DiCaprio has a wider range of characters than Ian, ones that require drastic personality shifts from one to another. Just look at him in "Titanic" and then go watch "What is Eating Gilbert Grape"
i don't understand why he should get an award for the Revnant. Sure his acting was pretty good. The movie in general was complete garbage, completely unrealistic, and it reaked of hollywood exaggeration. dont waste your time and money in seeing the revnant.
well ya it had holly wood exaggeration. without it it would have been 2 and a half hours of boring **** . do you really want realism in movies? really really want it? because real life is boring as **** dude and the movie didnt exactly have giant robots and explosions or anything. there was a whole mystical native american aspect to it that was neat and the acting was great along with the effects in the movie. if your argument happens to be along the lines of "you dont get mauled by a bear then get half buried and fix a broken limb in a matter of days in the frozen wilderness" then ya i get it but it also makes you a bad person to see movies with.