This year welcomed Leonardo DiCaprio with a bang as he triumphed the Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Screen Actors Guild's Best Actor Category. But will he finally break the Oscar's curse this year after more than two decades of his acting career?
DiCaprio has always been the strong contender for Oscar's. He was nominated for four times by the awarding body but never had he bring home even one gold-plated statuette.
ET reported if asked if he is confident to win the award he will respond, "We'll see. That's all beyond our control at this point."
"I remember being really paranoid about ever having to go up in front of a billion people," DiCaprio recalled on. He was 19, and the movie was 1993's What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
He even was not sure he even wanted to win an Oscar the first time he was nominated.
"I didn't quite have the concept that if you ever gave a speech at the Oscars, like a billion people are watching you," he continued. "So, as soon as I heard that, I remember saying, 'I really don't want to have a speech even prepared, 'cause I don't want to go up there."
Majority of the movie experts and bloggers are confident and hopeful for DiCaprio's first ever Oscar trophy this year.
According to Brian of USA Today said, "Cases could be made for winning this category in previous years but it was never meant to be for arguably one of the best actors of his generation. Unless he gets mauled by a bear on the way to this year's ceremony, it's pretty much a lock that The Revenant star will be holding that elusive Oscar for his gritty, grimy role as frontiersman Hugh Glass".
John Boone supported his predictions in ET, "And when you look at The Revenant, the latest film for which he's nominated, it checks all the boxes. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who swept the Oscars last year with Birdman."
In the movie, DiCaprio was nearly got hypothermia because he slept in animal carcasses during the shoot and ate raw bison liver. Indeed, he called it the "most difficult" film he's ever done.
In contrast, Sun Media reporter Bruce Kirkland opined that it would be easy to argue that, despite how primal and mesmerizing DiCaprio is in the lead role of The Revenant, there are other worthy candidates as best actor.
"The truth is that we have an embarrassment of riches. Every one of Bryan Cranston for Trumbo, Matt Damon for The Martian, Michael Fassbender for Steve Jobs and Eddie Redmayne for The Danish Girl is equally proficient and exciting to watch. One interesting twist is that Damon is the only one to play a fictional character, although not all "the historical facts" are accurate in the other films," he added.
But his co-writer Sun writer Liz Braun shared if DiCaprio does not win, then there is some weird vendetta going on. His performance is worthy, the movie is great and he's long overdue, so anyone else up there clutching the Best Actor prize will know something odd happened.)
Comparing to his fellow nominees, she stated, "Outside of DiCaprio, the Best Actor category is somewhat lacklustre this year. The performances are all good, no question, but the movies - excepting The Revenant - are a bit ho-hum. The Danish Girl is all Masterpiece Theatre Important, Trumbo should have been sharper, nobody's rushing to see Steve Jobs and The Martian is just a tad too indomitable-human-spirit-y for this cynical viewer."
Since then, DiCaprio's nominations were all in the leading role: The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and now The Revenant (2015). He was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for his role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).
The 88th Academy Awards is set on February 28.
