Will it finally be Leo’s year?! Leonardo DiCaprio opened up about his Best Actor Oscar nomination for his work in The Revenant during an interview with ITV’s This Morning on Thursday, January 14.
“I do know that it’s completely beyond my control at this point. It’s interesting, because that’s not why you do the work, you know?” DiCaprio, 41, told cohosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. “You do the work because you love making movies and you want to look back and have a filmography that you’re proud of.”
“When you’re on set you have to give everything that you possibly can while you’re there, but of course being recognized by your peers and all that other stuff that happens is kind of the cherry on the cake, so to speak,” he continued. “But all the work from me has been done, I’ve done everything I could possibly do. So it’s all up to you to decide whether it’s worthy of being seen or talked about or awarded.” (The hunky star picked up a Golden Globe for his work in The Revenant on Sunday, January 10.)
If DiCaprio wins, it will be his first-ever Oscar in his 25-year career. The Revenant also leads the pack with 12 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Costume Design. DiCaprio’s costar Tom Hardy is nominated in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role category.
DiCaprio has been nominated for four other Oscars over the years, including for The Wolf of Wall Street in 2014. That year, he gracefully lost to Dallas Buyer’s Club’s Matthew McConaughey for Best Actor, and #PoorLeo trended on Twitter.
