The Revenant - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[michele]

The first completed and released feature film shot with the new 6.5k ARRI Alexa 65 camera.

[beth]

This is only the third movie - following The Informer (1935) and The Pianist (2002) - to have captured Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Director, yet which failed to win the Best Picture Award.

[russell]

This film marks the return of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto to Western cinema. He is best known for his Academy Award-, Golden Globe- and Grammy Award-winning musical score for Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987). Sakamoto's last effort in a Hollywood production was Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes (1998).

[frances]

The film stayed at the top spot for DVD and Blu-ray sales for about a month until Deadpool (2016) took its place. Coincidentally, both films are distributed by 20th Century Fox and are rated R. The Blu-ray releases of both films are also frequently purchased together on Amazon.com.

[ella]

Leonardo DiCaprio claimed the hardest physical ordeal of making the film was catching the flu multiple times during filming and having to soldier through filming outdoors in the cold.

[tammy]

Tom Hardy watched Tom Berenger in Platoon (1986) for inspiration.

[jeffrey]

The 1971 film, Man in the Wilderness (1971), starring Richard Harris as Zachary Bass, the man mauled and left for dead, and John Huston as Captain Henry, is based on the same story.

[liam]

Leonardo DiCaprio's sixth Oscar nomination (and his first-ever win).

[violet]

Glass didn't just get better after the grizzly attack, while tracking down Fitzgerald and Bridger to seek his revenge. He made his way, sometimes crawling, to the expedition's original jumping-off point, near what's now Chamberlain, South Dakota, far to the east of the attack site. He recovered over a period of months and only then started back west, searching for the two men who had left him.

[carl]

The film is the second highest grossing Western of all time, behind Dances with Wolves (1990) in earning $183,637,894 million domestically.

[kristen]

The film was the second Leonardo DiCaprio film released in China after Titanic (1997)'s 2012 3D release. However, it was the first DiCaprio film that was released with barely any edits made.

[kristina]

When Arthur RedCloud answered an online casting call for this film, he thought that it was for a small role. He never imagined that the role was a very pivotal one. It wasn't until he was called to Canada to audition for director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and first set foot on set that he realized how important his role really was. He says, "You usually have to get a small part on a major film and then work your way to a huge major role, especially working with a director like that, as well as an actor like Mr. DiCaprio."