Why leonardo dicaprio never wins oscars

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Recommended Stories. In The Know by Yahoo. The Daily Beast. The Oklahoman. Yahoo Life. Playing Hoover, the real-life bad guy protagonist in a sweeping story of the titular F. Hardly; he seemed to have stopped worrying about it, choosing instead to go for broke in increasingly more ambitious roles and let the chips fall where they may.

One movie saw him throwing Easter-candy-colored shirts off a posh dressing room balcony while the other saw him crawling like a glitching, six-foot baby robot to his Lamborghini. You already know which one earned him a nomination.

This was DiCaprio simply swinging for the fences, with the kind of dedication he showed way back when with Gilbert Grape. The better, bolder performance—as DiCaprio may very well have expected—proved too much for the Academy to handle.

Which leads us to this latest Oscar season and the latest and best chance for DiCaprio to go home with a naked statuette. His turn as a frontiersman left for dead and beat up by a grizzly bear is another all-in performance for an actor who seems to collect once-in-a-lifetime experiences even more than he does trophies. The Revenant is also a technical marvel from an Oscar-winning director that dominates the field with 12 nominations.

He fought a bear! Related: Oscar odds: Favorites and longshots for Hollywood's big night. Actors like Harrison Ford, Samuel L. In fact, O' Toole, who starred in the classic "Lawrence of Arabia," went 0 for 8 over his career. O'Toole was later given an honorary Oscar at the end of his career.

Despite DiCaprio's accomplishments, the Oscar will always be an important point of pride in the industry and for an actor's career. If DiCaprio finally wins an Oscar on Sunday, the award would be more of an affirmation of an illustrious career rather than a defining moment.

Related: Here are 8 golden facts about this year's Oscar nominations.