Oscar2016

1. Leonardo DiCaprio wins his first-ever Best Actor award: Oscar 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio has finally won his first Oscar for survival epic The Revenant. It took Leonardo a good 22 years to finally earn the Academy Award.
The film is a survival drama directed, co-produced, and co-written by Alejandro G. Inarritu. It is based in part on Michael Punke's novel with the same title, inspired by the experiences of frontiersman Hugh Glass.
The actor had earlier received five nominations for the Academy Awards but had never won an award.
He finally managed to bag the award for his performance in the film, 'The Revenant.' He has also won the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for the same film.
Note:

(i) Leonardo DiCaprio played a boy with a developmental disability in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.' He was nominated in 1993 for the Oscars in the Supporting Actor category for his performance in the film.

(ii) DiCaprio nominated for his first Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Howard Hughes in the biographical drama The Aviator in 2005.

(iii) His next nomination came in 2007 for Blood Diamond,' a political war thriller that starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou, opened to rave reviews. Much praise was directed towards Leonardo and he was considered to be one of the top runners for the Oscars that year. This was the same year when Will Smith was also nominated in the Best Actor category for 'The Pursuit Of Happyness. '

(iv) His next nomination came in 2014 for 'The Wolf Of Wall Street' that the much-awaited Oscar Award seemed to belong to the actor. This time, Leonardo had a double chance at winning the award as not only was he nominated in the Best Actor category, he was also nominated, as the producer, in the Best Picture category. However, he lost out to Matthew McConaughey in the Best Actor category and '12 Years A Slave' in the Best Picture category.

Finally after 22 years, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Hugh Glass in the 2015 film The Revenant.

Below is the list of Winners in the given categories:

Best Picture – ‘Spotlight’
Best Actor in a Leading Role – Leonardo DiCaprio for ‘The Revenant’
Best Actress in a Leading Role – Brie Larson for ‘Room’
Best Directing – Alejandro G. Inarritu for ‘The Revenant’
Best Original Screenplay – Tom MacCarthy and Josh Singer for ‘Spotlight’
Best Adapted Screenplay – Charles Randolph and Adam McKay for ‘The Big Short’
Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Alicia Vikander for ‘The Danish Girl
Best Short Film (Animated) – Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala for ‘Bear Story’
Best Animated Feature Film – Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera for ‘Inside Out’
Best Documentary (Short Subject) – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy for ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness’
Best Documentary (Feature) – Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees for ‘Amy’
Best Short Film (Live Action) – Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage for ‘Stutterer’
Best Foreign Language Film – Hungary; ‘Son of Saul’ directed by Laszlo Nemes
2. Sataparna Mukherjee, a Class 12 student bags top Nasa scholarship



Eighteen-year-old Sataparna Mukherjee, a Class 12 student from a village around 30km from Kolkata, has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) for its prestigious Goddard Internship Programme under the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
She is among five scholars chosen from across the world for this programme.
Nasa's GIP selects five exceptional individuals from across the world every year and funds their entire education after school.
Sataparna, who will appear for her school-leaving exams this year from St Judes School, Madhyamgram, in Kamduni - it gained notoriety for a brutal gangrape in 2013 - will be at Oxford University, where she will pursue graduation, post-graduation and PhD (as Nasa faculty) in aerospace engineering at its London Astrobiology Centre.
Under the Goddard Internship Programme, Sataparna will work as an "employee and researcher", where she will be part of its earth science and technology development programme. Nasa is paying her a generous sum as honorarium, apart from bearing all her expenses.
Her father Pradip Mukheree, a headmaster of a primary school who led a people's movement against goons and political pressure to drop the infamous June 2013 Kamduni gang-rape case, said, "She has made us, and the entire country, proud."
3. Hashim Thaci elected as President of Kosovo



Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci has been elected as president of Kosovo by the Members of Parliament amid the protests.
He succeeded Atifete Jahjaga as head of state after winning the required simple majority in voting held in Pristina.
He had also served as prime minister fell out with many opposition groups after helping to negotiate with Serbia a deal that gave more autonomy to minority Serbs of Kosovo.
4. Alok Kumar Verma takes charge as Delhi Police Commissioner



Senior officer of Indian Police Service Alok Kumar Verma today took charge as Delhi Police Commissioner. He succeeded Bhim Sain Bassi who superannuated today.
Mr Verma, a 1979-batch IPS officer of the Arunachal, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories, AGMUT cadre, was serving as the Director General of Prisons since August 2014.
5. TCS recognised as Global Top Employer



Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been recognised as a ‘Global Top Employer’ by the Top Employers Institute.
In its assessment of 1,072 companies worldwide, the Top Employers Institute rated TCS as an exceptional performer across nine core HR areas including talent strategy, workforce planning, on-boarding, learning and development, performance management and leadership development, among others.
This certification is only awarded to the best employers around the world — organisations that demonstrate the highest standards of employee offerings, the institute said.
Others in the list include CJSC Technip, DHL, Dimension data, Saint Gobain, JT International, Mobinil, Mobistar, Orange and Valeo.
6. Ajay Shankar Committee on Prior Permission & Regulatory Mechanisms



The Government-constituted expert committee to examine the Possibility of Replacing Multiple Prior Permissions with Pre-Existing Regulatory Mechanism submitted its recommendations.
The Expert Committee was constituted by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) in April 2015 to examine the possibility of replacing multiple prior permissions with a pre-existing regulatory mechanism with adequate safeguards.
The 11 member committee was headed by Ajay Shankar, Former Secretary of DIPP.
7. Rozle Prezelj elected Chairman of IAAF Athletes’ Commission



Rozle Prezelj has been elected as the Chairman of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Athletes' Commission in Monaco. Prezelj took over as Chairman of the commission from Frank Fredericks with immediate effect.
On the other hand, Britain’s marathon world record-holder Paula Radcliffe was nominated Vice Chairwoman of the commission.
8. Resul Pookutty became first Asian to win Golden Reel Award



Famous sound designer Resul Pookutty became the first Asian to win the award for Best Sound for documentary India’s Daughter at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ (MPSE) 63rd annual Golden Reel Awards.
The competing films/ television documentaries in the list included Beware Baltimore, Chef’s Table, Deadliest Catch, and The Undrafted, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Revenant among others.
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