I must say I have to disagree with the Departed. Matt Damon was good but he definitely did not outshine Leo. If anything I would say Jack Nicholson just because well he's Jack Nicholson and he rocks.

I loved him in The Departed. I thought he was great in The Aviator, Catch me if you can.

I think he’s one of the greats but kinda boxed himself in once he became a leading man. He was protecting his reputation and only working with great directors, but the roles also tended to fall into a certain lead role category. He’s gonna be the confident guy in a suit who at some point breaks down and yells.

I’ve really enjoyed seeing him go a little outside that box with OUATIH and Don’t Look Up. He’s got excellent comic timing and, as I said, is a great actor. He just needs to stop trying to prove it.

But this is all nitpicking. If the dude stars in a movie, I’m gonna check it out. He doesn’t make bad films.

I feel he always gives the role 110%, kind of like Tom Cruise you know you are going into a movie with a vibrant strong actor. Almost more like theatre where you expect a 'performance'.

Quality actor, great range, Catch Me If You Can, The Departed and Wolf of Wall Street are my faves but he's made a ton of fantastic movies.

I think he’s one of the best when it comes to conveying emotion and delivering lines, but he’s always Leo. (See also Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, or Denzel Washington.)

I rate actors that disappear into a role and convey that level of emotion higher: Christian Bale, Daniel Day Lewis, Olivia Coleman, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, etc.

I think he’s a phenomenal actor!!

Part of why Leo is such a great leading man is because he is willing to letting co-stars shine. He just plays his role to an elite level for what his role is, even if his character isn't as compelling as others. I would also disagree he was outshined by anyone in The Departed, and him and Pitt were toe to toe IMO in Once Upon a Time.

Basketball Diaries, This Boys Life, Catch Me If You Can, The Departed, Django, The Great Gatsby, The Beach, Gangs of New York. Actually, the only movie where I thought he wasn't THAT great was the one he won an award for in The Revenant. It was a good movie, but he was mainly grunting and screaming throughout it.

Seems very popular to bash the man lately.

I love Leo’s films , he has managed to consistently work hard and has an incredible list of films without any serious dips , his work for the environment is commendable

However I feel he favours the screaming and shouting acting too much , he does it a lot across pretty much every film and it comes across as too performing rather than subtle acting

I find it hard to find one where he hasn’t at one point resorted to an outrage , fury , screaming or yelling scene where it might not always be necessary

The minute I finished The Basketball Diaries, I knew he was going to be one of the greats.

My wife watched all of "Don't Look up" and was surprised to learn DiCaprio was in it.

She still thinks if him as a baby faced boy actor or handsome leading man. So either he did a good job of acting like a grumpy scientist or the beard really threw her.

Love all his movies, but much like Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley I always feel like they are "acting" acting and that there is someone else who could always give the roles a more naturally authentic emotional performance. I am a huge fan of Leo and Natalie's movies and I don't think they ever ruin the movies but somebody could always fit in the role better.

Lmao in what world did Timothy Oliphant outshine him? I think Rick Dalton performance is one of the finest acting performances of all time.

I don’t disagree with your premise that Leo can be hit or miss as an actor. But your examples are very much confusing me.

You must have watched a different version of Once Upon a Time if your takeaway was Timothy Olyphant > Leo. First of all, he’s in 2 scenes. Second of all, Leo gave a fantastic performance.

And I thought that his performance in Departed is the best in the film, and one of the greatest he’s ever given.

But he’s had had share of duds. And I don’t think, at least from an acting standpoint, that he’s reached the potential that was there in Gilbert Grape. And there’s an argument to be made that a contemporary like Joaquin Phoenix has had a much more interesting career.

His performance in What's Eating Gilbert Grape is one of the best ever, and he was heart wrenchingly good in Basketball Diaries. I haven't seen any of his never films but the ones he did when he was young were exceptional.

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I thought he was great in Shutter Island and in The Revenant.

He is a very good actor, at the same time he is also the worlds most overrated actor

His method are getting repetitive. He’s good, don’t get me wrong. But I’d like to see him working more subtly once in a while.

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Ever see What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Leo was brilliant.

He’s had first dibs at every role in Hollywood for like 20 years for a reason.

Blood Diamond is his GOAT film IMO

I'm just going to reiterate what most people are saying. Leo is a fantastic actor. I don’t think he's the best in the world, but he's up there. The Departed, Wolf of Wall Street, and Catch Me If You Can, are all incredible performances.

I was blown away by his performance in Don't Look Up. He may not always be the most notable performance, but he makes each and every character and portrayal unique in a way that a lot of other high caliber actors fail to do.

Did a great job in Gilbert Grape

I do agree with that, he always looks likes just ACTING. SO. HARD. But not in the Nic Cage kind of way where the theatrical artificiality is part of the fun, DiCaprio is trying to be naturalistic but it always feels phony to me.

I actually have never enjoyed his acting.

He is a movie star but has acting chops. Many stars fall in this category, like Cruise, Will Smith, and Leo. He might not have GREAT acting roles all the time but he makes some damn good movies.

The Revenant is a masterpiece.

You mentioned movies where he wasn’t specifically lauded or nominated. Now do it again with that criteria in place…

Just about the only thing about him that isn’t believable is “toughness” if that makes sense. Revenant was an outlier and more about surviving but in Departed I didn’t think he was tough (perhaps his character wasn’t meant to be) the way Damon was or even Sheen. And in Gangs of New York he didn’t sell me on it either. And in Great Gatsby when he loses it on Tom Buchanan it came across as bratty instead of aggressive or tough.

Leo just doesn’t come across as a guy who’s ever thrown a punch. Which doesn’t mean he isn’t a great actor, just that it makes a few roles feel less genuine.

What's with people asking for "honest" opinions?

Do you think people are normally lying about this stuff?

Not my cup of tea.

There are two movies where he's really fantastic and that's Wolf of Wall Street and Gilbert Grape. Other than that he is usually quite good but there are other actors who I consider to be more natural than him.

Who?

I agree. He’s not terrible but he’s never very natural and seems to struggle with saying lines in a natural way. In some movies he’s enjoyable, others are just bad because he can’t pull it off. I’ve never understood why he is considered such a great actor. I mean he is good and better than most. But he’s not what a lot of people say he is - one of the greatest. Just my opinion.

He’s been cheated out of many Oscars. No way he deserves just one.

youre delusional if you think he was outperformed in once upon a time and inception (which btw doesnt even have that good of acting by anyone except maybe di cap and cilian murphy)

I never thought too much of him, despite recognizing that he is a good actor, but Whats Eating Gilbert Grape just blew my mind. I didn't even recognize him in it, he was phenomenal. When I saw his name in the credits I had to rewatch, as I could not believe it wasn't an actual kid with Downs syndrome. Completely gobsmacked by his performance, and at such a young age. Mega fan ever since.

The best of his generation. I can always watch Leo. He reminds me of the Golden age of Hollywood. When actors could act & were true icons. He doesn’t need cgi or any other device. He could have acted in any era & been great.

I think he's great in everything he does.

The greatest modern LEADING man

Wonderful actor

He's a real good actor, I mean it's not hard to look at his work and see it.

I have this theory about actors. There are three categories;

Those who were born with the ability.

Those who were born with the ability but decided they can always learn more.

Those who weren't born with it but tried to learn anyway, no matter how much time and money they spend, they will never act. They might still get work if they're pretty but it will never be for their acting. Keanu Reeves is a good example, he's not an actor, he's an acrobat. Denise Richards would be another, she's a model, not an actor. etc etc.

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DiCaprio have been a spectacular actor his entire life, he's never had to learn. Most great actors never have to learn, it also means they will always act the same in every movie. Kate Winslet, Marlon Brando, Elliot Page.

This means that even simply a good actor, not a spectacular one, who works at it and learns their entire career will eventually surpass the spectacular one. Biggest "sleeper" I think would be Scarlett Johansson

Then if a spectacular actor decides to learn, that's how you get people like Meryl Streep or Daniel Day-Lewis. Also weirdly enough, a lot of stand up comics? I think Tatiana Maslany is another one -Orphan Black is just on another level- and most of this theory is because of her: https://youtu.be/SEQuUJ5YUdQ

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My opinion is that he acts from time to time

Top actor, however, he doesn’t have a range in expressing anger. He always pulls that kind of bulldog face with his teeth and that’s all. But I enjoy even that. Plus he always gets the good scripts and movies.

If you have a chance to watch What's Eating Gilbert Grape, that might change your mind. He was 18 years old at the time of filming and he gave one of the most convincing portrayals of an individual with an intellectual disability that I've ever seen. That is, in my opinion, the best example of how convincing his acting could truly be and is vastly different than anything you've seen him in within the last 20 years.

He definitely puts in the work and choose excellent projects. I know I'm getting at least quality and effort when Leo's attached.

I also think he has fantastic focus and commitment as an actor. He "acts without ego", if that makes sense. Hes happy to play characters who are flawed, naked, vulnerable, slovenly, creepy, or gross. And hes very good at using his own handsomeness to enhance all of that.

His main defect is his voice, I think. Hes very good at accents but he can't always shake that essential boyish quality to his voice. I liked him in Revenent but I couldn't shake how it was Leo's unchanging Romeo voice invoking all these mountain oaths at me.

I like him. I like the work he does. I think he'll always be somewhat on the "movie star" side of things rather than the pure "actor" category, but hes one of the best at it. Like Cary Grant or Robert Redford, perhaps not a chameleon but a fantastic and magnetic lead.

hes such a good actor

unrelated but shit beard

Hard disagree on The Inception thing. Tho I dont particularly think Leo's acting was at his best there, Damon kinda was lost in the mix as well. Nicholson outshone both.

Reagrdless of that, I dont personally think he is overrated. Perfomance-wise he is more often than not the standout in the films he features.

He’s done some good work but I almost always see him acting, which takes me out of it a bit. Wouldn’t describe him as effortless.

I like his acting and his movies but his range is limited. I wouldn't go as far as to say he's like Ryan Reynolds who just keeps on playing a smarmy van wilder. But Leo's angry intense look is the same in every movie. He goes to 11 but sounds the same. Whereas I submit that Daniel day Lewis has true range. He really disappears into the role. My left foot is not Mohican is not gangs of NY and there shall be blood. Meryl streep has range.

He’s good but I feel like he’s lacking when it come to the more subtle acting. He knows how to do the big emotions but that’s about it. And a lot of the time that’s when you can FEEL the acting instead of being pulled in as a viewer, believing you’re watching something real.

In the 90s he wasn’t very good. In the 2000s he was hit or miss. In the 2010s he’s been consistently great

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I liked his acting in a lot of movies, from Romeo and Juliet over The Beach to Django Unchained.

Atp, his expressions feel very rehearsed (for the lack of a better word). Something I definitely don't enjoy while watching someone act. Just doesn't feel natural. Idk if it's cuz of my watching too many LDC movies or he's actually not that great, lmao.

Easy a contender for the best actor of the past 25 years

Shit even Marky mark outshined Matty in just a few scenes. Love the mushroom scene. Maybe maybe not...maybe go F yourself lmao

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I’m not a big fan.

He has incredible versatility as an actor and most importantly picks parts that play to his strengths.

> It gets more noticeable when he gets outshined by his co-actors and it happened several times.

On that point. If you take the 10 fastest sprinters in the world, and have them run a race. One will be first and one will be last. The last one is still the 10th fastest guy in the world.

Just because a co star may out shine him, it doesn't negatively reflect on DiCaprio.

Catch me if you can. He just completely owns that movie. Hanks is great too

He’s phenomenal and rightfully considered one of the best actors of his era.

I think he’s fantastic, especially when he plays emotional, both happy and sad.

I think he is very good in just about everything he does. I would say however that saying he does not feel organic next to Timothy Olyphant is just unfair. Nobody feels as organic in any role as Olyphant does in pretty much ANY role he does.

I think he gets better the longer he goes on, and he's one of the few actors who pretty much guarantee that whatever they're in will be at least worth a watch.

Getting better with age to be honest, and his range is pretty impressive. He can do nervous and neurotic in Shutter Island & The Departed, leading man in Titanic, Great Gatsby, Romeo & Juliet, comedy in his career highlights Wolf of Wall Street & OUQTIH. Villain in Django. Action star in Inception & The Revenant. And does it all with conviction. There was an element of adult in kids clothing in some of his early Scorsese pairings in The Aviator and Gangs of New York where he does feel like he’s trying a bit too hard and getting out acted by those around him (Blanchett and DDL which is no shame) but that’s a minor quibble.

Phenomenal actor

I don’t think he was outshined at all in One Upon a Time in Hollywood. That was the best I’ve seen him in awhile.

He's got a few "Titanics" but most of his performances are pretty great.

Uh... he's fantastic lol.

> Once upon a time in Hollywood - Timothy Oliphant and Brad Pitt

He was not outshined by Timothy fuckin' Olyphant lmao. Brad Pitt I can at least understand, even if I don't agree with it. While everyone loves Brad's character in OUATIH, he's not exactly doing any great acting lol. He's just a cool guy, and that works because people think Brad Pitt is cool.

Now Leo in OUATIH is doing all the heavy lifting, and is acting his fucking balls off in that movie. He should've been the one going home with an Oscar from that movie.

Same as Brad Pitt, I don't view him as a really "skilled" actor. He is not on the level of Day-Lewis, Phoenix, Hoffman, De Niro, or anybody of that class (as far as the modern age). He often looks like he's "trying" to put on the role but is never totally convincing. His baby face and higher register voice don't help him with playing adult, mature characters.

I can’t recall a role where I didn’t think he did a great job.. and the Aviator is one of my favorite films. He did a fantastic job. He’s gotten some flack for Gangs of New York, but I thought he did a great job there too. 🤷‍♂️

All of the examples where he’s “outshined” is just you connecting with the other characters and how they’re written. IMO he’s a humble actor, always going for understated, but always excelling when he goes big.

i would have rather seen ryan gosling in almost 95% of his catalog.

Leo is our generation’s Jack Nicholson.

He was great in Man in the Iron Mask as well

Check out this movie called Wolf of Wall Street. 🙄

He's one of the all time greats. What he lacks in range (which is much better than he gets credit for), he makes up for with sheer commitment to every performance. His presence in a film is basically a seal of quality. Leo doesn't do stinkers, he doesn't do cash grabs, and he doesn't do blockbuster drivel.

Behind the scenes, he deserves mad props for dumping shitloads of time and money (about a decade) trying to get a live action Akira adaptation going. He will probably be old enough to play the scientist by the time it happens.

People wanna shit on him for dating young girls but certainly look the other way when it comes to their favorite musicians and sports stars. How dare he be a mega giant sex symbol that has young girls clawing at him. I'm sure that every man criticizing him would be like 'no ms world class supermodel I will not have sex with you and a room full of your friends'. Dudes hit bullseye's for 30 years straight. Let him fuck supermodels, lol.

I think Leo is competent overall but the roles he chooses are great roles that befit his status — but I think some roles with crazy range would make him stand out. For instance the Django and OUATIH movies were less preening and so it was more entertaining for me.

My honest opinion about Leo in general is that when he was young — he had the perfect look. Unique handsome features, long limbs, tall, great hair.

Now he is considerably less handsome than Brad Pitt, who arguably got a little more rugged looking. Leo's current look is he is a dad bod with a kinda large looking head.

I understand that when we go to movies, there is something about us that loves to admire beautiful people as the main protagonist. Leo to me is not quite fulfilling that anymore in my opinion. It's the fantasy we all have to see ourselves as that person when watching.

As an example, RDJ is NOT the most handsome older man ever but he has aged better and his acting method comes off just right with his current age.

Much like Gosling, has surpaingly good physical comedy skills that I wish he got to use more.

Overrated but good

I think he coasted on his looks a lot in the 90s and 2000s, I love the Departed but he's probably the weakest link in that film, unfortunately. Not a lot of range.

He's been doing good work in the past decade though. Django was fairly impressive, the Revenant was alright too. Wolf of Wall Street and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood are my favourite performances of his, besides Gilbert Grape which is probably his best role.

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Great actor, don't believe he's top tier with Day Lewis, prime De Niro, Nicholson, Pacino levels. I think he's the level below them.

I think he made some of his more interesting and braver roles pre Titanic personally. But he's very smart picking out his projects (although I didn't like Don't Look Up at all) and is usually great most of them. Some films where he's blown off the screen by other like The Revenant And Inception with Tom Hardy or Gangs of New York with Day Lewis. But other films he's amazing in like Wolf of Wall Street and The Departed.

Great actor though and one of those that doesn't phone it in.

I love Leo and I think he's great. The first and only time he really stood out to me as being not terribly good was Shutter Island. It was because I couldn't stop seeing him perform the exact same speaking patterns, squinting, and mannerisms that I had seen in a hundred other roles he's had. They're always there, but in Shutter Island they struck me as very prominent. I feel the same way about Denzel, he just speaks loudly and confidently and authoritative yet friendly in any role he plays.

I don't really agree on any of the three movies you mentioned, I thought he was the best in all of them. Minus Nicholson in the Departed, he was better than everyone.

The only movie I liked him in was Wolf of Wall Street. Otherwise, I can’t stand him.

There’s always something off-putting about his roles. I can’t explain it, but it’s enough to bother me enough to ruin a movie. Takes me out of the immersion. Also had the opportunity to meet him in person once.

There is no insult in the entirety of the English language that would properly encapsulate what I feel about him from that encounter.

This is one of the worst posts in here and I've been seeing some really awful posts recently.

He's definitely one of the best actors out there. Every one of his characters just feels "real".

I didn't realize how good he was until I saw Blood Diamond.

Overrated? Lol Hes the Tom Brady of movies bra. Gets hot eastern European tang on demand and actually is cool af.

DiCaprio is gonna go down in history as one of, if not the greatest actor of all time.

Literally can’t think of a picture he’s done I don’t like.

He just has a star quality, it’s intangible, you like watching him. He’s just interesting and natural on screen. he’s a star, it’s that simple.

Also, while brad Margot and Leo all gave great performances in once upon a time in Hollywood, Leo was by far my favorite character…loved every scene he was in, fantastic.

To me, he feels like he is constantly acting to win an award. Not necessarily over acting or hamming it up, per say....just feels a bit dramatic. I don't know how to describe it, ha!

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He's always going to be bigger than any movie he's in so that's the reason.

Timothy Oliphant was barely in OUATIH...

Leo is an extremely good actor. Never seems to phone it in.

I must disagree - Damon, while a great actor, didn't come CLOSE to outshining DiCaprio in The Departed...

He's ok.

I think he was definitely the best in Inception.

He really had that feral look, of someone who would do anything, take a desperate chance to get back to his kids.

Besides that just plain solid never really bad in anything

That scene in Django when he gets off the carriage and screams for his sister....

Ultimate cringe.

He's honestly the same in every movie. His best performance was basketball diaries. He's not very believable in many of his roles because he's kind of playing himself.

Leo is a great actor. Can’t deny it. He basically gets first pick of any script in Hollywood and all the great directors want to work with him.

He takes his roles very seriously and it shows.

Daniel Day Lewis melts into his roles. You see him on screen and I’m not saying to myself “hey it’s DDL, look at him go”. With Leo it’s kind crazy because I always see him, I see Leo but he does a such a convincing job that eventually I get into the story and the movie and don’t care that it’s him anymore. His persona is not a distraction while not being hidden.

He has done a great deal of variety, I can’t say he has a signature style like other actors… yeah, I just genuinely like his acting and his movie choices. I’d go to see anything with him in it.

Do others outshine him? I wouldn’t say that. And it’s good he doesn’t outshine all others around him. A great supporting cast is what makes a great movie. I’d say in Django Unchained he was certainly a scene stealer but it didn’t overpower the film.

You’re wrong.

This is a truly horrible post, and even worse take.

Screen time in Inception: -Tom Hardy - 12:45sec -Leo - 60:45sec

Granted, I’m the general sense, screen time means fk all in terms of performances (Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for 16mins worth of screen time in Silence of the Lambs), but in the case of Inception. You’re never gonna convince Tom Hardy gave a better performance than Leo in a literal 1/4 of the amount of time on screen. Tom Hardy was an afterthought in that film, and Joseph Gordon Levitt. Just stfu rn lmfao. This dude gonna say Joseph Gordon Levitt > Leo DiCaprio and expect people to take their opinion’s seriously. Bro. Where do you get your drugs from?

Roast and stupidity aside.. ask yourself two questions

1. How many Leonardo DiCaprio movies have you seen?
2. When did you become aware of who Leonardo DiCaprio is, what role?

If someone with no prior knowledge of who he is, were to sit down and watch Leo films in chronological order. They would tell you how wrong your opinion is.

Look at the roles from these films:

• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (93)
• Titanic (97)
• Gangs of New York (02)
• Revolutionary Road (08)
• The Great Gatsby (13)

5 films 5 years apart, most of them no where near his top work, tell me his performances and abilities aren’t “organic” for lack of better words.

“He’s a good actor with impressive filmography” … “he’s overrated” .. pick one

Oh man, there are not many opinions that I think are wrong, but this is one of them. Whatever you might think of him, he is definitely a spectacular actor and did far better than Matt Damon in the Departed lol

One of the untouchable “god like” actors. Like Meryl Streep. Of course he is just a guy but he seems too high to touch

You cant be serious.

He's good at playing the suave 'idea guy'. The praise ends there

hes a solid and reliable actor. i like shitter island alot, think departed is an amazing film, and really enjoyed inception. personally i think his dating age is really fucking weird and his black mark. but he seems like a nice guy and if i saw him in person

I think he’s hit or miss, but mostly hit. Sometimes he feels a little out of place because they want him acting like a tough guy, but I don’t buy him as a particularly masculine rough and tumble guy.

But a movie like Wolf of Wall Street or Django Unchained, where he had a chance to emote and talk alot, then he just oozes charisma.

He’s fantastic and the ragging on his acting is just clearly a fad at this point. His range is wild. And he’s bankable. Definitely my favorite modern actor.

I think he's overrated, but not one of the worst actors. In all the films I've seen with him (Inception, Catch Me if You Can, The Great Gatsby, a little bit of Titanic) he's always playing a sort of capricious eccentric, so I think he relies on the same persona, in a way.

There was that moment in Inception, however, where he's supposed to be witnessing something that should be absolutely heartbreaking for his character, and he comes across as more annoyed than anything else. That took me out of the movie.

Leo entertains me, that's all I care about, and that is their job.

He’s not my cup of tea, mostly because I can feel the effort behind his acting, which really turns me off. Its a difficult thing to point out to people, but you can certainly feel it. And until recently, he had very little sense of humor about any of his roles. Most were very self serious.

He’s got talent, sure. But most of the time when I see he’s in a movie I’m probably going to skip it.

And he always gets grade A tang. Not to mention hes a hell of a guy.

One of the best Hollywood actors ever. Great body of work, great performances. Maybe he’s lacking of a big CAPITAL M masterpiece (like Chinatown/Shining for Nicholson, Godfather 1 & 2 for Pacino, Taxi Driver/Raging Bull for DeNiro).

He won an Oscar for being really cold.

Sorry for the typo btw- DiCaprio's

I also forgot, Wolf of Wall street - He's heavily outshined by Matthew McConaughey during their scene together

Samuel L Jackson is also a better villain in Django