The man who has just about everything will get an Oscar
It's curious that people are talking about Leonardo DiCaprio finally winning an Oscar.
He's 41. Christopher Plummer – no mug – had to wait till he was 82 to win one.
And while DiCaprio is nominated for the sixth time – five times for acting, once for producing – singer-songwriter Randy Newman had to wait till his 14th nomination before finally winning. And acclaimed cinematographer Roger Deakins, who is nominated for Sicario this year, will likely miss out for the 12th time in a row.
But the star of The Revenant has run such a successful Oscars campaign about what he endured to make the movie – the suffering and sacrifice – that Syrian children must have shed tears in the rubble of their bedrooms.
As one sceptic said in one of The Hollywood Reporter's entertaining Brutally Honest Oscar Voter series: "They are running his campaign based on how hard it was to make the movie, right? I'm tired of hearing about it ... He got millions of dollars and I would assume they had heaters."
While the bear may have been a digital creation, DiCaprio's Oscars chances are very real given the competition – led by Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl) and Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs) – is not historically strong this year.
It would take a real bear attack to stop him collecting his first Oscar.