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This has to be the year Leonardo DiCaprio finally gets that Oscar award

If climbing inside a horse carcass, eating a raw liver, and tangling with a bear fails to finally get him the 'best actor' win, what then would it take for him to ever get those votes?

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We’ve learnt how to live with Oscar disappointment, but for some reason, Leonardo DiCaprio losing this weekend would be a tougher one to accept.

“what if he doesn’t win?” I asked a colleague. “Then he would just have to revisit his roots,” one said. “Then he should just know someone is pursuing him from the village,” another said.

DiCaprio is definitely not the only actor who has been nominated but have never won. There are the likes of Harrison Ford, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Cruise, Amy Adams, Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Bradley Cooper, Robert Downey Jr. among others. "So what's the fuss about," you are probably asking? Well, the thing is, that with five nominations, he's one of the most-nominated actors to never achieve the award.

What would an academy award do for his career? I mean, he’s as accomplished as they come. He has starred in blockbusters like “Titanic, “The Great Gatsby,” "Django Unchained, “Wolf of Wall Street” among other great films. He has also worked with filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino among others.

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But yet, he has never won an Oscars, and you and I know that an Academy Award will always be an important point of pride for an actor's career. Look  at Nollywood, and the way some good filmmakers seek validation from fact that their movies won an AMVCA award. Every filmmaker wants to be recognised by the biggest award body in their industry.

Once again, DiCaprio has been nominated, and this time, he is up against Eddie Redmayne, Michael Fassbender, Matt Damon and Bryan Cranston, battling for the “Best Actor “ award.

He has been nominated for his role as  Hugh Glass in the movie “The Revenant,” for playing a dad and widow out for revenge.

This is the year many Hollywood insiders, fans and even ‘haters’ believe the talented actor, who has been snubbed, nominated and lost four good times, finally gets the much coveted Oscar Statuette.

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DiCaprio has been nominated as an actor four times for roles in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "The Aviator," "Blood Diamond," and "The Wolf of Wall Street."

He ended up losing to Tommy Lee Jones in "The Fugitive" in1993, Jamie Foxx in "Ray" in 2004, Forest Whitaker in "The Last King of Scotland" in 2006, and Matthew McConaughey in "Dallas Buyers Club" in 2013.

But I think this weekend will be a good one for me ( I feel like the nominee right now.) Anyway, here are 4 simple reasons why I think the actor would finally win the much coveted award.

1. Leonardo DiCaprio and the movie “The Revenant” have been on a winning streak.

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If you have been following the awards season, then you definitely know that he has been nominated severally, and has won almost every award this season. He has won a “Golden Globe,” “Baftas,”Screen Actors’ Guild award’ this year, all for his role as  Hugh Glass in “The Revenant.”

2. He delivered a better performance than his competitions.

Yes, this is not Leonardo's best performance ever. We have "Inception," "Wolf of Wall Street,"Shutter Island," "Blood Diamonds," but somehow, I think he delivered a better performance than his co-nominees.

He's up against Bryan Cranston for Trumbo, Matt Damon for The Martian, Michael Fassbender for Steve Jobs, and Eddie Redmayne for The Danish Girl. There are all without doubt great performances and characters, but none is ‘really’ up against the actor.

3. Everybody wants him to win.

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As earlier stated, this is just that year everyone is sure he would win. In a recent interview undefinedsaid "I feel bad on behalf of Leo that I believe this is going to be the year that he finally wins an Oscar for best actor and this is all going down."

4. He delivered that kind of role the Academy loves.

It’s no news that the Academy has a thing for ‘’transformative’ and method acting. Two years ago, the actor lost to Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyers Club,” who lost nearly 50 pounds (22 kilograms) to play Woodroof in the film.

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DiCaprio has gone from being Jack Dawson to Howard Gughes, Dominick "Dom" Cobb to Edward Teddy Daniels, Calvin J. Candie to the man we all hope earns him that award, Hugh Glass.

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A manwho climbed inside a horse carcass, ate raw bison in the cold, and tangled with a bear - a role that sets him above and apart from his fellow characters.

If all these fails to get the Academy to vote rightly, what then would it take for him to get those votes?

After 22 years of hard work and near-misses, the only thing that can make Sunday a perfect night is if he finally collects an Oscar trophy, admist all his once-in-a-lifetime roles.

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