LEONARDO DICAPRIO has finally won his first Oscar for survival epic “The Revenant” after six nominations.

    He was named best actor at the 88th Academy Awards, with Brie Larson named best actress for “Room.”

    “Spotlight” took home the best picture Oscar, but “Mad Max: Fury Road” picked up the most awards of the night with six accolades.

    Mark Rylance won the best supporting actor Oscar, with fellow Briton Sam Smith winning best original song.

    Among the winners for “Mad Max: Fury Road” — nominated for 10 Oscars including best director for George Miller — was British designer Jenny Beavan for best costume design.

    “The Revenant” won three of the 12 awards it was nominated for.

    Alejandro Inarritu also won best director and Emmanuel Lubezki won his third Oscar for cinematography in a row, having won in 2015 for “Birdman” and 2014 for “Gravity.”

    DiCaprio received a standing ovation as he picked up his award, finally winning after receiving five acting nominations and one nomination as producer of best picture nominee “Wolf of Wall Street” over the years.

    He thanked the director and his co-star Tom Hardy for his “fierce talent on screen” and “friendship off screen” before campaigning for action to combat climate change, saying making “The Revenant” was “about man’s relationship to the natural world.”

    As he accepted his award, best director Alejandro Inarritu said it was a “great opportunity to our generation to liberate ourselves from all prejudice,” saying the color of someone’s skin should be “as irrelevant as the length of their hair.”

    It was the fourth Oscar for Inarritu, having won best director, best original screenplay (as co-writer) and best picture (as producer) for “Birdman” in 2015.

    Larson had won praise for her role as abducted woman Ma in “Room,” based on the book by Emma Donoghue.

    She said, “The thing I love about movie making is how many people it takes to make it. Thank you to the moviegoers for going to the theaters and seeing our films.”

    “Spotlight” tells the true story of how investigative reporters at the Boston Globe uncovered child abuse by Catholic priests in Massachusetts.

    Producer Michael Sugar said, “This film gave a voice to survivors and this Oscar amplifies that voice. We hope will become a choir that will resonate all the way to the Vatican.

    Mark Rylance won his Oscar for Steven Spielberg’s Cold War film “Bridge of Spies,” in which he plays Rudolf Abel, the real-life Soviet intelligence officer who was arrested in 1950s New York and prosecuted as a spy.

    Alicia Vikander won the best supporting actress Oscar for “The Danish Girl.”

    (SD-Agencies)