Sometimes the best of us fail to achieve that one single achievement that would make us officially the best. Such is the case for Leonardo DiCaprio, Golden Globe winner and internet Meme sensation.
He was first nominated way back in 1993, and, while he’s won Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards and various other accolades, the Oscars have consistently teased him with the possibility of trophies, only to yank them out of his grip. Poor Leo
Here are the performances that we think he really deserved an Oscar for.
5. What's eating Gilbert Grape
DiCaprio’s breakthrough role came as the developmentally disabled teen Arnie in Lasse Hallstrom’s small-town drama. It’s really tough to play a role like this, but the critics unanimously raved over Leo’s methodical inhabiting of the character. He got his first Oscar nomination, but lost to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive. Much respect to Tommy Lee, but that’s highway robbery.
4. The Wolf of Wall Street
DiCaprio was actually nominated for his role as producer on Jordan Belfort’s coke-addled memoir turned wild Scorsese movie, but I think that he should have taken home the statue for his work in the lead. As Leo slides into his “dad bod” phase, he owns the stereotype of a dissolute party boy steadily destroying both his body and his reputation. His turn as Belfort was terrifyingly believable. Unfortunately he lost the Best Actor trophy to co-star Matthew McConaughey.
3. The Revenant
The latest movie to have Leo nominated, The Revenant, had him eating raw bison liver and sleeping in animal carcasses for his role as a frontiersman seeking revenge after being left for dead by his companions when he's mauled by a bear. Really, his grizzled look alone is Oscar-worthy, but he's being considered a contender because of his actual performance in the Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárittu-directed film.
2. Django Unchained
He may not have been the lead here but you couldn't have walked out of the theatre marvelling at Leonardo's brilliance on screen. He played a ruthless and vicious man who doesn't blink an eyelid before feeding a slave to the dogs, literally. Yet, you continue to stare at him with rapt attention simply because Leo truly looks like he's having fun being so bad on screen. Unfortunately, he didn't even get nominated for this one.
1. Titanic
This one takes the top spot. Jack and Rose's romance will go down in history books as one of the greatest of all time and Kate Winslet was nominated for her half of the epic couple. With 11 Oscar wins in the record book, no one would really notice if someone went in and added the real king of the world to the tally... right? Maybe we'd remember who actually won that night if it had been Leo!
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He was first nominated way back in 1993, and, while he’s won Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards and various other accolades, the Oscars have consistently teased him with the possibility of trophies, only to yank them out of his grip. Poor Leo
Here are the performances that we think he really deserved an Oscar for.
5. What's eating Gilbert Grape
DiCaprio’s breakthrough role came as the developmentally disabled teen Arnie in Lasse Hallstrom’s small-town drama. It’s really tough to play a role like this, but the critics unanimously raved over Leo’s methodical inhabiting of the character. He got his first Oscar nomination, but lost to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive. Much respect to Tommy Lee, but that’s highway robbery.
4. The Wolf of Wall Street
DiCaprio was actually nominated for his role as producer on Jordan Belfort’s coke-addled memoir turned wild Scorsese movie, but I think that he should have taken home the statue for his work in the lead. As Leo slides into his “dad bod” phase, he owns the stereotype of a dissolute party boy steadily destroying both his body and his reputation. His turn as Belfort was terrifyingly believable. Unfortunately he lost the Best Actor trophy to co-star Matthew McConaughey.
3. The Revenant
The latest movie to have Leo nominated, The Revenant, had him eating raw bison liver and sleeping in animal carcasses for his role as a frontiersman seeking revenge after being left for dead by his companions when he's mauled by a bear. Really, his grizzled look alone is Oscar-worthy, but he's being considered a contender because of his actual performance in the Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárittu-directed film.
2. Django Unchained
He may not have been the lead here but you couldn't have walked out of the theatre marvelling at Leonardo's brilliance on screen. He played a ruthless and vicious man who doesn't blink an eyelid before feeding a slave to the dogs, literally. Yet, you continue to stare at him with rapt attention simply because Leo truly looks like he's having fun being so bad on screen. Unfortunately, he didn't even get nominated for this one.
1. Titanic
This one takes the top spot. Jack and Rose's romance will go down in history books as one of the greatest of all time and Kate Winslet was nominated for her half of the epic couple. With 11 Oscar wins in the record book, no one would really notice if someone went in and added the real king of the world to the tally... right? Maybe we'd remember who actually won that night if it had been Leo!
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