DiCaprio at the 2016 Golden Globes. (Getty)
Inevitable is the first word that comes to mind when you describe Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar chances; deserved, a close second.
The inevitable part is easy to explain: In the run-up to Sunday’s 88th Academy Awards, DiCaprio has owned the Best Actor competition. He has won the Screen Actors Guild Award, the BAFTA, and the Golden Globe. Some risk-averse oddsmakers have set his Oscar line at 1 in 100, meaning he’s considered such a heavy favorite to claim the statuette for The Revenant that you’d have to bet $100 to earn a single buck on a DiCaprio win.
The deserved part is likewise easy to explain: Oscar voting ain’t science. It’s subjective.
“It’s an industry town. It’s so inside,” says Jim Piazza, co-author, with Gail Kinn, of The Academy Awards: The Complete History of Oscar.
Votes can be driven by factors so intensely personal that if “you give people cheap wine [at a screening or event], they’re going to retaliate,” Piazza says.
On the flip side, voters can be swept up in the romantic notion that it’s an actor’s time — that an actor “deserves” a win.
Inevitable is the first word that comes to mind when you describe Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar chances; deserved, a close second.
The inevitable part is easy to explain: In the run-up to Sunday’s 88th Academy Awards, DiCaprio has owned the Best Actor competition. He has won the Screen Actors Guild Award, the BAFTA, and the Golden Globe. Some risk-averse oddsmakers have set his Oscar line at 1 in 100, meaning he’s considered such a heavy favorite to claim the statuette for The Revenant that you’d have to bet $100 to earn a single buck on a DiCaprio win.
The deserved part is likewise easy to explain: Oscar voting ain’t science. It’s subjective.
“It’s an industry town. It’s so inside,” says Jim Piazza, co-author, with Gail Kinn, of The Academy Awards: The Complete History of Oscar.
Votes can be driven by factors so intensely personal that if “you give people cheap wine [at a screening or event], they’re going to retaliate,” Piazza says.
On the flip side, voters can be swept up in the romantic notion that it’s an actor’s time — that an actor “deserves” a win.
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