I hope this is not a repost, but slowly I got a bit lost with all this nominations for Leo (in a very positive way, of course). He's nominated for Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award 2016 - See full list here

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2016 Oscar Predictions: Best Actor

 

Leonardo DiCaprio — who has been waiting for an Oscar since way back in 1993 when he was first nominated for "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" — sure looks like he's giving it everything he's got this time around. His performance in "The Revenant" has finally been screened and it seems like everything is in place for him to finally win. Especially considering his competition has largely

As for the other nominees? Michael Fassbender and Eddie Redmayne are pretty locked in for "Steve Jobs" and "The Danish Girl," respectively. But then it's a battle. Bryan Cranston received the holy precursor nomination trinity of Critics Choice, SAG and Golden Globe for "Trumbo" (as did Fassbender and Redmayne for their roles), but he still feels like could miss out thanks to Matt Damon ("The Martian"), Johnny Depp ("Black Mass") and/or Will Smith ("Concussion"). Damon and was snubbed at the SAGs, while Depp was snubbed at the Globes and Smith lost out with both SAG and the Critics Choice. But we'd wager two of them get Oscar nominations anyway, leaving Cranston out. It doesn't matter, though: This is DiCaprio's to lose.

Best Actor predictions below. Check out predictions in other categories here.

 

The Predicted Five:
1. Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant"
2. Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs"
3. Eddie Redmayne, "The Danish Girl"
4. Matt Damon, "The Martian"
5. Johnny Depp, "Black Mass"

 

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12 hours ago, oxford25 said:

London Film Critic Circle Nominations

 

 

Best Actor =Leo

 

 

Who else was nominated with him? I like to pick up trends on who else gets frequently nominated. It usually changes each time, but most often Fassbender tends to be with him.

 

 

Nevermind I went looking for it.

 

Actor of the year
Tom Courtenay - 45 Years
Paul Dano - Love & Mercy
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
Tom Hardy - Legend

 

 

 

I hope Dano doesn't go in lead at the Oscars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello ! I don't know if these were poster, but...  

 

 

 

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Leonardo DiCaprio went to such great lengths as a method actor on “The Revenant” that he devoured a raw slab of bison’s liver. Although the props department had constructed a faux liver from jelly, DiCaprio worried that it didn’t look right. And so — after calls to his lawyer and agents cleared — producers were able to serve him the real thing. “The bad part is the membrane around it,” DiCaprio says. “It’s like a balloon. When you bite into it, it bursts in your mouth.

Director Alejandro G. Inarritu says he was initially concerned that his leading man could get sick from eating a potentially disease-ridden organ. But, he now beams at what the real liver added to DiCaprio’s performance. “Without it, he may not have gotten to the truth,” Inarritu says.

In preparing to portray Hugh Glass, a real-life 19th century explorer who survives a brutal bear mauling in order to avenge the death of his son, DiCaprio also had to learn how to shoot a musket, build a fire, speak two Native American languages (Pawnee and Arikara) and study with a doctor who specializes in ancient healing techniques. He calls it the hardest performance of his career.

“It was like the real wild, wild West in the sense that there were all these cultures merging together in this lawless land,” says the 41-year-old actor.

The same could be said for the grueling production of “The Revenant” which was plagued by severe weather, runaway costs, on-set quarrels, staff defections from the large crew, and other problems reminiscent of DiCaprio’s troubled shoot aboard 1997’s “Titanic.” The actors entered into a real-life frozen jungle during a seven-month shoot in Alberta, Canada, using natural light (shot by cinematographer Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki) and fending off frostbite in temperatures that plunged to 40 degrees below zero. If that wasn’t grueling enough, a lack of snow near the end of the shoot forced the production to shut down last spring, and add six days in July — mid-winter — in Argentina, which tacked millions to the already inflated budget, while Inarritu had to cobble together an edit without an ending.

“I just want to set the record straight,” DiCaprio says over several glasses of wine during a 75-minute interview at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons, with Inarritu by his side. “There’s been a lot said about the movie and the difficulties making it, and how meticulous Alejandro is with his vision. But to me, that’s the shit that should be praised. I don’t want to work with somebody who isn’t thinking of every possible aspect of what’s up on the screen. I think there’s a hunger for audiences to see something completely extreme and difficult.”

So hope the film’s backers, New Regency, Brett Ratner’s RatPac and Twentieth Century Fox. The team is banking on the $135 million epic tale — which debuts in limited release on Christmas Day and opens wide Jan. 8 — becoming a commercial success as well as a major awards contender that could land DiCaprio, a four-time Academy Awards-nominee, his first Oscar.

Hollywood has a tradition of movies that bring crews to their breaking point — one that harks back to films like David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia” and Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.” Sometimes the films that result are masterpieces; other times, studios are left with the next “Heaven’s Gate,” which ran United Artists into the ground. Today’s film business is dominated by blockbuster comic-book franchises like “The Avengers” and literary phenoms such as “The Hunger Games.” It can be punishing to big-budget period pieces that fail to attract wide audiences (think Ridley Scott’s “Exodus”). “The Revenant” is a big gamble.

“It’s hard to say what will happen, and whether the brilliance of this film will be rewarded relative to its costs,” says Sean Penn, who worked with Inarritu on “21 Grams,” and calls “The Revenant” a masterpiece. “I’d like to think we’re a culture that values its art enough to recognize we need this.”

DiCaprio is known for turning even challenging material like “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Django Unchained” into global hits. But even coming off last year’s win for “Birdman,” Inarritu, the auteur behind small dramas like “Amores Perros” and “Biutiful,” has yet to direct a picture with a worldwide box office take that exceeds the budget of “The Revenant.”

Hollywood will be watching this latest pairing closely to see if adult material can in fact thrive against the odds. In person, DiCaprio and Inarritu couldn’t be more different. The actor still projects a boyish charm, unlike the scraggly frontiersman he plays onscreen, and he’s reserved. Inarritu, on the other
hand, is a nonstop chatterbox of one-liners. He refuses a shot of tequila offered by a publicist, claiming he’s still haunted by “the ghost of my hangover” from the night before. At one point, he says he wants to talk about the art, before joking he did “The Revenant” for the paycheck. “I need my fee,” he says. “Careful,” DiCaprio warns him. “When you say something in print, sarcasm doesn’t translate.””

The most dazzling sequence in “The Revenant” is the much-hyped, terrifying bear attack, which leaves Glass on death’s door. Inarritu is reluctant to give away any behind-the-scenes secrets. “It was a very well-trained animal,” he says with a smirk. “Let people enjoy it.” The scene was shot over several days in
November last year, in a torrential rainstorm, which created added hardships, given that the fight is choreographed in one take, with rigs of makeup blood exploding over DiCaprio’s face. Inarritu had studied bear attacks on YouTube, and the special effects team had created an elaborate dance with the help of harnesses, ropes and stunt men who tackled DiCaprio as stand-ins for the beast. The bear itself is CGI. “When CGI works, in my opinion, is when it’s done in the real world,” says Ratner, adding that a computer-generated DiCaprio would have looked like a cartoon.

The lack of a cellphone signal meant that crew members had to relay messages via snowmobiles. The first few months were plagued by nonstop storms and threats of frostbite. But despite the harsh weather, DiCaprio insists he was never injured. He did, however, get sick repeatedly. “I got the flu quite a few times,” he allows. In one scene, where the other men in his troop carry him up a hill on a stretcher, Glass lets out a guttural cough. That’s not, in fact, acting, but DiCaprio spewing out phlegm. Inarritu tells a story about how, after a recent SAG screening, an actor approached him to ask: “Was that ADR?” Inarritu laughs.

The director admits he was a stickler for details. When he discovered there were no ants on the snow-trodden grounds of Calgary, he had them imported from British Columbia for a scene where they crawl over DiCaprio. “We had to fly the ants in,” Inarritu says. “Two flights, because some of them died in the first flight. They were panicked by the altitude. They fly first-class!”

He nicknamed a member of the crew “the wax lady”; she was tasked with rubbing balls of wax on the character’s costumes to create a more worn-out look. He even made sure the character’s footwear looked authentic while keeping the actors from losing their toes from the cold. “We had to build special moccasins that had protection and warmth,” Inarritu says. Adds DiCaprio: “And a grip. To give us a little traction, so we weren’t like a bunch of happy gnomes, sliding all over the ice.”

For much of “The Revenant,” DiCaprio is immobile and silent. The transformation required a Herculean effort from the makeup team, which included Sian Grigg and Duncan Jarman, who used 47 different prosthetics to cover DiCaprio with bites and wounds on his body, torso and back. “We did the neck laceration,” says Grigg, who was pushed to dial up the blood. “Alejandro wanted us to go back and make it look more grotesque.” DiCaprio would sometimes rise at 3 a.m., to sit through four or five hours of makeup, as the crew anxiously prepared for the two hours of sunlight per day with enough light to film. Further, temperatures continued to dip in Canada that winter, forcing the crew to wrap a week early before Christmas break. “We were doing makeup in hats and scarves,” Grigg says. “It was so cold in our trailer, our makeup bag froze to the floor.”

But in the spring, the cast found itself with a different problem. Warm winds had suddenly descended on the area, making the snow melt in piles, a reality that Lubezki’s lens couldn’t hide. “That’s what climate change is,” says DiCaprio, who is making a documentary on the subject. Throughout March, trucks would drive in snow, but by April — for the film’s big battle scene between DiCaprio’s Glass and his onscreen nemesis, John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy)— it became much too hard to pretend. “There was no way to do it,” says producer Steve Golin. “We had to find another option.”

That meant scouting other locations, and settling on Argentina. Inarritu estimates that 70% of the film’s overbudget costs stemmed from changing the location of the shoot, and he compares making a movie to rock climbing. “Once you start to establish the language of the film, there’s no way back,” he says. “You either go up or you die.”

While the production was shut down, Hardy had to drop out of “Suicide Squad” due to scheduling. “Was I bummed? Of course I was,” Hardy says. “I hate f—king losing work. I kept bemoaning they were losing me significant money on a daily basis. Actually, it was good for my character.”

DiCaprio returned to Los Angeles, sporting Glass’ scraggly beard. He wasn’t able to shave it off until late July, when he could finally shoot the film’s flashback scenes. “I had that beard for a year and a half,” DiCaprio says. “It becomes like a spouse. You sleep with it. It was like shaving off dreads.” Inarritu recalls hearing about a tabloid report that suggested the beard that been infested with fleas. “They are now homeless,” Inarritu jokes. “They are in Santa Monica.”

But that wasn’t the most salacious rumor associated with “The Revenant.” Of course, the Drudge Report was widely mocked for linking to a false story recently that claimed DiCaprio is raped by a bear in the film. And then there was a blind tabloid item that suggested Hardy decked his director one day over an on-set disagreement, which the actor denies. “If you hit somebody, you’d know about it,” Hardy says. “That didn’t happen.”

“The Revenant” is a throwback to a different era, when studios routinely took gambles on original stories. Today’s movie business is basically fractured into two different kinds of pictures: the under $20 million acclaimed adult drama (such as “Brooklyn,” “Carol,” “Spotlight” and “Room”), a genre that’s quickly shrinking; and blockbuster sequels (only one of the 10 top-grossing films of the year so far, “Inside Out,” is based on a new story). “The Revenant” is a box office litmus test for one of the few A-list actors who has never headlined a sequel.

“To me, every movie I’ve done has been its own piece of individual art,” DiCaprio says. “You read a script — it’s got a beginning and an end. It’s hard to envision that being resurrected again.” But despite being one of the biggest movie stars, DiCaprio reveals he’s struggled to get financing for his projects since 2006’s “Blood Diamond,” which grossed $57 million domestically. “When I did ‘The Aviator,’ that was a $100 million epic about a guy — Howard Hughes from the 1930s — consumed by germs,” he says of the 2004 Martin Scorsese drama. “I don’t think two years later, I could have made that movie for another five years. There are ebbs and flows. Now with the onset of great television, the era of poetic epics is almost nonexistent on the big screen.”

Inarritu offers that all Hollywood executives are terrified of launching a big-budget film around characters who aren’t familiar. “If it’s not based on a brand or a book that’s sold millions, it’s scary as hell,” he says. But DiCaprio thinks the movie business will get its edge back. “It might actually get better,” he suggests. “When you don’t rely on studio systems, there are the subscriber-based networks like Netflix or Amazon.” He’s not sure if the typical model of windows — which keeps movies playing in theaters for 90 days — will continue to thrive. “Who knows what the hell the future of theatrical releases will be?” he says. “But right now, certainly a film like this is a rarity.”

And while “The Revenant” may have pushed DiCaprio to his limits in more ways than one, Inarritu teases it could also bring the star another first in his life. “We’re planning ‘The Revenant 2,’ ” he deadpans, as DiCaprio rolls his eyes. “It would be funny. Pre-production starts next week.”

 

 

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/the-revenant-leonardo-dicaprio-alejandro-g-inarritu-bear-oscars-1201661500/

Thanks Makeitcount for the new Variety pic.

^Thanks MakeItCount

 

Another Variety pic:

Las Vegas Film Critics Nominations

 

Leo = Best Actor

 

Also, Tom Hardy, Cinematography &  musical score got nods

 

 

 

 

Phoenix Film Critics Nominations

 

Leo = Best Actor

 

Also  film, director, Tom,  cinematography, score got nods

 

 

 

 

Sean Penn talks about the Revenant to Variety

 

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/sean-penn-the-revenant-apocalypse-now-leonardo-dicaprio-1201661851/

 

 

 

 

Chivo talks about the Revenant

 

http://www.gq.com/story/the-revenant-cinematographer-leonardo-dicaprio-famous?mbid=social_twitter

 

 

Jade

 

Tks for Vancouver Film Critic nods , as well as , Oscar article

 

 

MakeitCount

 

Tks for more Variety pix , as well as, interview with Leo & Alejandro

 

 

Kat

 

Tks for another Variety scan , yet another magazine I hope to find

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for updates.

 

 

Where is the whole Las Vegas film critics list? I don't see it on their site....

 

 

 

32 minutes ago, katchitup said:

^Thanks MakeItCount

 

Another Variety pic:

Yummy!! I can't wait to get my hands on this magazine!

On ?12?/?14?/?2015 at 11:35 AM, Jade Bahr said:

Here are the pics from the WIRED interview

 

 

Source: leosfanforum

This one either!!! Good lord he's so handsome!!!!!

 

Thanks to all for sharing the new nominations! This is such an exciting time... Can't wait to see what happens!

Thanks Ox! Leo is sweeping up those critic noms  

 

New Revenant clip  

 

 

 

 

That camera work tho  

Fash

 

Corrected post and stated these were nominations

 

If you want to see complete list of any of the critic groups , just check out any of the award blogs like Awards Daily, Awards Watch, Awards Circuit, Hitflix, etc 

 

 

Kat

 

Tks for new Revenant clip , nice to see scenes we haven't seen in previous trailers/tv spots

Award season is stressing me out more than ever this year. So I'm looking forward to possible Christmas/ New Years vacation pics.  (more so social media pics because I don't want the paps bugging him too much) I see Richie said he was going back to St Barths for New Years (which is where Leo went last year) but doesn't mean Leo is going back. Hopefully he goes with his mom. It's always cute seeing pics of him with his mom. But either way we'll be seeing lots of Leo with his mom at the award shows these next couple months and he'll probably take his dad to some of them too  

33 minutes ago, katchitup said:

 

 

 

New Revenant clip  

 

 

 

 

That camera work tho  

OMG!!!!!!!!!!CAN`T WAIT TO SEE THIS FILM 

 

THANKS A MILLION BEAUTIFUL LEO LOVERS 4 DA UPDATES 

thanks ALL for the updates. 

Since when there are so many Critics Awards? Or wasn't Leo just never nominated for all of them?

 

Thx all for the great updates

Guess Leo and tom will be interviewing together!

 

@JakesTakes: I just found out that I'll be interviewing Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy TOGETHER - 1 room! - for @RevenantMovie! https://t.co/t1qgU0hzsJ

edit, asked question in PM instead.

 

 

Thanks for the updates.

 

 

 

 

 

Leo is nominated for 2015 Austin Film Critics Award - and no Paul Dano this time. Winners will announce Dec 29th

 

Best Actor
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Michael B. Jordan, Creed
Jacob Tremblay, Room

 

Full list

Weren't they supposed to be announcing a winner for one of the nominations today.... I swear there was atleast one supposed to be announced today. 

Old pic or did Leo grow out his beard for the premiere?