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‘One Battle After Another’ Star Leonardo DiCaprio Calls Cinema “Our Most Definitive Art Form,” Movingly Thanks His Mom & Paul Thomas Anderson At NBR Gala

Leonardo DiCapril in One Battle After Another Warner Bros./Everett Collection Leonardo DiCaprio’s first film in a theater at age four was the original King Kong. His dad took him to the historic Vista cinema four blocks from his house and he recalls “crying hysterically” at the end. Over the years, “As I kept on watching, something shifted in me,” he said at the National Board of Review gala in a passionate tribute to movie theaters.

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Key Highlights

  • “It was a place to escape my neighborhood.
  • A place where something larger than my own life seemed possible.
  • At some point, each of us sat in a movie theater, the lights went down, something on that screen rearranged how we saw the world and ourselves.
  • As I became an adult, I began to understand that cinema is our most definitive art form.
  • It expresses what it means to be human,” he said, accepting the Best Actor Award for One Thing After Another.
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  1. ‘One Battle After Another’ Star Leonardo DiCaprio Calls Cinema “Our Most Definitive Art Form,” Movingly Thanks His Mom & Paul Thomas Anderson At NBR Gala

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