Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar win in 2016 has been watched more times on YouTube than any other acceptance speech.
The clip of the Hollywood star finally picking up the best actor statuette for The Revenant, after several Oscar nominations, has been viewed more than 11 million times.
Late Australian actor Heath Ledger’s posthumous win for The Dark Knight was in second place according to the video-sharing site, which has unveiled the top 10 Oscar acceptance speeches ahead of this year’s ceremony.
More than 10 million (10.2 million) people have watched the 2009 video showing Ledger’s family collecting the best supporting actor Oscar for his performance as the Joker, a year after the actor died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
Ledger’s win was followed closely by Matthew McConaughey’s 2014 speech when he was named best actor for Dallas Buyers Club (10.1 million views).
British actress Kate Winslet’s 2009 speech after she scooped the best actress award for The Reader was in fourth with more than 8.5 million views.
The moment where Jennifer Lawrence tripped and fell up the stairs on the way to pick up the gong for Silver Linings Playbook was in fifth.
YouTube said the 2013 clip of the star taking a tumble had been viewed more than 8.4 million times on the site.
It was followed by Italian film-maker Roberto Benigni’s 1999 win for foreign language film (more than 7.3 million views), Tom Hanks’s speech after he was named best actor for Forrest Gump in 1995 (over 6.1 million views) and Natalie Portman’s 2011 Academy Award win for Black Swan, which has more than 5.6 million views.
The top 10 was rounded out by the acceptance speech Sandra Bullock gave in 2010 when she was named best actress for The Blind Side and Adrien Brody’s win for The Pianist (2003), which have both been watched more than 5.2 million times.
This year’s Oscars will be held in Los Angeles on March 4.