Happy 50th birthday, Leonardo DiCaprio! Look back at his 18 best movies ranked
Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio celebrates his 50th birthday on Nov. 11. Tour our photo gallery above ranking the youthful superstar’s 18 best movie roles.
Throughout his career, he has made it his business to work with the most acclaimed filmmakers of the modern era. The star, whose first real breakout role came on the ABC sitcom “Growing Pains,” has worked with Martin Scorsese no less than six times with the latest in 2023 being “Killers of the Flower Moon.”.
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He’s done double-duty with Quentin Tarantino (with “Django Unchained” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” the latter of which earned DiCaprio an Oscar nomination), and made blockbuster films with Best Director winners James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Steven Spielberg, and nominees Ridley Scott and Adam McKay.
Beginning with 1993’s “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” for which he received his first Academy Award nomination at age 19, DiCaprio has earned eight total nominations from the Oscars: seven as an actor — including most recently for “Once Upon a Time In Hollywood,” plus his Best Actor win for “The Revenant” — and one as a producer, for Best Picture nominee “The Wolf of Wall Street.” DiCaprio has also won a Screen Actors Guild Award (for “The Revenant”) out of 11 nominations (including the ensemble and solo bids for “OUATIH”).
With McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” for Netflix in 2021, he worked with an all-star cast, which included fellow former Oscar winners like Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett, and Mark Rylance.
Our gallery above includes the films mentioned above, plus “Titanic,” “Catch Me if You Can,” “Blood Diamond,” “The Aviator,” “The Departed,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and more.
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