Leonardo DiCaprio is looooong overdue for an Oscar, having lost so many times he’s become a tragic meme.
And the little lost-boy heartbreak you see on his face in the GIF (below) has become internet shorthand for despair.
BUT! Things maybe looking up for the old boy! FINALLY! His performance in The Revenant is causing all sorts of Oscar buzz, yet again, but this time he might finally have a chance. Or so says some writer from Vanity Fair.
After recent press screenings in New York and LA, it was reported that nearly all of the reactions seem to revolve around “Give Leo that Oscar.”
The only thing could stop him, the article goes on to say, is the film’s violence, since a lot of people walked out during the screening because of that. Still… despite said violence, rumours of backstage drama (and all of Leo’s “I suffer for my art” campaigning) could drag voters in.
“If people really want to see DiCaprio win an Oscar as badly as the Internet does, no amount of violence will keep them away.”
More than anything, the Oscars love to see you work for it, from the titanic productions of The Lord of the Rings and Titanic to the physical challenges of Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot or Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything. One look at the photos of DiCaprio in The Revenant and you know he’s passed that test.
The Revenant arrives into a loud and crowded December of new releases, and will box-office battle with everything from David O. Russell’s still-under-wraps Joy to Quentin Tarantino’s fellow lengthy western The Hateful Eight to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s hard to imagine huge amounts of people choosing a mauled Leonardo DiCaprio over Han Solo, but The Revenant is operating with a different math, assuming the “you will not believe what happens in this movie” factor will drive curiosity well into the new year. The Oscar race, it seems, has gotten just as crowded as we expected.
His competition this year seems rather weak – most likely Bryan Cranston (for the little-seen Trumbo), Johnny Depp (who was good in the otherwise underwhelming Black Mass), Michael Fassbender (in the criticality reviled Steve Jobs), and Eddie Redmayne (for The Danish Girl– his only real competition). I think he really has a chance! What do YOU think?
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