Writer-director Alex Garland won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for the film, which is just as timely today as when it was released more than a decade ago. The film, which is set over the span of nearly two decades, tells the story of revolutionary-turned-stoner Bob Ferguson (Best Actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio), who has given up his activist ways in order to protect his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti, in a powerful feature debut).