Oscars

The 41-year-old actress told the BBC during a recent interview: "I think you can sort of feel it, and I think that everyone wants it for him," she said.

"It would be amazing."

DiCaprio has received wide-spread critical acclaim for his role in The Revenant, in which he portrays a dedicated frontiersman Hugh Glass.

While noting the presence of Ang Lee, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu in the nominations, critics still point out the lack of acknowledgement of black and African American figures.

Why else would they let the presidential ones drag on for nearly two years? Thus it must be with great appreciation that readers can welcome back the Carpetbagger, The New York Times’s chronicler of the joys, heartbreaks and hubris that make up the ever-growing minefield that is the Oscars race.