out of it. I nicknamed it the octopus. It was my savior.”

Bridge of Spies and Carol lead the pack with nine nominations each, Brooklyn gets six.

Irish actors Saoirse Ronan and Michael Fassbender are amongst this year’s Bafta nominees, with John Crowley’s Brooklyn picking up six nominations in total. Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies and Todd Haynes’ Carol have both been nominated for nine awards, while Alejandro G Iñárritu’s The Revenant is nominated eight times. Brooklyn, which is based on the novel by Colm Tobin, is nominated for Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair; with two further nominations for Saoirse Ronan in Leading Actress and Julie Walters in Supporting Actress.

Michael Fassbender is nominated for Leading Actor in Steve Jobs, while his co-star Kate Winslet is nominated for supporting actress in the same film. On-screen couple Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander have both been nominated for Baftas for their roles in transgender movie The Danish Girl. The nominations were announced today by TV personality Stephen Fry and actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw at Bafta’s central London headquarters in Piccadilly. Fassbender will go up against Leonardo DiCaprio, Eddie Redmayne, Matt Damon and Bryan Cranston in the leading actor award category, while Ronan will face competition from Cate Blanchett, Brie Larson, Dame Maggie Smith and Alicia Vikander in the leading actress category.

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By MICHAEL SMITH World Scene Writer

In “The Revenant,” Leonardo DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a real-life man of the frontier who is attacked by a grizzly bear.
It appears to be a real grizzly, a mama bear with her two cubs nearby.
It appears that its razor-sharp claws nearly rip out DiCaprio’s throat, and it appears that it bites one of the world’s most famous people in the back and then lifts him off the ground to shake him violently, as if he were a rag doll.

It is one of those movie scenes that you never forget, the kind that leaves you muttering, “How did they do that?”
It’s so visceral that you may grab the arm of the stranger seated next to you.
But such fear will be balanced by the look of the film, a natural-lighting wonder with scenery so beautiful you may swoon.
“The Revenant” is so visual and violent that you may think it’s “Dances With Wolves” meets Martin Scorsese but with a surprising amount of grace.
Oscar-winning “Birdman” director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu takes flight again in his follow-up that should win DiCaprio his first acting Academy Award as he summons all of his physical talents.

There’s the bear attack. And being buried alive. And falling off a cliff. And more.
DiCaprio communicates his pain, his fear and more to the audience through grunts and groans and his eyes especially, in a performance with maybe a dozen lines of dialogue in English.
“The Revenant” is one of the great survival tales you will ever see, telling the story of an 1820s military scout who’s abandoned near death, which the filmmakers use as the base for an epic-scale morality play about one man’s passion for revenge — frontier-justice style.
Set in post-Louisiana Purchase Montana and South Dakota, there’s an odd assortment of players in the area, in addition to Pawnee Indians, as well as Arikara, with this tribe referred to as the “Ree,” a slang term.

Glass is a scout who is employed, along with his Pawnee son, with a quasi-military group of fur trappers under the authority of Capt. Henry (Domhnall Gleeson), a strong leader but burdened with a malcontent presence created by greedy pelt-collector John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy).

Also in the area is a similar French contingent that’s partnering with one of the tribes, led by a chief in search of his abducted daughter.
Savagery is everywhere in this place where human life is lost in great numbers, like in an early Indian attack that is startling, choreographed on a giant scale with a rain of deadly arrows.
The Indians are referred to as “savages.” The white men are generally far more savage, and betrayal runs rampant.

This is especially true of Fitzgerald, who is left in charge of burying Glass when he dies, because he surely won’t survive that bear attack, they figure.
But he does, crawling across snowbound South Dakota on his belly until he’s able to walk again, eating roots or anything else edible, and thirsting for vengeance.
While the film becomes a series of dangerous encounters among Glass’ journey to find his betrayers, as he fights off infection and faces natural dangers along the trail, there is also great beauty everywhere in watching “The Revenant.”
The director works again with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (the Oscar-winner two years running for “Birdman” and “Gravity”), and they work in natural light only for this hypnotically gorgeous tale among nature in its rawest form of undisturbed rivers, steep mountainsides and buffalo running free.

There is also a serene splendor to be found in Glass’ delusions, seen as images of the man’s long-dead Indian wife lovingly haunting him, as well as hearing his son repeat her voice in his ear: “… the wind cannot defeat a tree with strong roots,” a calling that keeps him alive and motivated.

“The Revenant” is a hauntingly beautiful film in so many ways, with DiCaprio so powerful playing a man who is essentially a ghost with a mantra: If you can breathe, you can fight.

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Leonardo DiCaprio may be the one chomping on bison liver, but another actor steals the show in ‘The Revenant.’

What do you do after spending seven months in the Canadian wilderness watching Leonardo DiCaprio eat raw bison livers while Tom Hardy menaces you with a pre-Civil War musket? It’s a question that most of us aren’t pressed to answer. Of course, most of us also haven’t been tasked to portray a slice of the life of the 19th century frontiersman Jim Bridger, a pioneer and literal trailblazer of the American West. Most of us aren’t responsible for representing the fundamental characteristics of a man who once abandoned a fellow pioneer and left him to stave off gangrene by letting maggots eat away their dead, infected flesh.

Indeed, most of us are not like Will Poulter, the London-born actor who, at just 22 years old, has already managed to establish himself as an up-and-coming star in Hollywood. After his debut role in Son of Rambow at age 12 (while simultaneously working with the English comedy group School of Comedy), Poulter’s career quickly blossomed. Three years later he played Eustace Scrubb, the hard-to-love cousin of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and in 2012, he starred alongside Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis in We’re The Millers, a box office success that showcased Poulter’s comedic strengths.

Early success hasn’t caused the young Brit to slow down, though. After appearing in 2014’s adaptation of the YA sci-fi story, The Maze Runner, 2015 yielded an even bigger picture for Poulter: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant.

The film has been billed as an Oscar-worthy performance for Leo, but Poulter (and Hardy too) is hardly a slouch in his own role. Playing real-life frontiersman Jim Bridger, Poulter turns in a performance laced with all the fear, confusion, adrenaline, and humanity that early American pioneers cycled through on a daily basis while they pushed themselves to the limits of human capability. If you think your nine-to-five is a drag, The Revenant will quickly remind you of how privileged you are to suffer from any sort of boredom.

Poulter knows how lucky he is to be on-the-rise at such a young age. Because while his peers are climbing the corporate ladder, Poulter is busy learning the tricks of his trade from Leo and Brad Pitt. We caught up with the budding star to talk about his role in The Revenant, his interests away from film, and what’s coming soon in 2016.

Source: complex.com