Leonardo DiCaprio is an actor.
The Academy Awards , now known officially as the Oscars , is a set of twenty-four awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry , given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy 's voting membership . Body of Lies (film) . It stars Leonardo DiCaprio , Russell Crowe , and Mark Strong as the three principals . Leonardo DiCaprio . He also won his first Academy Award and BAFTA Award for his performance in The Revenant . The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American coming of age crime drama film directed by Scott Kalvert , starring Leonardo DiCaprio , Lorraine Bracco , James Madio , and Mark Wahlberg . The Revenant is a 2015 American semi-biographical western film directed and co-produced by Alejandro G. Iñárritu and co-written by Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith , based in part on Michael Punke 's 2002 novel of the same name , describing frontiersman Hugh Glass 's experiences in 1823 .