Timeline of Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar failure (and partial Golden Globe success)
1994 Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
1994 signalled the beginning of Leonardo DiCaprio’s torturous relationship with the Academy. DiCaprio was the only cast member to receive an Oscar nomination.
He played Jonny Depp’s mentally ill younger brother, but it was a tough category and Leo lost the Oscar to Tommy Lee Jones’ performance in the Fugitive.
1998 Golden Globe nomination, Best Actor
Titanic
Titanic won 11 Oscars, and his co-star Kate Winslet was nominated. It felt as though just about every cast and crew member was nominated except Leo. More than 200 fans contacted the Academy to protest after he failed to receive a nomination.
He lost the Golden Globe to Peter Fonda.
2003 Golden Globe nomination, Best Actor
Catch Me If You Can
Whilst it was an enjoyable romp about notorious con-man Frank Abergnale, Catch Me If You Can was never going to win any big awards. Nonetheless, it did well at the box office and out-grossed Titanic.
2005 Golden Globe win, Best Actor, and Oscar nomination, Best Actor
The Aviator
Probably DiCaprio’s best chance of winning an Oscar, but he lost out to Jamie Foxx’s performance as Ray Charles.
Although he won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of legendary filmmaker Howard Hughes, missing out on that Oscar still stung.
2007 Oscar nomination for Best Actor and Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor
Blood Diamond
Many thought DiCaprio would be offered the Oscar as consolation for missing out the previous year. Plus, with two nominations for the Golden Globe, the odds were in his favour.
Sadly, even his mastery of the difficult Afrikaaner accent for Blood Diamond wasn’t enough to clinch a victory. Forest Whitaker scooped both the Golden Globe and Oscar for his performance in The Last King of Scotland.
2009 Golden Globe nomination, Best Actor
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road saw DiCaprio reunite onscreen with his Titanic co-star Kate Winslet for the first time in a decade. However, DiCaprio’s chilly performance in this depressing film was never going to be able to compete with rousing turns from Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn.
2012 Golden Globe nomination, Best Actor
J. Edgar
Leo’s performance as former head of the FBI J Edgar Hoover was the film's only Golden Globe nomination. The film traces the career of the FBI director through the Red Scare period, amid claims of his closeted homosexuality.
2013 Golden Globe nomination, Best Actor
Django
DiCaprio earned his ninth Golden Globe nomination playing eccentric and tyrannical plantation-owner Calvin Candle in Quentin Tarantino’s spin on a western. He was beaten by Django co-star Christoph Waltz for his performance as Dr King Schultz.
2014 Golden Globe win, Best Actor, and Oscar nomination for Best Actor
Wolf of Wall Street
DiCaprio’s Wolf of Wall Street co-star Matthew McConaughey won the Oscar for his performance as AIDS victim Ron Hall in Dallas Buyers Club.
In fact, if the Golden Globes didn’t have separate categories for drama and musical or comedy, DiCaprio would probably have lost there to McConaughey, who also won the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama.
2015 Golden Globe win, Best Actor
The Revenant
DiCaprio wins the Golden Globe for best actor in a film drama for his role in The Revenant and gets a rapturous standing ovation.
When the applause died down, DiCaprio said: "What an incredible honour, that meant so much. Thank you so much."