The Revenant (2015)

When I began writing this piece, the Oscars were around the corner. I wanted to watch a few Oscar nominated films, and my picks "Joy" and "The Revenant" were no disappointments.
Ever since the Titanic, when I was crazy in love with Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), I have waited for his Oscar win. Will 'The Revenant' cinch the deal for Leo?

Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), the father of a half-native son, Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) and a frontiersman in the early 1800's is part of a crew of fur trappers. And like in any group there are friends and foes. John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), a sadistic and greedy crew member, isn't too fussed with Glass. Out scouting alone one day, Glass is brutally mauled by a bear and a devoted crew refuses to abandon a fatally injured Glass. They decide to take him along on a makeshift stretcher but the unfavorable conditions gets the crew to realize that Hugh is only slowing them down. They reach a unanimous decision to pay John Fitzgerald and Jim Bridger (Will Poulter), a volunteer, to look after Glass to his last breath and thereupon in the event of his death to give him a respectable burial. John is determined to collect the sum promised to him on all account but has two obstacles to overcome - Jim and Hawk. In the harsh and bitter cold, Glass is left to die in a shallow grave. But the memories of his dead wife is his saving grace and gives him the strength to face brutal blizzards, outwit the Arikara, fight hunger and infection and seek the ultimate redemption.
The amazing cinematography will make you live, breathe and experience every moment of the film.
'The Revenant' was nominated  for and won numerous awards like the BAFTA, the Golden Globe and the Academy as well.
But the one sentence all acclaimed actors want to hear is ~ and the Oscar for 'Best Actor' goes to .... Need I say more. 👏

Word for the day :-
revenant - a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead