Leonardo DiCaprio filmography

Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor who began his career performing as a child on television. He appeared on the shows The New Lassie (1989) and Santa Barbara (1990) and also had long-running roles in the comedy-drama Parenthood (1990) and the sitcom Growing Pains (1991). DiCaprio played Tobias "Toby" Wolff opposite Robert De Niro in the biographical coming-of-age drama This Boy's Life in 1993. In the same year, he had a supporting role as a developmentally disabled boy Arnie Grape in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, which earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.^[1][2] In 1995, DiCaprio played the leading roles of an American author Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries and the French poet Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse. The following year he played Romeo Montague in the Baz Luhrmann-directed film Romeo + Juliet (1996). DiCaprio starred with Kate Winslet in the James Cameron-directed film Titanic (1997). The film became the highest grossing at the worldwide box-office,^[a] and made him famous globally.^[6] For his performance as Jack Dawson, he received the MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance and his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.^[7][8]

DiCaprio at the UK premiere of The Wolf of Wall Street in 2014

In 2002, DiCaprio played con-artist Frank Abagnale Jr. opposite Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg-directed biographical crime-drama Catch Me If You Can and also starred in the Martin Scorsese-directed historical drama Gangs of New York. He founded his own production company, Appian Way, in 2004.^[9] The next two films he starred in were both directed by Scorsese: the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator (2004) and the crime drama The Departed (2006). For his portrayal of Hughes in the former, DiCaprio won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and garnered his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.^[10][11]

DiCaprio produced the environmental documentary The 11th Hour and the comedy drama Gardener of Eden in 2007. The following year, he reunited with Kate Winslet in the Sam Mendes-directed drama Revolutionary Road^[12] and appeared in the Ridley Scott-directed action film Body of Lies. DiCaprio reteamed with Scorsese in 2010 in the psychological thriller Shutter Island and also starred in the Christopher Nolan-directed science fiction heist thriller Inception. In 2011, he portrayed J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, in the biopic J. Edgar. The following year, he played a supporting role in the Quentin Tarantino-directed western Django Unchained. DiCaprio starred in two film adaptations of novels in 2013; he first appeared as Jay Gatsby in the Luhrmann-directed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, and later as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street, an adaptation of Belfort's memoir of the same name. The latter earned him a third Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.^[13][14] In 2015, DiCaprio played fur trapper Hugh Glass in the survival drama The Revenant, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.^[15] In 2019, he starred as an actor on the decline in the Tarantino-directed comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.

Film

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1991	Critters 3	Josh	Direct-to-video	[16]
1993	This Boy's Life	Tobias Wolff		[17]
	What's Eating Gilbert Grape	Arnold Grape		[18]
1995	The Basketball Diaries	Jim Carroll		[19]
	The Quick and the Dead	Fee "The Kid" Herod		[20]
	Total Eclipse	Arthur Rimbaud		[21]
1996	Romeo + Juliet	Romeo Montague		[22]
	Marvin's Room	Hank Lacker		[23]
1997	Titanic	Jack Dawson		[24]
1998	The Man in the Iron Mask	King Louis XIV / Philippe		[25]
	Celebrity	Brandon Darrow		[26]
2000	The Beach	Richard		[27]
2001	Don's Plum	Derek		[28]
2002	Gangs of New York	Amsterdam Vallon		[29]
	Catch Me If You Can	Frank Abagnale Jr.		[30]
2004	The Aviator	Howard Hughes		[31]
2006	The Departed	William "Billy" Costigan		[32]
	Blood Diamond	Danny Archer		[33]
2007	The 11th Hour	Himself / narrator	Documentary; also writer	[34]
2008	Body of Lies	Roger Ferris		[35]
	Revolutionary Road	Frank Wheeler		[36]
2010	Shutter Island	Edward "Teddy" Daniels		[37]
	Hubble	Narrator (voice)	Documentary	[38]
	Inception	Dom Cobb		[39]
2011	J. Edgar	J. Edgar Hoover		[40]
2012	Django Unchained	Calvin J. Candie		[41]
2013	The Great Gatsby	Jay Gatsby		[42]
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Jordan Belfort		[43]
2015	The Revenant	Hugh Glass		[44]
	The Audition	Himself	Short film	[45]
2016	Before the Flood		Documentary	[46]
2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Rick Dalton		[47]
	Ice on Fire	Narrator (voice)	Documentary	[48]
2021	Don't Look Up	Dr. Randall Mindy		[49]
2023	Killers of the Flower Moon	Ernest Burkhart		[50][51]
2025	One Battle After Another †	Bob Ferguson	Post-production	[52][53]

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

As producer

Year	Title	Credit	Ref.
2004	The Aviator	Executive producer	[54]
	The Assassination of Richard Nixon		[55]
2007	The 11th Hour	Producer	[34]
	Gardener of Eden		[56]
2009	Orphan		[57]
2011	Red Riding Hood		[58]
	The Ides of March	Executive producer	[59]
2013	Runner Runner	Producer	[60]
	Out of the Furnace		[61]
	The Wolf of Wall Street		[62]
2014	Virunga	Executive producer	[63]
2015	Catching the Sun		[64]
	Cowspiracy		[65]
2016	The Ivory Game		[66]
	Before the Flood	Producer	[67]
	Live by Night		[68]
2018	Delirium		[69]
	Robin Hood		[70]
	Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski		[71]
2019	And We Go Green		[72]
	Richard Jewell		[73]
2021	Kid 90	Executive producer	[74]
	The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52		[75]
	Fin		[76]
2023	Killers of the Flower Moon		[77]
	Ozi: Voice of the Forest	Producer	[78]

Television

Year(s)	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1989	The New Lassie	Glen	2 episodes	[79] [80]
1990	The Mickey Mouse Club	Alex	Episode: "Street Safe, Street Smart"	[81][82]
	The Outsiders	Kid Fighting Scout	Episode: "Pilot"	[17]
	Santa Barbara	Young Mason Capwell	5 episodes	[17]
1990–1991	Parenthood	Garry Buckman	12 episodes	[17]
1991	Roseanne	Darlene's Classmate	Episode: "Home-Ec" (Uncredited)	[17]
1991–1992	Growing Pains	Luke Brower	23 episodes	[17]
2008–2010	Greensburg	—	Executive producer and co-creator	[83] [84]
2014	Saturday Night Live	Himself (cameo)	Episode: "Jonah Hill/Bastille"	[85]
2018	The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen	—	Executive producer	[86]
2020	Grant	—	Executive producer	[87]
	The Right Stuff	—	Executive producer	[88] [89]
	Whose Vote Counts, Explained	Narrator (voice)	Episode: "The Right to Vote"	[90]
2021	The Titans That Built America	—	Executive producer	[91]
2022	Theodore Roosevelt	—	Executive producer	[92][93][94]

Music videos

Year(s)	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2019	"Earth"	Lil Dicky	Himself	[95]

Notes

1. Titanic was later surpassed by the Cameron-directed science fiction film Avatar (2009) which held the record till 2019 when Avengers: Endgame overtook it.^[3][4] Avatar retook the record after a 2021 re-release in China.^[5]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Leonardo DiCaprio