The Revenant

While exploring uncharted wild American frontier in 1823,  Hugh Glass (Leonardo Dicaprio) becomes severely wounded in a bear attack and is left for dead by his own troop of explorers. Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back home to his beloved family. Grief-stricken and fueled by vengeance, Glass treks through the wintry terrain to track down John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), the former confidant responsible for abandoning him. Yes, Hugh Glass was a real frontierman who was almost  killed by wilderness in pursuit of vengeance against the men who left him for dead. But how much of the story after that was real?
Time calls it, "A fictionalized version of the tale was recently brought to life by Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu ... based on the 2002 Michael Punke novel of the same name".
Glass joined a team headed up by Andrew Henry traveling up the Missouri River and the Grand River of modern-day South Dakota. It was on that trip that a grizzly bear fell upon him. The Book relates, "Glass screamed for his fellows but before they could kill the bear he had been mangled from head to foot.” The real story  is available, http://www.ibtimes.com/revenant-true-story-fact-vs-fiction-about-hugh-glass-leonardo-dicaprio-tom-hardy-2255772, for fact-checkers to peruse. I, on the other hand, like to enjoy a good flick.
Giving meat to the tale, The Oregon Trail says, "The grizzly is one of the most ferocious and dangerous animals in the world—as some San Francisco gamblers proved long ago when they staged a fight between a grizzly and a tiger; the tiger was dead in a few seconds.”

The Revenant is pure acting. Dicaprio's finest. A contender in Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director categories, The Revenant should have won them all!