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How has Leo only won one Oscar?
Posted on 8/20/19 at 8:41 am
Posted on 8/20/19 at 8:41 am
Watch this compilation of his career. Dude can flat out act. Not only that, he's diverse. He has nailed every character from a mentally challenged kid to a Boston cop.
Like someone in the comments said,
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Like someone in the comments said,
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And this man only won ONE OSCAR????!!!! bitchhhhh square tf up ??????
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Posted on 8/20/19 at 8:47 am to i am dan
Feel like he’s always playing himself.
Also, I don’t think he deserved it for the Revenant.
Director; Ok Leo, in this next scene, I want you to get naked, roll around in the snow and look cold. Ok great. I can really buy in your cold. That blue look of frostbite around your face? So authentic.
Director: ok Leo, in this next scene, I want you to eat this raw heart and look disgusted by it. Ok, great. That look on your face. You can really tell you don’t like eating raw bison heart.
Also, I don’t think he deserved it for the Revenant.
Director; Ok Leo, in this next scene, I want you to get naked, roll around in the snow and look cold. Ok great. I can really buy in your cold. That blue look of frostbite around your face? So authentic.
Director: ok Leo, in this next scene, I want you to eat this raw heart and look disgusted by it. Ok, great. That look on your face. You can really tell you don’t like eating raw bison heart.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 8:48 am to i am dan
Those awards are more about Hollywood campaigning than acting ability or quality of a film
Posted on 8/20/19 at 8:51 am to i am dan
He should've won it for The Departed and Blood Diamond. I think they gave him one for the Revenant as kind of a consolation prize.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 8:54 am to Triple Bogey
Yup. Whitaker with one of the more undeserving wins ever.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 8:56 am to Triple Bogey
Should have won for What's Eating Gilbert Grape. He had me convinced it was an actual special needs kid playing the part.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:01 am to LSUDAN1
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Should have won for What's Eating Gilbert Grape. He had me convinced it was an actual special needs kid playing the part.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:02 am to athenslife101
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Also, I don’t think he deserved it for the Revenant.
1) I think he was great in the Revenant.
2) I think he's great in most of his works, but I agree that he got the Oscar for the Revenant only because he hadn't received one before.
3) As good as Leo was in the Revenant, I think Tom Hardy was even better and stole the show in that movie.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:05 am to athenslife101
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Feel like he’s always playing himself
Completely disagree
The Departed vs Blood Diamond vs wolf of Wall Street
Extremely different characters that looked completely natural to him
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:10 am to i am dan
Probably should've won for the Aviator but Jamie Foxx absolutely killed it as Ray Charles.
Forrest Whitaker killed it as Idi Amin, so I understand that loss.
The Academy like a physical transformation so I get him losing to Matt in Dallas Buyers Club.
He was excellent in Gilbert Grape but I'm not sure how Tommy Lee Jones even won for The Fugitive when Ralph Fiennes was excellent as Goeth in Schindler's List
Forrest Whitaker killed it as Idi Amin, so I understand that loss.
The Academy like a physical transformation so I get him losing to Matt in Dallas Buyers Club.
He was excellent in Gilbert Grape but I'm not sure how Tommy Lee Jones even won for The Fugitive when Ralph Fiennes was excellent as Goeth in Schindler's List
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:16 am to theGarnetWay
He's been overshadowed, or at least equalled, by costars in several movies. DDL in Gangs of NY, Tom Hardy in The Revenant, and now Brad Pitt in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood were all better than Leo. He was great in Django but so were Jackson and Waltz. Nicholson had the flashier role in The Departed and even Marky Mark was good enough to get a nomination.
This post was edited on 8/20/19 at 9:17 am
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:28 am to HuskyPanda
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He was excellent in Gilbert Grape but I'm not sure how Tommy Lee Jones even won for The Fugitive when Ralph Fiennes was excellent as Goeth in Schindler's List
I was dumbfounded he won over Leo or Ralph that year. Another frick up by the Academy.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:29 am to Purple Spoon
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Completely disagree The Departed vs Blood Diamond vs wolf of Wall Street Extremely different characters that looked completely natural to him
I watched Shutter Island last night and I think you could put that on this list as well
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:32 am to Triple Bogey
The departed was substandard scorsese and the revenant was not a good movie
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:39 am to i am dan
quote:Never felt this way. Same dude in every movie.
Dude can flat out act
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:42 am to rebelrouser
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The departed was substandard scorsese and the revenant was not a good movie
Wild takes, but they don’t mean Leo wasn’t awesome in those movies. Wolf is hands down his best performance tho. He starts at a 10 in that movie, immediately goes to 11, and then maintains about a 17 for the rest of it.
This post was edited on 8/20/19 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:47 am to AlxTgr
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Never felt this way. Same dude in every movie.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:47 am to i am dan
The Departed and The Aviator were great performances, for sure.
But, he's a movie star in a lot of other instances.
Let's take Cruise for example, he should have won it for Collateral (and wasn't even nominated - Foxx was, and was excellent, but overshadowed by Cruise's clearly best performance to date, with only Magnolia in the running, IMHO).
Sometimes, being a $20m per picture guy can drag you down at Oscar time.
But, he's a movie star in a lot of other instances.
Let's take Cruise for example, he should have won it for Collateral (and wasn't even nominated - Foxx was, and was excellent, but overshadowed by Cruise's clearly best performance to date, with only Magnolia in the running, IMHO).
Sometimes, being a $20m per picture guy can drag you down at Oscar time.
This post was edited on 8/20/19 at 9:49 am
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:50 am to Athos
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Whitaker with one of the more undeserving wins ever.
Tha frick?
Posted on 8/20/19 at 10:03 am to Ace Midnight
It's tough to win one Oscar in an acting category, much less two. There are a lot of factors -- sometimes the Academy wants to spread awards around among multiple movies, sometimes they want to give an award to someone as a lifetime achievement award. You've got to be so great in multiple movies that they HAVE to give you the award and hope that someone else didn't have a knockout performance or got rooked six years ago.
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