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Someone made a hilarious game about Leonardo DiCaprio never getting an Oscar

Sidney Fussell

2016-02-16T21:29:00Z

"Leo's Red Carpet Rampage" is a hilarious browser game that asks one question: What will highly celebrated actor Leonardo DiCaprio have to do to get an Academy Award? The actor has been nominated a total of five times for the Oscar, but has yet to win.

Produced by 'The Line Animation" and visual effects vendor Electric Theatre Collective alongside game designer Max Van der Merwe, the game is a marathon of Leo memes.

In addition to rampaging down the red carpet everything from his run-in with Lady Gaga to the #OscarsSoWhite protest are made fun of in the addictive game.

We'll see if Leo's Oscar dreams will come true on February 28 when the 88th Academy Awards ceremony is held. Until then, have fun watching digital Leo sprint for the award.

The game begins with Leonardo, under a spotlight, telling the player how badly he needs an Oscar. Though DiCaprio has been nominated five times, he has yet to win an Academy Award.

For most of the game, Leo must dash across the red carpet as the player alternates between mashing the G and H keys to propel him towards the Oscar. No matter how fast you run, the Oscar sparkles and flies just out of his reach.

Leo must compete against sprite versions of his fellow best actor nominees, Michael Fassbender, Eddie Redmayne, Matt Damon, and Bryan Cranston all dressed as their nominated film characters.

When the player presses the space bar, Leo jumps in order to avoid paparazzi and grab awards like BAFTA or SAG awards. These are easy to get, but the Oscar remains unobtainable.

Lady Gaga also appears as an opponent, in reference to her infamously awkward encounter with DiCaprio at the 2016 Golden Globes.

There are also a number of mini games that pop up in a random order. The "Quaalude overdose" bonus game is taken from DiCaprio's role in "The Wolf of Wall Street."

The player must mash the 'G' and 'H' keys in order to get Leo (as Jordan Belfort) to shake off the drugs and crawl to his Lamborghini.

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In another bonus game, the player has only seconds to write an acceptance speech. Again, the speech is produced from mashing buttons.

In another bonus game, the player is given only a few seconds to "find the black nominee" among dozens of Oscar candidates. (Hint: there isn't one.) This is a nod to the #OscarSoWhite hashtag that began on Twitter after two consecutive years without non-white nominees in acting categories.

Most of the gameplay involves mashing buttons. Here, players must mash buttons to get Leo to muster a more and more intense facial expression. As the bar rises, Leo comes closer to his Oscar.

In the end, the player can easily acquire many highly prestigious awards. Just not the Oscar. Sorry, Leo.