Leonardo DiCaprio turns 50: These are his five best performances

Leonardo DiCaprio has been a part of moviegoers’ lives since he started doing commercials at a very young age. He made his film debut in ‘Critters 3′ and continued his evolution with ‘The Basketball Diaries’ or ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ until he became a star with ‘Titanic’. From there, the actor grew as an actor under Martin Scorsese and starred in great modern classics like ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, ‘The Departed’ or ‘Inception’, the latter with Nolan. Today, on the occasion of his 50th birthday, we are going to compile a Top 5 of his best performances, which are not necessarily the best movies he has starred in.

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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ (2013)

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jordan Belfort in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ a New York Stock Exchange broker who managed to position himself as one of the richest men of the moment until his subsequent fall, pronounced with prison in between. The actor eats the character in one of Scorsese’s most misunderstood films by a certain segment of the audience, even though its message is clear. The Best Actor Academy Award was a foregone conclusion for DiCaprio, but Matthew McConaughey (with whom he shares a mythical scene early in the film) stole it for ‘Dallas Buyers Club’.

‘The Revenant’ (2015)

Unlike ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, Leonardo DiCaprio won his first (and only) Best Actor Oscar for ‘The Revenant’. Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s film tells the story of fur trapper and hunter Hugh Glass and how he managed to survive a bear attack in the middle of the mountains. The cast also includes Tom Hardy and Domhnall Gleeson.

‘Django Unchained’ (2012)

Although he is not the protagonist of the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio has a majestic role as the villain of Django Unchained. The actor plays Calvin J. Candie, a slave trader who owns a cotton plantation in the antebellum South and holds Django’s wife Hilda hostage. His psychopathic character, staged when he actually cuts his hand while filming a scene, is one of the best parts of Tarantino’s movie.

‘Shutter Island’ (2010)

‘Shutter Island’ is the Martin Scorsese movie that most resembles a David Fincher movie. Anyway, Leonardo DiCaprio gives a great performance as a federal agent who goes to Shutter Island with his partner to investigate a disappearance where they live a real nightmare and nothing is what it seems.

‘Inception’ (2010)

‘Inception’ is Leonardo DiCaprio’s highest rated film on IMDb and one of Christopher Nolan’s best. The American gives life to Dom Cobb, a fugitive from justice who is an expert at entering other people’s dreams and taking ideas from them. It is one of Nolan’s most Nolan-esque films, with DiCaprio as a tortured character who tries to escape reality until he has no choice but to face it. Has the top stopped spinning?