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[oxford25]

From NY Times article  regarding  COP27 Conference,  Leo WILL NOT be attending

 

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Don’t expect too many celebrity sightings. Leonardo DiCaprio, who attended last year’s summit in Glasgow, Scotland, is not scheduled to attend, nor is Greta Thunberg, the Swedish activist. Do expect to see Vanessa Nakate of Uganda, a climate activist who made a splash last year by directly challenging ministers to live up to their financial promises to vulnerable nations.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/08/climate/cop27-climate-summit

 

 

LACMA

 

Like all here I was disappointed Leo was not able to attend.  We know he doesn't ever walk red carpet, but we typically do get some pix and sometimes vid from inside event. 

 

I rarely ever agree with comments made by Lainey , but I do share her take that his absence was probably due to the same reason why Harry Styles didn't attend with Olivia Wilde = he had the flu 

 

Barbie & YouNotMe

 

Tks for pix from more  pix event that  Leo and Tobey attended earlier this year   

 

Liljak

 

The meme you posted was so painfully true  

 

Jade

 

Tks for more KOTFM movie news  

 

 

[Lilja K]

@oxford25 thanks for preventing false hopes🌷

 

I hope Leo will be fine🤞🏻

[Magical]

I thin he is doing well...He is very active on Instagram and  Facebook.

 

I think he doesn't want to show up at any events ...He become really introverted these days. Lol

 

 

[Lilja K]

9 hours ago, Magical said:

I think he doesn't want to show up at any events ...He become really introverted these days. Lol

I want to think like that too

[Jade Bahr]

Nothing really Leo related but it looks like Colin Farrell is coming for his first oscar nomination in The Banshees of Inisherin mabye even beating Austin Butler....

 

*perfect gif for that scenario LOL

 

He's for sure far more overdue and far more longer around as the Butler kid.

 

Also Colin was rooting for Leo back in 2016. 🦄☺️

https://www.tmz.com/watch/0-2vt1l07v/

 

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I also think Farrell is one of the 70s generation actors I almost know (and follow) as long as Leo even though his filmography isn't as flawless as Leos but still impressive (I saw around 40 movies with him just counted).

 

Beside from this he played one of the most heartbreaking characters ever.

 

Sweater Bonus

 

Another bonus 🍆

 

However he's invited to bite me whenever he wants to.

 

unopular opinion: leo would have made a better Alexander the Great

 

#oscar talk 22/23

[Jade Bahr]

So it's "spiritiual" reason why KOTFM isn't still ready? LOL

 

 

Martin Scorsese explains why editing film is a “spiritual” experience

Martin Scorsese has long been regarded as one of Hollywood’s ultimate auteurs, with an extensive back catalogue that boasts modern classics that range from the murky world of Taxi Driver to the legendary gangster flick Goodfellas. With historical flourishes via the likes of Gangs of New York, Scorsese has covered many bases since his 1967 debut and has retained the consistency that only the true greats of the field can achieve.

 

Exemplifying the idea that class is timeless is the promise of his forthcoming feature, Killers of the Flower Moon, a western-styled thriller that is shaping up to be one of his best, despite the director touching 80. 

 

Over his 55 years in the sun, Scorsese has refined his craft, as reflected by his extensive passion project, The Irishman, which saw him pull many aspects of his past work together. There was the grit of Mean Streets and Goodfellas, just more mature, with a cast of familiar faces, such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, bringing the story to life. Elsewhere, the extensive de-ageing digital effects that made De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci appear younger was an astonishing feat to behold. 

 

The film also boasted excellent editing, one aspect of Scorsese’s work celebrated across the board as it allowed him to create authentic, multifaceted worlds. There’s no real surprise that this is the case, given that he has always been keenly interested in this aspect of cinema. Scorsese believes the cutting room is where a movie really comes to life, a place that allows the imagination to shine, something he describes as “spiritual”.

 

Scorsese once said: “I think Stanley Kubrick said that the only original contribution to film, different from all the other arts, because it comprises only… it combines all the other arts, really, but the only thing that’s originally film is editing. It’s the editing process”.

 

“(You can) stretch it,” he added” .They call it plasticity. Films like plastic. You can stretch it. You can stretch out time. I always get amazed when I’m in the cutting room. I work very closely with Thelma, and you know, when you still… I still get a thrill when you cut one shot next to the other and there’s a movement, but not a movement of, I must say, it’s not a movement necessarily the movement that’s on shot A going to shot B, and the moment of shot B coming from shot A”.

 

The director concluded: “It’s what the movement that is conjured up in your head by the cut. It’s like a spiritual move, in a way. I’ve studied older films and try to figure out how I got that impression when I saw that particular film, The Third Man, or something like that, and let me see. It was on that cut, wasn’t it? And I look, and I see that there isn’t any movement between the two shots. I imagine movement.”

 

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[Jade Bahr]

Interesting take of Leos movie/roles.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio movies: 17 greatest films ranked worst to best

Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio 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 five times (with a sixth collaboration, “The Killers of the Flower Moon,” set for release in 2023), 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.

 

Tour our photo gallery above of his 17 greatest films, ranked from worst to best. Our list includes the movies mentioned above, plus “Titanic,” “Catch Me if You Can,” “Blood Diamond,” “The Aviator,” “The Departed,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” and more.

 

17. MARVIN’S ROOM (1996)

Director: Jerry Zaks. Writer: John Guare, based on the play by Scott McPherson. Starring Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert DeNiro, Hume Cronyn.

 

In Jerry Zaks‘ film version of Scott McPherson‘s play (adapted by John Guare), DiCaprio plays Hank, a young man who had been committed to a mental institution after setting fire to the family home. After his grandfather (Hume Cronyn) suffers a debilitating stroke, and responsibility for his care falls upon his mother Lee (Meryl Streep), Hank finds himself being pulled in to share the caretaking duties. As a member of the “Marvin’s Room” ensemble, DiCaprio was nominated for his first Screen Actors Guild Award.

 

16. J. EDGAR (2011)

Director: Clint Eastwood. Writer: Dustin Lance Black. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Judi Dench.

 

Clint Eastwood‘s look at the notorious FBI director starred DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover, who turned the bureau into his own personal fiefdom as he used his investigators to dig up dirt on his political enemies while trying to cover up his gay relationship with lawyer Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). While the film garnered largely mixed to negative reviews, DiCaprio’s performance was widely hailed. For his performance as Hoover, DiCaprio earned his eighth Golden Globe nomination and his eighth nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.

 

15. REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (2008)

Director: Sam Mendes. Writer: Justin Haythe. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour.

 

DiCaprio reunited with his “Titanic” love interest Kate Winslet in Sam Mendes‘ film set in the late 1940s in which Frank Wheeler (DiCaprio) and his wife April (Winslet) move to the suburbs in hopes of having a better life. April’s goal to become an actress has flopped, and Frank is unfulfilled in his job. Frank is a rare unsympathetic role for DiCaprio, but his faithfulness to the character was impressive enough to earn his seventh Golden Globe nomination.

 

14. THE GREAT GATSBY (2013)

Director: Baz Luhrmann. Writers: Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher.

 

In the fourth film version of the F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s 1925 masterpiece, DiCaprio plays the film’s title character, Jay Gatsby, whose enormous wealth has been gained under somewhat suspicious auspices. Gatsby throws fabulous parties in his Long Island mansion and invites guests he doesn’t know, confiding to new friend Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) that he does it only in hopes that one day the one woman he has loved and lost, Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan), will show up. Gatsby is an enigmatic character that really requires a movie star to pull it off, and DiCaprio more than fills the bill.

 

13. INCEPTION (2010)

Writer/Director: Christopher Nolan. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Tom Berenger.

 

The star of any Christopher Nolan film is, of course, Christopher Nolan, and for an actor such as DiCaprio who specializes in intricate character work, it’s challenging to do that work in a high-concept sci-fi epic. Yet DiCaprio is able to work his magic here as Dom Cobb, a thief who has the ability to steal secrets from his victims by infiltrating their subconscious thoughts, who is offered a chance for redemption by agreeing to try to implant another person’s idea into the mind of a target. It’s not DiCaprio’s deepest performance, but he does manage to keep the character interesting.

 

12. BLOOD DIAMOND (2006)

Director: Edward Zwick. Writers: Charles Leavitt, Marshall Herskovitz. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Sheen.

 

To someone with totally untrained ears, DiCaprio delivers a spot-on South African accent in his role as Danny Archer, a gunrunner jailed for smuggling diamonds and finds himself imprisoned with fisherman Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), who has discovered a valuable pink diamond. Danny is a real character part for DiCaprio, and for his performance he earned his third Academy Award nomination, his sixth Golden Globe nod and his seventh Screen Actors Guild nomination.

 

11. GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002)

Director: Martin Scorsese. Writers: Jay Cocks, Steven Zallian, Kenneth Lonergan. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent.

 

DiCaprio collaborated with director Martin Scorsese for the first time in this story set in the mid 1800s in a Manhattan slum, which is run by crime lord William “Bill the Butcher” Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis). As a child, Amsterdam witnessed his father being stabbed to death by Bill, and the boy has kept the knife so that, as an adult (DiCaprio) he can use it on Bill to avenge his father’s murder. This is a big brawny performance from DiCaprio, which will pay off in dividends with further films with Scorsese later in the actor’s career.

 

10. THE AVIATOR (2004)

Director: Martin Scorsese. Writer: John Logan. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Alan Alda, John C, Reilly, Alan Alda, Kate Beckinsale.

 

In his second collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, DiCaprio takes on the enormous role of billionaire-turned-madman Howard Hughes. If DiCaprio had chosen to go big-big-BIG! with this character (which given Hughes’ famed eccentricities, he could have easily have done), “The Aviator” could have gone flying off the rails. But DiCaprio approached it as a character actor would, and that’s why it worked. For his performance as Hughes, DiCaprio won his first Golden Globe Award and earned his second Academy Award nomination, as well as his third and fourth Screen Actors Guild nominations.

 

9. WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE (1993)

Director: Lasse Hallström. Writer: Peter Hedges, based on his novel. Starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mary Steenburgen, Darlene Cates.

 

At age 19, Di Caprio received his first Academy Award nomination as Arnie Grape, the mentally-challenged younger brother of Gilbert (Johnny Depp), who must serve as caretaker to both Arnie and their obese mother Bonnie (Darlene Cates). This was a daring role to take on for DiCaprio, whose brilliant underplaying said to Hollywood that this is an actor to be reckoned with. For his performance as Arnie, DiCaprio was also nominated for his first Golden Globe Award. Not bad for the little kid from “Growing Pains.”

 

8. DON’T LOOK UP (2021)

DiCaprio has long made the subject of climate change his key philanthropic objectives, but he has perhaps his biggest platform yet with Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up.” The sharp satire substitutes an approaching comet for the slow collapse of the environment and puts DiCaprio in a position to mix broad comedy with furious outrage. McKay has said DiCaprio is a sneaky hilarious performer and that’s borne out in the film. But his showcase scene — which calls to mind Peter Finch’s legendary “mad-as-hell” speech in “Network” — is anything but funny, and it’s hard to imagine another current star being able to pull it off with such precision.

 

7. DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012)

Writer/Director: Quentin Tarantino. Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins.

 

In a career that includes finely attuned character work, DiCaprio had the chance to let it all hang out in this Quentin Tarantino Western that allowed him to let the famed Tarantino dialogue just ooze out of his mouth. As evil plantation owner Monsieur Calvin J. Candie, DiCaprio just personifies Southern decadence, from his brocade vest to his elaborate cigarette holder and is having a blast playing a villain. For his performance as Calvin, DiCaprio earned his ninth nomination for a Golden Globe Award.

 

 

6. THE DEPARTED (2006)

Director: Martin Scorsese. Writer: William Monahan. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin.

 

DiCaprio led an all-star cast in Martin Scorsese‘s Oscar-winning Best Picture as Billy Costigan, a Massachusetts cop who is ordered to go undercover to infiltrate the Irish-American mob in South Boston led by gangster Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). DiCaprio really engages the audience’s sympathy here, and he gets us to worry that, with every encounter with Nicholson, he might just fatally slip up. For his performance as Billy, DiCaprio was nominated for his fifth Golden Globe Award, as well as his fifth and sixth Screen Actors Guild nods.

 

5. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (2002)

Director: Steven Spielberg. Writer: Jeff Nathanson. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Amy Adams.

 

In this real-life crime film directed by Steven Spielberg, DiCaprio portrays young con-man Frank Abagnale, Jr. who, by the time he turned 19, had swindled his way into millions of dollars. Posing as various people (including a Pan Am airline pilot), Frank Jr. conducted an elaborate check fraud scheme, which came to the attention of FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks). The two pursue each other in a cat-and-mouse game that is just delightful. For his performance as Frank Jr., DiCaprio earned his third nomination for a Golden Globe Award.

 

4. TITANIC (1997)

Writer/Director: James Cameron. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Gloria Stuart, Frances Fisher.

 

DiCaprio went from respected actor to worldwide movie star in the James Cameron‘s phenomenal hit, the second highest-grossing film of all time. DiCaprio manages the tricky feat of being convincing as Jack Dawson, a penniless stowaway to passing as a first-class passenger complete with formal wear. And his romantic chemistry with Kate Winslet is one for the record books. For his performance as Jack, DiCaprio earned his second nomination for a Golden Globe Award and, as a member of the film’s ensemble, garnered his second nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.

 

3. ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019)

Writer/Director: Quentin Tarantino. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino, Emile Hirsch, Kurt Russell, Margaret Qualley.

 

In what writer/director Quentin Tarantino calls his penultimate film (we’ll see), “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” stars DiCaprio as actor Rick Dalton, who became famous as the star of the TV Western “Bounty Law.” But it’s now 1969, and Rick, along with his stuntman/double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), finds himself at a crossroads — audiences’ tastes have changed, and his kind of roles have dried up. Reduced to villainous guest parts on TV shows, Rick looks for career salvation from his new neighbors — director Roman Polanski and girlfriend Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie). DiCaprio delivers a moving performance as a man who must put on a happy face to the world, all the time knowing that his world may be falling apart.

 

2. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013)

Director: Martin Scorsese. Writer: Terence Winter. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey.

 

Working once again with Martin Scorsese, DiCaprio won his second Golden Globe Award for his performance as the real-life stockbroker Jordan Belfort, whose underhanded and fraudulent practices made him a small fortune which he spent on a decadent lifestyle of sex and drugs. After a career filled with a number of interior-based performances, it was fun to see DiCaprio let loose on screen. The film also earned DiCaprio’s fourth and fifth Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and producing the Best Picture nominee.

 

1. THE REVENANT (2015)

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Writers: Mark L. Smith, Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson.

 

DiCaprio won his first Academy Award, his third Golden Globe Award and his first Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s film as Hugh Glass, a frontier guide in 1823, who is left for dead by a group of trappers after he is mauled by a grizzly bear. Miraculously, Hugh survives and swears vengeance on the men who abandoned him. Hugh is an enormously physical role while at the same time giving DiCaprio enough room to offer some powerful character work. A much-deserved win.

 

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[Lilja K]

⬆️ The Wolf Of The Wall Street should be N1 imo

 

Leo was phenomenal in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Imagine being that talented from such a young age🤩

[BarbieErin]

The Revenant is very right in the first place, still my fave Leo movie, not because he won the Oscar, but simply because I think that movie is BEAUTIFUL in every single way, at least in my opinion. 

[BarbieErin]

Leo's compilation on the Ellen Show.

 

 

[Lilja K]

2 hours ago, BarbieErin said:

The Revenant is very right in the first place, still my fave Leo movie, not because he won the Oscar, but simply because I think that movie is BEAUTIFUL in every single way, at least in my opinion. 

I prefer TWOWS, because it's my fav Leo's movie (also my fav Scorsese's movie) and the strongest Leo's work in my opinion. If world wasn't deranged, he would get an Oscar for TWOWS😅 

[Jade Bahr]

#1 movie for me will always be TITANIC. There is literally no other movie nor role that influenced Leos career or our film culture more. That Leo also managed to get nominated for SAG and GG instead of a Razzi Award (like so many other so called heartthrob roles) is really impressive. Not to mention it's the only non franchise/superhero movie about a woman that made over 1 billion dollars at the box office til today.

 

Also if I had to choose one movie I had to watch for the rest of my life it would be easily and without thinking Titanic.

 

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[Lilja K]

Love how we all have different opinions on "Leo's N1 movie", which proves (again) the incredible range of his filmography🤍

[Jade Bahr]

1 hour ago, Lilja K said:

Love how we all have different opinions on "Leo's N1 movie", which proves (again) the incredible range of his filmography🤍

Just another ranking which includes some other movies (also this time from a female writer).

 

LOVE her interpretation why Leo decided to make TMITIM after R+J and Titanic hiding his beautiful face not just literally but in fact behind this godawful constricting mask (he stated more than once how uncomfortable he was while wearing it)

 

Never thought it that way.

 

If you see it that way the movie is full of metaphors.

 

I mean even having 2 Leos seperated (one good one evil) is a big metaphor in times of Leo mania

 

Really interesting take I have to say. However here is her ranking

 

Leonardo DiCaprio's 15 Best Films, Ranked

 

Since the early 1990s, Leonardo DiCaprio has been wowing audiences around the world. His career has served as a model for young actors who rise to fame quickly, and feel pressure to avoid being typecast in teen heartthrob roles. Rather than settling into a comfortable, if creatively uninspired, run of romantic lead performances, DiCaprio purposefully sought out challenging opportunities that would prove his range.

 

And for a long time, these efforts went unrewarded. Despite being one of the most famous and professionally consistent actors in Hollywood, he went without an Academy Award until 216 when he finally won for his work in "The Revenant." (Was this an award he received because the general consensus was that he was overdue rather than a reflection of the film's actual quality? Perhaps. But that's an argument for another day.) And as a whole, DiCaprio's career is worth celebrating because, at almost every turn, he has avoided taking the easy paycheck, instead choosing to work with directors he respects and in roles that he finds creatively fulfilling.

 

15. Gangs of New York

 

Every great film collaboration has to have a beginning, and although "Gangs of New York" may not be the best film Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio have worked on together, it deserves recognition for being the first. You can see the chemistry between the director and actor early on, and they would go on to make a number of other movies — with DiCaprio eventually becoming one of Scorsese's most frequently utilized performers.

 

In "Gangs of New York," DiCaprio is cast opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, the two playing a pair of adversaries in the famously dangerous Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan in the mid-1800s. Day-Lewis plays Bill the Butcher, who murdered DiCaprio's character's father when he was a child. Now grown up, DiCaprio's Amsterdam Vallon vows revenge on the infamous gang leader. We can quibble with some of the creative decisions in the film, but both performances are beyond reproach, and it's easy to see why Scorsese would so often return to DiCaprio over the next 20 years.

 

14. The Man in the Iron Mask

 

After performing as the romantic lead in two mega-hits, DiCaprio was uncomfortable with his status as a Teen Beat cover boy, worrying that it would prevent him from being taken seriously as an actor. That's why "The Man in the Iron Mask" is such an interesting choice for him to follow up "Titanic" and "Romeo + Juliet." The Alexandre Dumas classic about a royal intrigue with a prince hidden away in a prison, his identity concealed, would give the actor the rare opportunity to hide his face, rather than capitalize on it.

 

In the dual roles of the cruel King Louis and the kind and gentle Philippe, DiCaprio gets to have his cake and eat it, too: He plays the sensitive leading man that audiences would come to expect from him, but he also gets to experiment with a darker character that would otherwise be against type. Say what you will about "The Man in the Iron Mask," but it's a fascinating moment in his filmography.

 

13. The Basketball Diaries

 

A cautionary tale about the dangers of drug abuse, "The Basketball Diaries" is nothing short of harrowing. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jim Carroll, a young high school basketball player who, alongside his friends, becomes embroiled in a crippling heroin addiction that quickly takes over his entire life. The film itself leans a bit too much into the shock value of the ordinary all-American boys and their rapid entry into the world of drugs, giving it a movie-of-the-week quality at times.

 

But DiCaprio's performance stands out, and it's his overwhelming desperation that gives "The Basketball Diaries" its emotional resonance. If nothing else, he creates one scene that defines the film: His mother has locked him out of their apartment in a devastating act of tough love, and he sits outside the door begging for her to let him in, animalistic cries of despair that quickly turn to rage.

 

12. Shutter Island

 

Leonardo DiCaprio may not always be the good guy, but in every film he has an undeniably strong presence and sense of self. So it's especially disconcerting to see his performance in Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller "Shutter Island." He begins as the sort of confident, authoritative law enforcement officer that we've come to expect from DiCaprio at this stage of his career: Edward "Teddy" Daniels investigating a strange and forbidding psychiatric institution on an island in New England.

 

But over the course of "Shutter Island," reality becomes murky, and Daniels begins to question his very identity. His performance comes from a different place of vulnerability than we've seen from DiCaprio in the past. When he was younger, he had a raw, sensitive quality that frequently influenced his work. But here, as a full-grown man, this uncertainty he possesses is informed by rage and aggression, an altogether dangerous and more disturbing frame of mind.

 

11. Blood Diamond

 

Somewhat dodgy accent aside, "Blood Diamond" would represent a step forward in DiCaprio's ever-evolving quest to be taken seriously as an actor. In a lot of ways, it's a story so dramatic and emotionally wrought that it's almost actor-proof: A man from Sierra Leone attempting to rescue his son who has been kidnapped and forced to become a child soldier is devastating beyond words. And they could have gotten by with actors much less skilled than DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou. Nevertheless, the two leads put in towering performances that would earn both of them Academy Award nominations.

 

DiCaprio plays a smuggler from former Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) who agrees to help Hounsou's character, Solomon Vandy, find his missing son in exchange for the massive diamond Vandy swears that he knows the location of. The role incorporates DiCaprio's penchant for flawed heroes, as well as capturing his interest in political activism. ("Blood Diamond," as you may be able to tell from the title, is fiercely critical of the unethical diamond trade.)

 

10. The Departed

 

Between DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed" has no shortage of former teen heartthrobs trying to take on gritty roles. DiCaprio plays a cop undercover in the Boston mob, while Damon plays a mobster infiltrating the Boston Police Department. "The Departed" is packed with tension as both attempt to maintain their covers ... and avoid becoming unwittingly empathetic towards the people they're supposed to be spying on. In the process, the line between the two becomes increasingly blurred: The more you pretend to be something you're not, the less certain you are of your identity in the first place.

 

This and "Blood Diamond" came out within the same year, and both smoothed DiCaprio's transition to darker, more adult roles. It would also help cement DiCaprio's status as one of Scorsese's favorite leading men: "The Departed" was their third collaboration in four years, and the pair would go on to make many more films together in the future.

 

9. The Great Gatsby

 

If there's anyone in the world who should be making an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic "The Great Gatsby," it's Baz Luhrmann, whose entire mantra revolves around shallow opulence and style over substance. And if there's anyone who should play its mysterious hero Jay Gatsby, it's Leonardo DiCaprio. He's always been an engaging actor, but there's something about his presence as a movie star that keeps the audience at arm's length — we know him, but we don't really know him. And that's what makes him such a great Jay, leaning into the layers and layers of artifice that build the character from his humble origins to one of the wealthiest men in New York.

 

It's also a delight to see him as a romantic lead once again: After years of taking on darker, more serious roles, his performance as Jay Gatsby strikes a nice balance. He's not a conventional leading man, but his dynamic with Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan is bright and vibrant, even if it will eventually be clouded by melancholic regret.

 

8. Revolutionary Road

 

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet will probably go down in history as one of the all-time great onscreen pairings. Their work together is effortlessly charismatic, and they have a personal bond dating back to their time on "Titanic" that makes them jump off the screen. "Revolutionary Road" is a bummer because it takes all of that natural chemistry and pours it into a heartbreakingly authentic relationship in crisis.

 

The pair star as Frank and April Wheeler, a married couple in the 1950s whose relationship begins to fall apart under the pressures of soul-crushing suburban life, with tragic consequences. They completely disappear into the roles, bringing to life a dark vision of the American dream as something oppressive and ultimately unattainable. Fans wished for so many years for DiCaprio and Winslet to star in a film together again, but the unrelenting gloom of "Revolutionary Road" probably wasn't the type of romantic collaboration they were envisioning.

 

7. The Wolf of Wall Street

 

Sometimes you have characters who maybe aren't the greatest people, morally speaking, but there's still some ineffable quality that makes them the tiniest bit redeemable. That's not the case in "The Wolf of Wall Street." There's no devil's advocate argument to be made for Jordan Belfort, the patron saint of greedy, borderline sociopathic financial bros everywhere. Leonardo DiCaprio plays him with absolutely nothing going on behind the eyes: He's driven only by an intense need to accumulate money and status, rising up the ranks on Wall Street with little regard for anyone who might get in his way.

 

We've seen this type of character before, via Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street," but the key difference is that he's not presented as the protagonist of the film. Scorsese and DiCaprio both take a certain glee in centering their story around an objectively scummy, cruel, hypercompetitive character if for no other reason than to make a statement about the only kind of people who can succeed in a society that worships money.

 

6. Django Unchained

 

Leonardo DiCaprio has often played characters that fall just outside the traditional male lead: They're just a little bit irredeemable, or unlikeable, or immoral. But it's rare that he is given the opportunity to play an all-out villain as he does in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," and the effect is chilling. Here he plays Calvin J. Candie, a gregarious, sociopathic slaveowner whose plantation, Candyland, is a carnival of horrors. He thinks nothing of, for example, forcing two enslaved men to fight one another to the death as a form of entertainment, or having a man torn apart by dogs.

 

His performance is jarringly off-kilter, vacillating wildly between sociable and threatening. Candie is dangerous and frightening for precisely this reason — his behavior is unpredictable, and you can't tell what he's going to do next. A far cry from the sensitive, vulnerable heroes he played in his youth, DiCaprio's work in "Django Unchained" is a reminder of how multi-faceted he is as a performer.

 

5. The Aviator

 

What better way to make a push for an Oscar than by doing a big, splashy biopic about a famously neurotic Hollywood legend? With Martin Scorsese behind the camera, Leonardo DiCaprio's headlining performance as Howard Hughes in "The Aviator" was bound to be a success, with critics as well as general audiences.

 

As Hughes, DiCaprio is nothing short of mesmerizing. He once again proves his ability to put in the type of performance that dominates the screen, something that would be absolutely essential for a film like "The Aviator," a massive epic where Hughes is featured in nearly every single scene. His work would see him nominated for best actor at the Academy Awards, although his costar Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn would be the only one of the two to take home a statue. For DiCaprio, the hunt for an Oscar would continue for several more years.

 

4. What's Eating Gilbert Grape

 

Leonardo DiCaprio seems like a pretty stand-up guy. But he has committed one very serious crime in his professional career, and that was stealing "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" entirely out from under his fellow actor Johnny Depp. The understated indie drama would star Depp at the height of his fame, playing the discontented 20-something buckling under the pressure of caring for his morbidly obese mother (Darlene Cates) and intellectually disabled younger brother Arnie (DiCaprio.)

 

Although his role is merely a supporting one, DiCaprio imbues Arnie with such a raw, intense empathy that it's actually startling to watch. Only 19 years old when "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" was filmed, his performance is effective precisely because it lacks self-consciousness: You can't see him thinking through how to play the character — he just does it. DiCaprio was rewarded with a best supporting actor nomination at the Academy Awards, making him the seventh youngest actor to receive that honor.

 

3. Titanic

 

Buckle up folks, this is a big one. Looking back, it's difficult to fully comprehend how quickly and terrifyingly "Titanic" launched Leonardo DiCaprio's career into the stratosphere. He had done a bunch of smaller films in previous years, then "Romeo + Juliet" lit the fuse so that when "Titanic" come out and broke box office records all over the world, his face was everywhere.

 

There are a few reasons for this. The character of Jack, a wayward artist who begins a relationship with the upper-class Rose (Kate Winslet) aboard the doomed ocean liner Titanic, is essentially a perfect man. He's kind, funny, interesting, intelligent — everything you would want in a romantic lead. DiCaprio plays him with such an effortless charm that from the first time he appears on screen, the audience falls in love. And all of this is without even mentioning his quintessentially '90s floppy hair, an iconic look that would see him adorning high school lockers all across the country.

 

2. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

 

If Leonardo DiCaprio's first collaboration with Quentin Tarantino allowed him the opportunity to take on the villain role, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" would let him live out a hero fantasy. It's Hollywood in the late 1960s, and DiCaprio plays Rick Dalton, a fading star who happens to live right next door to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. He's acutely aware of his career trajectory, but isn't willing to give up the spotlight just yet. DiCaprio is at his best playing the earnestness of Dalton, both his desire to be taken seriously as an actor and his tendency towards self-sabotage.

 

But perhaps most importantly, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" gives DiCaprio the chance to be something he rarely is on-screen: funny. His dressing room meltdowns as he berates himself in the mirror for drinking too much are so much more hilarious than they have any right to be. And after a string of serious performances that seemed to be geared towards winning him an Oscar, this is the first time in quite some time that he looks like he's having fun in a role.

 

1. Catch Me If You Can

 

Frank Abagnale is an emotionally complex character, but there's also an element of boyish fantasy to his exploits. In what other role would you get to play a counterfeiter, an airline pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer all at once? "Catch Me If You Can" is one of Steven Spielberg's most stylish films, and it rests almost entirely on the shoulders of Leonardo DiCaprio in its lead role. Based on the true story, it details the adventures of a mid-century conman, and the bizarrely codependent relationship he would have with the persistent investigator spending most of the 1960s trying to catch him (played by a Boston-accented Tom Hanks.)

 

"Catch Me If You Can" is slick and fast-paced. It almost has to be in order to keep up with Frank, who is always on the run. DiCaprio imbues him with the overwhelming charisma that any self-respecting conman needs to have in spades, but never lets the audience forget his deep vulnerabilities. Frank is in perpetual motion because he is pathologically unable to stop and face his problems, ever since he was 16 years old and running away from home to avoid dealing with his parents' divorce.

 

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[Lilja K]

1 hour ago, Jade Bahr said:

Just another ranking which includes some other movies (also this time from a female writer).

 

LOVE her interpretation why Leo decided to make TMITIM after R+J and Titanic hiding his beautiful face not just literally but in fact behind this godawful constricting mask (he stated more than once how uncomfortable he was while wearing it)

 

Never thought it that way.

 

If you see it that way the movie is full of metaphors.

 

I mean even having 2 Leos seperated (one good one evil) is a big metaphor in times of Leo mania

 

Really interesting take I have to say. However here is her ranking

 

Leonardo DiCaprio's 15 Best Films, Ranked

 

Since the early 1990s, Leonardo DiCaprio has been wowing audiences around the world. His career has served as a model for young actors who rise to fame quickly, and feel pressure to avoid being typecast in teen heartthrob roles. Rather than settling into a comfortable, if creatively uninspired, run of romantic lead performances, DiCaprio purposefully sought out challenging opportunities that would prove his range.

 

And for a long time, these efforts went unrewarded. Despite being one of the most famous and professionally consistent actors in Hollywood, he went without an Academy Award until 216 when he finally won for his work in "The Revenant." (Was this an award he received because the general consensus was that he was overdue rather than a reflection of the film's actual quality? Perhaps. But that's an argument for another day.) And as a whole, DiCaprio's career is worth celebrating because, at almost every turn, he has avoided taking the easy paycheck, instead choosing to work with directors he respects and in roles that he finds creatively fulfilling.

 

15. Gangs of New York

 

Every great film collaboration has to have a beginning, and although "Gangs of New York" may not be the best film Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio have worked on together, it deserves recognition for being the first. You can see the chemistry between the director and actor early on, and they would go on to make a number of other movies — with DiCaprio eventually becoming one of Scorsese's most frequently utilized performers.

 

In "Gangs of New York," DiCaprio is cast opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, the two playing a pair of adversaries in the famously dangerous Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan in the mid-1800s. Day-Lewis plays Bill the Butcher, who murdered DiCaprio's character's father when he was a child. Now grown up, DiCaprio's Amsterdam Vallon vows revenge on the infamous gang leader. We can quibble with some of the creative decisions in the film, but both performances are beyond reproach, and it's easy to see why Scorsese would so often return to DiCaprio over the next 20 years.

 

14. The Man in the Iron Mask

 

After performing as the romantic lead in two mega-hits, DiCaprio was uncomfortable with his status as a Teen Beat cover boy, worrying that it would prevent him from being taken seriously as an actor. That's why "The Man in the Iron Mask" is such an interesting choice for him to follow up "Titanic" and "Romeo + Juliet." The Alexandre Dumas classic about a royal intrigue with a prince hidden away in a prison, his identity concealed, would give the actor the rare opportunity to hide his face, rather than capitalize on it.

 

In the dual roles of the cruel King Louis and the kind and gentle Philippe, DiCaprio gets to have his cake and eat it, too: He plays the sensitive leading man that audiences would come to expect from him, but he also gets to experiment with a darker character that would otherwise be against type. Say what you will about "The Man in the Iron Mask," but it's a fascinating moment in his filmography.

 

13. The Basketball Diaries

 

A cautionary tale about the dangers of drug abuse, "The Basketball Diaries" is nothing short of harrowing. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jim Carroll, a young high school basketball player who, alongside his friends, becomes embroiled in a crippling heroin addiction that quickly takes over his entire life. The film itself leans a bit too much into the shock value of the ordinary all-American boys and their rapid entry into the world of drugs, giving it a movie-of-the-week quality at times.

 

But DiCaprio's performance stands out, and it's his overwhelming desperation that gives "The Basketball Diaries" its emotional resonance. If nothing else, he creates one scene that defines the film: His mother has locked him out of their apartment in a devastating act of tough love, and he sits outside the door begging for her to let him in, animalistic cries of despair that quickly turn to rage.

 

12. Shutter Island

 

Leonardo DiCaprio may not always be the good guy, but in every film he has an undeniably strong presence and sense of self. So it's especially disconcerting to see his performance in Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller "Shutter Island." He begins as the sort of confident, authoritative law enforcement officer that we've come to expect from DiCaprio at this stage of his career: Edward "Teddy" Daniels investigating a strange and forbidding psychiatric institution on an island in New England.

 

But over the course of "Shutter Island," reality becomes murky, and Daniels begins to question his very identity. His performance comes from a different place of vulnerability than we've seen from DiCaprio in the past. When he was younger, he had a raw, sensitive quality that frequently influenced his work. But here, as a full-grown man, this uncertainty he possesses is informed by rage and aggression, an altogether dangerous and more disturbing frame of mind.

 

11. Blood Diamond

 

Somewhat dodgy accent aside, "Blood Diamond" would represent a step forward in DiCaprio's ever-evolving quest to be taken seriously as an actor. In a lot of ways, it's a story so dramatic and emotionally wrought that it's almost actor-proof: A man from Sierra Leone attempting to rescue his son who has been kidnapped and forced to become a child soldier is devastating beyond words. And they could have gotten by with actors much less skilled than DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou. Nevertheless, the two leads put in towering performances that would earn both of them Academy Award nominations.

 

DiCaprio plays a smuggler from former Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) who agrees to help Hounsou's character, Solomon Vandy, find his missing son in exchange for the massive diamond Vandy swears that he knows the location of. The role incorporates DiCaprio's penchant for flawed heroes, as well as capturing his interest in political activism. ("Blood Diamond," as you may be able to tell from the title, is fiercely critical of the unethical diamond trade.)

 

10. The Departed

 

Between DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed" has no shortage of former teen heartthrobs trying to take on gritty roles. DiCaprio plays a cop undercover in the Boston mob, while Damon plays a mobster infiltrating the Boston Police Department. "The Departed" is packed with tension as both attempt to maintain their covers ... and avoid becoming unwittingly empathetic towards the people they're supposed to be spying on. In the process, the line between the two becomes increasingly blurred: The more you pretend to be something you're not, the less certain you are of your identity in the first place.

 

This and "Blood Diamond" came out within the same year, and both smoothed DiCaprio's transition to darker, more adult roles. It would also help cement DiCaprio's status as one of Scorsese's favorite leading men: "The Departed" was their third collaboration in four years, and the pair would go on to make many more films together in the future.

 

9. The Great Gatsby

 

If there's anyone in the world who should be making an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic "The Great Gatsby," it's Baz Luhrmann, whose entire mantra revolves around shallow opulence and style over substance. And if there's anyone who should play its mysterious hero Jay Gatsby, it's Leonardo DiCaprio. He's always been an engaging actor, but there's something about his presence as a movie star that keeps the audience at arm's length — we know him, but we don't really know him. And that's what makes him such a great Jay, leaning into the layers and layers of artifice that build the character from his humble origins to one of the wealthiest men in New York.

 

It's also a delight to see him as a romantic lead once again: After years of taking on darker, more serious roles, his performance as Jay Gatsby strikes a nice balance. He's not a conventional leading man, but his dynamic with Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan is bright and vibrant, even if it will eventually be clouded by melancholic regret.

 

8. Revolutionary Road

 

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet will probably go down in history as one of the all-time great onscreen pairings. Their work together is effortlessly charismatic, and they have a personal bond dating back to their time on "Titanic" that makes them jump off the screen. "Revolutionary Road" is a bummer because it takes all of that natural chemistry and pours it into a heartbreakingly authentic relationship in crisis.

 

The pair star as Frank and April Wheeler, a married couple in the 1950s whose relationship begins to fall apart under the pressures of soul-crushing suburban life, with tragic consequences. They completely disappear into the roles, bringing to life a dark vision of the American dream as something oppressive and ultimately unattainable. Fans wished for so many years for DiCaprio and Winslet to star in a film together again, but the unrelenting gloom of "Revolutionary Road" probably wasn't the type of romantic collaboration they were envisioning.

 

7. The Wolf of Wall Street

 

Sometimes you have characters who maybe aren't the greatest people, morally speaking, but there's still some ineffable quality that makes them the tiniest bit redeemable. That's not the case in "The Wolf of Wall Street." There's no devil's advocate argument to be made for Jordan Belfort, the patron saint of greedy, borderline sociopathic financial bros everywhere. Leonardo DiCaprio plays him with absolutely nothing going on behind the eyes: He's driven only by an intense need to accumulate money and status, rising up the ranks on Wall Street with little regard for anyone who might get in his way.

 

We've seen this type of character before, via Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street," but the key difference is that he's not presented as the protagonist of the film. Scorsese and DiCaprio both take a certain glee in centering their story around an objectively scummy, cruel, hypercompetitive character if for no other reason than to make a statement about the only kind of people who can succeed in a society that worships money.

 

6. Django Unchained

 

Leonardo DiCaprio has often played characters that fall just outside the traditional male lead: They're just a little bit irredeemable, or unlikeable, or immoral. But it's rare that he is given the opportunity to play an all-out villain as he does in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," and the effect is chilling. Here he plays Calvin J. Candie, a gregarious, sociopathic slaveowner whose plantation, Candyland, is a carnival of horrors. He thinks nothing of, for example, forcing two enslaved men to fight one another to the death as a form of entertainment, or having a man torn apart by dogs.

 

His performance is jarringly off-kilter, vacillating wildly between sociable and threatening. Candie is dangerous and frightening for precisely this reason — his behavior is unpredictable, and you can't tell what he's going to do next. A far cry from the sensitive, vulnerable heroes he played in his youth, DiCaprio's work in "Django Unchained" is a reminder of how multi-faceted he is as a performer.

 

5. The Aviator

 

What better way to make a push for an Oscar than by doing a big, splashy biopic about a famously neurotic Hollywood legend? With Martin Scorsese behind the camera, Leonardo DiCaprio's headlining performance as Howard Hughes in "The Aviator" was bound to be a success, with critics as well as general audiences.

 

As Hughes, DiCaprio is nothing short of mesmerizing. He once again proves his ability to put in the type of performance that dominates the screen, something that would be absolutely essential for a film like "The Aviator," a massive epic where Hughes is featured in nearly every single scene. His work would see him nominated for best actor at the Academy Awards, although his costar Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn would be the only one of the two to take home a statue. For DiCaprio, the hunt for an Oscar would continue for several more years.

 

4. What's Eating Gilbert Grape

 

Leonardo DiCaprio seems like a pretty stand-up guy. But he has committed one very serious crime in his professional career, and that was stealing "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" entirely out from under his fellow actor Johnny Depp. The understated indie drama would star Depp at the height of his fame, playing the discontented 20-something buckling under the pressure of caring for his morbidly obese mother (Darlene Cates) and intellectually disabled younger brother Arnie (DiCaprio.)

 

Although his role is merely a supporting one, DiCaprio imbues Arnie with such a raw, intense empathy that it's actually startling to watch. Only 19 years old when "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" was filmed, his performance is effective precisely because it lacks self-consciousness: You can't see him thinking through how to play the character — he just does it. DiCaprio was rewarded with a best supporting actor nomination at the Academy Awards, making him the seventh youngest actor to receive that honor.

 

3. Titanic

 

Buckle up folks, this is a big one. Looking back, it's difficult to fully comprehend how quickly and terrifyingly "Titanic" launched Leonardo DiCaprio's career into the stratosphere. He had done a bunch of smaller films in previous years, then "Romeo + Juliet" lit the fuse so that when "Titanic" come out and broke box office records all over the world, his face was everywhere.

 

There are a few reasons for this. The character of Jack, a wayward artist who begins a relationship with the upper-class Rose (Kate Winslet) aboard the doomed ocean liner Titanic, is essentially a perfect man. He's kind, funny, interesting, intelligent — everything you would want in a romantic lead. DiCaprio plays him with such an effortless charm that from the first time he appears on screen, the audience falls in love. And all of this is without even mentioning his quintessentially '90s floppy hair, an iconic look that would see him adorning high school lockers all across the country.

 

2. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

 

If Leonardo DiCaprio's first collaboration with Quentin Tarantino allowed him the opportunity to take on the villain role, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" would let him live out a hero fantasy. It's Hollywood in the late 1960s, and DiCaprio plays Rick Dalton, a fading star who happens to live right next door to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. He's acutely aware of his career trajectory, but isn't willing to give up the spotlight just yet. DiCaprio is at his best playing the earnestness of Dalton, both his desire to be taken seriously as an actor and his tendency towards self-sabotage.

 

But perhaps most importantly, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" gives DiCaprio the chance to be something he rarely is on-screen: funny. His dressing room meltdowns as he berates himself in the mirror for drinking too much are so much more hilarious than they have any right to be. And after a string of serious performances that seemed to be geared towards winning him an Oscar, this is the first time in quite some time that he looks like he's having fun in a role.

 

1. Catch Me If You Can

 

Frank Abagnale is an emotionally complex character, but there's also an element of boyish fantasy to his exploits. In what other role would you get to play a counterfeiter, an airline pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer all at once? "Catch Me If You Can" is one of Steven Spielberg's most stylish films, and it rests almost entirely on the shoulders of Leonardo DiCaprio in its lead role. Based on the true story, it details the adventures of a mid-century conman, and the bizarrely codependent relationship he would have with the persistent investigator spending most of the 1960s trying to catch him (played by a Boston-accented Tom Hanks.)

 

"Catch Me If You Can" is slick and fast-paced. It almost has to be in order to keep up with Frank, who is always on the run. DiCaprio imbues him with the overwhelming charisma that any self-respecting conman needs to have in spades, but never lets the audience forget his deep vulnerabilities. Frank is in perpetual motion because he is pathologically unable to stop and face his problems, ever since he was 16 years old and running away from home to avoid dealing with his parents' divorce.

 

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Wow, I love the way she wrote🔥 Thanks for sharing! 

 

Also her text made me realize that there's only 3 (TWOWS, Jango Unchained and TMIM) movies where Leo plays a not an antihero or an antivillain but a villain🤔 At least in my perception 

[akatosh]

6 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:

#1 movie for me will always be TITANIC. There is literally no other movie nor role that influenced Leos career or our film culture more. That Leo also managed to get nominated for SAG and GG instead of a Razzi Award (like so many other so called heartthrob roles) is really impressive. Not to mention it's the only non franchise/superhero movie about a woman that made over 1 billion dollars at the box office til today.

 

Also if I had to choose one movie I had to watch for the rest of my life it would be easily and without thinking Titanic.

 

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 I agree 100%! This movie is just special to me like no othe movie.

 

[Lilja K]

On this day 48 years ago was born one of the greatest people in the Hollywood's history and just an amazing person. Happy Birthday Leo, our favorite Scorpio🖤

[oxford25]

There’s our birthday boy having celebration dinner with his pals at Avra   
 

Leo made sure to turn around , so we could see his hair is still blonde in back  

 

Leo , wishing you a year ahead filled with good health , good times with family , friends , and loved ones

 

 

 

 

[kellybsblover]

Happy Birthday to the best, Leo. He is a ray of light in this world we live in. 

[BarbieErin]

Happy b-day Leo, wishing you the best always, hope you have an amazing day with your loved ones! ❤