Oscar's Voter Leaves No Doubt With Blunt Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Timothée Chalamet
With the Oscars just days away, one anonymous Academy voter is leaving no room for interpretation about where they stand in the Best Actor race. Gold Derby's ongoing "Secret Oscar Voter" series — in which Academy members reveal their ballots confidentially ahead of Sunday's ceremony — published its fourth installment this week, and the voter's comments on the Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Timothée Chalamet debate are about as unambiguous as it gets. What did the Voter Say About Chalamet vs. DiCaprio? The voter cast their Best Actor ballot for DiCaprio, who stars in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another as a paranoid, washed-up former revolutionary. Their reasoning was pointed. DiCaprio, they argued, is a major star who genuinely transforms himself into something audiences have never seen before, and that transformation is what separates him from the competition. They acknowledged Chalamet's work in Marty Supreme as a close second, but were clear t...
