THElong or short? No, it’s not just the question that Hollywood actresses who are about to parade on the red carpet at the Dolby Theater during the Oscar Awards 2026imagining the length of theirs elegant clothes. This time, it is Leonardo DiCaprio, 51, wondering, but referring to his new mustache.
Leonardo DiCaprio with a moustache: the look at the 2026 Oscars
An unprecedented detail for DiCaprio, present at the 2026 Oscars as a candidate for best leading actor for One battle after another (film which collected 6 awards), which immediately captured the attention of the photographers and fans present on the famous red carpet before the awards ceremony thanks to a nice pair of impeccable, thick, retro mustaches, like those of a 1940s star. And we have to admit: they look great on him.
A new aesthetic quirk of the famous actor? Of course not: these are simple script requirements. Leonardo DiCaprio, in fact, it’s spinning What Happens at NightMartin Scorsese’s latest film to be released in 2027, and these beautiful mustaches are a small preview of the character we will see on the big screen.
Leonardo DiCaprio at the 2026 Oscars. (Getty Images)
Mustache grown for the film What Happens at Night by Scorsese
In this now proven one comfort zones – the DiCaprio and Scorsese collaboration is long-standing and includes, among many, titles such as Gangs of New York, The Departed And The Wolf of Wall Street – Leo this time plays the role of a middle-aged American, who moves to a mysterious and snowy city in Europe with his wife Isabel, with the intention of adopting a child.
The original novel offers few traces of the narrator’s physical appearance, who appears rather as a anonymous and ordinary travellertired and marked by the path undertaken. Much of the story shows him scrutinizing the unusual and sometimes disturbing details of the world around him, attempting to make sense of them. He’s a character rational, thoughtful, perpetually looking for logical explanations for events that become increasingly strange, sometimes bordering on the surreal and the unknown.
As the narrative progresses, the hotel where the couple stays and the surrounding city take on increasingly bizarre and disturbing contours, and his perception of reality begins to trembleas if the rules of the world he was used to were slowly unraveling before his eyes.
In the film, Leonardo DiCaprio also wears one fake belly – which obviously avoided leading to the Oscars – but which he will wear again to make his character even more believable.
Leonardo DiCaprio. (Getty Images)
Pedro Pascal gave us a break
And for an actor who has chosen to appear elegantly moustachioed, there is another who, instead, he just said goodbye to his famous mustache. Pedro Pascal51 years old in April, showed up on the red carpet without his beloved trademark, and appeared almost unrecognizable.
His choice to cut his mustache seemed strange and incomprehensible, because the actor, in the past, had declared that he did never wanting to appear without his famous “lip ornaments”.
Pedro Pascal at the Oscars without his famous mustache. (Getty Images)
In a LADbible video from the series Agree to Disagreefilmed last year together with colleague Vanessa Kirby on the set of Fantastic Fourthe actor had confessed without filters. “I literally was horrified from how they had made me look Wonder Woman 1984, without even a shred of facial hair». The actor added that he felt «unwatchable when I’m shaved. I loved the movie, but I was like that shocked by my appearance that I never did it again unless out of absolute necessity.”
The Chilean star, famous for cult roles in The Last of Us And Narcoshad therefore sworn never again to expose himself to the public with a bare face: «Since then, no hairless face, I learned my lesson». That same ‘lesson’, forgotten by him but on the other hand also recently learned by his (almost) contemporary DiCaprio.