Time magazine has named Leonardo DiCaprio its “Artist of the Year” for 2025, honoring the actor for his powerhouse performance in One Battle After Another, the latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson.
The 51-year-old Hollywood icon—who won the 2015 Best Actor Oscar for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s The Revenant—is storming back into awards season contention.
In Anderson’s film, he plays a washed-up former revolutionary trapped in a state of perpetual paranoia until a long-buried adversary (played by Sean Penn) resurfaces after 16 years, igniting the clashes that drive the story forward.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about how rare it is to come across a truly original story like this—no historical connections, no preexisting characters, no defined genre, no vampires, no ghosts, nothing,” DiCaprio told Time. “It was a bit of a risk for the studio to take it on, but I think they’re betting on Paul’s storytelling allure and the sheer originality of his work.”
On Monday, December 8, DiCaprio added yet another accolade to the film’s growing roster: a Golden Globe nomination. Just a week earlier, he secured a Critics Choice nod, having already earned honors from the National Board of Review, the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Desert Palm Achievement Award, and several other groups.
One Battle After Another is also up for Best Picture at both the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards, following wins at the Gotham Awards, the National Board of Review, and from film critics in Los Angeles and New York.
Time will announce its Person of the Year on Thursday, December 11.
