Inception
Over the course of his decades - long calling , player Leonardo DiCaprio has grown from and obviously gifted young worker to one of the most recognizable and universally acclaimed actors live . After so many long time as a systematically act upon thespian , it come as no surprise that Leo has a resume that is about a mile long now , and although he has become more selective in the roles that he takes as time has gone on , it ’s clear that his pickiness has worked out really well for him in the foresighted run .
DiCaprio has had more iconic and critically celebrated roles than most normal actors even dream of reach across their entire lifetime , and he has built up that legacy all before he has even reach the age of 50 . Leo has had a lot of really memorable and impressive execution over the course of his career , but here are his top 10 of all time , ranked .
Romeo Montague - Romeo + Juliet
Theoretically it should be jolly difficult to screw up one of the most well acknowledge Greco-Roman characters in all of fiction account , however Leonardo DiCaprio may have had his work cut out for him when it came to depict Baz Luhrmann ’s rendering of Romeo Montague inRomeo + Juliet .
The skepticism towards this modern variant of William Shakespeare ’s Greco-Roman play was understandable , however gratefully the flick more than survive up to it ’s own potential and became one of the most memorable moving-picture show of the 90 ’s . And Leo absolutely nail it as the wild and passionate son of the Montague mob who lay on the line and lose it all for the young woman he enjoy .
Cobb - Inception
diddle the straight man in a huge movie is n’t always an well-heeled chore , and honestly clearly the premise behindInceptionis meant to drive the story far more than it ’s own characters do .
But with that said , DiCaprio ’s performance in this mad , inventive movie manages to take a lot of vast ideas and establish them in a realness that the audience can in reality place themselves in . As the film survive on , Cobb ’s write up open in a surprising and tragic way , and it ’s hard not to finger for the enormous loss that he stomach a lot of personal guilty impression for .
Jack Dawson - Titanic
Titanichas a bit of an unearned negative reputation for being little more than a chick flick with a smash hit budget , but in retrospect the motion-picture show is a lot more than that .
First off , there ’s nothing wrong with being a chick flick anyway , but this classic star crossed lover story that ends with Jack ’s death and Rose ’s realisation that she still has her entire life left to live for even though she lost the man she loves deserve a lot more recognition than it get down . And apparently the picture show ’s success perch on a lot of things , but Leonardo DiCaprio ’s functioning as Jack Dawson certainly gave the moving picture a vast serving hand .
Jim Carroll - The Basketball Diaries
AfterTitanicexploded on to the scene and made Leonardo DiCaprio into the heartthrob of the tenner , Leo seemed to put all of his time and vigor into redirecting his vocation into a more " serious actor " direction .
But this clear was n’t a new idea that DiCaprio had when he last had an enormous amount of succeeder to take advantage on , as is certify with his starring roles in pic likeThe Basketball Diaries . InThe Basketball DiariesDiCaprio portrays the fictionalized reading of the veridical life experiences of Jim Carroll , a boy who descend into drug addiction when he was still just a teenager .
Hugh Glass - The Revenant
Honestly , the Academy Awards are pretty overrated . And if the very fact that Leonardo DiCaprio won his first and only Oscar for a performance that does n’t even crack up the top five of his good public presentation does n’t show that , then jolly much nothing will .
Leo ’s carrying into action as Hugh Glass , a man who barely survives a murder attempt and go off on a journeying of revenge , inThe Revenantis still a great one and his commitment to the role was very admirable , but it being his most critically rewarded role really only goes to show that awards elector seem to love to watch rich movie asterisk suffer for the sake of their art more than anything .
Calvin Candie - Django Unchained
Most actors do n’t enjoy in the chance to play a virulently racist slave owner , but most actors are n’t Leonardo DiCaprio acting in a Quentin Tarantino film . Django Unchainedis just the kind of thing everyone has amount to have it off and love Tarantino for , and it ’s very rare that any performer turn down an chance to come along in one of his films .
But the character of Calvin Candie is undoubtedly one that could have set ashore like a lead balloon with audience , so the fact that Leo carry off to lean into the role so knockout that it has now become one of his most iconic role is a testament to his abilities as an thespian .
Arnie Grape - What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Within Leonardo DiCaprio ’s intact catalog of film work , What ’s Eating Gilbert Grape?probably is n’t one of his best films , but it still is one of his just performances . In the motion picture , Leo fiddle Arnie Grape , the younger chum of the titulary reference who is developmentally disabled and is supposedly always track down on take over fourth dimension .
candidly this kind of performance could have buy the farm really awry , and even now it ’s a bit of a hot button issue to see worker portraying characters with disabilities that they do n’t actually have , but as luck would have it Leo does n’t hit a false note as his carrying out as Arnie Grape .
Billy Costigan - The Departed
clear deciding on what doer ’s film is the estimable movie they ever made is whole subjective , but there is at the very least a pretty strong argument to be made thatThe Departedmay be Leonardo DiCaprio ’s best film of all meter ( or at least so far ) .
This film is an absolute lurid thrill ride from start to finishing , and Leo ’s functioning as Billy Costigan , an hush-hush cop knead for Boston ’s scariest crime boss , carries a lot of the pic ’s story weight unit . The cast for this Martin Scorsese moving picture is dead start constellate too , so the fact that DiCaprio manages to stand out tell a lot about his abilities .
Jordan Belfort- The Wolf Of Wall Street
Although this movie is based on the real story of Jordan Belfort , a white arrest crook who managed to reach the highest highs and low Sir David Alexander Cecil Low on Wall Street , it ’s kind of surd to believe that any of this could have ever really happened .
But to Leonardo ’s credit rating , he negociate to make one of the scummiest scum bag ever committed to shoot into a relatively charming , and at least wildly entertaining , character . Leo distinctly took a band of delight in impersonate this objectively fearsome someone , and with the assistance of Scorsese ’s direction Jordan Belfort is doubtless one of Leo ’s good carrying into action of all time .
Howard Hughes - The Aviator
Given how fecund and mutually beneficial their collaborations seem to have been , it comes as no surprise that the top three Leonardo DiCaprio performances on this list are all in films that were directed by Martin Scorsese .
But Leo ’s best performance of all time ( again , at least so far ) has probably become to be as the fabled , ultra weird fertile man Howard Hughes inThe flier . Leo had to portray Hughes at a draw of different point in his life , and he absolutely killed it when he portrayed the descent of this notorious ladies man into the unbelievable depths of his own mental sickness .
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