Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at nineteen for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and did not win a competitive award until The Revenant twenty-three years later, which became a running cultural joke.

Titanic made him the most famous young actor on earth, which he responded to by taking difficult work with Scorsese across six films: Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street and Killers of the Flower Moon.

He is a serious climate campaigner and has produced documentaries on the subject, and his selectivity in later years has been deliberate.