Top 10 Best Leonardo DiCaprio Movies

DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a guide left for dead by his team after a bear attack who fights his way back through the wilderness. The filming in extreme weather shows in every shot, and the role finally won him his first Oscar in 2016.

As Jack Dawson in James Cameron's Titanic, DiCaprio went from promising young actor to global star. The romance with Kate Winslet's character carries the film, but it's his easy playfulness that makes the role work.

In this Scorsese film, DiCaprio plays stock fraudster Jordan Belfort, whose greed and arrogance give the film its energy. His physical comedy, especially in the paralyzing pills scene, shows a side his dramas rarely reveal.

As fading TV actor Rick Dalton in Tarantino's film, DiCaprio combines insecurity with self-mockery. The role demands vulnerability rather than strength, and that's exactly what the film leans on.

In Christopher Nolan's Inception, DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a thief who steals ideas by entering dreams. One of his few true action roles, carried by a personal story of guilt and loss that grounds the special effects.

As plantation owner Calvin Candie in Tarantino's Django Unchained, DiCaprio plays a completely merciless villain for the first time in his career. The contrast with his usual sympathetic leads works brilliantly.

In The Departed, DiCaprio plays an undercover cop infiltrating Boston's Irish mob. The constant tension between his two identities carries one of his best collaborations with Scorsese.

As con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. in Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can, DiCaprio combines charm with an underlying loneliness. The cat-and-mouse dynamic with Tom Hanks' character gives the film its rhythm.

In Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart, a man complicit in the murders of members of the Osage Nation in the 1920s. A role without redemption: DiCaprio plays the character's moral emptiness without softening it.

As Arnie, the intellectually disabled younger brother in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, DiCaprio delivered at nineteen the role that earned him his first Oscar nomination. Still one of his most physical and vulnerable performances.