Leonardo DiCaprio says he has been surprised by the success of his new film The Revenant - and hopes it will allow him to make more "experimental" movies.
The actor plays a tough frontiersman and fur trapper in the film which is leading this year's Oscars race with 12 nominations.
It tells the story of his desperate struggle to survive in the American wilderness after he is mauled by a Grizzly bear.
Appearing at the film's London premiere, he told Sky News: "It was amazingly well received this afternoon. I think surprisingly so because you never know what these undertakings are going to be like.
"This is almost like an experimental art film. It was very well rehearsed and very well thought out, but nonetheless it was a very chancy movie for people to finance.
"And it's been paying off which feels great not only as a fan of movies for me, but it'll make me be able to make more movies like this which is something I'm excited about."
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DiCaprio - who on Sunday won a Golden Globe for his performance - is up for best actor in the Academy Awards.
If he gets the gong when the awards are announced on 28 February, it will be his first.
"It's very exciting, very exciting," he said. "Each time you go and make these movies, you give everything you possibly can. All your focus.
"Certainly this movie took up almost a year of my life. For Alejandro (director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu), it was three or four years of his life.
"So to be recognised like this, it does feel great especially when you put so much into something."
The Revenant is based on a true story about Pennsylvania-born scout Hugh Glass who is attacked by a bear and then left for dead by his own hunting team.
He then treks for months through brutal terrain on the trail of the man who betrayed him, John Fitzgerald, played by Tom Hardy, who is up for supporting actor.
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Asked about how they survived in minus 25C temperatures while filming, DiCaprio said: "He made us work hard but we knew what we were signing up for.
"We knew we weren't going to do a light-hearted comedy in a set in the valley. We were going out into the middle of the wilderness in sub-zero temperatures. We knew it wasn't going to be an easy undertaking.
"We could never have predicted the weather though. The weather was a constant struggle. There were fluctuations in weather constantly so that presented a large challenge for us."
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