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Leonardo DiCaprio attends the 92nd Annual Academy Awards

Leonardo DiCaprio attends the 92nd Annual Academy Awards

Leonardo DiCaprio, nominated at this year’s Oscars for his role as Rick Dalton in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, attended the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on February 09, 2020 in Hollywood, California.

Check out this video of Leo on the red carpet:

Leonardo didn’t win the Oscar but his co-star Brad Pitt accepted the 2020 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Hearing his name read aloud, Pitt got up from his seat and immediately hugged Leo and made the most heartfelt tribute to him during his Oscars speech: “Leo, I’ll ride on your coattails any day, man – the view is fantastic.”

Also there is a cute moment left in which Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted singing along to Janelle Monáe:

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Leonardo DiCaprio at the MPTF 18th Annual ‘Night Before’ Party

In anticipation of Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, the Motion Picture & Television Fund threw their annual Night Before party in West Hollywood on Saturday evening.

Leonardo DiCaprio was among the A-listers at the party which raised more than $5.4 million in support of the MPTF.

Funds are used to support industry colleagues and friends who benefit from MPTF’s charitable programs and services, such as financial assistance, crisis counseling, care giving support and the retirement facility in Woodland Hills that is “home” to television and film veterans. In total, the annual event has raised more than $90 million since its inception in 2003.

Source: hollywoodreporter

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Leonardo DiCaprio: “Kobe was truly larger than life, a legend”

Following NBA legend Kobe Bryant’s tragic death in helicopter crash on Sunday morning, actor and Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio took to Twitter to express his feelings regarding the passing of Bryant:

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Leonardo DiCaprio attends the 92nd Oscars Nominees Luncheon

Oscar® nominee Leonardo DiCaprio and his father, George attended the Oscar Nominee Luncheon held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom, Monday, January 27, 2020.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Honors Director Quentin Tarantino at DGA Awards 2020

Leonardo DiCaprio speaks on stage at the 2020 Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday (January 25) at the Ritz Carlton in Los Angeles.

The 45-year-old actor spoke at the event to honor his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino, who was nominated for Best Director.

The award went to Sam Mendes for 1917.

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Once upon a time, Tarantino slept in his car and DiCaprio was a break dancer (Los Angeles Times interview)

“I swear to God, I had to hide a tear,” Brad Pitt says, looking over at Quentin Tarantino and Leonardo DiCaprio, remembering the first time Tarantino played him the José Feliciano cover of “California Dreamin’” on the set of “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.” “Look,” Pitt continues. “I’m not ashamed to say it. I got a little misty.”

We’ve settled onto a couple of sofas inside a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont because … where else would we meet to talk about Tarantino’s wistful elegy to a bygone Hollywood? As the song declares, it’s a winter’s day, though the (palm tree) leaves are green, not brown, and the sun setting just beyond the swimming pool is making the sky periwinkle blue, not a dismal gray.

But otherwise, yeah, we’re California dreamin’, sitting back, talking about a movie that earned 10 Oscar nominations — three for Tarantino as a director, writer and producer, and acting nods for DiCaprio and Pitt — and also considering the good fortune that has graced their lives over the last few decades.

“You know, when I first moved out here, it was the summer of ’86 and I didn’t know [expletive]-all about Los Angeles, other than what I’d seen on ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ and ‘Dragnet,’” Pitt says. “I landed in Burbank at a house I could crash at for a month or so. It was just me and a maid from Thailand who couldn’t speak English. Man, I was just so up for the adventure, and so excited when I’d drive by a studio where they make movies. It meant the world to me.”

“Then I moved and it was one of those eight guys in a two-bedroom apartment in North Hollywood kind of things,” Pitt continues, smiling at the memory. “You have your little corner where you keep your clothes folded up in a little bedroll. I became quite accustomed to McDonald’s and Shakey’s Pizza buffet. I didn’t mind. The city was a wide-open experience.”

Pitt presses Tarantino to tell tales of living in his car, writing scripts. “Which part of town?” he asks. Tarantino evades the queries for a bit, then relents. “It was at the back of Video Archives,” Tarantino says, talking about the Manhattan Beach video store where he worked in the ‘80s, turning customers on to kung fu and blaxploitation movies while writing “Reservoir Dogs.” And, yes, he slept in his car, a Ford Capri, around back in the parking lot.

“You’re not stretching out in a Ford Capri, are you?” Pitt asks, laughing.

DiCaprio’s parents moved to L.A. at the behest of his mom, who spied a Venice Beach postcard while living in the Bronx and thought, “This is where I want to move.” They settled east of Hollywood. Tarantino can picture the precise location because the apartment was right by the pool hall where Martin Scorsese shot the interiors for his 1973 drama “Mean Streets.”

“Hollywood and Western,” DiCaprio says, pinpointing the cross streets. “Then we moved to Silver Lake and it was me bugging my parents on the commute to go to school on the Westside to please, please, please drop me off at auditions. But I kept getting rejected by agents. I think because I was a break dancer at the time and had crazy haircuts …”

Pitt interrupts with a burst of laughter. “You were a break dancer? There’s got to be video somewhere.” DiCaprio cops to owning a little footage. “Oh, my God,” Pitt says. “VHS of course. I’ve got to see it. We need a movie night.”

“But that rejection,” DiCaprio continues, “it was like, even though I lived in the mecca of this dream land that was the movie industry, it felt like this intangible world where I needed a fairy godmother to come down and say, ‘You are anointed as an actor.’”

The conversation circles back around to “California Dreamin’,” Feliciano’s haunting cover of the Mamas and the Papas song heard in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” as Rick and Cliff drive home after a rather eventful day. Rick has gone through hell and back, shooting a guest spot on a TV pilot called “Lancer,” first trashing his trailer in a rage fueled by self-pity, doubt and a haze of whiskey sours and then recovering to later nail his big scene. Cliff has picked up a hippie hitchhiker, dropped her off at Spahn Ranch and then engaged in a showdown with Manson family members on the western town movie set.

“They both had these pretty insane days, and then we get in the car and I remember asking Quentin, ‘Should we talk about this?’” DiCaprio says. “And Quentin was like, ‘Just get in the car and drive.’ And it’s like this palate cleanser. And it’s also sincerely who these two guys were. We’re going home, get a pizza, drink some beer and watch me on ‘The FBI.’ That’s our therapy. And I have that relationship with some of my friends. ‘Let’s just sit and say nothing.’”

Pitt nods. “And then maybe three days later, Cliff would tell him what happened. Or he probably didn’t tell Rick because he’d get pissed off that he’d have to spend the 18 bucks to fix the flat tire. ‘What the [expletive] were you driving to Chatsworth for? Why is the mileage in my car so off?’”

Of all the lines in all the reviews written about “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” the one that Tarantino cherishes relates to the film’s verisimilitude in re-creating a Los Angeles with half a century in its rear-view mirror.

“It was, ‘When Cliff drives through L.A. it was like Brad Pitt driving through a documentary,’” Tarantino remembers, laughing. “And, frankly, if you do a movie like this, that’s the thing you want to nail and really be proud of that. It’s like [Werner] Herzog. ‘Yeah, we really nailed the Amazon in ‘Fitzcarraldo.’ Well, we nailed Los Angeles.”

DiCaprio loves this comparison so deeply that he will repeat “we really nailed the Amazon” half a dozen times before we leave. It also triggers an idea, a sort of side hustle that he seems willing to bankroll.

“Do a ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ tour and take on the TMZ buses that show up at our houses,” DiCaprio says. “We could make a lot of moolah and put them out of business.” Tarantino starts ticking off the possible locales — Westwood Village, Musso & Frank Grill, the landmark Mexican restaurants El Coyote and Casa Vega — noting that he recently went on a Vienna walking tour of spots used in Carol Reed’s 1946 film noir “The Third Man” and loved it. “Except for the rats in the sewers,” he adds. “They freaked me out.”

“But it needs to be done sooner than later,” DiCaprio adds. “There’s such a disposability to this town. We create this permanence in these movies and they get burned into celluloid and that’s what we live with. Everything else just evaporates and disappears. Los Angeles is constantly evolving and changing. That’s why movies like this are so engaging.”

Full article: latimes

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A “Starstruck” Leonardo DiCaprio Calls the Late Luke Perry –a “Modern Day James Dean”

Screen Actors Guild Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio stopped by the Variety platform to talk about his own early days as an actor. Including a time where he channeled fellow nominee Joaquin Phoenix during one of his earlier auditions.

The “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” star also shared his experiences working with the late actor Luke Perry on the Quentin Tarantino set. Revealing that he was “starstruck” around Perry, DiCaprio called him the “modern day James Dean.”

Source: variety

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Leonardo DiCaprio presented Robert De Niro with the SAG Life Achievement Award

The 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2019, were presented on January 19, 2020 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.

Leonardo DiCaprio got the chance to honor one of his idols and very first big-screen co-stars. At the 2020 SAG Awards, Leo presented Robert De Niro with Lifetime Achievement Honors.

“The role of an actor is to make us feel they take us to new places, using their skills to guide us towards a deeper understanding of humanity,” DiCaprio said before showing a reel of some of De Niro’s most notable roles. “For almost 50 years, Robert De Niro’s performances have done exactly that. He has astounded us with his portrayals of heroes and villains, loaners and leaders, dreamers and sociopaths. His characters have echoed through our culture in iconic films like Mean Streets, Taxi driver, The Deer Hunter, Cape Fear, The King of Comedy, Heat, Jackie Brown, GoodfellasCasinoThe Godfather II and Raging Bull. ”

Leo continued: “Robert De Niro is elemental. It feels like he’s always been here and always will be here. Like so many of you here tonight, he was the actor I watched as a young man obsessed with films. At 13 years old my father took me to the movies one afternoon to see [De Niro’s 1988 film] Midnight Run, and as the lights went down, he turned to me and said, ‘If you really want to be an actor and get into this profession, if you want to understand what great acting is, you watch that man onscreen.” Then he went on to recount auditioning for a role opposite De Niro several years later: “To share scenes with an artist of his magnitude was monumental,” DiCaprio said of reading scenes with De Niro — who played his abusive father figure — for the 1993 drama This Boy’s Life. “It was a life-changing experience. His commitment to character specificity in detail and fearless pursuit of authenticity in his work have influenced not only myself, but entire generations. His collaborations with Martin Scorsese, inarguably, the greatest partnership in cinema history have given us career long explorations of the human condition. ”

Then he announced that he would star in Killers of the Flower Moon with De Niro: “I’ve learned so much from the both of them, I’m fortunate to call them collaborators, Bob since This Boy’s Life and Marty since Gangs of New York. And after 30 years, to work alongside Bob again in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming drama Killers of the Flower Moon is a true honour.”

Also in the film categories, Leo was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role but his fellow nominee, Joaquin Phoenix won the prize and started his speech with an anecdote about DiCaprio, whom Phoenix said has been an inspiration to him for over 25 years.

On the other hand, Leo’s co-star in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt picked up the best supporting actor SAG Award for his performance as Cliff Booth.

Check out this interview with Leonardo at the 26th Annual SAG Awards: