6. Leonardo DiCaprio - Best Supporting Actor (Django Unchained)
And though the Best Film nomination for Tarantino's latest was unjustified (given the calibre of available alternatives), it did feature a very good supporting actor performance. And no, it wasn't that offered by the excellent Christoph Waltz, who seemed to take an awful lot of his performance from Nazi Germany and the last Tarantino film - I refer, of course, to Leonardo DiCaprio. DiCaprio stood head and shoulders above his cast mates as the best thing about Django Unchained, and the fact that he was snubbed in favour of his more flamboyant co-star is nothing short of completely baffling. DiCaprio's Calvin Candie was an awful creature, grotesque and viscerally affecting, climbing under the skin so much that even Tarantino confessed that this was the only character he had ever hated from his own stable. And ignoring him in favour of a performance that we had effectively seen before in a different uniform is practically inexcusable, no matter how much fun Waltz brought to the character.