Leonardo DiCaprio starred in Martin Scorsese's 2002 historical drama Gangs of New York, set in New York City's Five Points district in the middle of the nineteenth century. Although Leonardo DiCaprio indicated interest in acting in the film, Miramax Films agreed to bankroll it, despite Scorsese's initial difficulty selling the idea. However, the eight-month shoot was postponed owing to budget overruns and producer-director disagreements. The film established a new record for Scorsese's budget, costing $103 million. Playing the young leader of an Irish-American street gang, Amsterdam Vallon, was an interesting role for Leonardo DiCaprio since it signified a shift from his past 'boyish' performances and a more mature leading man. The critically acclaimed and economically successful Gangs of New York grossed $193 million worldwide. Although Anne Thompson of The Observer applauded Leonardo DiCaprio for his 'low-key, solid performance,' she said Daniel Day-Lewis stole the show.
Leonardo DiCaprio launched Appian Way Productions, named after the Italian road, in 2004. Citing previous experiences in which the presence of an excessive number of people had a negative influence on the end product, he indicated a desire to locate original source material and keep its essential features throughout development. The Assassination of Richard Nixon, which premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and starred Sean Penn as Samuel Byck, marked DiCaprio's debut as an executive producer. The Aviator, a biopic of Howard Hughes, an American aviation pioneer and film director who suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, is co-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio through Appian Way. Scorsese and DiCaprio reunited for this project. He co-created the concept with Michael Mann at initially, but Scorsese eventually gained control. The Aviator, which cost just $110 million to produce, was a critical and economic success, making $213 million. Empire critic Simond Braund appreciated Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, particularly his subtle portrayal of Hughes' uneasiness and preoccupation. He received his first Golden Globe for Best Actor—Motion Picture Drama, as well as nominations for an Oscar, a BAFTA, and a Screen Actors Guild award.
Leonardo DiCaprio appeared in two films in 2006: Blood Diamond, a political conflict thriller, and The Departed, a crime film. Billy Costigan, portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio as suffering a 'constant 24-hour panic attack', was an undercover state police officer in Martin Scorsese's The Departed. Leonardo DiCaprio loved his experience working with Jack Nicholson, describing a scene they shot together as 'one of the most indelible moments' of his acting career. He proceeded to Boston to meet up with Irish mob associates and gained 15 pounds. With an estimated $90 million in production expenditures, the highly acclaimed film became Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration, earning $291 million worldwide. Though he believed Nicholson stole the show, Rolling Stone's Peter Travers praised Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon for their 'explosive, emotionally intricate' performances. Even though Leonardo DiCaprio had a significant role in The Departed, Warner Bros. To avoid any possible issue over his part in Blood Diamond, Pictures nominated him for Best Supporting Actor at the AMPAS. Despite DiCaprio's various triumphs for The Departed, which included a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards, his co-star Mark Wahlberg got the nominations.
Leonardo DiCaprio, shown here at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, wore a black suit and played a Rhodesian diamond trafficker caught up in Sierra Leone's civil war in the biopic Blood Diamond. His interactions with the 24 abandoned children from the SOS Children's Village in Maputo, Mozambique, with whom he worked on set, impacted him greatly, he said. He spent six months in Africa preparing, where he learned camouflage techniques from South African military soldiers and conducted interviews with locals to improve his accent. The film received mainly excellent reviews, and Leonardo DiCaprio's South African accent, which is famously difficult to replicate, became a talking point. Claudia Puig of USA Today and Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post were effusive in their admiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's cinematic journey from child to man since The Departed. Leonardo DiCaprio received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for his performance in Blood Diamond.
Gardener of Eden, DiCaprio's 2007 comedy-drama, 'lacks the requisite emotional intensity or dark humor to connect with viewers,' according to Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter. In 2008, he got the Earthwatch Environmental Film Award for his work on the documentary The 11th Hour, which he produced, co-wrote, and narrated about the state of the natural world. Planet Green's Greensburg, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way, ran for three seasons. The core focus of this video is the long-term rebuilding of Greensburg, Kansas following the deadly EF5 tornado that hit the town in May 2007. Leonardo DiCaprio appeared in the 2008 espionage thriller Body of Lies, which was based on the novel of the same name. He played one of three operatives involved in a Middle Eastern confrontation with a terrorist organization. Leonardo DiCaprio wore brown contacts and dyed his hair dark for the role, paying reference to 1970s political films like Three Days of the Condor and The Parallax View. With a budget of $67.5 million and mediocre reviews from critics, the film grossed $118 million.
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio collaborated in the 2008 drama Revolutionary Road, directed by Winslet's ex-husband Sam Mendes. Both actors were reticent to undertake romantic comedies like Titanic, but it was Winslet who suggested they work together on a film based on Richard Yates' 1961 book of the same name. According to her study, Justin Haythe's script was drastically different from the 1997 blockbuster hit. Leonardo DiCaprio felt constrained on the little set they used to represent a married couple whose marriage is on the verge of failing in the 1950s. Kate Winslet was similarly nervous. The protagonist was someone who was "ready to be merely a product of his circumstances," "somewhat cowardly," and "unheroic," in his opinion. Leonardo DiCaprio's multi-layered portrayal of an overwhelmed character earned GQ writer Marshall Sella's praise as the'most mature and memorable performance of his lifetime.' Peter Travers commended both the coupling and the performance. The film earned Leonardo DiCaprio his eighth Golden Globe nomination. The film's budget was $35 million, yet it grossed $75.9 million nevertheless. Jaume Collet-Serra's psychological horror film Orphan, starring Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, and Isabelle Fuhrman, marked the end of the 2000s. Despite unfavorable reviews, the film was a commercial success.
From 2010 until 2013, DiCaprio and Scorsese collaborated again on the psychological thriller Shutter Island, which was based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 novel of the same title. He played American lawyer Edward 'Tedd'y Daniels. When the marshal explores an island mental facility, he questions his own sanity. In 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio indicated interest in the film, which he later co-produced with Phoenix Pictures under the Appian Way label. Martin Scorsese was the other producer. Leonardo DiCaprio had nightmares of mass murder while filming and believed that hanging out with his friends was therapeutic in light of the film's horrific events. On its release, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave the film mixed reviews, praising Scorsese's direction and performances but criticizing the unexpected conclusion. Peter Travers appreciated Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, calling it his'most haunting and emotionally complex performance yet.' He believed Patricia Clarkson and DiCaprio's cave sequence were particularly noteworthy. With a global total of $294 million on a production budget of less than $80 million, the film was an economic success.
A picture of seven people on stage; everyone is cheering excitedly except for Leonardo DiCario, who is on the right. Leonardo DiCaprio attended the 2010 premiere of Christopher Nolan's highly praised ensemble science-fiction thriller Inception among the cast. The film follows Dom Cobb, a self-proclaimed 'extractor' who acquires access to previously unknown knowledge by invading other people's dreams. Lucid dreaming and dream incubation have both had an impact on his work. Cobb is offered the opportunity to return to his prior life in exchange for instilling a concept in the mind of a business target. Dream-heists and the idea that his character's fantasies may impact his real life attracted Leonardo DiCaprio. The film became Leonardo DiCaprio's second highest-grossing film, earning $836 million worldwide on a $160 million budget. Leonardo DiCaprio agreed to renounce a portion of his $20 million pay in exchange for a percentage of the film's first-dollar gross points, allowing him to influence how much money the picture generated from ticket sales. Leonardo DiCaprio's risk paid off, as he earned $50 million from the film, his highest salary to date.
DiCaprio portrayed the major character, J. Edgar Hoover in J. Clint Eastwood directed the film Edgar. The video goes into Hoover's life and career as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as his suspected homosexuality. Although reviews applauded Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, some felt the film was uneven as a whole. Roger Ebert praised Leonardo DiCaprio for giving Hoover a deep and multifaceted personality, noting that the actor revealed aspects of Hoover that the actual guy might not have known existed. Catherine Hardwicke directed Red Riding Hood, a romantic horror thriller, which he also produced in 2011. Time magazine classified it as one of the ten worst movies of 2011, however it nevertheless grossed a fair amount at the box office. DiCaprio's Appian Way produced George Clooney's political thriller The Ides of March, which was based on Beau Willimon's 2008 play Farragut North.
Django Unchained is Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western from 2012, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, a plantation owner. The script's overt racism made Leonardo DiCaprio uncomfortable, but his co-stars and director Quentin Tarantino persuaded him to make it authentic. Despite cutting his palm on glass during shooting, Leonardo DiCaprio insisted in finishing the shoot, and director Quentin Tarantino chose to include the shot in the final cut. A journalist for Wired magazine lauded him for his villainous depiction, calling it 'blood-chilling' in a piece about the film's critical triumph. Leonardo DiCaprio received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film. Despite spending less than $100 million on production, Django Unchained grossed $425 million internationally.
Leonardo DiCaprio announced in January 2013 that he will 'fly around the globe doing good for the environment' after a long vacation from acting. In that year alone, he acted in and produced four films. Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, was his film debut. Scott Fitzgerald, where he played Jay Gatsby, a wealthy. Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire co-star in the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald has the same name. Though the film received mixed reviews, Leonardo DiCaprio won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his outstanding performance. Rafer Guzman, a Newsday critic, described Leonardo DiCaprio as "tough but also sensitive, touching, humorous, a faker, and human." Matt Zoller Seitz, a writer to Roger Ebert's website, lauded his performance, calling it 'iconic—maybe his career finest' and 'the movie's largest and simplest special effect.' The actor produced a fantastic and deserved performance. The film grossed more than double its budget, earning $353 million worldwide. In 2013, Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way released three films: the ensemble criminal thriller Runner Runner, the commercially failed thriller Out of the Furnace, and the grim comedy-drama The Wolf of Wall Street. Critics, including Xan Brooks of The Guardian, lambasted these flicks.
In The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese collaborated for the sixth time. The movie is based on the life of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker imprisoned in the late 1990s for money laundering and securities fraud. After reading Belfort's book in 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio bid against Warner Bros., Brad Pitt, and Paramount Pictures for the rights to the biography. He'd always wanted to play the role. The financial crisis of 2007-2008 provided as inspiration for the film, and he appreciated Belfort's candid and unapologetic portrayal of his own events in the book. The Wolf of Wall Street, a collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio, garnered positive reviews. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter applauded Leonardo DiCaprio for portraying the part to the utmost. According to Film Comment's Jonathan Romney, Leonardo DiCaprio possesses a great degree of humorous talent, particularly in the field of 'rubber-limbed slapstick' comedy. In addition to his Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, he got Best Actor and Best Picture honors for the film.
Leonardo DiCaprio executive produced the 2014 British documentary Virunga, in which four people strive to safeguard the world's surviving mountain gorillas from violence and poaching. DiCaprio has since had success with environmental films and awards events. Leonardo DiCaprio was competing for the 2015 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special after making his Tribeca Film Festival debut in April 2014. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret was another documentary on which he served as an executive producer that year; he also contributed to the film's September Netflix-exclusive edit. It discusses the implications of rearing food animals.
In 2015, DiCaprio produced and starred as fur trader Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñarritu's survival thriller, The Revenant. In 2016, he was caught looking to his right before the film's French premiere. The role was difficult for DiCaprio since he had to sleep in animal carcasses and eat raw bison liver. He also learned to wield a musket, make fire, speak Native American languages, and conduct traditional medical methods. Despite a budget of $135 million, the picture grossed $533 million worldwide. Many reviews complimented the film, particularly Leonardo DiCaprio's performance. Both Mark Kermode of The Guardian and Nick De Semlyen of Empire applauded Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, claiming that DiCaprio's portrayal stressed physicality over speech. He received several honors for his role in the film, including Best Actor from the Screen Actors Guild, a Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and an Academy Award. For the next three years, Leonardo DiCaprio was busy creating films and narrating documentaries. In 2016, he produced The Ivory Game and Catching the Sun, as well as executive producing, presenting, and narrating the climate change documentary Before the Flood. He devised the crime drama Live by Night, which received negative reviews and cost $65 million to produce. In 2018, he tried his hand at producing two films: the psychological horror picture Delirium and the commercially failed action adventure flick Robin Hood.
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DiCaprio made his acting comeback after four years with Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which depicts the relationship between Cliff Booth, an old stuntman, and Rick Dalton, a television actor. He created and narrated the 2019 climate change documentary Ice on Fire. Both DiCaprio and Pitt reduced their salaries, with DiCaprio receiving $10 million and Pitt receiving $7 million, to help fund the production. DiCaprio enjoyed working with Pitt, and Tarantino described the two as the most intriguing performers in film since Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Leonardo DiCaprio was attracted by the film's emphasis on friendship between his character and Pitt's, as well as its ode to Hollywood. The difficulties and disappointments that he and his acting colleagues had to face in the industry acted as motivation. Critics praised both his and Pitt's performances in the film when it premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The writer for Business Insider lauded Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as one of his best, while Ian Sandwell of Digital Spy commended the connection between the two protagonists, calling their scenes as some of the film's most memorable. Leonardo DiCaprio won Best Actor prizes at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and Screen Actors Guild. The film had a budget of $90 million but grossed $374 million.
Leonardo DiCaprio will executive produce The Right Stuff, a television series based on the 1973 novel of the same name, in 2020. It debuted on Disney+ following a spell in development at National Geographic. In May of that year, DiCaprio appeared briefly in the finale of the miniseries The Last Dance. Devin DeCaprio appeared in Adam McKay's satirical comedy Don't Look Up, released in 2021. He spent five months working with McKay to rewrite the screenplay before accepting the part. Leonardo DiCaprio regarded the film, in which he co-starred with Jennifer Lawrence as two scientists attempting to warn humanity about an extinction-level comet, as a metaphor for the world community's indifference to the climate crisis. Even if many people are unwilling to listen, Leonardo DiCaprio, an avid environmentalist, has stated that he has often contemplated acting in and producing films about current issues. He praised McKay for devising a study that will look at human answers to a serious problem from several perspectives, including politics, society, and science. The film received mixed reviews from critics, although those who did write about it were unified in their praise for Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. The film earned Leonardo DiCaprio Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations. It surpassed Netflix's record for the most views in one week.
Following that, DiCaprio received $30 million for his role in Martin Scorsese's murder mystery Killers of the Flower Moon, based on David Grann's novel of the same title. The screenplay had several alterations because Leonardo DiCaprio insisted on playing the difficult character of Ernest Burkhart, the nephew of the assassin William King Hale, despite being originally cast as the heroic FBI agent Thomas Bruce White Sr. Critics lauded Leonardo DiCaprio's 'nuanced and merciless depiction as the cretinous Ernest Burkhart draws fresh wonders from the actor's long-standing lack of vanity' as the career-defining performance. His performance earned him another Golden Globe nomination. Leonardo DiCaprio's next film will be The Battle of Baktan Cross, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and co-starring Sean Penn and Regina Hall.
Also in 2002, Leonardo DiCaprio starred in Martin Scorsese's historical drama Gangs of New York, set in New York City's Five Points district in the middle of the nineteenth century. Although Leonardo DiCaprio indicated interest in acting in the film, Miramax Films agreed to bankroll it, despite Scorsese's initial difficulty selling the idea. However, the eight-month shoot was postponed owing to budget overruns and producer-director disagreements. The film established a new record for Scorsese's budget, costing $103 million. Playing the young leader of an Irish-American street gang, Amsterdam Vallon, was an interesting role for Leonardo DiCaprio since it signified a shift from his past 'boyish' performances and a more mature leading man. The critically acclaimed and economically successful Gangs of New York grossed $193 million worldwide. Although Anne Thompson of The Observer applauded Leonardo DiCaprio for his 'low-key, solid performance,' she said Daniel Day-Lewis stole the show.
Leonardo DiCaprio launched Appian Way Productions, named after the Italian road, in 2004. Citing previous experiences in which the presence of an excessive number of people had a negative influence on the end product, he indicated a desire to locate original source material and keep its essential features throughout development. The Assassination of Richard Nixon, which premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and starred Sean Penn as Samuel Byck, marked DiCaprio's debut as an executive producer. The Aviator, a biopic of Howard Hughes, an American aviation pioneer and film director who suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, is co-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio through Appian Way. Scorsese and DiCaprio reunited for this project. He co-created the concept with Michael Mann at initially, but Scorsese eventually gained control. The Aviator, which cost just $110 million to produce, was a critical and economic success, making $213 million. Empire critic Simond Braund appreciated Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, particularly his subtle portrayal of Hughes' uneasiness and preoccupation. He received his first Golden Globe for Best Actor—Motion Picture Drama, as well as nominations for an Oscar, a BAFTA, and a Screen Actors Guild award.
Leonardo DiCaprio appeared in two films in 2006: Blood Diamond, a political conflict thriller, and The Departed, a crime film. Billy Costigan, portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio as suffering a 'constant 24-hour panic attack', was an undercover state police officer in Martin Scorsese's The Departed. Leonardo DiCaprio loved his experience working with Jack Nicholson, describing a scene they shot together as 'one of the most indelible moments' of his acting career. He proceeded to Boston to meet up with Irish mob associates and gained 15 pounds. With an estimated $90 million in production expenditures, the highly acclaimed film became Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration, earning $291 million worldwide. Though he believed Nicholson stole the show, Rolling Stone's Peter Travers praised Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon for their 'explosive, emotionally intricate' performances. Even though Leonardo DiCaprio had a significant role in The Departed, Warner Bros. To avoid any possible issue over his part in Blood Diamond, Pictures nominated him for Best Supporting Actor at the AMPAS. Despite DiCaprio's various triumphs for The Departed, which included a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards, his co-star Mark Wahlberg got the nominations.
Leonardo DiCaprio, shown here at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, wore a black suit and played a Rhodesian diamond trafficker caught up in Sierra Leone's civil war in the biopic Blood Diamond. His interactions with the 24 abandoned children from the SOS Children's Village in Maputo, Mozambique, with whom he worked on set, impacted him greatly, he said. He spent six months in Africa preparing, where he learned camouflage techniques from South African military soldiers and conducted interviews with locals to improve his accent. The film received mainly excellent reviews, and Leonardo DiCaprio's South African accent, which is famously difficult to replicate, became a talking point. Claudia Puig of USA Today and Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post were effusive in their admiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's cinematic journey from child to man since The Departed. Leonardo DiCaprio received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for his performance in Blood Diamond.
Gardener of Eden, DiCaprio's 2007 comedy-drama, 'lacks the requisite emotional intensity or dark humor to connect with viewers,' according to Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter. In 2008, he got the Earthwatch Environmental Film Award for his work on the documentary The 11th Hour, which he produced, co-wrote, and narrated about the state of the natural world. Planet Green's Greensburg, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way, ran for three seasons. The core focus of this video is the long-term rebuilding of Greensburg, Kansas following the deadly EF5 tornado that hit the town in May 2007. Leonardo DiCaprio appeared in the 2008 espionage thriller Body of Lies, which was based on the novel of the same name. He played one of three operatives involved in a Middle Eastern confrontation with a terrorist organization. Leonardo DiCaprio wore brown contacts and dyed his hair dark for the role, paying reference to 1970s political films like Three Days of the Condor and The Parallax View. With a budget of $67.5 million and mediocre reviews from critics, the film grossed $118 million.
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio collaborated in the 2008 drama Revolutionary Road, directed by Winslet's ex-husband Sam Mendes. Both actors were reticent to undertake romantic comedies like Titanic, but it was Winslet who suggested they work together on a film based on Richard Yates' 1961 book of the same name. According to her study, Justin Haythe's script was drastically different from the 1997 blockbuster hit. Leonardo DiCaprio felt constrained on the little set they used to represent a married couple whose marriage is on the verge of failing in the 1950s. Kate Winslet was similarly nervous. The protagonist was someone who was "ready to be merely a product of his circumstances," "somewhat cowardly," and "unheroic," in his opinion. Leonardo DiCaprio's multi-layered portrayal of an overwhelmed character earned GQ writer Marshall Sella's praise as the'most mature and memorable performance of his lifetime.' Peter Travers commended both the coupling and the performance. The film earned Leonardo DiCaprio his eighth Golden Globe nomination. The film's budget was $35 million, yet it grossed $75.9 million nevertheless. Jaume Collet-Serra's psychological horror film Orphan, starring Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, and Isabelle Fuhrman, marked the end of the 2000s. Despite unfavorable reviews, the film was a commercial success.
From 2010 until 2013, DiCaprio and Scorsese collaborated again on the psychological thriller Shutter Island, which was based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 novel of the same title. He played American lawyer Edward 'Tedd'y Daniels. When the marshal explores an island mental facility, he questions his own sanity. In 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio indicated interest in the film, which he later co-produced with Phoenix Pictures under the Appian Way label. Martin Scorsese was the other producer. Leonardo DiCaprio had nightmares of mass murder while filming and believed that hanging out with his friends was therapeutic in light of the film's horrific events. On its release, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave the film mixed reviews, praising Scorsese's direction and performances but criticizing the unexpected conclusion. Peter Travers appreciated Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, calling it his'most haunting and emotionally complex performance yet.' He believed Patricia Clarkson and DiCaprio's cave sequence were particularly noteworthy. With a global total of $294 million on a production budget of less than $80 million, the film was an economic success.
A picture of seven people on stage; everyone is cheering excitedly except for Leonardo DiCario, who is on the right. Leonardo DiCaprio attended the 2010 premiere of Christopher Nolan's highly praised ensemble science-fiction thriller Inception among the cast. The film follows Dom Cobb, a self-proclaimed 'extractor' who acquires access to previously unknown knowledge by invading other people's dreams. Lucid dreaming and dream incubation have both had an impact on his work. Cobb is offered the opportunity to return to his prior life in exchange for instilling a concept in the mind of a business target. Dream-heists and the idea that his character's fantasies may impact his real life attracted Leonardo DiCaprio. The film became Leonardo DiCaprio's second highest-grossing film, earning $836 million worldwide on a $160 million budget. Leonardo DiCaprio agreed to renounce a portion of his $20 million pay in exchange for a percentage of the film's first-dollar gross points, allowing him to influence how much money the picture generated from ticket sales. Leonardo DiCaprio's risk paid off, as he earned $50 million from the film, his highest salary to date.
DiCaprio portrayed the major character, J. Edgar Hoover in J. Clint Eastwood directed the film Edgar. The video goes into Hoover's life and career as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as his suspected homosexuality. Although reviews applauded Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, some felt the film was uneven as a whole. Roger Ebert praised Leonardo DiCaprio for giving Hoover a deep and multifaceted personality, noting that the actor revealed aspects of Hoover that the actual guy might not have known existed. Catherine Hardwicke directed Red Riding Hood, a romantic horror thriller, which he also produced in 2011. Time magazine classified it as one of the ten worst movies of 2011, however it nevertheless grossed a fair amount at the box office. DiCaprio's Appian Way produced George Clooney's political thriller The Ides of March, which was based on Beau Willimon's 2008 play Farragut North.
Django Unchained is Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western from 2012, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, a plantation owner. The script's overt racism made Leonardo DiCaprio uncomfortable, but his co-stars and director Quentin Tarantino persuaded him to make it authentic. Despite cutting his palm on glass during shooting, Leonardo DiCaprio insisted in finishing the shoot, and director Quentin Tarantino chose to include the shot in the final cut. A journalist for Wired magazine lauded him for his villainous depiction, calling it 'blood-chilling' in a piece about the film's critical triumph. Leonardo DiCaprio received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film. Despite spending less than $100 million on production, Django Unchained grossed $425 million internationally.
Leonardo DiCaprio announced in January 2013 that he will 'fly around the globe doing good for the environment' after a long vacation from acting. In that year alone, he acted in and produced four films. Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, was his film debut. Scott Fitzgerald, where he played Jay Gatsby, a wealthy. Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire co-star in the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald has the same name. Though the film received mixed reviews, Leonardo DiCaprio won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his outstanding performance. Rafer Guzman, a Newsday critic, described Leonardo DiCaprio as "tough but also sensitive, touching, humorous, a faker, and human." Matt Zoller Seitz, a writer to Roger Ebert's website, lauded his performance, calling it 'iconic—maybe his career finest' and 'the movie's largest and simplest special effect.' The actor produced a fantastic and deserved performance. The film grossed more than double its budget, earning $353 million worldwide. In 2013, Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way released three films: the ensemble criminal thriller Runner Runner, the commercially failed thriller Out of the Furnace, and the grim comedy-drama The Wolf of Wall Street. Critics, including Xan Brooks of The Guardian, lambasted these flicks.
In The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese collaborated for the sixth time. The movie is based on the life of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker imprisoned in the late 1990s for money laundering and securities fraud. After reading Belfort's book in 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio bid against Warner Bros., Brad Pitt, and Paramount Pictures for the rights to the biography. He'd always wanted to play the role. The financial crisis of 2007-2008 provided as inspiration for the film, and he appreciated Belfort's candid and unapologetic portrayal of his own events in the book. The Wolf of Wall Street, a collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio, garnered positive reviews. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter applauded Leonardo DiCaprio for portraying the part to the utmost. According to Film Comment's Jonathan Romney, Leonardo DiCaprio possesses a great degree of humorous talent, particularly in the field of 'rubber-limbed slapstick' comedy. In addition to his Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, he got Best Actor and Best Picture honors for the film.
Leonardo DiCaprio executive produced the 2014 British documentary Virunga, in which four people strive to safeguard the world's surviving mountain gorillas from violence and poaching. DiCaprio has since had success with environmental films and awards events. Leonardo DiCaprio was competing for the 2015 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special after making his Tribeca Film Festival debut in April 2014. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret was another documentary on which he served as an executive producer that year; he also contributed to the film's September Netflix-exclusive edit. It discusses the implications of rearing food animals.
In 2015, DiCaprio produced and starred as fur trader Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñarritu's survival thriller, The Revenant. In 2016, he was caught looking to his right before the film's French premiere. The role was difficult for DiCaprio since he had to sleep in animal carcasses and eat raw bison liver. He also learned to wield a musket, make fire, speak Native American languages, and conduct traditional medical methods. Despite a budget of $135 million, the picture grossed $533 million worldwide. Many reviews complimented the film, particularly Leonardo DiCaprio's performance. Both Mark Kermode of The Guardian and Nick De Semlyen of Empire applauded Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, claiming that DiCaprio's portrayal stressed physicality over speech. He received several honors for his role in the film, including Best Actor from the Screen Actors Guild, a Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and an Academy Award. For the next three years, Leonardo DiCaprio was busy creating films and narrating documentaries. In 2016, he produced The Ivory Game and Catching the Sun, as well as executive producing, presenting, and narrating the climate change documentary Before the Flood. He devised the crime drama Live by Night, which received negative reviews and cost $65 million to produce. In 2018, he tried his hand at producing two films: the psychological horror picture Delirium and the commercially failed action adventure flick Robin Hood.
DiCaprio made his acting comeback after four years with Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which depicts the relationship between Cliff Booth, an old stuntman, and Rick Dalton, a television actor. He created and narrated the 2019 climate change documentary Ice on Fire. Both DiCaprio and Pitt reduced their salaries, with DiCaprio receiving $10 million and Pitt receiving $7 million, to help fund the production. DiCaprio enjoyed working with Pitt, and Tarantino described the two as the most intriguing performers in film since Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Leonardo DiCaprio was attracted by the film's emphasis on friendship between his character and Pitt's, as well as its ode to Hollywood. The difficulties and disappointments that he and his acting colleagues had to face in the industry acted as motivation. Critics praised both his and Pitt's performances in the film when it premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The writer for Business Insider lauded Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as one of his best, while Ian Sandwell of Digital Spy commended the connection between the two protagonists, calling their scenes as some of the film's most memorable. Leonardo DiCaprio won Best Actor prizes at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and Screen Actors Guild. The film had a budget of $90 million but grossed $374 million.
Leonardo DiCaprio will executive produce The Right Stuff, a television series based on the 1973 novel of the same name, in 2020. It debuted on Disney+ following a spell in development at National Geographic. In May of that year, DiCaprio appeared briefly in the finale of the miniseries The Last Dance. Devin DeCaprio appeared in Adam McKay's satirical comedy Don't Look Up, released in 2021. He spent five months working with McKay to rewrite the screenplay before accepting the part. Leonardo DiCaprio regarded the film, in which he co-starred with Jennifer Lawrence as two scientists attempting to warn humanity about an extinction-level comet, as a metaphor for the world community's indifference to the climate crisis. Even if many people are unwilling to listen, Leonardo DiCaprio, an avid environmentalist, has stated that he has often contemplated acting in and producing films about current issues. He praised McKay for devising a study that will look at human answers to a serious problem from several perspectives, including politics, society, and science. The film received mixed reviews from critics, although those who did write about it were unified in their praise for Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. The film earned Leonardo DiCaprio Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations. It surpassed Netflix's record for the most views in one week.
Following that, DiCaprio received $30 million for his role in Martin Scorsese's murder mystery Killers of the Flower Moon, based on David Grann's novel of the same title. The screenplay had several alterations because Leonardo DiCaprio insisted on playing the difficult character of Ernest Burkhart, the nephew of the assassin William King Hale, despite being originally cast as the heroic FBI agent Thomas Bruce White Sr. Critics lauded Leonardo DiCaprio's 'nuanced and merciless depiction as the cretinous Ernest Burkhart draws fresh wonders from the actor's long-standing lack of vanity' as the career-defining performance. His performance earned him another Golden Globe nomination. Leonardo DiCaprio's next film will be The Battle of Baktan Cross, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and co-starring Sean Penn and Regina Hall.