After several Golden Globes wins for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant, the night was capped off with one final cherry for the movie: a Best Picture win. When he accepted the award, Iñárritu repeated themes he touched on in his Best Director speech earlier in the evening: it was a tough movie to make, but hey, he had a tough crew behind him — like Leonardo DiCaprio, who also won a Golden Globe tonight for his role as The Revenant’s gristly leading man, frontiersman Hugh Glass.
Golden Globes 2016: The Revenant wins Best Picture
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Last year Iñárritu’s Birdman lost out to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood for Best Picture, and this year the Hollywood Foreign Press Association chose Iñárritu ahead of Mad Max: Fury Road, Carol, Room, and Spotlight. Not bad for a movie plagued with so many production problems it seemed like it would never be finished.
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