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Leonardo DiCaprio continues to dominate entertainment headlines as we head into the awards season. The most significant development involves his upcoming film "One Battle After Another," where he plays a revolutionary pulled out of retirement. According to entertainment analysts tracking Oscar odds, a lead acting nomination for this role would mark DiCaprio's seventh acting nomination, putting him in an exclusive club of only eight actors in history to achieve this milestone by age fifty. What makes this particularly noteworthy is that DiCaprio has only won once before, taking home the Oscar in 2016 for "The Revenant." However, the numbers are working in his favor. Of all actors who have accumulated seven or more acting nominations, fifty-eight percent have won multiple Oscars, suggesting strong potential for DiCaprio to secure his second Academy Award come March.

Beyond the awards circuit, there's fascinating insight emerging from the production of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." A newly published book titled "The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" has revealed a compelling behind-the-scenes story about one of the film's most iconic scenes. DiCaprio actually clashed with director Quentin Tarantino over the now-famous breakdown scene featuring his character Rick Dalton. DiCaprio wanted to transform the sequence into a full acting catastrophe, tapping into what he called the ultimate actor's nightmare of forgetting lines and freezing on set. Though Tarantino initially resisted, wanting to maintain his original vision featuring more of the fictional western series Lancer, he eventually relented. The director even allowed DiCaprio unprecedented creative freedom to improvise much of the scene himself over several hours, which Tarantino then edited together creatively. Brad Pitt, his costar in that film, has since praised the resulting performance as one of the greatest breakdown scenes ever committed to film.

Adding to the recent news cycle, DiCaprio is also moving forward with a documentary project focused on the legacy of the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," set for release next year.

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