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
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Leonardo Di Caprio is one of the most talented and charismatic actors in the movie industry today. Besides his profession as an actor, Leonardo is also a prolific producer and environmentalist. The actor turns 45 on his birthday, November 11.
Leonardo's first film appearance was in This Boy's Life, and he received acclaim for the supporting role of a developmentally disabled boy in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (both 1993), which earned him an Academy Award nomination. He eventually achieved international fame as a Hollywood star in the 1997 epic romance, Titanic. Since then, the actor has gone onto to do numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films and worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
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 the 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 the box-office, becoming the first film to gross $1 billion worldwide. This was Leonardo Di Caprio's first big studio film, and the film catapulted him to worldwide fame, with Leo-Mania raging across the female fans of the actor around the world.
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 biographical black comedy directed by Martin Scorcese and based on on the memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort. Leonardo, who also co-produced the 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, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, which ultimately led to his downfall. Upon its release, The Wolf of Wall Street was critically acclaimed and commercially successful, with Leonardo receiving accolades for his performance.
3. Django Unchained
Django Unchained is a 2012 revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L.Jackson and Leonardo Di Caprio in his first negative role. Set in the Old West, it is a highly stylized tribute to Spaghetti Westerns using an obvious revisionist history. Upon release, the emerged as a box-office and critical success, and Leonardo received praised for his role as the slimy and fearful slave owner.
4. Inception
Inception is regarded as one of the greatest films of the last decade. Written, co-produced and directed by Christopher Nolan, the science-fiction action film starred Leonardo Di Caprio, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe and Joseph Gordon-Lewitt. Leonardo stars as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious and is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. Inception went on to become one of the biggest critical and commercial successes.
12:37 IST, November 11th 2019