Why A.O. Scott Doesn't Think Leonardo DiCaprio Deserves An Oscar This Year

Leonardo DiCaprio is the current frontrunner for the Oscar for Best Actor, but that doesn't necessarily mean he turned in the year's best performance. Just ask New York Times chief film critic A.O. Scott.

During a Wednesday conversation about his new book Better Living Through Criticism , Scott told HuffPost Live's Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani that while he doesn't think DiCaprio's work in "The Revenant" is bad, it does strike him as "an almost parodically Oscar-soliciting performance," and therefore perhaps not worth the Academy Award fanfare.

Watch Scott discuss "The Revenant" -- and which other DiCaprio roles he thinks actually did deserve the Oscar -- above, and see his thoughts on the Academy Awards in general below.  

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