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"Step aside, Ellen! It&amp;apos;s Leo&amp;apos;s time to shine. Leonardo DiCaprio winning best actor at the 2016 Academy Awards on Sunday, February 28, surpassed Ellen DeGeneres&amp;apos; record-breaking selfie from the 2014 Oscars in terms of tweets, the social media platform announced shortly after the broadcast ended.&amp;#xA0;DiCaprio, 41, finally winning the Oscar after six total nominations, resulted in 440,000 tweets a minute. Previous record-holder DeGeneres garnered 255,000 tweets a minute two years ago when she hosted the awards show and took a star-packed selfie with Angelina Jolie Pitt, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, Julia Roberts, Lupita Nyong&amp;apos;o and others.The Revenant actor also took to Twitter himself to thank the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Sunday night following his long-awaited victory.Backstage of the Dolby Theatre, DiCaprio spoke to Us Weekly and other reporters about his accomplishment &amp;#x2014; and the tremendous reaction from supporters.&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;It all feels incredibly surreal, because you can&amp;apos;t reach out and physically meet everybody,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;You hear it on the internet, you hear it from other people, and we always strive for the best in what we do. But this year in particular, I&amp;apos;ve been overwhelmed with such support,&amp;quot; DiCaprio said. &amp;quot;Really, truly, [I&amp;apos;ve had support from] so many fans and so many people in the industry, it&amp;apos;s quite shocking, actually. And what can you say except I&amp;apos;m very grateful, I really am.&amp;quot;Watch his acceptance speech in the video above.&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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