Thanks to the double whammy of a hip, modernized adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and a version of Romeo and Juliet Set on the Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio has been one of the world’s biggest movie stars since the late 1990s. In the decades that followed, DiCaprio gave acclaimed appearances in films such as the kite† The Revenantand Once upon a time in Hollywood†
The actor’s accolade has garnered an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and three Golden Globes (among a slew of other accolades and accolades). Known for recurring collaborations with renowned filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, he has also had one-off collaborations with directors such as Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan.
10 Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan, now one of the most popular filmmakers working today, initially broke out with the curiously low-budget neo-noir psychological thriller keepsake† He later revolutionized the superhero genre (and blockbuster cinema in general) with the gritty realism of The Dark Knight trilogy.
Nolan refined his particular brand of jaw-dropping IMAX action sequences in the Batman movies before casting DiCaprio as the protagonist in his high-concept sci-fi epic Starta heist movie about stealing ideas from people’s minds while they sleep.
9 Baz Luhrmann
Known for his dazzling images, Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann has collaborated with DiCaprio on a number of occasions. They first worked together in the 90s when the actor was just starting out and later reunited in the 2010s when DiCaprio was the king of the world.
DiCaprio played the star-crossed male lead in Romeo + JulietLuhrmann’s modernized adaptation of the Shakespearean classic and the title role in The Great GatsbyLuhrmann’s major adaptation of the Fitzgerald classic.
8 Sam Raimi
Thanks to his groundbreaking feature film debut The Evil DeathSam Raimi is a legend of horror cinema. But he has occasionally stepped outside the horror genre to lead critically acclaimed entries in other genres.
His groundbreaking Spider Man trilogy changed comic book movies forever, while The fast and the dead is a funny, revisionist western starring a young DiCaprio and a star-studded cast including Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe.
7 Alejandro G. Inarritu
DiCaprio finally won an Academy Award for his turn as a frontiersman who survives a bear attack in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s bleak western epic The Revenant†
The film uses lots of long takes and calls back to the style of Iñárritu’s previous Oscar-winning gem birdmanwhich was recorded and edited to look like a single two-hour recording.
6 James Cameron
One of the most respected action filmmakers in the world, James Cameron is the acclaimed creator of the Terminator franchisee. He also created much of the Alien franchise’s mythology for its groundbreaking sequel Aliens†
Cameron co-directed DiCaprio with Kate Winslet in Titanic, a film that was so successful that they instantly became two of the biggest stars in the world. A big budget romantic melodrama based on a historical tragedy would of course bomb, but Titanic defied the skeptics to become the highest grossing film of all time. Cameron repeated this trick a decade later with Avatar†
5 Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood became an iconic Hollywood movie star in the 1960s and 1970s before successfully transitioning to directing. Eastwood is equally known for his directing work – do not forgive† mystical river† Gran Torinoetc. – as his acting performances.
Eastwood directed DiCaprio in a biopic of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover entitled J. Edgar† The film received mixed reviews, but DiCaprio’s performance as Hoover was consistently praised.
4 Quentin Tarantino
During the 2010s, DiCaprio joined Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Tim Roth in Quentin Tarantino’s regular cast of actors. DiCaprio has played two completely different characters in Tarantino’s body of work.
In Tarantino’s slave-era spaghetti western Django unleashedDiCaprio played sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie. In his film industry fairy tale from the 1960s Once upon a time in HollywoodDiCaprio played insecure TV cowboy Rick Dalton, which earned him an Oscar nod for Best Actor.
3 Ridley Scott
When DiCaprio teamed up with Ridley Scott, it resulted in one of the director’s lesser known films. Full of lies is a forgettable spy thriller starring DiCaprio alongside Russell Crowe.
although Full of lies is not a particularly strong film, Scott has made some of the best films ever over his decades-long career, such as Alien† gladiator† Blade Runnerand Thelma & Louise (to name a few).
2 Steven Spielberg
As the director who shot Indiana Jones, ET and the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park on the big screen, Steven Spielberg is one of the most celebrated filmmakers in Hollywood.
DiCaprio played legendary con man Frank Abagnale, Jr. in Spielberg’s hilarious cat-and-mouse caper catch me if you can† Tom Hanks makes a great comedic counterpoint to DiCaprio as the plush FBI agent on his tail.
1 Martin Scorsese
In the early 21st century, DiCaprio replaced Robert De Niro as Martin Scorsese’s leading man with his turn as a young mobster bent on revenge against Daniel Day-Lewis’ Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York†
Since then, DiCaprio has played Howard Hughes in the kitean undercover cop from Boston in the deceasedan American Marshal who questions his identity Shutter Islandand amoral stockbroker Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street† DiCaprio and Scorsese are currently working on Killers of the Flower Moonwhich will be the first Scorsese film to feature both DiCaprio and De Niro.
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