Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't sure he even wanted to win an Oscar the first time he was nominated.
"I remember being really paranoid about ever having to go up in front of a billion people," the 41-year-old actor recently recalled to ET. He was 19, and the movie was 1993's What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
"I didn't quite have the concept that if you ever gave a speech at the Oscars, like a billion people are watching you," he continued. "So, as soon as I heard that, I remember saying, 'I really don't want to have a speech even prepared, 'cause I don't want to go up there.'"
He ultimately did lose that first nomination -- for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, playing Johnny Depp's developmentally disabled younger brother, Arnie Grape -- to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive.
DiCaprio lost again in 2005, when he earned his first ever Best Actor nomination for The Aviator, to Jamie Foxx for Ray. Two years later, he was nominated again for Blood Diamond and lost to Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland. In 2014, the actor earned his fourth nomination for The Wolf of Wall Street. He lost to Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club.
It was that last loss that birthed the narrative of "Poor Leo."
"I remember being really paranoid about ever having to go up in front of a billion people," the 41-year-old actor recently recalled to ET. He was 19, and the movie was 1993's What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
"I didn't quite have the concept that if you ever gave a speech at the Oscars, like a billion people are watching you," he continued. "So, as soon as I heard that, I remember saying, 'I really don't want to have a speech even prepared, 'cause I don't want to go up there.'"
He ultimately did lose that first nomination -- for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, playing Johnny Depp's developmentally disabled younger brother, Arnie Grape -- to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive.
DiCaprio lost again in 2005, when he earned his first ever Best Actor nomination for The Aviator, to Jamie Foxx for Ray. Two years later, he was nominated again for Blood Diamond and lost to Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland. In 2014, the actor earned his fourth nomination for The Wolf of Wall Street. He lost to Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club.
It was that last loss that birthed the narrative of "Poor Leo."
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