Update: DiCaprio won Best Actor at the 88th Academy Awards. He now has one Oscar under his belt. Earlier: Although Oscar nominations haven't been announced, it is highly anticipated that DiCaprio will be nominated by the Academy for his role in the Golden Globe winning motion picture, The Revenant. This wouldn't be the first time DiCaprio was nominated for an Oscar. In 1994, DiCaprio was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and for Best Actor in 2005, 2007, and 2014 for The Aviator, Blood Diamond, and The Wolf of Wall Street, respectively.
The first laser was built in 1960 by Theodore H. Maiman at Hughes Laboratories, based on theoretical work by Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow. A laser differs from other sources of light in that it emits light coherently.
Marjorie Joyner, an employee of Madame CJ Walkerâs empire, invented an improved permanent wave machine. This device was patented in 1928 and was designed to curl or perm womenâs hair for a relatively lengthy period of time.