Joining other such living legends who deserve Academy Awards but have not yet won them, like Ryan Gosling and Channing Tatum, Leonardo DiCaprio recently took a break from moistening panties to soaking tissues when he announced that he’d be taking a break from acting. While some outlets reported this news as a retirement, DiCaprio quashed that by saying he was just a little worn out from working so (thanklessly) hard on his spectacular performance in Django Unchained.

Fortunately, if he is going to spend considerable time on his yacht, developing his clone army of topless 19-year old models, the Huffington Post whipped up a supercut of some of DiCaprio’s greatest acting moments for us to enjoy while he’s gone. And by greatest acting moments I mean all of the times that he has yelled and screamed like someone is butchering his dog in front of him.

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Here at FilmDrunk, we’ve long been fans of Al Pacino’s ACTING with a capital A and exclamation point. At his best, he doesn’t chew scenery so much as rip it apart like a Wolverine and have sex with its corpse. Now, Nelson Carvajal, who last gave us Every Best Picture Winner, has given us a supercut called “Pacino: Full Roar,” featuring six solid minutes of Pacino screaming his face off, which begins with this quote:

“I worked with Al Pacino, whose character was crazy. Before every take, he would roar like a lion.” -Robin Williams, co-star on Insomnia.

Two things: one, Al Pacino was playing a perpetually-tired detective who can’t sleep because summer never gets dark in Alaska in Insomnia, and still felt he needed to play it so “big” that he was roaring like a jungle animal. Two, how big do you have to be playing it for ROBIN WILLIAMS to say you’re crazy? “Whoa whoa, Al, this seems a bit… manic, don’t you think?”

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I’m always intrigued by the supercuts of specific phrases, like “You just don’t get it, do you.” That one’s perfect, because it’s something movie characters say constantly, and I’m 95% sure I’ve never heard it once in real life. Here, Debbie Saslaw (of the Flash Sazz Wagon Saslaws) of Slacktory has put together a supercut of “It’s a no-brainer.” She writes, “Has anyone ever really said this?”

I would argue “it’s a no-brainer” is a much more commonly-used phrase than “you just don’t get it, do you,” but the 37 movies and shows combined in this supercut seem to suggest that it’s still a lot more common in movies and TV than it is in real life. It seems to perform two basic functions:

1. “It’s a no-brainer.” As in, “this is me convincing you to do something that’s not actually obvious at all because it will propel the plot forward.” Such as, “hey, Chandler, you should get a pet monitor lizard to eat these cockroaches and name it Jake. I mean it’s a no-brainer.”

2. “It’s a no-brainer.” As in, “I just used a character to deliver some blatant plot exposition and he would seem either not-believable or like a total idiot if I didn’t have him at least acknowledge the obviousness of the thing he just said.”

I like that the supercut goes purely literal at the end. It’s a no brainer.

The Oscars are this Sunday, and to celebrate 85 years of Hollywood self-love, editor Nelson Carvajal put together this supercut of all the Best Picture winners, from 1927′s Wings to last year’s The Artist. It’s actually chronological, even if it sounds alphabetical. As ThePlaylist notes, those are also the only two silent films ever to win. And expect another A movie to win this year, with Argo. Can you name all the movies in the supercut? If not, there’s always Wikipedia. Or the list I’ve included below.

Neither here nor there, but I think a good name for a silent porn star would be ‘Lilian Gash.’

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