Published 13:44 IST, November 11th 2019

Leonardo Di Caprio: Here are the best movies of the birthday boy

Leonardo Di Caprio is one of Hollywood's most charismatic and talented actors. He has starred in numerous films and celebrates his 45th birthday on November 11

Reported by: Sherwin D'Cunha
Follow: Google News Icon
  • share
null | Image: self
Advertisement

Leonardo Di Caprio is one of most talented and charismatic actors in movie industry today. Besides his profession as an actor, Leonardo is also a prolific producer and environmentalist. actor turns 45 on his birthday, vember 11.

Leonardo's first film appearance was in This Boy's Life, and he received acclaim for supporting role of a developmentally disabled boy in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (both 1993), which earned him an Acemy Award mination. He eventually achieved international fame as a Hollywood star in 1997 epic romance, Titanic. Since n, actor has gone onto to do numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films and worked with some of biggest names in Hollywood.  

Advertisement

Re Leonardo Di Caprio And Greta Thunberg Join Hands For Climate Change

Best movies of Leonardo Di Caprio

1. Titanic 

Titanic is a 1997 epic romance drama written, co-produced, co-edited and directed by James Cameron. It was a fictionalized re-telling of 1912 Titanic disaster and starred Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet as a pair of star-crossed lovers. Released on December 19, 1997, Titanic was a blockbuster at box-office, becoming first film to gross $1 billion worldwide. This was Leonardo Di Caprio's first big studio film, and film catapulted him to worldwide fame, with Leo-Mania raging across female fans of actor around world. 

Advertisement

2. Wolf of Wall Street

Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 biographical black comedy directed by Martin Scorcese and based on on  memoir of same name by Jordan Belfort. Leonardo, who also co-produced film, starred as Jordan Belfort and recounts Belfort's perspective on his career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engd in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, which ultimately led to his downfall. Upon its release,  Wolf of Wall Street was critically acclaimed and commercially successful, with Leonardo receiving accoles for his performance. 

Re Paul Rudd Says He May Have Convinced Leonardo DiCaprio For 'Titanic'

Advertisement

3. Django Unchained 

Django Unchained is a 2012 revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Taranti, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L.Jackson and Leonardo Di Caprio in his first negative role. Set in  Old West, it is a highly stylized tribute to Spaghetti Westerns using an obvious revisionist history. Upon release, emerged as a box-office and critical success, and Leonardo received praised for his role as slimy and fearful slave owner. 

Re  'Inception' Climax Was A Reality And t A Dream. Here's How We Kw....

Advertisement

4. Inception

Inception is regarded as one of greatest films of last dece. Written, co-produced and directed by Christopher lan, science-fiction action film starred Leonardo Di Caprio, Ellen P, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe and Joseph Gordon-Lewitt. Leonardo stars as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating  subconscious and is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for implantation of ar person's idea into a target's subconscious. Inception went on to become one of biggest critical and commercial successes.

Re Ayushmann-Bhumi-Yami's Hilarious Titanic-style Poster

Advertisement

12:37 IST, November 11th 2019