
Henry agrees, but he is unable to pull the trigger instead, he offers money for someone to stay with Glass and bury him after he dies. Trapper John Fitzgerald, who is fearful of another Arikara attack, argues that the group must mercy-kill Glass and keep moving. While scouting game, Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear and left near death. After docking, the crew stashes the pelts near the shore. Guided by Glass, the survivors travel on foot to Fort Kiowa, because he believes that traveling downriver will make them vulnerable. Many of the trappers are killed during the fight, while the rest of them escape onto a boat. While he and his half- Pawnee son, Hawk, are hunting, the company's camp is attacked by an Arikara war party seeking to recover its Chief's abducted daughter, Powaqa. In late 1823, Hugh Glass guides Captain Andrew Henry's trappers through the territory of the present-day Dakotas. DiCaprio also won the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor. It won the Academy Awards for Best Director (Iñárritu, his second consecutive in that category), Best Actor (DiCaprio, his first after 5 previous nominations), and Best Cinematography ( Emmanuel Lubezki, his third consecutive in that category).


For the 88th Academy Awards, the film received 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor (Hardy). It won three Golden Globe Awards and five BAFTA Awards, including Best Film at both shows. It received critical acclaim, with praise for the performances, particularly for DiCaprio and Hardy, Iñárritu's direction, and Lubezki's cinematography however, some criticism went to screenplay and runtime. It was a blockbuster, grossing $533 million worldwide. It had a limited release on December 25 and a wide release on January 8, 2016. The Revenant premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California on December 16, 2015. Location and crew concerns delayed production from May to August 2015. Principal photography began in October 2014. Iñárritu signed on to direct The Revenant in August 2011 in April 2014, after several delays due to other projects, Iñárritu confirmed that he was beginning work on it and that DiCaprio had the lead role. In August 2001, Akiva Goldsman purchased Punke's manuscript. The film is also considered a remake of the film Man in the Wilderness (1971). The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Smith and Iñárritu is based in part on Michael Punke's 2002 novel The Revenant, which describes frontiersman Hugh Glass's experiences in 1823, and which is based on the 1915 poem The Song of Hugh Glass. The Revenant is a 2015 American adventure drama film directed by Alejandro G.
