At long last, Leonardo DiCaprio is an Oscar winner, this time for The Revenant..
Sight. So many internet memes just died. The internet has collectively joked for so long now about how much how much DiCaprio deserved an Oscar as well as how transparently desperate he was to win one. Now it’s happened. We’ll have to move on to find other actors (white ones, obviously) whose ambitions are comically thwarted by the Academy year after year. However, prior to Leo’s big win theflippist.com had a hilarious suggestion for how it should have played out:
As it turns out, the bear was actually in attendance:
How is this the first time they cut to the bear?!?! #oscars pic.twitter.com/ysasWPwTlH
— Max Covill (@mhcovill) February 29, 2016
Sadly, it did not attack Leo. I guess Stephen Colbert was wrong. Not all bears are godless killing machines. Some of them politely clap and listen to millionaire playboy film stars deliver heartfelt messages about climate change.