December 11, 20159 yr Found some pretty great stuff at tumblr Quote Love his expressions here. Quote Two new stills. Quote Close up from Leo. Quote Globes. Quote And this. Quote Source
December 11, 20159 yr Great new article about the filming of the Revenant from Men's Journal magazine; I love that Leo won the throwing the tomahawk competition Quote Inside 'The Revenant': Leonardo DiCaprio on the Toughest Movie He's Ever Made By Mickey Rapkin Jan 2016 Starvation diets. Temperatures of 30 below. Raw cow's liver. Inside The Revenant, an all-or-nothing Oscar gamble. Read more: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/inside-the-revenant-leo-dicaprio-on-the-toughest-movie-hes-ever-made-20151211#ixzz3u2QsoqY6Follow us: @mensjournal on Twitter | MensJournal on Facebook In 1823, deep in South Dakota, a fur trader named Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead. His companions half-bury him, then make off with his loot. But when Glass miraculously awakes, propelled by visions of the young son his compatriots killed while escaping, he travels 200 miles by foot to exact revenge. Pretty badass, especially since it was inspired by a true story. Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the Oscar winner behind last year's Birdman, has been working on bringing Michael Punke's book about the tale, The Revenant, to the big screen for five years. It finally arrives in December, with Leonardo DiCaprio as Glass, and Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, and upstart Will Poulter as the bad guys. It wasn't an easy road. Production began in September 2014 and was supposed to wrap the following March. In August, cameras were still rolling. Among the challenges: Iñárritu and his longtime cinematographer, Oscar-winner Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki, chose to shoot only in natural light to heighten the raw sense of extreme wilderness — always a challenging prospect, but even more so in the dead of winter, when the sun barely shines. The film's price tag ballooned from $95 million to a reported $135 million. And as temperatures dropped, tempers flared, with one crew member describing it as "a living hell." It may well turn out to be a beautifully shot mess, but it could also be a masterpiece, bringing DiCaprio his first best actor Oscar. Here's the behind-the-scenes story of the 12-month saga, as told by the people who survived it. 19th-Century Boot Camp One of the first hires was Clay Landry, a historian for the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale, Wyoming, who set up a sort of 1820s finishing school for the actors in the mountains just west of Calgary, Alberta. The course work: throwing tomahawks, shooting flintlock rifles, and skinning beavers. "Alejandro said, 'I want these guys to look like they've been handling these rifles all their lives,' " says Landry. Easy, right? Not quite. A flintlock rifle is a temperamental instrument, and it won't fire unless loaded properly and primed just right. When operated correctly, the gun makes a whoosh-boom sound. If not, you look "like a clumsy fucker," says Gleeson, who plays Andrew Henry, the fur trader who founded the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Throwing tomahawks proved easier, and this brought out the competitiveness in the actors. "Leo, Dom, and the others got a little $20 bet going," says Landry. "Leo took their money." "I had a head start," DiCaprio admits. "I did a little bit of that on Gangs of New York. The key is getting the right distance from the log — it's gotta be like clockwork." Reality Bites The enormity of this challenge, and the extreme conditions, set in almost immediately. Poulter, the greenhorn on set, recalls the first day: "I was like, 'This is about as cold as it gets, right?' and the lady who picked me up from the airport kind of laughed. She said, 'Baby, you have no idea.' ?" The cast and crew were installed at the Sheraton Eau Claire in Calgary, a two-hour drive from the set on unpaved mountain roads. Production designer Jack Fisk, who'd worked on epics like There Will Be Blood, remembers one of his first meetings with Iñárritu. "From the beginning Alejandro wanted the locations to be kind of wild and scary," he says. "At one of the production meetings he said, 'It's the story of spiritual enlightenment through spiritual suffering,' so I knew we were in trouble." A standard Hollywood craft-services table was set up inside metal cages so bears wouldn't steal off with the food. Says Poulter: "A lot of us had roles that required us to be on weight-loss diets, so food wasn't of particular interest anyway." Shooting chronologically with natural light posed significant challenges almost no major film production has to endure. The actors would travel to set, rehearse, wait for the perfect light — and then pounce. If they didn't get a shot, the footage often had to be scrapped. "The sun hits only where you need it to be for about 20 minutes a day," says Gleeson. "If you don't get the shot during that 20 minutes, then you're back the next day. We had one absolutely nutty scene that involved running in and out of water and getting onto a boat, and a lot of guys on horses coming toward us, and arrows and guns going off. That was all in one shot. Your nerves are absolutely shredded," he says. Cinematographer Lubezki, who won Oscars for Birdman and Gravity, calls The Revenant "the most complicated movie I've ever done." Iñárritu defends his methods. "I wanted to show how those guys lived, what they went through," he says. "It's 1823! Wild conditions, eating animals, wearing animals. There was no fucking GPS. People got lost. They didn't know what was there. How can I get audiences to experience that?" How? By immersing his actors in the wild and letting the camera roll. "It was the only way that we could have nailed what the script really demands," says Iñárritu. "We have just one moment. If we fail, we fail. It was not a choice." He laughs, adding: "Don't misunderstand me. Of course I'm crazy. But it's a condition to be crazy." Ice Chunks and Blue Lips The first snowfall came on September 3 and there was a monster snowfall on November 28, before a pivotal scene in which the actors cross a river while under attack from Native Americans. "Everybody was freezing," says production designer Fisk. "Parts of the river were freezing over as we were shooting, and suddenly big chunks of ice were coming up over the set." It was –30 degrees. DiCaprio was forced to get in and out of the river repeatedly, all while draped in a bearskin coat. "It absorbed about 50 pounds of water, and then it immediately froze," says DiCaprio. "Every day was a battle for myself and a lot of other people not to get hypothermia." Iñárritu admits that it got too risky at one point. "The producers wanted to evacuate us, the actors couldn't move their lips, and I was pretending everything was all right," he says. But in a way this was the very experience Iñárritu was craving when he signed on five years earlier. "When you think about it, we have become such pussies," he says. "We are complaining because we don't have WiFi in a plane 10,000 feet from the ground. Or the coffee is cold. These guys, they found a way of living with tough conditions. Hugh Glass, surviving 200 miles after a bear attack — people can feel it's a fantasy, but it's a real thing." Says DiCaprio: "We were supposed to do a scene with my son as he's praying for me. And it hit 40 below zero. At that point we couldn't really open our eyes. And our fingers locked together and the camera gear locked together, and I just looked at Alejandro and said, 'I'm all for enduring realism, but there comes a point when nothing is operable.' " The production was forced to break on November 29, and cameras wouldn't roll again until January 19. Everything Goes South When the cast returned to Calgary in late January, Mother Nature bitch-slapped them again. Now that they actually needed the snow for their scenes, it had all but melted. "The natives were stunned," Iñárritu says. "It was one of the hottest winters registered in Canada's history." The production team brought in machines to make snow, but it was too warm even for that. A decision was made: The entire production would move to the Southern Hemisphere to chase the snow. "Our needs were pretty specific, and they sent scouts around the world," says Fisk, the production designer. "They narrowed it down to, like, three places, and the one in Argentina worked out." Having to move stung, Iñárritu says, because "nature is really a character that represents Glass's state of mind. But as Kubrick used to say, 'To make a film like this is like trying to write a poem in a roller coaster.' " Tempers Flare Iñárritu's actors universally praise him and basically walk to the ends of the earth for his films. But he's also known to have a temper. Reports from the set were troubling. Word leaked that during one scene a 22-year-old actor had been dragged naked through mud. Equipment broke. A veteran producer was allegedly barred from the set after Iñárritu was mistakenly taken by helicopter deep into the woods, only to find the sunlight was wrong and a shoot day was lost. Iñárritu later told The Hollywood Reporter of the dismissal: "If I identify a violin that is out of tune, I have to take it from the orchestra." "I knew that he would get frustrated," says Fisk of Iñárritu. "The clock was ticking, and the pressure was so high." Iñárritu's quest for verisimilitude was more than just typical Hollywood posturing, and the actors went all in on his vision. "Leo amazed me," Fisk says. "He's vegetarian, but he was supposed to be sharing this dead buffalo with a Native American. We made him a fake liver, and people didn't think it looked real. They had the prop man bring in a real cow's liver to show him the difference. And Leo said, 'Well, let's just use this one.' " "The gelatin one didn't look right to me," says DiCaprio. "It wasn't bleeding the right way when I was biting into it." He laughs, adding: "He threw me the real one, and you'll see my reaction in the film; Alejandro kept it in." The Reckoning Looking back on the 12-month shoot, the cast said the toughest scenes weren't the ones they'd expected. It wasn't the scene where a mule needed to get on a boat. (The production team looked at 44 head to find four animals that would walk a plank on command.) Nor was it the scene with a hundred extras charging through a river and shooting arrows at a boat. Says Iñárritu: "Sometimes an intimate dialogue, or to capture true emotion between two guys in hard conditions, can be even harder if your mouth is trembling because it's cold or your eyes are closing." Lubezki shot the movie with wide-angle lenses, and for the profile shots he often came within inches of DiCaprio's face, including one emotional scene with DiCaprio and his son. "The camera starts to move in gently as he is going through all these feelings," says Lubezki. "And the camera probably ends at half an inch from his face, and he's breathing and the lens starts to get foggy, and you feel it's almost like Glass's last breath. These are the moments you cannot light. These are the moments you cannot rehearse." When it was all over, DiCaprio says, he felt incredible relief. "I had to let this story and this adventure take me where they needed to go," he says. "I'm not complaining about the difficulty of it, but it took us all somewhere that we never imagined." As for what drove Iñárritu to dedicate five years of his life to Glass's story, he says: "For me, it's a survival adventure story." It's also, he says, a metaphor. It's a love story between a father and his son. It's a story about the roots of capitalism and a need to understand our environmental footprint. And of his actors, of this experience he guided them through, Iñárritu says, "I found so much love in pain, so much beauty in their grief." The way he says it, it almost sounds like an acceptance speech.
December 11, 20159 yr Jade Tks for all the new Leo/Revenant related news/pix, vids ; wow you are really spoiling us
December 11, 20159 yr Also box office wise , Tarantino's Hateful 8 will now go wide on Jan 1st and not against Revenant on Jan 8th Quote TheWrapVerified account @TheWrap 8m8 minutes ago 'The Hateful Eight' Wide Release Moves Up a Week to New Year's Day http://goo.gl/PfivJN Adorable Fash Tks for Leo/concert pix
December 11, 20159 yr 15 hours ago, Jade Bahr said: Aaaaaaaaaaaand another nomination for Leo!!! "The Revenant" is also nominated for BEST FILM and BEST DIRECTOR Detroit Film Critics Awards 2015 BEST ACTOR Christopher Abbott, James White Michael Caine, YouthLeonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs Tom Hardy, Legend complete list: http://detroitfilmcritics.com/the-2015-detroit-film-critics-society-awards-nominations/ Yay!!! I'm so excited that my hometown is showing some love to Leo!! Can't wait to hear if he wins on Monday!!!
December 12, 20159 yr Seems like even Leo is a big Weeknd fan (If you ever get the chance to see him in concert do it soooooooooooooooo good ) On 12/10/2015 at 0:42 PM, mz_linz said: The Critics Choice Awards are announced December 14th! Can he go three for three?! Thanks for the info
December 12, 20159 yr Don't think this was posted yet. Leo's full speech at the COP 21 Event in Paris:
December 12, 20159 yr Apparently this is the list for the San Francisco critics nominations, saw it on IMDB. Paul Dano in for Best Actor and supporting. That's weird. Not that these critics awards necessarily determines who wins the major awards because last year Michael Keaton won most of the critics awards and he lost the Oscar to Eddie Redmayne. But good to know when Leo gets nominated it's obviously still a great accomplishment , actually I still like knowing if Leo doesn't get nominated for something too BEST ACTOR Bryan Cranston – TRUMBO Paul Dano – LOVE AND MERCY Leonardo DiCaprio – THE REVENANT Michael Fassbender– STEVE JOBS Ian McKellan – MR. HOLMES BEST ACTRESS Cate Blanchett – CAROL Brie Larson– ROOM Rooney Mara – CAROL Charlotte Rampling– 45 YEARS Saorise Ronan– BROOKLYN BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Paul Dano – LOVE AND MERCY Benicio Del Toro– SICARIO Mark Rylance– BRIDGE OF SPIES Michael Shannon – 99 HOMES Sylvester Stallone – CREED BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Elizabeth Banks – LOVE AND MERCY Helen Mirren – TRUMBO Mya Taylor – TANGERINE Alicia Vikander – THE DANISH GIRL Alicia Vikander – EX MACHINA BEST SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL EX-MACHINA, Alex Garland LOVE AND MERCY, Michael Alan Lerner; Oren Moverman SICARIO, Taylor Sheridan SPOTLIGHT, Tom McCarthy; Josh SInger TANGERINE, Sean Baker; Chris Bercoch BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED CAROL, Phyllis Nagy BROOKLYN, Nick Hornby DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, Marielle Heller 45 YEARS, Andrew Haigh THE MARTIAN, Drew Goddard ROOM, Emma Donahue BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY THE ASSASSIN, Ping Bing Lee CAROL, Edward Lachmann MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, John Seale THE REVENANT, Emmanuel Lubezski SICARIO, Roger Deakins PRODUCTION DESIGN BRIDGE OF SPIES, Adam Stockhausen; Rena DeAngelo; Bernard Henrich BROOKLYN, Francois Seguin; Suzanne Cloutier CAROL, Judy Becker; Heather Loeffler MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, Colin Gibson; Katie Sherrock; Lisa Thompson THE REVENANT, Jack Fisk; Hamish Purdy FILM EDITING THE BIG SHORT, Hank Corwin LOVE AND MERCY, Dino Jonsater MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, Jason Ballantine; Margaret Sixel THE REVENANT, Stephen Mirrione SICARIO, Joe Walker BEST ANIMATED FEATURE ANOMALISA BOY AND THE WORLD INSIDE OUT THE PEANUTS MOVIE SHAUN THE SHEEP BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE THE ASSASSIN GOODNIGHT MOMMY SON OF SAUL A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON ITS EXISTENCE TIMBUKTU BEST DOCUMENTARY AMY BEST OF ENEMIES LISTEN TO ME MARLON THE LOOK OF SILENCE MERU BEST DIRECTOR John Crowley, BROOKLYN Todd Haynes, CAROL Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, THE REVENANT Tom McCarthy, SPOTLIGHT George Miller, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD BEST PICTURE BROOKLYN CAROL LOVE AND MERCY MAD MAX: FURY ROAD SPOTLIGHT
December 12, 20159 yr Next nomination for Leo, omg!!! I'm so excited right now 2015 San Diego Film Critics Award Nominations Best Actor, MaleLeonardo DiCaprio, THE REVENANT Jason Segel, THE END OF THE TOUR Matt Damon, THE MARTIAN Bryan Cranston, TRUMBO Jacob Tremblay, ROOM "The Revenant" is also nominated for Best Director, Best Editing and Best Cinematography Full list
December 12, 20159 yr Great article Quote Golden Globes 2016: Leonardo DiCaprio's long wait in the loser's circle may finally be at an end Awards nominations are a regular occurrence for Leonardo DiCaprio, who turns up on prestigious seasonal film lists as often as a hunter returns to the woods. On Thursday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. honored DiCaprio with a Golden Globe actor — drama nomination for his role as a wounded fur trapper in "The Revenant," set and shot largely in the forbidding cold of western Canada. It is the 15th time DiCaprio has been nominated for an acting Globe or Oscar. This time, though, things are shaping up in some unfamiliar ways. "Any time you're recognized it feels good, but especially for a film like this, which has been a different experience," DiCaprio said in an interview shortly after the nomination. "I've made no qualms about saying that making this movie is the hardest thing I've ever had to endure." That may not be the only reason this go-'round is different. Though DiCaprio has won an acting Globe in two out of the 10 instances he's previously been nominated, he has never won an Oscar — not in his four times as an actor nor his one time as a producer. The 41-year-old has been riding an Academy Award cold streak dating back more than two decades; his first nomination, for "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?," came in 1994. To top it off, DiCaprio is associated with one of the famous Oscar snubs of all time — his turn as Jack Dawson in "Titanic" was left off the actor shortlist in 1998. Yet this could be the year all of that changes. As SAG Awards and Golden Globes pundits focused the last few days on Matt Damon (in for Globes, out for SAG), Mark Ruffalo (in for Globes, but for a different movie than his acclaimed "Spotlight") and Bryan Cranston (surprisingly in with both groups), DiCaprio has been quietly chugging along. He too was nominated for both a Globe and SAG award. And he's emerged as the odds-on favorite to win those prizes, as well as an Oscar for his work in "The Revenant." In the visceral Alejandro G. Iñárritu film, DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a man on the early 19th century American frontier who after a bear attack is left for dead and must find his way to his camp, where he also has unfinished mortal business with a brash fellow trapper named Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). Fighting for survival and bent on revenge, Glass has a desperation of purpose, and DiCaprio lends the role a primal force. Those involved with the film describe how the actor would, in subzero temperatures and buried under clothes and beard, act for hours even while nearly motionless and speechless on the ground. "There was something profound about what he was doing, even lying there still, acting with his eyes and being in sync with the camera at all times," Iñárritu said in an interview. Awards voters tend to like when charming and gregarious actors take on roles in which speech is a challenge. The trend that has been borne out numerous times in recent years, with winners such as Jean Dujardin in "The Artist," Colin Firth in "The King's Speech" and Eddie Redmayne in "The Theory of Everything." Glass is (after Dujardin's turn) the ultimate silent role. "I tried to take as much dialogue out and strip it down to the basics," DiCaprio said. "For me, the challenge of the movie was, 'How do you connect to the audience and bring them on a journey with very little words?' " Voters also tend to take in an entertainer's entire resume, especially when they've been around a long time without winning a statuette. DiCaprio's frequent collaborator, Martin Scorsese, won his first Oscar for "The Departed" in 2007, 40 years after he began making films. The prize was as seen as much as a career coda as a specific homage. A long line of actors also falls into this category. Jeff Bridges had, like DiCaprio, struck out four times at the Oscars before winning on his fifth try for "Crazy Heart" in 2010. Al Pacino won an Oscar in 1993 for "Scent of a Woman" after 20 years of nominations and frustrations — about the same length as DiCaprio's losing streak. DiCaprio's dry spell may be in part the result of the choices he's made. The actor has had an anomalous career in modern Hollywood, eschewing the kind of painstaking Method work that often wins Oscars (Daniel Day-Lewis, e.g.) or the swings from big commercial films to small upscale drama that tends to catch voters' attention. Instead, DiCaprio has combined the two into a kind of unlikely hybrid — the big upscale commercial drama, you might call it. His last four movies had him playing J. Edgar Hoover ("J. Edgar"), a plantation-owning villain in a Quentin Tarantino movie ("Django Unchained"), Jay Gatsby ("The Great Gatsby") and the rogue trader Jordan Belfort ("The Wolf of Wall Street," which was the most comedic of the group and notched him a Golden Globe two years ago). And while he pops up in the tabloids due to his high-profile dating exploits and is known for his environmental activism), DiCaprio doesn't actively seeks the limelight, makes occasional but not entirely persuasive stops on the late-night circuit and doesn't serve as Hollywood's unofficial diplomat — in contrast to, say, someone like George Clooney, who, coincidentally or not, has two Academy Award statuettes on his mantel. DiCaprio's lack of Oscars has now become a fascination in its own right, the stuff of quasi-serious social-media campaign and blog posts with titles like "Why does the academy hate Leo DiCaprio?" The actor affects a Zen pose about his long wanderings in the Oscar desert. "The truth is with many of these awards it's beyond your control," DiCaprio said in the interview. That may be true, but on Thursday he began to look like he had matters well in hand. Source God, he's the most expressive actor!!! Source tagged
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