Every Leonardo DiCaprio Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best

In one of his first films after Titanic, DiCaprio played a hotshot actor in Woody Allen's 1998 comedy. Entertainment Weekly said he "juic[ed] the proceedings with a power surge." But the performance wasn't enough to save a film dinged elsewhere as "meandering" and "a waste."

Some critics mocked DiCaprio's French accent in this tepidly received 1995 art-house biopic about poet Arthur Rimbaud. But more praised his "daring," "dynamic" performance.

History has been kinder to this 2000 lost-paradise film than the critical and box-office consensus was back in the day. Called everything from "pretentious" to "predictable," the film rated DiCaprio a rare thumbs down for "less-than-stellar acting."

This 1995 account of a high-school heroin addict turned writer was DiCaprio's first star vehicle. His performance was praised by the Washington Post as "fierce." The film, however, was panned by the Boston Globe as "too lame and too tame."

This "colorful," but ultimately "flat" 1995 Sam Raimi western served DiCaprio well: It put him on screen with Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe, and earned him praise as a "strong presence."

Though no Titanic at the box office, this 1998 swashbuckler proved popular enough with audiences. It had a tougher time with critics, who found it "less-than-rollicking" and "dopey." Even DiCaprio got the business: The L.A. Weekly called out his "Alice in Wonderland hairdo."

Adam McKay's 2021 Netflix satire set in a world where a comet is on a history-altering collision course with Earth finds DiCaprio leading a star-packed ensemble as astronomy professor Dr. Randall Mindy. It's perhaps the most comedic film in the star's filmography to date, and while critics found the film overly broad and smug, it wasn't the star's fault: Film Threat called DiCaprio's performance "phenomenal."

Critics were divided on Baz Luhrmann's "dazzling," if "empty" 2013 adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Jazz Age classic. But they were more in agreement on DiCaprio's "mesmerizing" and "magnificent" title-role performance.

DiCaprio's reteaming with Russell Crowe rated mixed reviews for being "crisp and watchable," but "not exactly memorable." At the box office, the 2008 Ridley Scott-directed spy thriller was a dud, grossing less than $40 million domestically off a reported $70 million budget.

Expected to compete for Oscars, Clint Eastwood's 2011 biopic of the legendary FBI director was shut out of the nominations. Empire called the DiCaprio-led drama "a well-acted but unfocused study of one of the 20th century's most colourful characters."

The Los Angeles Times correctly predicted Baz Luhrmann's modernistic take on William Shakespeare would "infuriate as much as it delights." Despite the mixed reception, the 1996 film made its Romeo a heartthrob, and represented DiCaprio's first splash at the box office.

After graduating from the likes of Growing Pains and Critters 3, DiCaprio broke out in this 1993 period piece that pitted him opposite a menacing Robert De Niro. The critical consensus was that, while the film just missed being great, DiCaprio was "sensational."

This 2010 Martin Scorsese asylum thriller lands on the lower end of Metacritic's green scale because of reviews like USA Today's, which found the film "worth seeing," but flawed. DiCaprio's "haunting" performance drew more universal acclaim.

The "strong," "remarkable," "soulful" DiCaprio scored great reviews and an Oscar nomination (his third) for this 2006 thriller set during Sierra Leone's civil war. But the $100 million film was a box-office disappointment that critics liked, but didn't always love.

Praised as "well-acted," this 1996 family drama dropped DiCaprio alongside a trio Oscar-winners: Meryl Streep (who played his mother); Diane Keaton and Robert De Niro. In the end, only Keaton scored an Oscar nomination for her performance.

This "beautifully shot" awards-season contender from 2008, about a married couple in the suburbia of the 1950s, found DiCaprio in "peak form," and reunited him with his Titanic costar Kate Winslet.

This "hugely ambitious" 2002 Best Picture contender was DiCaprio's first feature with Martin Scorsese. The New York Times said DiCaprio and co-star Cameron Diaz showed themselves to be "smart, eager and intrepid actors."

The 19-year-old DiCaprio became one of Oscar's youngest supporting actor nominees for his "heartbreakingly real" turn as a developmentally disabled boy in this "original, appealing, offbeat" 1994 Johnny Depp vehicle.

Christopher Nolan's "wholly original," best picture-nominated 2010 mind-bender became the second biggest domestic box-office hit of DiCaprio's career, and rated the star praise for an "astonishing performance."

A "brilliant" DiCaprio shone in a performance of "comic deftness" in Steven Spielberg's popular, "buoyant" and "supremely entertaining" 2002 account of real-life scofflaw (and fraudulent pilot) Frank Abagnale Jr.

DiCaprio already had a lot, including an Oscar nod, when he and Kate Winslet boarded James Cameron's 1997 "spellbinding" disaster epic. The film won a record-tying 11 Academy Awards, and broke worldwide box-office records. The "vigorously spirited" DiCaprio never looked back.

The "swaggering," "electric" DiCaprio earned two Oscar nods, as an actor and as a producer of the best picture candidate, for Martin Scorsese's "rampantly over-the-top" 2013 black comedy. The Los Angeles Times said it clocked in at a "very fast three hours."

Winless after his first four acting Oscar nods, DiCaprio finally took home the best actor statuette for a "raw" performance in this 2015 best picture-nominated survivalist drama that the Tampa Bay Times praised as an "action blockbuster with an art-house soul."

DiCaprio scored his first Oscar nod for a leading role for his "astonishing" star turn as mogul Howard Hughes in Martin Scorsese's "brilliantly entertaining," "sumptuously exciting" 2004 biopic.

DiCaprio was up to the Quentin Tarantino task, "mesmeriz[ing] us" with his evil supporting turn as a slave-era plantation owner in the "articulate, intriguing, provoking, appalling, hilarious, exhilarating, scathing and downright entertaining" best picture-nominated 2012 revenge drama.

After the longest break in his career (four years), DiCaprio reunited with his Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino for the director's reimagining of the Tate–LaBianca murders in late-1960s Los Angeles. Singled out by TimeOut alongside co-star Brad Pitt for delivering "killer lead performances," DiCaprio picked up his fifth Best Actor nomination for his role as TV actor (and Roman Polanski neighbor) Rick Dalton.

Hailed by Rolling Stone as a "new American crime classic," Martin Scorsese's 2006 remake of the Hong Kong drama, Infernal Affairs, featured a "terrific," mature DiCaprio. The film claimed the best picture Oscar, making it the second such winner of DiCaprio's career.

Working with director Martin Scorsese for the sixth time (or seventh if you count their short The Audition), DiCaprio stars opposite Lily Gladstone and fellow Scorsese regular Robert De Niro in a based-on-a-true-story epic about a series of murders in the Osage Nation in the 1920s. DiCaprio (and the film itself) is widely expected to wind up with an Oscar nomination, and The Telegraph calls it "one of the finest, most complex performances he's ever given."