A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. (20TH CENTURY FOX)
Leonardo DiCaprio was previously nominated for five Academy Awards – four for his acting roles in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”, “The Aviator”, “Blood Diamond” and “The Wolf of Wall Street”, as well as producing “Wolf”, a film by Martin Scorsese. Tom Hardy won the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) EE Rising Star Award in 2011. This annual honor is the only BAFTA Award voted upon by the public. Hardy recently starred in the blockbuster “Mad Max: Fury Road”, co-starring Charlize Theron and directed by George Miller. “The Revenant” Director Alejandro G. Inarritu won 3 Oscars for writing, producing and directing 2014’s “Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”.
Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic in 2006 at the age of 7. To date, Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases and, in total, has seen more than 1,500 films. In 2010, Jackson became the youngest person to win a NY Emmy Award, for his on-air movie reviews on Time Warner TV station, Capital News 9. And in 2011, Jackson was inducted into the Broadcast Film Critics Association as their youngest member. The BFCA’s annual Critics Choice Awards is one of the industry’s most recognized and prestigious awards shows. Jackson is also a member of SAG-AFTRA and votes annually for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Currently, Jackson can be heard every Friday morning on WGNA-FM and his reviews are also posted on his website, YouTube channel and Cultjer.com. He is also a contributor to AnimationScoop.com, run by animation historian Jerry Beck. And Jackson hosts the weekly internet pop culture news show “LCJ LIVE”, along with “The LCJ Q&A Podcast”, on which he interviews celebrities and filmmakers.