Leonardo DiCaprio Surrenders Marlon Brando’s Oscar to Justice Department
Daniel Nussbaum
In a statement to Deadline Thursday, representatives for DiCaprio — who finally won his own acting Oscar for The Revenant in 2015 — said the actor reached out to the DOJ last summer to help cooperate with the investigation and to see if he needed to return any potentially gifts or donations.
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