Leonardo DiCaprio Speaks After Earning 8th Oscar Nomination

Leonardo DiCaprio is likely one of the most celebrated and acclaimed actors in Hollywood, and this morning when the 2026 Oscar nominations had been introduced he discovered himself again in a well-recognized class.

All through his lengthy and critically-acclaimed profession relationship again to the early 90s, DiCaprio has been a frequent Oscar nominee courtesy of his assortment of iconic performances — and his newest movie, “One Battle After One other,” has simply earned him one other spot on the poll field.

In an unique with Deadline, the actor, a Finest Actor Oscar winner for his function in “The Revenant,” spoke concerning the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed movie’s 14 nominations, co-stars who had been disregarded, and extra.

Incomes his eighth Oscar nomination has now put DiCaprio in an elite class of actors, that features display screen legends Richard Burton, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Duvall, Dustin Hoffman, Jane Fonda, Greer Garson, Jeff Bridges, and his long-time pal and co-star in “Titanic” and “Revolutionary Highway,” Kate Winslet.

“Paul made a kind of movies that I’m going to be so proud to look again,” DiCaprio mentioned. “I really feel like he actually put his thumb on the heartbeat of America proper now. I hope it will likely be remembered that method, and lives on for years to return. And it’s all a testomony to Paul’s writing and what he wished to say about who we’re proper now.”

Though the movie obtained a number of nominations in appearing classes for co-stars Teyana Taylor (Finest Supporting Actress,) together with Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn within the Finest Supporting Actor class, Chase Infiniti was noticeably absent from the movie’s nominees.

“Chase was the guts and soul of this film and she or he’s going to have an unimaginable profession forward of her,” DiCaprio mentioned of the actress who made her movie debut in “One Battle After One other.” She actually carried this movie, particularly it being her first function in a characteristic movie. I couldn’t have been extra pleased with her and the integrity and the depth and the management that she delivered to that character.”

Identified for taking a humble strategy in terms of awards recognition, DiCaprio as an alternative selected to boast concerning the as an entire as an alternative of his Finest Actor nomination.

DiCaprio could also be again within the Oscar race quickly, as he has a set of high-profile movies on the way in which, together with the extremely anticipated “Warmth 2.” Deadline tried to pry just a few particulars out of him concerning the challenge, however he merely replied, “we’re preserving that one tight.”

Followers of the 1995 unique, starring Hollywood icons Al Pacino and Robert Deniro, had been instantly interested by what the second interplay of the challenge can be, and DiCaprio supplied some much-needed readability.

“That is very a lot its personal film,” he advised Deadline in October 2025. “We’re nonetheless engaged on it, we’re a methods away from manufacturing. It ideas its hat to ‘Warmth,’ however it’s an homage, and it picks up the story from there. The e book is already on the market, so there are not any large secrets and techniques that I’m divulging.”

“It’s set sooner or later, and the previous, from that pivotal second in what I feel is the nice crime noir movie of my lifetime,” DiCaprio continued. “We are able to’t duplicate what ‘Warmth’ was, so it’s paying homage to that movie, however giving it its personal distinctive entity.”

Shortly after, the movie earned 9 Golden Globe nominations, essentially the most of any movie on the 2026 awards ceremony, and walked away with 4: Finest Image, Finest Director, Finest Supporting Actress, and Finest Unique Screenplay.

“One Battle After One other” was additionally the second most-nominated movie at this 12 months’s Oscars, incomes 14 nominations, simply behind “Sinners” with a record-setting 16 nods.

Director Ryan Coogler advised Deadline that it was “fairly loopy” to seek out out that not solely did “Sinners” earn a number of Oscar nominations, however it additionally broke a 10-year record.

“I didn’t have any expectations when it got here to the popularity of what they [the team] did,” he mentioned. “For me, folks simply displaying as much as the films and having a superb time, that might’ve been sufficient. That’s price all the trouble. However that folks would think about the craft and the achievements that went into it individually. It’s so rewarding.”