Another battle won. Time magazine said today that Leonardo DiCaprio is its Entertainer of the Year.
The 102-year-old mag honored the Oscar winner and seven-time nominee for his acclaimed performance in One Battle After Anotherthe revolt-themed actioner that has become filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s highest-grossing movie.
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DiCaprio, who won the Bast Actor Oscar for 2015’s The Revenant, is back in the thick of the awards races for his portrayal of an washed-up ex-revolutionary who now exists in a state of stoned paranoia — until his former nemesis (Sean Penn) resurfaces after 16 years. And the battles begin.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about how often there have been truly original story ideas like this, with no link to anything historical, no past characters, no genre, no vampires, no ghosts, no anything,” DiCaprio told Time of why he cares so deeply about One Battle After Another (see the full interview here). “It was somewhat risky for the studio to take this on, and what they’re banking on, I think, is the appeal of Paul’s storytelling and the sort of fierce originality of his process.”
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DiCaprio on Monday added a Golden Globe nomination to his already-impressive list of laurels for the film. Last week, he scored a Critics Choice Award nom to go with a National Board of Review win, a Desert Palm Achievement Award from the Palm Springs Film Festival and other hosannas. One Battle also is up for Best Film at the Globes and Critics Choice Awards to go with wins at the Gotham Awards and NBR and from the Los Angeles and New York Film Critics and more.
Time will reveal its Person of the Year on Thursday and its Breakthrough Artist and Athlete of the Year on Tuesday.
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