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Thanks, it's a nice read and a sentiment that's going to be echoed all summer long. Leo is the king of no-f*cks ?

The Revenant continues to make money. Latest BO update from Deadline:

Thanks for all the updates felliow leo lovers! also happy with the BO numbers for the movie, Jade. I remember from the Sony emails that the studio executives believed that the movie will not do well at all. One executive said that "this is not the role the world will like to see Leo in," so there is a lot of satisfaction for me to know the movie is successful. Having said that, now that he's won and can finally relax about his legacy, i hope his next movie will be more emotionally compelling. The Revenant is not my favorite Leo performance nor movie. I would be sad if he tries to do something similar. I would love to see Leo as a spy, hope he gets to work on that movie based on the Don Winslow novel Satori.

Thanks for the pucs jade ? So nice to see Leo and Common in the same pic. I ❤️ them both.

Yay

Yes!!!

Thank god innaritu won

And lady gag/dianne warren just lost!

This. There will be repurcussions if he does not win (haha, but serously) also, ignoring whats on the envelope if its not leo is the only option !!! ???

Exactly my thoughts... Wow, just wow

Gah, the ex machina win was a jaw dropper. Now everyone is saying that revenant for both is not happening anymore. Bummer, but as long as Leo wins I'm okay with that. Such a nail biter, this one. And still an hour to go!

Sorry, i can't help myself from obsessing ?? this is a very nice article from vanity fair: Here's why everyone's saying "it's time" for @LeoDiCaprio's Oscar win vntyfr.com/4ROIjxf Excerpt: Which leads us to this latest Oscar season and the latest and best chance for DiCaprio to go home with a naked statuette. His turn as a frontiersman left for dead and beat up by a grizzly bear is another all-in performance for an actor who seems to collect once-in-a-lifetime experiences even more than he does trophies. The Revenant is also a technical marvel from an Oscar-winning director that dominates the field with 12 nominations. While many other categories are toss-ups for Oscar prognosticators, DiCaprio’s win for best actor—after 22 years of stellar work and so many near-misses—is the only thing anyone can agree on. The only downside is that the marketing push for The Revenant’s award season has focused more on how difficult the movie was to make (it was cold! He fought a bear! He slept in animal carcasses! He ate a gross part of a bison!) instead of the damned perfection DiCaprio displays in battling the wilderness and the crueler angels of man’s nature. As with his mouth-foaming spasms in The Wolf of Wall Street, breaking open a vein in Django and the whole-hearted embodiment of his first Oscar-nominated role in Gilbert Grape, DiCaprio had to dive deep into another person’s life and only come up for air once Alejandro González Iñárritucalled it a wrap. DiCaprio put himself through hell, yes, and we’ve heard all about it, but it’s the performance he brought back through the flames that demands recognition. It’s a shame that the conversation has been so dominated by the belief in DiCaprio’s desire to chase an Oscar because it’s more the case that Oscar is just now catching up with him. -end of exverpt -- Also, i love that VF has been running a series of tweets with the #TeamLeo tag.??

Thanks everyone for all the updates and the comments, loved reading all of them. I'm officially abstaining from the Internet today until after the big ceremony (except this site) because everything has really become so mean-spirited.The takedowns are downright rude and insulting. I know it comes from a really deep-seated resentment especially at where Leo is now -- he has everything, and he knows it. I've always sensed some resentment from the media about Leo because he doesn't play the game because he doesn't need to and the Oscars is the only venue where they are expecting him to throw himself to them and give them access he has denied for so long. Bu the extraordinary success of the movie meant he didn't have to resort to that. And if and when he wins on Sunday, what opportunity is left to knock Leo from his pedestal? he may not be the nicest guy around but he's always been professional. He may be a douchebag and a perv for all we know, but even if true, he has never let a movie, a co-star or a junket down by unprofessional behavior. He is larger than life, but the guy is also human so i imagine all the public insults hurt him. I am really bummed by the level of cattiness I see, more so since they are directed to a guy who does not defend himself from these attacks. anyways, a win will be great but if he doesn't I have about five movies I can binge on to remind myself that I love him as an actor with or without a freakin Oscar. Gee, I just want this season to be over - I.ve never seen him targeted this much!

Thanks Oxford I meant to write that he read for the part that was supposed to be Leo"s son in the movie. Apparently, it was also Eddie Redmayne"s first feature movie.

EDDIE REDMAYNE: MEETING DICAPRIO WAS DAUNTING Eddie Redmayne Leonardo DiCaprio The Good Shepherd Robert De Niro The Theory of Everything Stephen Hawking Written by: covermg.com ShareFacebookTwitter EDDIE REDMAYNE HAS JOKED HE WOULD HAVE HAD A GOOD LIFE, HAD HE DIED WHILE AUDITIONING WITH LEONARDO DICAPRIO. Eddie Redmayne was "absolutely wetting himself" when he first met Leonardo DiCaprio. The 32-year-old actor landed his first major role in 2006's The Good Shepherd, in which he played Edward Wilson Jr. His onscreen father later became Matt Damon, but Eddie initially rehearsed opposite the Titanic star. It was Eddie's performance in a West End show in London, UK, that attracted a casting director to approach him about a role in the Robert De Niro-directed flick. “She [the casting director] said, ‘I want you to come back and meet Bob this afternoon.’ I was like, Who? ‘Bob De Niro.’ F**k," he recalled to M magazine. “When I came back, the casting couch was full of the best actors in Britain, all in their fifties and sixties; people who never audition for anything were lined. I was the only kid there. I went in and met De Niro. “Iwanyataparyerhair," Eddie recalled, doing an impression of the iconic actor telling him he wanted his hair in a parting. It was when he returned that Leonardo was also in the room, reading the lines of his character's dad. “I was absolutely wetting myself. I looked down at the scene, from the ceiling, and said to myself, ‘Redmayne, if you die now, you’ve had it pretty good.’ From there, I just turned up and tried not to get fired," he smiled.