DiCaprio's un-bear-able performance in The Revenant should not win award

Rating: 8/10 (10 October 2016)

Forty actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards. Only six of them have received three or more, with Katharine Hepburn, the recipient of four best actress Oscars, top of the table. Walter Andrew Brennan was the first to receive three or more Academy Awards in 1940. He was followed by Hepburn in 1969, Ingrid Bergman in 1974, Jack Nicholson in 1997, Meryl Streep in 2011, and by Daniel Day-Lewis four years ago. An all-time cinematographic injustice was resolved in 2016, when we could finally listen "and the Oscar goes toLeonardo DiCaprio" for the first time. It is just a shame that it is not for his best performance in a movie.
The American actor and producer Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio, was once nominated for Best Picture (as a producer) for "The Wolf of Wall Street" and for his acting roles in five occasions. But the Academy Awards gave him the 24-carat-gold little statuette for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role because of all his attempts rather than his quality of acting. Can someone kindly explain what kind of acting this role involved? His character barely speaks Pawnee and Arikara languages in the movie, spending the whole 156 minutes crawling, falling over a cliff, yelling, sleeping, pillaging, riding a horse, making fire, being carried around picturesque landscapes and being attacked by a bear. This is not the way to win an Oscar just because one has never won it before. People who support him for this movie's roles should look up into perspective because they are wrong and they do not have the ability for sharp critics. Smart movie connoisseurs would prefer to give the Oscar to the fake bear rather than to the Titanic star who is a complete passenger in this film. It does not matter how tough the production or shooting schedule was. An Oscar should not be given via attrition of recent years, nor because he has been overlooked for past performances. If there were awards given out for going through the most hardship while making a movie, surely DiCaprio would be the winner. Though he sleeps in a dead horse and grows a beard in The Revenant, cinema-goers cannot really believe in Hugh Glass, the main character he tries to portray. Leo was better in Shutter Island, Catch me if you can or Django Unchained for example – they all showed the best of Leo.
DiCaprio(named Leo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in an Italian museum when he first kicked) was handpicked by Robert De Niro from 400 young actors for his breakthrough role in "This Boy's Life" (1993). One year later, at the age of 20, he was first nominated for an Oscar for his first best supporting actor role for "What's eating Gilbert Grape" (1994). He was nominated again for The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2007) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2014), but failed to secure the coveted golden statue. What is more, last year everyone thought that the 41-year-old star was going to win the Oscar when Matthew McConaughey took home the Best Actor award for his appearance in "Dallas Buyers Club".
Although many actors' dreams will come true this year when they get their own Oscar Academy Award, there is a sizeable list of actors and actresses, who have never won an Oscar for best Actor or Actress prize. An analysis by FiveThirtyEight, a website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, looked at the 2016's Oscars Predictions and applied its mathematical models to produce internal predictions, guessing four out of six categories correctly. The website also compiled a list of contemporary actors who have been nominated for more than three times for acting awards and had never won, and rated them in terms of who deserved to win the most for the first time. They found that Matt Damon (nominated this year for "The Martian") is the actor who most deserves to win whereas Leo was twenty-second on the list. But is it the fact of winning an Oscar always the best thing for an actor's career and creativity? Maybe not winning might spur actors on to greater work. For example, Paul Newman won his Oscar at the age of 62 on his eighth go. Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar over a whole career of sparkling masterpieces. Peter O'Toole was nominated eight times and only ever picked up an honorary award
For the time being, DiCaprio has been delivering astonishing performances for over 20 years without having won an Oscar. There is no sign that he plans on stopping soon. If cinema-goers have deduced something from Kate Winslet and Julianne Moore's recent Oscar wins, it is that sometimes it just takes multiple nominations before you get the gold. Nonetheless, Leonardo DiCaprio should not be remembered as Oscar winner because of this movie. It does not represent his real acting potential as a leading man and it will not be as memorable as it was going to be if he was given the Oscar for one of his previous nominations. In fact, the lack of an Oscar could push him to take on more challenging roles and never ever seen projects.