47 thoughts on “Leonardo DiCaprio Movies”

1. In 1929 there was a picture also named The Wolf of Wall Street that starred George Bancroft that was #1.

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2. Further to my opening paragraph in Part One, Leo kept trying to meet up with Mr Mumbles when he was alive , but the latter didn’t respond. Leo decided to make one last attempt, so he sent an E-Mail suggesting lunch. He was about to leave the room when he heard his computer zing and hurrying back to the machine, he saw that he had at last received a response from The Great Mumbler: “Let us be clear. I do NOT do lunch. Have a good day!”

   Best POSTERS in the Leo video for me were [though I had to restrain myself from listing more entries that I loved]- 1/Critters 3 2/Total Eclipse 3/J Edgar 4/foreign language ones for The Beach and 5/Revolution Road 6/Great Gatsby [it interested me comparing Leo’s Gatsby with Laddie’s 1949 vintage one]7/two for Romeo and Juliet 8/Shutter Island great great twist ending to that one [maybe my own Leo fave film along with Man in Iron Mask**] 9/ 1st one for Gangs of NY 10/2nd one for Aviator 11/set for Titanic 12/set for Inception.

   **Continuing the topical links with Eugene on his birthday, In Man in Iron Mask to Leo’s King Louis XIV of France Gabriel Byrne played D’Artagnan, whom Gene deliciously portrayed in 1948’s 3 Musketeers.

   My Pick of the best STILLS: 1/Critters2 2/Quick and Dead ensemble 3/ Basketball Diaries 4/Body of Lies 5/Man in Iron Mask 6/The Beach 7/Great Gatsby – lobby card? 8/water scene 9/two for Blood Diamond [nostalgic ones for me as I saw it in Australia during a 2007 holiday] 10/Catch Me if You Can – I am surprised at Leo being billed before Hanks 11/Titanic [in real life original built here in Belfast of course!] 12/kinky one for The Joel of Wall Street – how the film itself ever got past ANY censor has always puzzled me 13/ dancing in Manchester!

   A truly magnificent presentation from you, which captures well the length and breadth of Leo’s career from when he was just a teenager until the present time. I rate it 99% and take the liberty of dedicating it on your behalf to Eugene on his birthday. You and WH agree on 4 of Leo’s top 6 for Review

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3. PRESS REPORTS DEC 2018 “ FEDS SEIZE BRANDO OSCAR FROM DiCAPRIO Leonardo DiCaprio who ended a long career journey when he was named best actor for his role in 2015’s ‘The Revenant’ – was gifted Marlon Brando’s 1954 trophy for ‘On The Waterfront’, and he will have to hand it over to Federal authorities due to an ongoing court case. As reported by the New York Times, Malaysian financier Jho Low gave Leonardo the Brando Oscar after originally buying it at an auction for $600,000” [He outbid frenzied offers from critic Joel Hirschhorn for it]. “Low – who financed Leonardo’s movie ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ in 2013 – is accused of committing fraud against an investment fund for billions of dollars. As well as Brando’s Oscar, Leonardo has also handed over other presents given by Low, including a Pablo Picasso painting.”

   HI STEVE: It had to be with you: with Once Upon a Time in Manchester doing the rounds Leo had to follow Brad, though the billing for the movie has it the other way round. Leo has been one of the genuine mega stars of the modern cinema and indeed probably of all time as I think the following stats demonstrate:

   1/Bruce ranks Leo a high 11th in his list of male legends 1950 -2010. In WH’s book Leo is ranked much lower at 49th [right next to my Doris!] but that is among the 50 Greatest movie stars of ALL TIME, so it’s still excellent.

   2/IMDB ranks Leo the 28th greatest male ACTOR of all time and it credits him with 99 acting awards and 209 nominations -wow!

   3/Leo is one of the mega-wealthiest movies stars in history with a reported personal net worth of $260 million. Wow again!

   4/According to Bruce’s stats above, 17 global hits that Leo has been in between 1997 and now have a total a worldwide gross not far short of $10 billion, an average of almost $570 million per movie. Wow yet once more!

   Leo has done much philanthropic work for children and others, donating for example $1 million for one charity project alone and another million for the relief of Hurricane Harvey. He has also donated money to promote the positive image of LGBT citizens in the media. Leo’s mother too has made philanthropic donations and in fact he sounds very much in real life like the kind of upright young man who would have been brought home to “meet mother” in a Doris Day film – though not in a Hitchcock one!

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   1. Hey Bob….nice thoughts and stats on Leo. I strongly suspect that Leo will keep moving up my rankings on the Top 50 Movie Stars….heck since I wrote the book…..Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is now on his resume…..that would have knocked Leo’s Total Eclipse out of his Top 25…which would greatly improve his ranking right now….and Leo is not even close to be done. Add in another 20 years and 10 more good to great movies…and who knows how high he will get….maybe even passing the Great One…Mr. Brando. Good information on Jho Low and Brando’s Oscar…I had never heard that story before. Good stuff.

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      1. HI BRUCE: Thanks for the feedback. Turn up for the books Joel bidding for Brando’s Oscar, isn’t it? There’s an old cliché that’s used to describe something that’s ridiculous and/or far fetched but is nonetheless true: “You couldn’t make it up!”

         I would admit that the part of the quote that’s about Joel is made up by me except (1) “When the legend’s more exciting than the truth, print the Legend” – The Man who shot Liberty Valance 1962] (2) I don’t have access to Joel’s personal diary as I’m sure that even you don’t; so I couldn’t truthfully say he DIDN’T bid for the Oscar.

         After the way Brando treated him [see my part 2 to Steve, to follow] if I’d been Leo, I would have thrown the Oscar over a bridge somewhere. Burt Reynolds was not so unforgiving. When The Great Mumbler insulted him and Burt’s young lady at the time, Reynolds said in an interview that he showed up on Marlon’s doorstep and told a member of MB’s staff that he wanted the latter to come out and fight.

         Mr Mumbles kept Burt cooling his heels for a while making him believe that Marlon would accept the challenge but ultimately the member of staff came back and said “Mr Brando has retired for the evening. He doesn’t wish to be disturbed.”

         As can often be the case there is a bizarre slender Dan-like link in the fact that the Feds confiscated from Leo both the Brando Oscar and a Picasso. Brando was a great admirer of Picasso and actually in the 1980s was scheduled to play him in a movie, but the project fell through.

         “More RUBBISH has been written about Marlon Brando that probably any actor in history,” opined a film historian and even as late as last Dec, with the Feds business, Mr Mumbles is still attracting press headlines about dramatic occurrences he is however indirectly associated with. He seems to attract crazy situations in the way that Russell Crowe attracts trouble.

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   2. Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating (ooh), interesting news story, fascinating trivia and box office statistics, much appreciated.

      When I first saw DiCaprio play Johnny Depp’s mentally retarded younger brother in ‘Gilbert Grape’ I thought he was the real deal. That they had somehow got away with exploiting a real life retarded kid for their movie and I was quite angry about it.

      A couple of years later and that retarded kid was playing Romeo in a modern movie version of Shakespeare’s play. I was shocked. Who is this young actor and where did he come from? And then Titanic happened… the rest is history.

      It’s funny that young actors of recent decades are fascinated by Marlon Brando. They weren’t even around when Brando was playing The Godfather but they watched a few of his films on TV and video, read about him, talked about him with friends and they regard him with awe.

      Not quite the same as living in the same era as Brando and looking foward to his next film but there you go. The name lives on. I wonder, will DiCaprio, Hanks, Denzel and Daniel Day-Lewis be regarded with the same degree of reverence by future generations after they’ve passed on?

      Two of Leo’s films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Revenant and The Wolf of Wall Street. There are 4 scoring 9 – The Departed, The Aviator, Gangs of New York and Titanic.

      Leo on fame after Titanic – “It wasn’t the era of penetrating Internet paparazzi that we have now. But my name wasn’t me anymore. I was sort of this thing. Kate felt it, too. But a lot of the attention was on me because of the teenage girls who repeatedly went to see the movie. I had the blond hair, and I was Jack Dawson, this heroic figure. So I set up everything in my personal life to rebel against that image in order to strip it down. I had a lot of fun stripping it down. But ultimately, that knocked me a few rungs down the ladder.”

      Leo on the nude scene in Revolutionary Road – “Kate Winslet is one of my dearest friends. We have the ultimate trust in each other and the best of intentions for what we want to do. I knew Kate before Sam Mendes [her husband] even met her. So on the outside, it may seem strange to do a sex scene with a woman while her husband is directing. But it didn’t feel that way to me.”

      “I don’t really have many extravagances. I don’t fly private jets and I don’t have bodyguards and I don’t buy crazy things. I have a couple of houses here and there. I bought a very expensive watch, and I am going to buy a really expensive movie poster, the original for The Thief of Bagdad (1940). I love movie posters.” 🙂

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      1. HI STEVE Thanks for the usual array of welcome explanations, additional trivia and quotes. So you have at last found a kindred spirit among the Greats as Leo is buying an expensive poster. Let’s hope the Feds don’t grab that too!

         Many current actors and actresses might equal or even surpass Brando in terms of success within the normal confines of stardom. Indeed it can be argued that some like Hanks and Harrison Ford for example already have. However they will still be going something to exceed his legendary status as, like Elvis in pop music, Monroe as a sex symbol, The Duke as the quintessential screen American, McEnroe and Federer as tennis stars, Ali as a boxer Marlon has transcended normal concepts of stardom because-

         (1) rightly or wrongly he is regarded as the star who permanently changed American acting styles and techniques. That’s not to say that he was better than his predecessors – just different and it was that difference that a lot of today’s stars have picked up on..

         (2) he was a weird character who attracted strange and controversial publicity beyond the traditional hype, which as you suggest still goes on today as the bizarre seizure by the Feds of Di Caprio’s Brando Oscar last Dec. illustrates

         (3) As I’ve mentioned before Brando was the only movie star who as an ACTOR made the cut in Time Magazine’s 100 Greatest people of the 20th century. Chaplin is there but as a “comedy genius” and Monroe as a sex Icon. The key criterion for inclusion on that list was perceived special INFLUENCE on the history and culture of the century.

         I wonder, if such a list is drawn up at the end of the present century, what special influence the likes of Jason or The Rock will have been perceived to have had. Mega Box office grosses for example are essential to the continuance of the movie industry [and as you know are my own passion] but once money is spent it has served its purpose and the value obtained today and perhaps for a while yet from the grosses from the Meg etc will have long since been ‘gone with the wind’ by the end of the present century when and if those who had great influence are identified. That is why WH is canny including, in even the present ,other things like awards/critical review in his criteria for assessing greatness

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4. Added Steve’s latest You Tube Video To This Page…as always….our thoughts found on his channel moved here as well.

   Leo was a favorite of my oldest son growing up. It took me a lot longer to warm up to him. But I have enjoyed his more recent work than his younger work. Overall I have seen 25 of the 28 movies listed. Have not seen his bottom 3….actually…I had never heard of #26 Don’s Plum. Of the 25 I have seen…my favorites include #9 Catch Me If You Can…he and Hanks were good together in their few scenes together. #1 Inception…good to see his movie with Michael Caine being ranked #1. #7 Titanic….at least when viewed on my home 3D system….it looks amazing in 3D. #20 The Man In The Iron Mask…..more for others in the cast than Leo. As I said in your Brad Pitt video comment….the jury is still out with Once Upon A Time In Hollywood….I liked it….just not sure if I loved it. Voted up and shared

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   1. Hi Bruce, Don’s Plum has a weird history, I don’t think it was ever properly released. I think DiCaprio wanted it shelved for some reason. But the entire film can be viewed on youtube. Very strange.

      There’s one film I didn’t include from his filmography – Poison Ivy (1992) – because no one can spot him in it. I’m sure his fanbase has studied every frame of that film searching for him.

      Your tally 25, mine 19 and Flora 2: The Aviator and Catch Me if You Can.

      Thanks for the comment, vote and share, it is appreciated.

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5. Hey Pops. Saw Leo’s latest movie last night. Top tier stuff. Your favorite Kurt Russell is very funny in the movie.

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   1. Hey SoC2 (Son of Cogerson2)…..glad to hear you like it. After QT’s first two movies (which I loved) he has been hit and miss for me. Still I plan on seeing it in the next few days. Thanks for the feedback.

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