Leonardo Dicaprio
March 8, 2026, 2:36 p.m. ET
Take a look back at his roles and red carpets through the years. Here, he attends the “Killers of the Flower Moon” premiere at Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2023.
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Let’s start at the beginning. Before becoming a teenage heartthrob, here’s DiCaprio as a young boy (left) with his stepbrother, Adam Ferrer, in Los Angeles in the late 1970s.
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Little Leo starred as Luke Brower on the ABC sitcom “Growing Pains” from 1991 to 1992.
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He also starred in the 1993 drama “This Boy’s Life” alongside Robert De Niro.
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For his role as Arnie Grape in 1993’s “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” DiCaprio scored his first Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.
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DiCaprio played Jim Carroll in “The Basketball Diaries” in 1995.
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Romeo, oh, Romeo. Here’s the star with Claire Danes in the beloved 1996 film adaptation “Romeo + Juliet.”
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Meryl Streep portrayed DiCaprio’s mom in “Marvin’s Room” (1996).
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He’s on top of the world! DiCaprio’s performance in “Titanic” definitely didn’t sink. In fact, the James Cameron movie won 11 Oscars in 1998.
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Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me If You Can” in 2002 became one of DiCaprio’s most notable films.
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DiCaprio starred in Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York,” which earned 10 Oscar nods in 2003.
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DiCaprio earned himself another Oscar nomination by playing Howard Hughes in 2004’s “The Aviator.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio is pictured in Los Angeles on Dec. 2, 2004, as he promotes the movie “The Aviator.”
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DiCaprio’s role as Danny Archer in 2006’s “Blood Diamond” earned him yet another best actor nomination at the Academy Awards.
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DiCaprio, seen here at the 79th Academy Awards on Feb. 25, 2007, lost out to Forest Whitaker, who won for “The Last King of Scotland.”
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DiCaprio and co-star Russell Crowe are seen promoting their film “Body of Lies” in Los Angeles on Sept. 29, 2008.
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DiCaprio and Kate Winslet teamed up again to tug at your heartstrings in 2008’s “Revolutionary Road.”
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DiCaprio worked with Scorsese once again in the 2010 mystery “Shutter Island.” Mark Ruffalo also starred in the film.
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Scorsese and DiCaprio are seen here promoting “Shutter Island” in Los Angeles on Jan. 21, 2010.
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DiCaprio as Cobb in Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending 2010 film “Inception.”
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The ending had audiences scrambling to figure out: Was it all a dream?
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DiCaprio embodied FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in the 2011 biopic “J. Edgar.”
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Then he went on to work with Quentin Tarantino in the Oscar-winning “Django Unchained,” which came out in 2012.
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DiCaprio took on the role of another famous fictional character, Jay Gatsby, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald book-turned-2013 movie “The Great Gatsby.”
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DiCaprio at the premiere for “The Great Gatsby” on May 1, 2013, in New York City.
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DiCaprio earned an Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe for playing Jordan Belfort in “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
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Despite being nominated in five categories, “The Wolf of Wall Street” earned zero Oscars in 2014.
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DiCaprio promotes “The Wolf of Wall Street” in New York on Dec. 15, 2013.
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Here he is collecting his trophy for the role at the 71st Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 12, 2014.
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DiCaprio played a frontiersman mauled by a bear and left for dead in 2015’s “The Revenant.” And it finally won him his first Oscar.
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DiCaprio promotes “The Revenant” in Los Angeles on Dec. 17, 2015.
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DiCaprio accepts the best actor Oscar for “The Revenant” during the 88th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
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DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunite on the Oscars red carpet on Feb. 28, 2016.
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DiCaprio poses with his best actor Oscar for “The Revenant.”
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DiCaprio starred in another awards season darling from Tarantino, 2019’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
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DiCaprio, who played fading actor Rick Dalton, starred alongside Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth.
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DiCaprio joined a star-studded cast, including Cate Blanchett, Tyler Perry and Jennifer Lawrence, in Adam McKay’s 2021 Netflix satire “Don’t Look Up.”
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Co-stars DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are seen at the “Don’t Look Up” world premiere on Dec. 5, 2021, in New York City.
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The actor teamed up again with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese for 2023’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.” He co-starred with Lily Gladstone in the film based on David Grann’s book about the murders of oil-rich Osage Nation members in 1920s Oklahoma.
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The Apple TV film racked up 10 nominations at the 2024 Academy Awards.
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Gladstone portrayed Mollie, a member of the Osage Nation who became involved with a man named Ernest (DiCaprio) as her family and friends started dying mysteriously.
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Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio attend the “Killers of the Flower Moon” photo call at Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2023.
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DiCaprio attends the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ annual gala on Dec. 3, 2023, in LA.
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Co-stars Lily Gladstone and DiCaprio arrive for the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 7, 2024.
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DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone attend the AFI Awards on Jan. 12, 2024, in Los Angeles.
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio Del Toro pose for a portrait at the Aster Hotel on Sept. 9, 2025. Both are Oscar-nominated (for best actor and best supporting actor, respectively) for their roles in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio plays a revolutionary who needs to get his explosive groove back in “One Battle After Another.”
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