Is There A Role That Dicaprio definitely deserved an Oscar for?
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Dr. Narcisse
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Django Unchained.
Partly because Waltz shouldnt have been put in the Supporting slot. He should have been up for Best Actor (losing to DDL, but still)
Partly because Waltz shouldnt have been put in the Supporting slot. He should have been up for Best Actor (losing to DDL, but still)
He'll get one eventually for a role that is undeserving instead of getting one for the many great roles he has had. It is a shame that he doesn't have an Oscar while a lot more mediocre actors in the industry do.
lost to forest whitaker in last king of scotland...which was the better performance.
lost to jamie fox in ray...which was the better performance.
Lost to Christoph Waltz from Django. If you want to argue Waltz should have been in the best actor category, then yeah I agree Leo should have won here. But since Waltz was placed in this category, he had the best performance therefore shoulda got this award.
Lost to Matt McCauneghey for Dallas Buyers Club. This is a toss up to me. Christian Bale in American Hustle, and Chiwatel Ojifor in 12 years a slave also had amazing performances. The award coulda went to either one of those 4 and I wouldnt have been mad.
Lost to Sean Penn in Milk. Sean Penn had the better performance. Mickey Rouke in The Wrestler, and Brad Pitt in Benjamin Button were also better performances than Leos in Revolutionary Road.
Lost to Tommy Lee Jones in the Fugitive. Definitely bullshyt. Leo shoulda won this award. Ralph Fiennes from Schindlers List got screwed here too. I think they didnt give it to Leo because he was a young, fairly unknown actor and Tommy Lee Jones is like acting royalty. Pure bullshyt award politics.
Leo is only unlucky in the sense that he has been out-shined in the years of his most worthy performances.
an actor of his caliber you would expect to have 3 or so academy awards by now...but if you look at the tape, all of his losses besides 1 were very understandable.Something else I find interesting...look at Leo's filmography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio_filmography
Dude probably has the best resume in Hollywood.
The Weinstein's knew they could only push one of them because they'd csncel both out if they were nominated and there's no way they were going to win best actor that year when DDL was up for Lincoln.
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Django and only Django.
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I do think he has gone up against heavy competition so that is definitely a contributing factor. But I also think him not getting nominated for Titanic and then him completely not showing up after that set him and the academy off on the wrong foot and the academy has never gotten over it.
Well if they never got over it he wouldn't even be nominated for stuff and he's been nominated several times since then. He's just always nominated in years where he doesn't have the momentum. No one was going to beat Matty Ice last year, not a soul. Just like he wasn't going to beat Jamie or Forest or Tommy Lee Jones. He just turned 40, he's got plenty of time to win something. It's just bad luck of the draw
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DosCadenaz
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He's been GOOD ENOUGH, but hasn't been better than the competition. I think it's cool to be nominated though.