# Why Brad Pitt and Leo Di Caprio never win an Oscar **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688 "2014-03-14T12:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/61 "2014-03-15T15:50:59Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > What about Django Unchained? I thought he was excellent in that, in a supporting role. I didn’t see it. Tarantino lost me with the crapfest that was _Inglorious Basterds_. Specifically, he lost me when he used a David Bowie song from 1974 as mood music for something happening in 1944. It was totally jarring (in a movie that already had too many jarring moments) and threw me out of the film completely. In fact, it was so jarring that it made me not want to experience that kind of thing again, so I avoided _Django Unchained_. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/62 "2014-03-15T16:00:38Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I didn’t see it. Tarantino lost me with the crapfest that was _Inglorious Basterds_. Specifically, he lost me when he used a David Bowie song from 1974 as mood music for something happening in 1944. It was totally jarring (in a movie that already had too many jarring moments) and threw me out of the film completely. In fact, it was so jarring that it made me not want to experience that kind of thing again, so I avoided _Django Unchained_. A little piece of advice then: never see a Baz Luhrmann film. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/63 "2014-03-15T16:27:26Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > A little piece of advice then: never see a Baz Luhrmann film. AFAIC, the only thing the man has ever done that was worthwhile was his song [Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI). What little I have seen of his films repulsed rather than intrigued me. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/64 "2014-03-15T17:18:29Z")
DiCaprio and Pitt have both been phenomenal and very average, from movie to movie. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/65 "2014-03-15T18:43:30Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > So I selectively read something that I never actually read and never claimed to read? Good job, you certainly told me. The selective reading comment was for ignoring > [@](#): > > After a lengthy development process, during which Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B Entertainment backed the project, which eventually helped get some financing from various film studios, the film was officially announced in August 2011 ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/66 "2014-03-15T19:14:05Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > Brad Pitt’s best role was Floyd in True Romance. Nothing he’s ever done since then even seems like acting. I thought his Early Grace in _Kalifornia_ was pretty good too. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/67 "2014-03-15T19:24:07Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Think I would lean towards the DiCaprio method. Call me old and settled, but Pitt looks happier. ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/68 "2014-03-15T22:25:29Z")
If it hasn’t been spelt out, the prospective film was in huge trouble - despite Plab B largely funding the development stage - because studios didn’t want to back it (US slavery from the pov of a slave, made by an unknown Brit?). Brad Pitt had to step in and agree to put in screen time in order to get funding. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/69 "2014-03-15T22:31:12Z")
> [@BrokenBriton](#): > > If it hasn’t been spelt out, the prospective film was in huge trouble - despite Plab B largely funding the development stage - because studios didn’t want to back it (US slavery from the pov of a slave, made by an unknown Brit?). I don’t think that’s true. According to this, studios were fighting over it. > **[Paramount, Brad Pitt Company Feuding Over ’12 Years a Slave’ (Exclusive)](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/paramount-brad-pitt-company-feuding-651131/)** > > The dispute arises from Paramount's belief that executives at Plan B breached the company's deal with the studio by failing to offer Paramount a chance to finance and distribute the movie. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/70 "2014-03-15T22:37:50Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Pitt looks happier. Acting! ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/71 "2020-02-10T02:04:45Z")
[Brad Pitt won his first Oscar for acting on Sunday.](https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/brad-pitt-wins-1st-acting-oscar-role-time-68834402) Also this from when the thread was fresh… > [@Ephemera](#): > > Brad Pitt won an Oscar twelve days ago. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688/72 "2020-02-10T02:48:02Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > [Brad Pitt won his first Oscar for acting on Sunday.](https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/brad-pitt-wins-1st-acting-oscar-role-time-68834402) > > Also this from when the thread was fresh… And Dicaprio won Best Actor in 2016. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-brad-pitt-and-leo-di-caprio-never-win-an-oscar/683688.md?page=3)