The Revenant - put your house on it winning Oscars

The Oscars 2016 - nothing can get close to The Revenant

They will need a supermarket trolley to cart them off to the afterparty

The Revenant is bound to sweep up awards at this year's Oscar ceremony. I really cannot see anyone beating Leo DiCaprio for best actor or director Alejandro Inarritu - already a Hollywood golden boy with Birdman, Biutiful, Babel and Amoros Perros in his cv. This movie grips you by the throat from minute 1 and rarely lets the pressure off the choke hold of tension and fear created by a brutal, merciless Native Indian attack on the white men gathering animal skins for profit in the wonderful, developing opening scene. The viewer's heart rate may be driven to critical levels when our hero makes the (near) fatal error of getting between a grizzly bear and its cub. This scene is a wonder of modern film making and new technology. The enormous grizzly has Leo in its claws and teeth and treats him like a rag doll. When the huge head investigates the tiny human's face you cannot believe this is not a real interaction and anything - probably gory - may happen next.

The suffering just goes from bad to dire in the new Frontier for the mainman,Hugh Glass played by DiCaprio. He even gets a hole in his throat which he self-cauterizes by lighting gun powder and burning straw directly onto it. The agonies go on and on. Needless to say the Native Americans (Red Indians in the old days) are merciless scalpers of most white men, although the French seem to have a better dialogue - go figure. Innaritu excels with his epic shots of snow capped mountains, icy rivers, rapids and waterfalls, and the wildlife as I have mentioned is superb. With a fabulously nasty performance by Tom Hardy as best support - bet on it - and Domhall Gleeson also excelling as the honourable soldier in charge of the American forces, Will Poulter also does good work in adverse conditions, The Revenant should be seen at the best screen you can find it at. The top 3 Oscars are odds on already won, best female it will not win; there are not many women in this one.