Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett attend Green Carpet Fashion Awards

Before Sunday evening’s Oscars, Leonardo DiCaprio offered a special form of honor to Brazil’s first-ever minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sônia Guajajara, on the Green Carpet Fashion Awards.

Co-chairs of the environmental occasion at NeueHouse Hollywood over the weekend included Cate Blanchett, dressmaker Tom Ford, Marvel star Simu Liu and mannequin Quannah Chasinghorse.

Ford unveiled a Plastic Innovation Prize and honorees included UK Vogue editor Edward Enninful, designer Gabriela Hearst and “Clueless” star Alicia Silverstone, amongst others.

DiCaprio’s group, Re:wild, created an Amazon Forest Fund in 2019 — and DiCaprio mentioned in his remarks that the Amazon’s affect is felt properly past South America.

Said the “Shutter Island” star, 48, “The easy truth is, the Amazon rainforest relies upon totally on those that have essentially the most expertise at defending its ecosystems. The stewards of this important rainforest that sustains us all. And that’s, with out query, its indigenous defenders. Not solely is the Amazon one of the crucial vital locations for wildlife – it is usually key to sustaining life far past its borders. Helping to drive each international water cycles and climate patterns, that have an effect on rainfall, even in California.”

DiCaprio went on to share, “Minister Guajajara has been a fierce environmental activist for a few years, beneath usually troublesome and harmful circumstances. During the previous administration’s disastrous reign, she was a constant beacon of hope. In the face of grave threats to Indigenous Peoples, she has been a robust power, defending Brazil’s inhabitants of over 900,000 Indigenous Peoples and their greater than 300 completely different cultures.”

Earlier this 12 months, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s president, taking up from the nation’s former far-right chief Jair Bolsonaro.

The new president has promised a drastic change in Brazil, saying on the time of his election, “Democracy was the nice victor on this election, [overcoming] essentially the most violent threats to freedom to vote, and essentially the most abject marketing campaign of lies and hate plotted to govern and embarrass the voters.”

Board members of the Green Carpet Fashion Awards embody Amber Valletta, Christopher Bevans, Bethann Hardison and Tonne Goodman.