And she just so happens to have been the first, too.
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The actress grew teary-eyed as she listened to the “The Revenant” actor’s thank you speech. Winslet clasped her hands near her lips.
As the footage circulated online, the internet briefly averted its gaze from Donald Trump, and oohed and ahhed with glee.
Kate dressed in a black, figure hugging strapless dress which showed off her figure, and Leo in a classic black suit. Thousands of similar messages followed.
Winslet and DiCaprio’s friendship has history way beyond the 1997 blockbuster Titanic.
While DiCaprio and Winslet are stellar individually, let’s be frank: They’re absolutely unstoppable together! But his repertoire of films after that has won him many diehard fans, resulting in many rooting for him for the Oscar for Best Actor this year.
The 40 year old actress may have been happier than DiCaprio himself.
After five heartbreaking nominations it was no secret who the people’s favourite was – Leo, who has been nominated five other times for acting in 2014’s The Wolf of Wall Street, 2007’s Blood Diamond, 2005’s The Aviator, and his breakthrough role in 1994’s What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
Then she added a coy come on: “Meet me at the clock anytime, bruv.X”, a reference to a line from the movie that helped make DiCaprio a movie star.
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When Winslet eventually got her Oscar for The Reader in 2008, at her sixth time of trying, DiCaprio was there at the front, cheering loudly. Little wonder the world should feel warmed. We’re gonna go to the after parties together. And now they’ve finally been reunited in the Oscars hall of fame.
