Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t obtain an Oscar nod for Killers of the Flower Moon, however that didn’t forestall him from congratulating his costar Lily Gladstone on her nomination.
“He was maybe the third person to text me after the news came in. After my reps of course, because the second it came in, my reps were texting me,” Gladstone, 37, mentioned of DiCaprio, 49, throughout a Thursday, January 25, interview with Further. “But Leo was soon to follow and he was just so proud.”
Killers of the Flower Moon tells the real tale of a chain of murders of Osage Local American citizens that happened in Twenties Oklahoma.
DiCaprio and Gladstone play married couple Ernest and Mollie Burkhart. Ernest marries Mollie at his uncle Invoice Hale’s (Robert De Niro) recommendation, just for the pair to devise the homicide of Mollie’s circle of relatives to acquire the “headrights” to their oil-rich land.
Gladstone, who's the primary Indigenous American to be nominated within the Oscars’ Perfect Actress class, was once disenchanted that DiCaprio’s paintings within the movie wasn’t identified by way of the Academy.
“I told him that I was watching [the nominations] with my parents and we’re celebrating me but we’re also, like, collectively very pissed for you,” she mentioned. “He did such an incredible job in this and he made an impossible character just so vivid and it made my job so much easier.”
Even though Gladstone “really [wanted to] share this moment” with DiCaprio, she recalled what he mentioned to her “right before the [Golden] Globes” previous this month after they had been each up for performing awards: “No matter the outcome, I think you’re amazing and I’m proud of you.”
Whilst DiCaprio misplaced the Golden Globe to Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy, Gladstone gained in her class, Perfect Efficiency by way of an Actress in a Movement Image — Drama.
“This is for every little [reservation] kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves, in our own words with tremendous allies and tremendous trust,” she mentioned throughout her acceptance speech.
Gladstone is nominated along Annette Bening (Nyad), Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall), Carey Mulligan (Maestro) and Emma Stone (Deficient Issues) for the Oscar. In a observation to Leisure Weekly previous this month, Gladstone famous that she stocks the glory with Killers of the Flower Moon director Martin Scorsese and her costars, “especially” DiCaprio.
“His immense, exceptional talent and heart made this possible,” she added of DiCaprio. “I am forever a proud and grateful friend.”
DiCaprio, in the meantime, sang Gladstone’s praises when introducing her at Selection’s Energy of Girls match in November 2023.
“That an actor of such profound talent has found it a long and hard road to get this recognition speaks to the unfairness that still exists in our industry today,” the actor mentioned. “I fervently hope that we’re entering a new era in which actors like Lily, who embody this authenticity and undeniable truth in their own storytelling, take center stage.”
The 96th Academy Awards will air on ABC Sunday, March 10, at 7 p.m. ET.