‘The Revenant’ wins best film at Baftas 2016

The Revenant won Sunday the leading British film awards, with the BAFTA for best film, best director for Mexico’s Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, ever honored in London.

The Danish Girl star, 34, is up for the honour for a second year in a row, having won last year for his performance as Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything.

Sir Sidney Poitier was honoured with the Bafta Fellowship for his outstanding contribution to film. She later humbly thanked BAFTA via Instagram as she quite literally jumped for joy at the great news. But aside from his parents there has been one person very much by Leo’s side all throughout his winning streak this year: his old Titanic co-star Kate Winslet.

Now BAFTA has an entire membership that is focused on nominating the films with the best editing, screenplay and writing along with other things related to films. Noted in parentheses is whether these double champs won Best Picture at the Oscars as well as year variations in the BAFTA awards.

“The Revenant” is hotly tipped for Oscars at this year’s ceremony at the end of February, with DiCaprio himself nominated for what could be his first best actor award.

The film’s director Steven Spielberg collected the award on his behalf as Rylance is performing in the off-Broadway play Nice Fish.

Winslet, who stars alongside Fassbender in Steve Jobs, a biopic about the Apple founder, walked the red carpet alongside her Kerryman co-star. Director Peter Docter says he wasn’t expecting the award. “I could not have done this journey without you”. “I could watch you every day and be completely blown away”.

Brooklyn won the first prize of the night, after being named outstanding British film. The 1950s Irish immigrant tale stars Saorise Ronan. Spotlight was successful in theOriginal Screenplay category, and the BAFTA for Adapted Screenplay went to The Big Short. McCarthy took to the stage and thanked “the courageous survivors who came forward and shared their stories with us”.

Best documentary went to Amy Winehouse documentary “Amy”, about the singer who died in 2011. “The world will be a better place for it”.

The EE Rising Star Award, voted for by the public, was presented to John Boyega.

The issue was also mentioned b y British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen made a reference to the debate as he stood on stage introducing the best actress prize.

With the recent recognition of “The Revenant” at the BAFTA, The Wrap said that people can already conclude that it will also be a big victor during the Oscars.

The Best Film winners declared by the British awards body for six consecutive years until 2014 were also reportedly the same Oscar’s Best Picture awardees.