While Leonardo DiCaprio devoted some of his Golden Globes acceptance speech to thanking First Nations people, The Revenant can also thank numerous Canadians, including several locals, for its lead at the Oscar nominations announced today.

The film, which garnered 12 nominations, was shot in British Columbia and Alberta.

Vancouver set designer Hamish Purdy received a nomination in the production design category for his work on the film.

Meanwhile, Cameron Waldbauer was nominated for the same film in visual effects. Waldbauer, who is from Pitt Meadows, previously received an Oscar nomination for X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Edmonton's Robert Pandini, who was the head of the hair department for The Revenant, received a nomination in makeup and hairstyling.  

Local production sound mixer Chris Duesterdiek, who has worked on films such as Elysium and The Interview, got an Oscar nomination for sound mixing on The Revenant.

Fellow Canadian Paul Massey is also up for the sound mixing award, along with co-nominees Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth, for the sci-fi survival film The Martian.

Throughout the rest of the nominations, Canucks can be found peppering numerous categories.

Room and Brooklyn are both Canadian coproductions which are among the eight films nominated for best picture.

Irish Canadian author Emma Donoghue, who took her novel Room to the big screen, received a nomination for best adapted screenplay.

Rachel McAdams, who hails from London, Ontario, received a best supporting actress nomination in Spotlight.

Meanwhile, Toronto R&B singer-songwriter The Weeknd, along with Stephan Moccio, Ahmad Balshe, Jason (Daheala) Quennevill, received a nomination for the song "Earned It" from Fifty Shades of Grey in the best original song category.

In the documentary short film category, two Canadians received nominations. Pakistan-born Canadian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy for “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”. She previously won in this category for "Saving Face" in 2012. Toronto's Adam Benzine was also nominated for “Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah.”

British-Canadian animator Richard Williams was nominated, along with Imogen Sutton, for best animated short for "Prologue".

David McIntosh, Steve Marshall Smith, Mike Branham and Mike Kirilenko of North Vancouver's Aircover Inflatables will receive a Technical Achievement Award for the engineering and development of the Air Wall, an inflatable wall used for visual FX backdrops.

The 88^th annual Academy Awards will be announced on February 28.