See Leonardo DiCaprio’s Best Roles

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Leonardo DiCaprio has inhabited many characters in his 25-year career as an actor, but his turn as a fur trapper in Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s The Revenant is the first role that required him to inhabit a dead animal carcass. And eat bison liver. And swim in frozen Canadian rivers at the height of winter. It was a brutal filming experience which yielded a similarly brutal film, and over the coming months we’ll learn whether it was enough to earn the actor his first Academy Award. But although it may have been his most physically taxing role, it’s just one of a career’s worth—or really, half a career’s worth—of memorable characters. As The Revenant opens nationwide on Jan. 8, here’s a look back at DiCaprio’s most memorable performances at the movies.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape, 1993.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape, 1993. Paramount Pictures
The Basketball Diaries, 1995.
The Basketball Diaries, 1995.New Line Cinema
Romeo + Juliet, 1996.
Romeo + Juliet, 1996. 20th Century Fox
Titanic, 1997.
Titanic, 1997.Paramount Pictures
Catch Me If You Can, 2002.
Catch Me If You Can, 2002. DreamWorks Pictures
Gangs of New York, 2002.
Gangs of New York, 2002. Miramax Films
The Aviator, 2004.
The Aviator, 2004.Warner Bros.
The Departed, 2006.
The Departed, 2006. Andrew Cooper—Warner Bros.
Blood Diamond, 2006.
Blood Diamond, 2006. Warner Bros.
Revolutionary Road, 2008.
Revolutionary Road, 2008.Francois Duhamel—Paramount Vantage
Shutter Island, 2010.
Shutter Island, 2010. Paramount Pictures
Inception, 2010.
Inception, 2010. Melissa Moseley—Warner Bros.
J. Edgar, 2011.
J. Edgar, 2011. Keith Bernstein—Warner Bros.
Django Unchained, 2012.
Django Unchained, 2012.The Weinstein Company
The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013.
The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013. Mary Cybulski—Paramount Pictures

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