Leonardo DiCaprio - (Please Read First Post Prior to Posting)

[BarbieErin]

Yeah!!!      

[Leo lover]

Congratssssssss

Thanks Oxford for the great news 

[oxford25]

Love their choice of Once scene to celebrate their GG nods  

 

Also I have to laugh at the articles that state Marriage Story "dominates" the GG ,  they rec'd only ONE more than  Once because they were nominated for original movie score  by Randy Newman which Once would not have been eligible  for .

 

In  the main categories = movie, directing, actor nods ,  and screenplay they both rc'd 5   

 

 

 

[SexyLeo91]

This is really cool! I'm proud of the nominees and the film 😁! Thanks to everyone who posted this great news! I gotta catch up 

[BarbieErin]

Mike Moh's (aka Bruce Lee) Wife posted this pic with Leo. 

 

 

 

[BarbieErin]

SAG conversations, full video. 

 

 

[BarbieErin]

Leonardo DiCaprio received his 12th Golden Globes nomination on Monday when he was nommed for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

 

 

“I am humbled to be in the company of the other honorees,” DiCaprio said in a statement today. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a celebration of cinema, a film that would not exist without the vision of Quentin Tarantino. It is a love letter to the city of Los Angeles and the people who make this industry so incredibly special. A heartfelt thanks to the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for this recognition.”

 

 

https://deadline.com/2019/12/leonardo-dicaprio-golden-globe-nomination-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-reaction-1202804779/

 

 

 

[oxford25]

The NY Times  film critics recently chose their top ten performances of the year 

 

Both Leo and Brad were among the ten , and  the ten actors posed for photogrqapher Jack Davison.   

 

The article includes , at least to me, a really weird photo of Leo 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/09/magazine/best-actors.html

 

 

Do you consider Leonardo DiCaprio funny? Like, on purpose? Well, please do! Some of his best moments are the riotous ones. Once, in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” as the wolf, he downed some quaaludes and rolled down the steps of a country club like a sack of apples in a stop-motion dream. Another time, he was one of those genteel antebellum racists — Calvin Candie in “Django Unchained” — whom he inflated with a lot of “I do de-clahr!” effrontery. (With all due respect to Django, DiCaprio was unchained.) Rick Dalton is the latest and most embarrassed enrollee in DiCaprio’s Comedy Club.

 

 

Rick is an actor whose star, in 1969, has grown dingy. And in “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” DiCaprio has a ball recreating Rick’s TV-Western mulch and B-movie schlock. He gives the gunslinging every ounce of deadpan machismo he can summon and becomes exactly the flamethrowing maniac you need for an action pageant called “Fourteen Fists of McCluskey.” DiCaprio has to hold on to the movie’s satirical showbiz insanity as well as Rick’s alcoholism, square bravado, insecurity, faded stardom and private misery.

 

None of that is funny, per se, except that DiCaprio wills it to be so, not simply in the furious mock-Hollywood bits but in a long, gorgeous passage right in the middle of the movie, on the set of a western series. Rick has taken a gig as a villain (another one), and before the cameras roll, he finds himself chatting with a young co-star who tells him he’s the best actor she’s ever worked with. In between, Rick flubs a line and, in costume and in his trailer, proceeds to berate himself for being an undisciplined hack. It’s as divine as any of DiCaprio’s great eruptions, at once a joke on acting and perhaps a window into the soul of a star — Jack Lord devastated that he’ll never be Jack Lemmon. I’m with the kid. Sort of. Rick is one of the most mediocre actors I’ve ever seen. But it takes a real maestro to summon all that talentlessness and keep knocking you out of your chair. — Wesley Morris

 

 

 

[oxford25]

Barbie

 

Tks for  pix ,  article , and SAG video  

[oxford25]

Some great  candids of Leo at San Diego Zoo back in 1996

 

 

[BarbieErin]

Oh yeah, both pics are weird... but I guess that was the purpose of it? Anyway, I will read the article later. 

 

Thanks ox. 

 

 

[oxford25]

This lucky person just met Leo  

 

 

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Just met

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at one of my jobs, no biggie just hella starstruck

 

 

 

 

Barbie

 

Regarding the NY times pix with one of Leo's half clear and the other half out of focus , I wondered if the photographer was going for some type of symbolism that there  is Leo the 'actor' who we the public 'can see' , and then Leo' the man who' who remains invisible to us ,  even though we 'think' we are seeing Leo the man when we see him in public / in various roles 

 

[BarbieErin]

15 minutes ago, oxford25 said:

Barbie

 

Regarding the NY times pix with one of Leo's half clear and the other half out of focus , I wondered if the photographer was going for some type of symbolism that there  is Leo the 'actor' who we the public 'can see' , and then Leo' the man who' who remains invisible to us ,  even though we 'think' we are seeing Leo the man when we see him in public / in various roles 

 

 

Good analysis, it can be exactly that. We think we know Leo because we follow him, but the truth is we don't know much about the real Leo, his feelings, he's a mystery walking, lol.   

[SexyLeo91]

2 hours ago, BarbieErin said:

Good analysis, it can be exactly that. We think we know Leo because we follow him, but the truth is we don't know much about the real Leo, his feelings, he's a mystery walking, lol.   

 

Very much true 

 

Thanks Barbie and ox for the latest news, videos and posts! I'm reading the article and watching the SAG video soon.

[oxford25]

Congrats to Leo & Brad & Once  on their SAG nominations   

[Leo lover]

YAYYYYYYYCongratsssss

 

Thanks dear Oxford & Barbie  for the updates 

[BarbieErin]

Yeah!!!      

[oxford25]

As 2019 Draws to a Close, Does the Movie Star Still Have a Pulse?

 

 

 

 

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The movie star's in tears—literally. Leonardo DiCaprio's Rick Dalton, eyes watering and teeth clenched, can't help it.

Within the once-holy ground of Musso & Frank Grill, circa 1969, he's just been informed by an agent (Al Pacino) that the only hope of restarting his movie career lies in flying over to Italy to make Westerns. "It's official, old buddy," he laments to Brad Pitt's Cliff Booth as they head outside to their car. "I'm a has-been."

 

It's the opening scene of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino's latest film, and its opening salvo in a feature-length memorandum on movie stars, what they meant and have come to mean in hindsight, as well as what significance they're allowed today. "You're Rick fucking Dalton," Cliff says later in Once Upon a Time, talking Rick up as he heads to set. "Don't you forget it." But Rick's not the one who needs reminding. He believes his own legend. It's the town that's stopped talking.

 

Rick's insecurities are much the point of the character; in today's Hollywood, they surely landed like a thunderbolt. The mainstream movie star has faded in recent years, largely replaced as a marquee attraction by brands (Disney), franchises (Fast & Furious, Marvel), and individual genres (particularly horror). At the heart of all three are concepts, the appeal of a story (even one that's been told many times before), that outshine the actors involved.

 

For every Knives Out, a star-studded whodunnit that doubled expectations with a $42 million opening, there've been a string of seismic failures, like the Charlie's Angels reboot (which barely cracked $50 million worldwide despite the promise of seeing Kristen Stewart in her first post-Twilight Saga blockbuster role) or Motherless Brooklyn (a similar bomb that hasn't made back even half of its $26 million budget, a humiliating end result for the 20-year passion project of star/writer/director Edward Norton).

 

Earlier this fall, marquee names like Will Smith and Brad Pitt crashed and burned at the box office with ultra-expensive vehicles like Gemini Man and Ad Astra, largely built to capitalize upon their star power. Even quote-unquote safe bets, like bringing Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton back together for Terminator: Dark Fate, turned out to be anything but. Despite attempts to court audiences nostalgic for the series’ acclaimed first two entries, the new Terminator flamed out in its opening weekend, making just $29 million (less than 2014’s critically reviled Genisys) and leading Skydance to scrap plans for future sequels.

 

Ford v Ferrari, the award-tipped racing drama starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale, is only just now breaking even for 20th Century Fox, after weeks in theaters. Its $100 million price-tag (which it just made back domestically) necessitated a worldwide gross of $150 million to be considered successful. It's now at $167 million and won't get close to $200 million. Overall, the returns for Ford v Ferrari are solid, especially given that Fox is fast-disappearing into the Disney empire, but they also don't mark the kind of runaway triumph this movie might have been had it come out 

The real star power right now is freshness and originality," says box office analyst Paul Degarabedian, of Comscore. He's observed with interest the kinds of movies audiences are flocking to, and which stars have survived—and, more rarely, been born—over the past few years.

 

Increasingly, he notes, stars aren't moving tickets nearly as frequently as movies selling themselves with intriguing, innovative premises. Knives Out is a prime example; despite opening against the animated juggernaut of Frozen 2, it far exceeded expectations at the box office and did so while giving its actors, among them Daniel Craig and Jamie Lee Curtis, a chance to play against type.

 

Still, the traditional ideal of the movie star isn't completely dead. DiCaprio is one, Degarabedian's quick to point out. "To me, star power was always about the perfect combination of star, role, and movie," he says. "It's not just the star in a vacuum.

 

In that sense, DiCaprio is as much a movie tastemaker as he is a movie star. Across the past decade, the actor's made eight films, sometimes going years between projects, and his savvy in picking great roles in promising stories by talented directors (as holy a trinity as it ever was) is second-to-none. From Shutter Island and The Wolf of Wall Street, both with Martin Scorsese, to Inception, with Christopher Nolan, DiCaprio's brand is excellence, and consistency.

 

 

It really, these days, comes down to how many great roles in a row does a star pick," said Degarabedian. In Hollywood's golden days, stars like Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn were practically bulletproof, and audiences would turn out in droves to see their films—even if the last one hadn't exactly set the world on fire.

 

"That was in a world before streaming, before the fragmentation of content in a way we've never seen before," said Degarabedian. "Maybe the star will be the content again. But in your mind, who are the people who can reliably get you out to the movie theater?"  [/b]

 

DiCaprio's not the only one left, though stars like him are increasingly a rare breed. Tom Cruise has held onto his star power mostly by playing it safe, notes Degarabedian. "You put Tom Cruise in Top Gun or Mission: Impossible, and that's an unstoppable combination," he said. "But Tom Cruise has had some misses too, like The Mummy."

 

The romantic-comedy stars have either disappeared, like Julia Roberts and Katherine Heigl, or morphed into more interesting dramatic actors often on the indie circuit, like Matthew McConaughey and Emma Stone. Adam Sandler is back next month in Uncut Gems, in a role that's as rare because it's dramatic as it is because it'll play in theaters; the actor more or less bypassed the movie-theater route after becoming Netflix's resident funnyman a few years ago. Denzel Washington is largely left with action-thrillers; his brand is strong, but narrow. (Though it netted him an Oscar nomination, legal drama Roman J. Israel, Esq. didn't make back its budget.)

 

Actors like Joaquin Phoenix and Ryan Gosling, who exist in a slightly lower but still sizable second-tier of movie stars, have earned reputations for making risky, execution-dependent projects. Their triumphs, like Phoenix's Joker and Gosling's La La Land, can be sweeping, but they're not box-office guarantees, as flops like The Sisters Brothers and First Man make apparent.

 

Scarlett Johansson, though largely relegated to roles within Marvel movies, has intermittently proven a box-office draw in her own right, especially in the sci-fi thriller Lucy, which grossed 11 times its budget in 2014. Still, she's largely found in ensemble casts; Netflix doesn't release box-office grosses, but her drama Marriage Story is estimated to have netted just $1 million in four weeks, a disappointing sum even for the streaming service, which it debuted to subscribers last Friday.

 

https://fortune.com/2019/12/11/movie-stars-2019-knives-out-once-upon-a-time-hollywood/

 

 

[SexyLeo91]

Thanks ox for the article! Leo is definitely that star, and the thing is he does a lot of heavily character-driven roles, and no franchise films at that and yet he has that draw 

[oxford25]

Leo’s response to his SAG nod