ACTOR, BUT THE POINT OF HIM WINNING THAT AWARD DOESN'T

REALLY MATTER TO ME.

WHAT MATTERS IS THE SPEECH THAT HE GAVE WHEN HE ACCEPTED

THE AWARD.

LEONARDO DICAPRIO IS KNOWN FOR GIVING POLITICAL STATEMENTS

WHEN HE IS ACCEPTING AWARDS, AND THIS WAS NO EXCEPTION.

HE USED THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT CLIMATE

CHANGE, SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF OUR POLITICIANS DON'T EVEN

DISCUSSED DURING THIS ELECTION SEASON.

. WHAT HE HAD TO SAY, "MAKING THE REVENANT WAS ABOUT

MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO THE NATURAL WORLD.

A WORLD THAT WE GLADLY FELT IN 2015

AS THE HOTTEST YEAR IN RECORDED HISTORY.

OUR PRODUCTION NEEDED TO MOVE THE SOUTHERN TIP OF THIS

PLANET JUST ILL-DEFINED SELF.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, IT IS

THE MOST URGENT THREAT FACING OUR ENTIRE SPECIES, AND WE NEED

TO WORK COLLECTIVELY TOGETHER AND STOP PROCRASTINATING.

NEED TO SUPPORT LEADERS AROUND THE WORLD WHO DO NOT SPEAK FOR

THE BIG POLLUTERS, BUT FOR ñ BUT

WHO SPEAK FOR ALL OF HUMANITY." HE IS HOT, WHAT A STUD.

>> I LOVE IT.

IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY THAT IS ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME,

OFTENTIMES QUITE LITERALLY.

YOU CAN EITHER USE IT TO THANK YOUR AGENT ñ

AND HE DRANK PLENTY OF PEOPLE ñ

OR YOU CAN USE IT FOR SOMETHING POSITIVE IN THE WORLD.

THAT DRIVES CONSERVATIVES CRAZY, BECAUSE I DON'T AGREE WITH HIM,

BUT IF GARY SINISE OR KELSEY

GRAMMAR, OR JOHN VOIGHT, I THINK THOSE ARE LITERALLY THE

THREE CONSERVATIVE ACTORS IN ALL OF HOLLYWOOD, HAD USE THAT

OPPORTUNITY TO GO ON A CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS, THEY

WOULD HAVE LOVED IT.

THEY MIGHT HAVE MADE HIM PRESIDENT.

RONALD REAGAN WAS OF COURSE AN ACTOR, AND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST

CONCERT ñ ONE OF THE FEW CONSERVATIVES, AND THEY DID MAKE

THEM PRESIDENT.

HE IS ACTUALLY BEING TOO KIND TO THEM BY SAYING PROCRASTINATING.

>> I WANT TO DISPEL THE NOTION THAT THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT

THEY ARE DOING, THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

HE IS SAYING, ENOUGH OF GETTING MONEY FOR THE BIG

POLLUTERS, THAT I LOVED.

ALSO, THERE WAS A GREAT SPEECH EARLIER IN THE OSCARS TALKING

ABOUT GETTING MONEY OUT OF

POLITICS.

THEY ARE LIKE, LOOK, IT WAS FOR THE WINNERS OF THE BIG

SHORT, THE WRITERS OF THE BIG SHORT.

THEY SAID, YOU CANNOT FIX THE BANKING PROBLEMS UNTIL YOU

FIX THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DONATING TO THE POLITICIANS.

I WAS LIKE, YES! YES!

THESE ARE ALL OF THE THINGS WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT,

AND THAT ACTUALLY WOULD HELP THE COUNTRY ENORMOUSLY.

FOR THEM TO BE GIVEN THIS GREAT PLATFORM IS WONDERFUL.

AND THE RICH AND THE POWERFUL ALREADY HAVE SO MANY PLATFORMS.

AND SO, IT IS NOT LIKE LEONARDO DICAPRIO IS NOT RICH.

AND FOR HIM TO USE HIS PLATFORM IN THIS CASE, TO BRING OUT

A MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF THE POWERLESS, RATHER THAN THE

POWERFUL, WAS MOVING AND PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE.

>> AND I HAVE TO GIVE HIM CREDIT BECAUSE HE IS NOT A POLITICAL

PUNDIT, HE IS NOT SOMEONE WHO

HAS TO COMMENT ON THESE THINGS.

I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF ACTORS AND ACTRESSES YOU

STAY AWAY FROM POLITICAL STATEMENTS BECAUSE IT COULD

HARM THEM, OR HEARD THEM IN SOME WAY IN THE FUTURE.

THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT LOSING ENDORSEMENTS OR SPONSORS,

MAYBE LOSING A CERTAIN ROLES BECAUSE CASTING DIRECTORS

DON'T AGREE WITH YOUR STATEMENTS.

THAT WHEN THEY MAKE STRONG POLITICAL STATEMENTS LEO

DID, YOU HAVE TO GIVE HIM CREDIT.

>> I WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND.

THE BIG STUDIOS TO RUN HOLLYWOOD ARE NOT LIBERALS, THEY ARE

IN A MONEYMAKING BUSINESS.

SO HENCE, MORE LIKELY TO BE CONSERVATIVE.

BUT THE ACTORS ARE LARGELY LIBERAL.

BUT THE ACTORS DON'T HAVE AS BIG A VOICE, AND HAVE AS MUCH

POWER AS THE BIG STUDIOS DO.

SO AT THE MOMENT, WHEN THEY HAD THAT VOICE, IT IS GREAT TO SEE

THEM USE IT FOR THE BENEFIT OF MORE PEOPLE, INSTEAD OF THE

POWERFUL.

I'M GOING TO GIVE ONE LAST, WHAT WOULD APPEAR TO BE A RANDOM

SHOUT OUT, BUT IT IS NOT, IT IS TO TOM HARTMAN, WHO IS THE

REALLY STRONG, GREAT, SMART PROGRESSIVE TALK SHOW HOST

WHO HAS BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME, AND THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE HE

HAS A REALLY GOOD INFLUENCE OVER.

ONE IS LEONARDO DICAPRIO ñ

>> SHE KNOWS HIM?

>> YOU KNOW THEM VERY WELL.

>> I LOVE TOM HARTMAN, BUT I WILL REALLY LOVE IF HE

GIVES ME LEO'S NUMBER.

JUST SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT POLITICS.

I'M ALMOST MARRIED.

>> I KNOW, BUT YOUR CLIMATE SEEM TO HAVE CHANGED A LITTLE

BIT THERE ON TOM HARTMAN.

>> I THINK WE KNOW DICAPRIO LEARNED A LOT FROM TOM

HARTMAN, HE SAYS SO.

AND THEN TOM HARTMAN, EVERY WEEK, USED TO HAVE ONE

SENATOR ON.

SAME SENATOR, BERNIE SANDERS.

OKAY, SO, PEOPLE MADE FUN OF LIBERAL RADIO, NEVER WENT

ANYWHERE, NOW AIR AMERICA WAS LIBERAL, YOU PROBABLY DON'T

REMEMBER, BUT THE PEOPLE WHO

WERE ON THEIR, MARC MARON NUMBER ONE PODCAST, CHUCK D WAS

ON THERE.

FRANKEN, NOW U.S. SENATOR.

BUT THE ONE GUY WHO GETS LEFT OUT, TOM HARTMAN.

BUT THAT VOICE IN THE ROOM ñ

THAT VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS CREATED A RIPPLE EFFECT,

WHICH IS NOW A TIDAL WAVE AS WE STAND NOW.

SO DON'T EVER GET DISCOURAGED.

AS EVERYONE WAS TALKING DOWN LIBERAL RADIO, ALL THESE

DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THEY SAID, TOM CONTINUED, AND HE WAS A

STRONG PROGRESSIVE VOICE, AND IT MADE A DIFFERENCE.

MADE A DIFFERENCE MANY YEARS LATER, TOM STILL IS A GREAT

SHOW, BUT LOOK AT THE EFFECT SHE HAS HAD WHEN NO ONE WAS LOOKING.