Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the best actors of our time, an actor who rose to fame as a teenager and is now a mature actor at the age of 48 with a strong resume of unforgettable roles and movies and an Academy Award. In the first part of this article, we introduced you to some of Leonardo DiCaprio’s movies in order from the weakest to the best, and in this article we will complete this list with his 14 best movies.
14- Gangs of New York
Although Leonardo DiCaprio’s first collaboration with Martin Scorsese is not their best collaboration, it was a strong forerunner for the joint films made by the two in the future. DiCaprio himself is very good as the vengeful Amsterdam Wallon, although in his first real adult role he is sometimes confused but is almost completely overshadowed by the enormous acting power of Daniel Day-Lewis as the butcher William Cutter. Aside from the games, the film’s strengths lie in its visual and detailed recreation of 19th century New York and its detailed costumes.
13- The Great Gatsby
Leonardo DiCaprio’s appearance as Jay Gatsby marked the actor’s reunion with Romeo + Juliet director Baz Luhrmann. The famed director of The Great Gatsby didn’t butcher the original source material as some say, and many of the things he added to the remake, such as his quasi-hip-hop soundtrack, were pretty good. The cast was equally well chosen: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Joel Egerton. It’s only when Luhrmann tries to tackle Fitzgerald’s script that things get a little awkward. But DiCaprio’s performance is perfect, a lovely throwback to romantic charm with a certain restraint. His star-like smile and the anxiety we see after the return of the love of his life all create one of DiCaprio’s best performances.
12- Romeo + Juliet
For a certain generation, Baz Luhrmann’s film was not an introduction to one of the world’s most famous love stories, but to the boundless freedom that can be had from William Shakespeare. It is true that the director’s operatic and overly kinetic style is not pleasant for everyone, but there is such a strong emotional impact in it that it is no wonder why teenagers read more about this story than what they had read in their English classes in the visual narration of Laz. Luhrmann showed interest in the story of Romeo and Juliet, especially with a cast that included DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Of course, it must be said that the two-way attraction of the two main characters is also very noticeable and effective, while Leo’s emotional acting and passion enchants people from the beginning to the tragic end.
11- Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino’s gory, Spaghetti Western-style take on slavery is unlikely to please his detractors, and at times his comfort with the narrative verges on the irresponsible. Of course, the film is still a lot of fun, with charming performances from Samuel L. Jackson as a villain and Oscar winner Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz to the heroic role of Jamie Foxx, who goes from slave to slave on the road to revenge. The cowboy becomes a prize. But the biggest and most hated character in the story is Calvin Kennedy, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, a psychotic plantation owner who has a special interest in France and forces his slaves to fight each other to the death. His performance is extremely disgusting and evil, but at the same time, it is impossible not to notice the quality of the film with his exit from the story.
10- The Aviator
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s second collaboration earned DiCaprio his first Oscar nomination since 1993’s What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, and it was a deserved one. In stark contrast to his deviant performance in New Yorker, Leo carries the epic but personal story of Howard Hughes from start to finish, with a team of supporting actors including Cate Blanchett, It includes Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alan Alda, Jude Law, Danny Huston and many more. It’s sometimes surprising that he displays the iconic charisma of his youth for the opening sequences of his blockbuster aviation filmmaking, but it’s his believable descent into the role of a paranoid, obsessive character in the second half of the film. which becomes a turning point in his acting career. With the movie The AviatorDiCaprio undoubtedly entered the realm of true Hollywood first men and has never left it since.
9- The Wolf of Wall Street
After his most family-friendly film, Hugo, Martin Scorsese moved on to his most profane film to date. In The Wolf of Wall Street, the acclaimed director tackles the real-life Jordan Belfort, a conman with superhuman powers who easily swindled wealthy investors while simultaneously dabbling in sex and drugs. Leo plays this monster of depravity and debauchery with aplomb, and it can be said that he should be credited for his special dance at the wedding or the scene where he crawls to his car in a drug-induced semi-coma. He received the Oscar. Leo gives an over-the-top performance in a film about excess, and while the 180-minute film is littered with scathing criticism, it’s Martin Scorsese’s freshest, most energetic film since GoodFellas In 1990 it is very enjoyable.
8- Revolutionary Road
Reteaming after 11 years, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet achieve yet another extraordinary result in this painfully painful adaptation of Richard Yates’ novel directed by Sam Mendes. Revolutionary Road is a far cry from the waters of Titanic, but trades it in for breathtaking love in a slum and shattered dreams. Frank and April’s characters are starkly different from Jack and Rose, but the performances of both actors are at their best, where Winslet’s passion and gusto are drowned in her husband’s prison in the 1950s, and DiCaprio’s devastating performance as A delusional man comes to the realization that his life will not get any better.
7- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Les Hallstrom’s charming tale of a small-town boy who is responsible for taking care of his mentally challenged younger brother, at first glance looks like a mini-field of clichéd bumps and a familiar, predictable story, but overall Your expectations are overcome and it achieves a great success with its imperceptible gentleness and perfect performances of its actors. One of the film’s best strengths is DiCaprio’s acting, whose Oscar-nominated performance as Arnie Grip is an acting masterpiece of the current generation. This extremely clear and comprehensible picture turns an apparently artistic film made only to win an Oscar into a true prediction of a great and unique future of a 19-year-old actor.
6- The Departed
For an actor known for commitment and tension in his characters, it’s remarkable that one of his best films is in a role where he has to cover up everything and establish his true identity. Playing an undercover cop in The Departed who immerses himself in the underworld of the Boston mafia, DiCaprio must constantly keep his cool lest he lose his cover to Jack Nicholson’s Frank Costello. In this way, the anxiety of Billy’s character is portrayed in such an engaging manner that both he and the audience may have a heart attack. DiCaprio goes toe-to-toe with some of Hollywood’s best actors here, including Matt Damon, Vera Farmiga, Martin Sheen and Mark Wahlberg in addition to Nicholson. By the end of the film, he’s just another corpse among the horror title’s casualties, but his work in this film shows that this director-actor partnership is anything but a dead one.
5- Shutter Island
Ignored due to its ill-timed release in February and the overshadowing of his other trailer, Inception, Shutter Island is one of Scorsese’s lesser-seen masterpieces, a pure genre exercise for a director of genius, with DiCaprio brings his star power to bear as a mysterious federal marshal and is joined by a team of actors such as Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow and Jackie Earle Haley in supporting roles. But this work of art is affected by its late twist, which forces the audience to reconsider all their beliefs about the main character, an experience that Leo’s character in the film is also forced to accept. This plot twist eventually leads to a flashback sequence that is perhaps the most vulnerable sequence of the actor so far. His depiction of the shivering hallucinations of a shattered man makes the film worth another viewing.
4- Catch Me If You Can
Steven Spielberg’s 2002 adaptation of Frank Abigail Jr.’s autobiography is one of his most high-profile films, but also one of his shallowest. Indeed, this story of a real-life criminal genius fits the film’s premise well, complemented by John Williams’ upbeat score and centered around DiCaprio’s performance, taken just as he was trying to fill the role of a popular boy character. put aside and enter into more mature and darker roles. With all these discussions, there is an underlying layer of sadness in the story that may surprise the audience after watching it again; This movie is actually the story of a terrified boy who starts a dangerous adventure to protect himself from the harsh realities of life.
3- Inception
11 years later, in a world where sequels, remakes and superhero movies dominate the box office, it’s surprising that one of the best-selling sci-fi films of the 2010s is about invading people’s dreams and hijacking their thoughts. It’s thanks to Christopher Nolan’s masterful direction that everything goes well and comprehensibly, subtly combining a maze of rules and surrealism with a simple “The Last Heist” frame. DiCaprio’s performance could easily go unnoticed, but he gives one of his best performances, a highly layered and scarred performance that only an actor in DiCaprio’s position could pull off. If another actor was chosen for this role, Nolan’s film could easily lose the sadness of hiding in the heart of the story, which gave a special power to this blockbuster film.
2- Titanic
After tying Ben-Hur for the most Oscars of all time and becoming the highest-grossing film of its time, it’s understandable that James Cameron’s masterpiece would be met with some cultural backlash. However, there is a reason why Titanic is so revered in film history. The film is clearly a touching love story, an intensely detailed historical masterpiece, a story of social status and gender, freedom and oppression. In this film, we see an old Hollywood love story perfectly combined with a tense action thriller, loaded with unprecedented special effects that never loses its sense of desperation and devastating tragedy.
Everything about this film is timeless and iconic, a classic filmmaking masterpiece that can sit alongside legendary epics like Gone With the Wind and Lawrence of Arabia. Of course, none of these strengths could have been realized without the fascinating tension between the characters of Leo and Kate. The young star who appears in the film as Jack Dawson may have spent the rest of his career trying to put this film behind him, but there is nothing to be ashamed of in this film and his performance as Jack. 100 years from now, the movie Titanic will be as special and attractive as the first day of its release.
1- Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
In his first film since nearly freezing himself to death in The Revenant, Academy Award winner Leo has nothing to prove and wants to show it all. His performance as the declining actor Rick Dalton is itself a colorful portrait of what makes the actor special; Her sexy charisma, her scarred vulnerability, and her unrepeatable frenzy. That the film is about him plays a big role in the success of Tarantino’s film, despite the controversial ending that, for better or worse, marks Tarantino’s return to his violently violent roots, one of the writer-director’s most mature and nuanced works. A fascinating depiction of a classic Hollywood ending, combined with the horror of one of the most shocking lost innocence – the Manson Family murders.
The supporting actors are just as good as the leads, where the relationship between DiCaprio’s character and Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth is a two-person team very close to the style of classic cinema. In the situation where the silent specter of bloodshed and violence revolves around the film, Leo only wants to deliver his dialogues correctly. When Julia Butters approaches him and, after a good performance, whispers in Leo’s ear, “That was the best acting I’ve ever seen,” it’s a powerful sequence that ends Rick Dalton’s troubles in a difficult day’s work. And of course, one of Leonardo DiCaprio’s best performances to date.
