Leonardo DiCaprio has joined an elite group of actors who have been nominated for the BAFTA Best Actor Award a record seven times. In doing so, he also broke his own record, becoming the youngest person to reach that number.
Following Tuesday’s BAFTA Film Awards nominations, DiCaprio was, perhaps unsurprisingly, listed in the Best Actor category for One Battle After Another. But his seventh nomination, after “The Aviator,” “The Departed,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “The Revenant,” which won, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and “Don’t Look Up,” puts him in a certain kind of revered league.
Only six actors have achieved this feat, including Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Jack Lemmon, Peter Finch, and Dustin Hoffman. And at 51, DiCaprio became the youngest person to reach the magical number 7 (Hoffman was 52 when he was nominated for Rain Man).
In his native America, where he was nominated for an Oscar last week for “One Battle After Another,” DiCaprio now has seven Best Actor nominations, as well as a Best Supporting Actor nomination for “What Is Eating Gilbert Grape.” And he also won an award there for “The Revenant.”
When it comes to BAFTA nominations for Best Actress, it should be noted that the achievements of DiCaprio, Day-Lewis, and Caine pale in comparison to Meryl Streep, who holds the record with 12 nominations.
Streep and Judi Dench are tied for BAFTA nominations in all acting categories with 15 each. Dench, on the other hand, took the crown for the most wins with six wins.
