10 curiosities about Leonardo Dicaprio and the Oscars
We give you some interesting facts about the failed relationship between this statuette and the Titanic actor.
Much has been said that this year will finally be the opportunity for Leo Dicaprio to win the long-awaited Oscar. Given this possible and happy option, we give you some information about Leo and his relationship with the Academy Award.
Nominations. Leo has been nominated four times for best actor considering this year's for "The wolf of Wall Street." He is also nominated as the producer of the latter in the category of best film of the year. In the last three he has been for best leading actor.
Age. His first nomination was when he was 19 years old for the movie “What's Eating Gilbert Grape” in which he played a young man with a mental handicap. More than 10 years later he was nominated again.
Years without nominations. Between 1994 (What`s eating Gilbert Grape ”and 2005 (The aviator) he did not have any nominations. At that time he acted in“ The quick and the dead ”with Sharon Stone, starred in The basketball diaries, Titanic, The man in the mask of Hierro, La Playa and finally Gangs of New York and Catch me if you can.
Forgotten. The films for which, according to critics and experts, DiCaprio should have been nominated but was forgotten by members of the academy were The Departed, Revolutionary Road, Shutter Island, The Origin, J. Edgar and Djando unchained. In all those films he got good reviews but was not considered in the nominations.
Nominated films. The actor has worked on seven films that have been nominated for best picture. These are Titanic, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Inception, Django Unchained, and now The Wolf of Wall Street. The Departed and Titanic won.
Muse. DiCaprio has been called the muse of the great director Martin Scorsese. The actor has worked on five of Scorsese's films. Before DiCaprio it was none other than Robert DeNiro. Scorsese has 12 nominations, but at least he won an Oscar for directing The Departed.
Opponents. In 1994 as best supporting actor he won the Oscar Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive, in 2005 he won Jamie Foxx for Ray and in 2007 Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland.
Others awards. Some have considered that in the academy there is a hatred or something against Dicaprio. In fact, he has had a better reception in other awards. He has 12 Golden Globes nominations and two wins (The Aviator and this year for The Wolf of Wall Street). In the SAG he has eight nominations but no wins.
Reasons. Many critics and film experts have written about the reasons why DiCaprio has failed to win the gold statuette, but none have a clear answer. Some say that the academy hates him for being a cute boy who dates Victoria's Secret models and compares him to Robert Redford who has only been nominated once for best actor and who has won two Oscars but one as director and the other was honorary for his career. Others say that his boyish face takes away the credibility of his performance, but the truth is that there is no clear reason.
This could be the year. During these months in social networks and media the possibility that Leo finally takes the stage at the Oscars has been a permanent theme. Even many people on social media thought that CNN had leaked that Leo DiCpario would win the award by showing a note on how the Oscars are prepared and bringing a plaque with the actor's name as the winner to the camera, but it turns out they make a plaque with the name of all the nominees so it was ultimately not a spoiler. It seems that there is more interest from fans than from Dicaprio himself and multiple memes have even been published about the actor's suffering for not winning the Oscar.
