DiCaprio And Hardy To Reunite At Revenant Premiere

Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs seemed to agree.

And, in perhaps the least surprising determination by oddsmakers, Pixar’s “Inside Out” is at 7-5 for best animated feature. (“Bridge of Spies”), Paramount Pictures (“The Big Short”), Universal (“Straight Outta Compton”) and Warner Bros.

“The Revenant” will compete with gritty action adventure “Mad Max: Fury Road” and space film “The Martian”.

Rooney Mara (“Carol”) and Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”) are both at 4-1 for best supporting actress, followed by Jennifer Jason Leigh (“The Hateful Eight”) and Kate Winslet (“Steve Jobs”) at 5-1.

20th Century Fox led the studios with a total of 30 nominations, including for “The Revenant”, “The Martian” and “Joy”, as well as its Fox Searchlight independent film arm’s “Brooklyn” and “Youth”.

Leonardo DiCaprio is not nervous about whether he will finally win an Oscar – because he says the hard work of actually shooting the film is over.

Apart from these three films, others contending for the Best Picture award are “Spotlight”, “The Big Short”, “Brooklyn”, “Room” and “Bridge of Spies” – a Steven Spielberg and Reliance Entertainment Film production. This did not perturb the rows of die-hard Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy fans that split the crowd like the great Edward/Jacob debate of 2008 – don’t pretend that reference went over your head.

He said: “It’s interesting, to make movies, it always takes me 10 years to reflect on whether a movie’s good, bad or awful – because you’re so immersed in the moment, you’re sort of clouded by the experience you had, you never get that reflection”.

The role of war hero Glass, for which Dicaprio was nominated for the Best Actor for Oscars, as he puts it, was the toughest of his career.

Sylvester Stallone, reprising his role as Rocky Balboa in “Creed”, looms large in the supporting actor category.

“Hollywood’s accepting the fact that Leo is a grown-up now and that his wayward randy bachelor days have calmed down”, said Tom O’Neil, founder of awards website goldderby.com. It was, however, nominated for Best Original Screenplay.