
Another Lovely Day: Max Wins Big and Oscar Wraps an Award Season Full of Surprises
“It’s incredible that two outsiders like Chivo and Alejandro that came from Mexico, came to our industry, were firm in their beliefs artistically, and here we have a two-time winner at the Academy Awards and Chivo a three-time winner… These guys represent everything about what this industry is and what it should be.” The speaker was Leonardo DiCaprio, clutching his long-time-coming Oscar for best actor, as he stood next to director Alejandro Inarritu, who had won the best directing prize the second year a row, for making The Revenant, a work that another of the evening’s surprise winners – the VFX crew from Ex Machina – called “an existential western,” earlier in the same room. […]