Oscars 2016: Will Leonardo DiCaprio win the elusive Oscar this year?

Sylvester Stallone was nominated for a best supporting actor award from “Creed”.

No sooner had the nominations been announced at a ceremony in Beverly Hills than the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite began trending on Twitter, as was the case a year ago.

The president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has responded to the glaring lack of diversity among this year’s Oscar nominees.

For DiCaprio it’s his fifth career nomination, but he’s still looking for his first win.

The Revenant leads the Academy Award nominations with 12 nods, including best picture, lead actor for Leonardo DiCaprio and director for Alejandro Inarritu.

“Mad Max: Fury Road” scored a best director nomination for Australian filmmaker George Miller.

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.

Alongside DiCaprio, the nominees for best actor are – Matt Damon (The Martian), Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs), Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl) and Bryan Cranston (Trumbo).

Just a month after its release, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” box office collections (global) have soared to $1.76 billion, according to movie studio Walt Disney, which brought the franchise in 2012 for $4 billion.

As if Leo DiCaprio in a tuxedo wasn’t enough of a great TGIF picture, he was also photographed next to another man in our mental “hottest men alive lists” Tom Hardy. DiCaprio has been nominated for an Oscar five times previously and has never taken home the gong, but does even he think he should have won one by now? “It was unlike any other filmmaking experience I’ve had”. “Champagne and Mezcal will run tonight!”, said the director ahead of its premiere here.

Will Smith got a Golden Globe nod for his starring role in “Concussion”. “We made that movie for the people”, Ice Cube, one of the film’s producers, said on “The Daily Show”. “A lesbian love story, a brutal story of survival and everything in between”. At 25, Lawrence, is the youngest four-time acting nominee.