Could 2016 finally be the year Leonardo DiCaprio wins that elusive Oscar?
He currently has zero wins for five nominations so we’d be tempted to go with a firm ‘no’ except that the early praise for his new film The Revenant suggests that it may be sixth time lucky for the star.
‘Oscar nominations for everyone a certainty!’ claimed producer Gregg Daniel after seeing the first screening of the drama, while filmmaker Mark Romanek simply declared that the film was ‘great’.
Cassian Elwes tweeted after the screening that he felt the ‘need to lie down’ because it was so ‘brutal’ and ‘beautiful’, and Bernie Hillier succintly wrote: ‘LEONARDO DICAPRIO WILL WIN THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR HIS PERFORMANCE IN REVENANT’.