Leonardo DiCaprio was selected by Time magazine as ‘Entertainer of the Year 2025’ for his role in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film ‘One Battle After Another’, which on Monday led the Golden Globe nominations with nine nominations, including one for the 51-year-old actor.
“When ‘One Battle After Another’ was released all the so-called box-officeexperts loudly complained that it was not ‘on track’ to recoup their investment. As it turned out, however, the film was a huge success: by mid-November it had grossed more than $200 million worldwide,” the magazine notes.
DiCaprio explained to Time that it was “risky for the studio to take a gamble on this film,” but that they were attracted to “the striking originality” of the project.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about how infrequently ideas come up for truly original stories like this, with no connection to history, no pre-existing characters, no defined genre, no vampires, no ghosts, no nothing,” DiCaprio told the media outlet.
The magazine notes that the American actor has built “a career that many of his peers would envy’ and that audiences have had “the pleasure of watching him grow up on screen, before he took on roles of extraordinary complexity and emotional delicacy, roles that explore diverse visions of adult masculinity, suggesting the wide range of what men can be, including how they can fail themselves and others.”
Leonardo DiCaprio’s career
His first film that caught the attention of the industry was ‘This Boy’s Life’ (1993), where he played young Toby, who is about to collapse because of the cruelty of Robert De Niro’s character, his stepfather.
“Hollywood knew what it had: DiCaprio was offered a life-changing sum of money – certainly for a guy who had grown up modestly, as he had, often in tough Los Angeles neighborhoods – to appear in the Disney comedy ‘Hocus Pocus’; instead, he played an intellectually disabled teenager in Lasse Hallstrom’s deeply realistic, independent drama, ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ (1993),” the magazine notes in its story.
He made his great leap to fame with ‘Romeo + Juliet’ (1996) and then with ‘Titanic’ (1997), which broke box office records.
DiCaprio has received seven Oscar nominations in total, winning one for Best Actor for ‘The Revenant’ (2015).
His other nominations include Best Supporting Actor for ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ (1993) and Best Lead Actor for ‘The Aviator’ (2004), ‘Blood Diamond’ (2007), ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ (2014), and ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ (2020).
Other celebrities who have received this recognition in previous years have been singers Olivia Rodrigo (2021) and Lizzo (2019), reported Agencia EFE.
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