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    ^And the article:

     

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    Leonardo DiCaprio Will Join Best Actor Oscar Fray, with Brad Pitt in Supporting

     

    It's official: the two equally matched actors from "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" won't compete against each other for Oscars.

     

    Any actor chasing a Best Supporting Actor slot will have to unseat Brad Pitt, who is currently favored to win for his cooly masculine stuntman Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac bromance “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” It’s official: Sony is campaigning Pitt for his fourth acting nomination in the supporting category, while Leonardo DiCaprio is going lead.

     

    It makes sense for Pitt to take this route, partly because Booth plays a subservient role in the film to TV star Rick Dalton (DiCaprio). Pitt has a better shot at a win than DiCaprio, who recently won Best Actor for “The Revenant.”

     

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    And this week the decision makers behind “Ford v Ferrari” (Fox/Disney) finally opted to put their equal leads in the race for Best Actor. It’s a crowded field, but the story is so evenly balanced between Matt Damon as car designer Carroll Shelby (three acting nominations, one Original Screenplay win for “Good Will Hunting”) and Christian Bale as race car driver Ken Miles (four acting nominations and one win, for Supporting Actor for “The Fighter”), that it’s impossible to justify one supporting the other. Besides, Pitt’s likely to win Supporting anyway.

     

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    ^Yeah I hope that too. Full award season with Leo, hell yes :56608ac1cc5a3_smilynewone:

     

    No matter if Brad wants to win this Oscar or not (according to himself he didn't, well...) he's definitely going support. Sony would be complete crazy to put him in the already full packed lead with Leo especially when he has no intention to campaign for himself. At least I would handle it this way LOL

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    Your Guide to This Oscar Season’s Best Actor Bloodbath

     

    “Best Actor is going to be a nightmare this year,” one Oscar strategist told me this summer, pointing to the bevy of high-profile male performers who seemed likely to make a run during the fall Oscar race. Compared to Best Actress, which leaves out worthy performances on the regular, Best Actor has not been stacked with heavyweights of late, and recent contests have seen the Academy scrounging through the season’s bargain bins to find a fifth nominee. Not this year. With most of 2019’s ostensible contenders running the festival gauntlet with aplomb — we’ll miss you, Timmy — we’re left with a field that boasts ten-plus serious claimants. Only five will hear their names called come nomination day. Which of them will make it in? Here’s your rundown. Start placing your bets.

     

    (Note: This list assumes that Christian Bale and Tom Hanks will run in the supporting-actor category. Additionally, apologies to Paul Walter Hauser of Richard Jewell, the dewy young Brits of 1917, and the male cats of Cats, all of whose films have yet to screen.)

     

    Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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    The role: Rick Dalton, a washed-up TV cowboy whose fortunes change when Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) moves next door to him in 1969.

    The awards history: A long-awaited Best Actor trophy for The Revenant, plus four other acting nominations and a nod for producing The Wolf of Wall Street.

     

    In his favor: Like The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is generally expected to be a strong contender, and DiCaprio anchors his director’s singular tone, investing the buffoonish Dalton with equal amounts of pathos and humor. Actors playing actors often have a leg up in the awards race, and I suspect DiCaprio’s colleagues can empathize with his self-excoriating meltdown on the set of his latest Western and thus feel every bit of his triumph when he finally nails the take.

     

    Working against him: Once Upon a Time had as good a run at the box office as Sony could have hoped, but there’s a chance that DiCaprio could lose a bit of steam as the July release gets overtaken by newer and buzzier titles and co-star Brad Pitt gobbles up most of the movie’s awards attention. It’s also worth noting that DiCaprio just won this trophy for his last movie, an honor that was preceded by months of hoopla about his illustrious body of work. In a tough field, could Leo get left off by voters who feel they’ve already given him his due?

     

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    On 4/16/2019 at 12:52 PM, Michael* said:

    he apparently wasn't the studio's first choice to star in it. If the reports are to be believed, we almost ended up with Leonardo DiCaprio instead. :laugh:

    DiCaprio was never attached to this project. They are just using his name like always to make a project more interesting/more prestige/more talks or whatever.

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    A few months ago, Leonardo DiCaprio became a meme after he was seen taking photos of his girlfriend Camila Morrone, presumably for her Instagram account.

     

    Fans quickly began circulating memes, calling Leonardo an “Instagram boyfriend.”

     

    “I saw the meme,” Camila told Vanity Fair in a new interview. “Poor thing, he’s being called an Instagram boyfriend. He’s an environmentalist and a movie star and it doesn’t mean a thing!”

     

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    Full interview: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/10/mickey-and-the-bear-star-camila-morrone-talks-acting-and-boyfriend

    I think one of the main reasons he said yes to making Titanic was the possibility to have the power about his career. I mean of course he couldn't know how big it would be in the end (Leo mania etc pe pe) but Leo never was stupid. He knew he needed some huge blockbuster success to have the control about his future - well at least partially.

     

    But he never went the easy way, I agree with that. It always seems so easy for him, but I think most of his movies are big financial risks, no matter what some people say, he would never take any risks with his choices of roles and movies.

    Was this already posted?

     

     

    Paul Rudd speaking one more time about Leo:

     

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    Paul Rudd Knows He Can't Compete With Brad Pitt for Roles

     

    Paul Rudd seems to have found his place in Hollywood.

     

    The 50-year-old actor appears to have had a moment of clarity after seeing Brad Pitt's performance in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

     

    "I thought, my God, what a movie star, just so cool," he tells The New York Times in an interview published Tuesday. "[Leonardo DiCaprio]'s no slouch either!"

     

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    Millie is still gushing over Leo :p

     

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    "If I could direct anyone, I would want to direct Leonardo DiCaprio just so I can look at his face all day," she said. "Or Timothée Chalamet, just kidding!" Source

     

     

    And: According to THR Leo was never in talks to play the Joker.

     

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    Those Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Joker Rumors Have Finally Been Put To Rest

    According to THR, Scorsese was attached as an executive producer in the film’s early stages, and even considered it a “potential directing vehicle.” Scorsese’s team denied the report, insisting that he was only ever interested in producing.

     

    That’s not the only rumor that’s put to bed in THR’s report. We also learn that early speculation that Scorsese’s involvement was originally meant as a tool to entice Leonardo DiCaprio to star in the film is also false. According to THR’s multiple sources, Phoenix was the only actor ever considered for the role of Joker.

     

    The report comes at an interesting time, after last week’s uproar following Scorsese’s comments that he doesn’t consider Marvel movies real “cinema.” If that is indeed the case, it’s hard to imagine the auteur ever considering directing a movie that while deeply grounded in reality, is still a comic book movie at heart. Regardless, all parties involved ultimately walked away with a big fat W. Phillips has one of the biggest hits of the year on his hands, Phoenix will likely walk away with some major hardware by year’s end, as will Scorsese, who’s upcoming gangster epic The Irishman is poised to make major noise come Oscar time. And Leo, well, Leo’s Leo.

     

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