Who Should Play Leonard Bernstein in Scorsese's Upcoming Biopic? Your Top 5 Picks!

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Published November 7, 2015 at 11:35 AM EST

It was close, but Richard Gere won the WRTI poll for actor who should play Leonard Bernstein in Scorsese's film.

The votes are in...the WRTI audience has decided who should portray Lenny Bernstein in Martin Scorsese's upcoming film. Thanks so much to everyone who voted! We had over 35 nominations, with some surprising opinions. What do you think of the results?

And the top 5 winners are:

1. Richard Gere

2. Daniel Day-Lewis

3. Mandy Patinkin

4. Adrien Brody

5. Dustin Hoffman

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