Kenzodielocke
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ITT: Leo is a mediocre actor.
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Is the Academy trolling Leo with the Oscars?
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Spiritwalker
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He's just not that great
BreezyLimbo
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He already played Gilbert Grape!
Leo is pretty cool, but the films he is typically a part of are this like...psudo-blockbuster genre. Not quite art house, and not totally throwaway summer trash. He always kills it, and I've really dug him since Departed, but he doesn't appeal to them as much as say Daniel Day Lewis playing Lincoln.
Maybe he'll get an Academy Award when he plays Jack Nicholson in his biopic.
Maybe he'll get an Academy Award when he plays Jack Nicholson in his biopic.
I don't think 'appeal' has anything to do with it. Yes, it's quite easy to predict DDL is going to win if he has any sort of nomination but Leo is so one note, he might put on a different accent but all his mannerisms are the same, he is objectively a better actor.
CassidyIzABeast
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You've been taking big gulps of ether every year during our shows but you kept coming anyway. So here, have a lifetime achievement award you poor bastard.
JimmyRustler
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He's a good actor that was simply unlucky to not have been the best at the years he was nominated.
That said, many actors imo more deserving actors still haven't received one. Johnny Depp for instance. I mean, holy shit at the range of his performances.
That said, many actors imo more deserving actors still haven't received one. Johnny Depp for instance. I mean, holy shit at the range of his performances.
Messofanego
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JimmyRustler
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He's been doing slight variations of Jack Sparrow for nearly 10 years now and has only just recently been doing something different.
DontBeThatGuy
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The only time he for sure deserved to win an Oscar was in '94. Django and Wall Street were pretty good though.
He's been nominated for an acting role four times. Let's look at them.
1994, What's Eating Gilbert Grape: Lost to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive. I think this is one of DiCaprio's most memorable performances, but The Fugitive was a huge success, plus he went up against Fiennes for Schindler's List and Postelwaithe for In the Name of the Father. Him losing here was no big travesty. Though ironically, an 11 year old Anna Paquin claimed an Oscar this year.
2005, The Aviator: Another excellent performance by DiCaprio. If I had to pick between him and Foxx for Ray, I would pick the Cap. I would have to pick Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby overall though.
2007, Blood Diamond: Actually I didn't see this movie, but I did see The Last King of Scotland where Whitaker took home an Oscar. That's not a performance one should be mad to lose against.
2014, The Wolf of Wall Street: I also didn't see this movie, but nor did I see any of the other Best Actor nominated movies. But McConaughey's drawl? That's hard to top.
Peter O'Toole is definitely (and sadly) the king of Oscar snubs. It was bad timing to have his best performance the same year Peck played Atticus Finch.
1994, What's Eating Gilbert Grape: Lost to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive. I think this is one of DiCaprio's most memorable performances, but The Fugitive was a huge success, plus he went up against Fiennes for Schindler's List and Postelwaithe for In the Name of the Father. Him losing here was no big travesty. Though ironically, an 11 year old Anna Paquin claimed an Oscar this year.
2005, The Aviator: Another excellent performance by DiCaprio. If I had to pick between him and Foxx for Ray, I would pick the Cap. I would have to pick Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby overall though.
2007, Blood Diamond: Actually I didn't see this movie, but I did see The Last King of Scotland where Whitaker took home an Oscar. That's not a performance one should be mad to lose against.
2014, The Wolf of Wall Street: I also didn't see this movie, but nor did I see any of the other Best Actor nominated movies. But McConaughey's drawl? That's hard to top.
Peter O'Toole is definitely (and sadly) the king of Oscar snubs. It was bad timing to have his best performance the same year Peck played Atticus Finch.
Z..
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There we go.
So 1 moore and he isn't even close
old manatee
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At least he tries wicked hard.
The only travesty here is that everyone else you mentioned deserved the award more than than Tommy Lee Jones.
Naw, hell naw, that's the year Leo really deserved it.
This is the year Leo got screwed, where WB decided to submit his performance for Blood Diamond instead of The Departed (because BD was a box office disappointment and WB wanted to bolster its chances however they could). He could've easily won for TD.
It's really a disgrace that Peter O'Toole never got a non-honorary award. Bullshit that he didn't get one for Lawrence, just because he was just starting out.
He doesn't deserve one for any of his nominations, especially in comparison to who he was up against. I find with Leo that, like a number of popular actors, he can't shake his image. Even in the recent trailer for the Revenant, he still just looks like Leonardo diCaprio in a big beard. Because of this, and with a film like Revenant probably going to be up for Oscars, I wonder if he'll ever even win one.
Hasphat'sAnts
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Wait, Julianne Moore hasn't won?
WTF
EDIT: She did this year. I thought I was tripping.
WTF
EDIT: She did this year. I thought I was tripping.
nocturnalis
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I just dropped by to say how pissed I every time Tommy Lee Jones beating Ralph Fiennes, who actually scared Holocaust victims, is brought up. He was sooo good in Schindler's List
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