10 years ago, Leonardo Dicaprio made a divisive survival thriller that nobody understood

10 years ago, Leonardo Dicaprio made a divisive survival thriller that nobody understood

The last time pretty much anybody heard about The Revenant was January 14, 2016 when Leonardo DiCaprio won his overdue Oscar for Best Actor. The consensus at the time was that, because of the harrowing filming process, which included things like eating raw bison liver, risking hypothermia in the Canadian wilderness and, most notoriously, sleeping in a realistic-looking horse carcass prop, DiCaprio had earned his Academy Award through sheer grit.…