![]() Though much of the work is intensely physical rather than emotional work, it still seems to be the kind of role that awards ceremonies love to reward, which could put DiCaprio in a good spot leading up to the Oscars in February - finally. The role itself broaches the realm of the unbelievable - Glass comes across as almost Jesus-like in his inability to die, and his titular rebirth - DiCaprio grounds the role in human sentiment. ![]() Much of the acting circled around actual, physical pain, with his character having suffered a bear attack, a fall from a cliff, and a swim in a bitterly cold river, and the emotional pain he suffers leads him on a revenge quest comes across in an understated, poignant manner. In his speech, he rightly credited the talent of Tom Hardy, ("a beast an unbelievable talent") who played the cold, conflicted villain flitting around the periphery of DiCaprio's Revenant narrative. DiCaprio's performance was as gritty as the surrounding material. I just hope they never find themselves in a situation to find out.Ī good cast is not the same as a good movie, but the cast of The Revenant was superlative. He added a quick joke, explaining that though Tom Hardy plays his nemesis in The Revenant, he knows Hardy would never leave him to his death on a frosty mountaintop. It was about the triumph of the human spirit," DiCaprio said, going on to thank the tireless work of director Alejandro Iñárritu, who also won Best Director, and highlighting the plight of First Nations and indigenous peoples around the world. Perhaps even less surprisingly, DiCaprio's earnest, lengthy acceptance speech seems tailor-made to appeal to the Academy in the lead-up to the Oscars. Yet despite The Revenant's controversial release, its star performance rose above the material, and so it's no surprise that DiCaprio won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama. For many years, fans of the actor could not believe that he never won an Oscar for best actor, although he was. Suffragette, Steve Jobs, Trumbo, The Danish Girl, and Joy all suffered this fate, and - though this might be an unpopular opinion - so did The Revenant, which featured two of the best male performances of the year in Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, but succumbed to an excess of excess. However, prior to Leo’s big win theflippist.It was an odd year for movies: Many of the most promising concepts turned flat in execution, somehow just not quite coming together to create a compelling cinematic experience. The rest of us will just have to move on and find other actors (white ones, obviously) whose ambitions are comically thwarted by the Academy year after year. about curbing greenhouse gas emissions, and then he’ll call up Scorese to see what their next movie should be. After that, he’ll give a speech to the U.N. He’ll probably celebrate by renting out an island for a week and filling it with supermodels. The man has finally brought home Oscar gold. For example, just take the scene of him dancing at his wedding to Margot Robbie’s character and splice in cartoon images of Academy Awards to make it seem like it’s literally raining Oscars in that moment.Īll of those jokes are irrelevant now. Wolf of Wall Street made it astonishingly easy to throw out cartoonish memes mocking Leo’s transparent Oscars quest. ![]() However, for some it was almost disappointing to see him win because it has simply been so fun for so long to joke about Leo as the continually rejected actor who’d do anything for the Academy to finally grant him the validation he so desired. The actual sound you heard was simply people applauding Leo’s win. Internet memes don’t really die, and if they did they wouldn’t let out some pained death cry. That noise you heard last night when Leonardo DiCaprio walked on stage to accept his Best Actor Oscar for The Revenant was the sound of thousands of internet memes dying.
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