Leonardo DiCaprio: With The Revenant should finally be inside Oscar – STERN

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar-Pech is already a celebrity in itself. With their own fan fiction: In “A Hell of a Time” the Hollywood star sold his soul to finally come to the Academy Award. This year, however, it would have at the Oscars actually go with the devil when DiCaprio would not honored as best actor. If his “The Revenant – The returnees’ tour de force not deserve the highest cinema Would – what then?

But probably DiCaprio has already adopted the concept of anticipation. Who can blame him, the frustration last long: in 1999 he lost with “Gilbert Grape” against Tommy Lee Jones’ “The Fugitive”. 2005 Jamie Foxx sat as “Ray” by against his “Aviator”. 2007 snatched Forest Whitaker as “Last King of Scotland” the golden boy for “Blood Diamond” away. 2014 was his “Wolf of Wall Street” the rickety Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyers Club” before.

Here, DiCaprio has after the supposed sins of youth “William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet” and “Titantic” almost exclusively delivered Oscar material: He was mad (“The Aviator”, “Shutter Iceland”), he was charming (“Catch Me If You Can”), he was desperate (“Gangs of New York”, “The Departed” ), he was radiantly beautiful (“The Great Gatsby”), he was nasty (“J. Edgar”, “Django Unchained”). Now he has been subjected to the last, the toughest Oscar-law of all that already McConaughey, Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman has helped the jackpot: the courage to ugliness. As regards, the chances are better than ever.

Chewed, rotten, buried

DiCaprio plays the trapper Hugh Glass, the North American in the Wilderness is tormented by all that humanity and nature give so early 19th century: It is chewed by a bear, buried alive by their comrades, he crawls his way through his own blood back to life, threatens to rot alive and crawling on end so as not to freeze to death in the entrails of a dead horse. Will say: So ugly and dirty DiCaprio has never been. Is that enough love Academy

But yes, also has the whole package: “The Revenant” is the work of Alejandro González Iñárritu (“Amores Perros,” “Babel”). The Mexican is one of Hollywood’s most awesome-crazy directors and has cleared over the past year with “Birdman” four Oscars. “The Revenant” makes again a whole different barrel on what history and images, but also what costs and requirements to address to everyone involved: Dream Match beautiful nature scenes that make even envious a Terrence Malick, alternate with epic violence à la Werner . Duke

The hardest part of all for DiCaprio

This Hugh Glass has actually given – when less is known beyond his actual fate as the film tells. It was really shot in the wild, DiCaprio had really constantly jumping into ice water, he has really bitten into the Bison liver, and allegedly nested in his beard at the end flying. Kirre legends belong to films like this, of course, do so, and of course says DiCaprio, that this really was the hardest of all roles. Well, that the rotation it had in itself, it can be assumed. Supposedly it was the “hell on earth”, as the “Hollywood Reporter” reported.

Love Academy, Eddie Redmayne has the Oscar already, Michael Fassbender may get next year it also, and Matt Damon’s “Martians” is not really competitive. If DiCaprio would finally win, we would also like the cool blondes-Verschleißer really is: Will his acceptance speech rather “James Cameron”: “I am the king of the world” or rather “Benicio del Toro”: “I have won and can now scream and jump around a bit, but tomorrow I go back to work..” Deliver us, Oscar jury.