Is Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar Happening? 'The Revenant' Could End Academy Snub Memes!

Leonardo DiCaprio's lack of Oscar has become one of the most popular memes in recent times, as the Titanic actor has been snubbed at the Academy Award time and again ... but now, critics think Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's The Revenant might finally bring him the gold!

It's been only a few days since the limited release of The Revenant in the U.S., but the film already has an 82 percent "Fresh" rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with critics basically calling the actor the driving force of the film, and the consensus claiming that it uses his "committed performance as fuel for an absorbing drama."

Days back, DiCaprio told ShortList that he was offered the main roles in some of last decade's biggest box office smashes like the Star Wars prequels and Spider-Man, which he chose to skip because he wasn't "ready for anything like that," prompting Vulture to say that the main reason DiCaprio didn't go for any of those roles is that superhero movies don't earn Oscars, which, considering his career moves in the past decade, certainly seems like what he wanted to do.

Now, his most recent director, Inarritu, is fresh off a clean sweep in the Oscars, having bagged three statuettes for Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) last year, so it wouldn't be surprising to see him leading the actor into the much-coveted award after multiple collaborations with Martin Scorsese have left him two Golden Globes but no little guy from the Academy.

The fact that "Leonardo DiCaprio Gets Snubbed by Oscar" has its own entry on Know Your Meme is the living proof of how big an impact his continuous losses have had in popular culture, even though his acting has been nominated only four times without winning; in fact, his Titanic and Revolutionary Road co-star Kate Winslet received five acting nominations before she finally got her Oscar for The Reader.

The Academy Awards' nominations will be announced next January 14, and finally DiCaprio seems like the leading contender for the Oscar, according to Indie Wire, with only Michael Fassbender's performance in Steve Jobs possibly being any competition: in other words, with the Oscars a little less than two months away, it seems like it might finally be DiCaprio's year!