Leonardo DiCaprio · Filmography Ranked
Best Leonardo DiCaprio Films, Ranked by IQ Score
Three decades of cinema's most-deliberately-curated leading-man catalog. Every DiCaprio film, ranked.
Leonardo DiCaprio's filmography is the most-deliberately-curated post-1990 leading-man catalog. He's worked with Scorsese six times (Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, Killers of the Flower Moon), the most-sustained recent actor-director collaboration after De Niro/Scorsese.
Anchor picks: The Departed (2006), Inception (2010), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Plus Catch Me If You Can (2002), Shutter Island (2010), Django Unchained (2012).
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Questions about this ranking
What is the best DiCaprio film?
By IQ Score on TV Intelligentsia, The Departed, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood anchor the catalog. The Scorsese collaborations (six films) define DiCaprio's canonical work.
How many Oscars has DiCaprio won?
One, Best Actor for The Revenant (2015). He'd been nominated four prior times (The Aviator, Blood Diamond, The Wolf of Wall Street, plus Best Supporting for What's Eating Gilbert Grape).
Which DiCaprio performance is most underrated?
Catch Me If You Can (2002), Shutter Island (2010), and The Aviator (2004) are consistently underrated relative to The Wolf of Wall Street and The Departed. All three are Masterclass-tier on the TVI rubric, Catch Me If You Can especially is the rare DiCaprio leading-man performance whose register is comedic-pleasure rather than dramatic-intensity.
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