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In 2002, Leonardo DiCaprio was a leading man in the historical drama Gangs of New York, directed by Martin Scorsese and taking place in New York City's Five Points neighborhood in the middle of the nineteenth century. although Leonardo DiCaprio expressed interest in appearing in the picture, Miramax Films became engaged in funding it, although Scorsese had trouble selling the notion of making the film at first. Yet, the eight-month filming was delayed due to financial overruns and producer-director disputes. The picture set a new record for Scorsese's budget, coming in at $103 million. Playing the youthful head of an Irish-American street gang, Amsterdam Vallon, was an appealing job for Leonardo DiCaprio since it represented a departure from his previous 'boyish' performances and a more mature leading man. The critically acclaimed and commercially successful Gangs of New York made $193 million throughout the globe. Although The Observer's Anne Thompson praised Leonardo DiCaprio for his 'low-key, strong performance,' she thought that Daniel Day-Lewis stole the show.



Appian Way Productions, named after the Italian route, was formed by Leonardo DiCaprio in 2004. Citing past experiences where the inclusion of an excessive number of individuals had a detrimental impact on the final output, he expressed an interest in locating original source material and maintaining its core characteristics throughout development. The Assassination of Richard Nixon, which premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and featured Sean Penn as Samuel Byck, was DiCaprio's debut production as an executive producer. The Aviator, which Leonardo DiCaprio co-produced under Appian Way, is a biography of American aviation pioneer and film director Howard Hughes, who suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Scorsese and DiCaprio were back together for the project. He co-created the concept with Michael Mann at first, but Scorsese finally took over. After spending just $110 million on production, The Aviator became a critical and commercial smash, earning $213 million. Empire writer Simond Braund praised Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, praising his nuanced portrayal of Hughes's anxiety and fixation. Best Actor—Motion Picture Drama was his first Golden Globe, and he was also nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA, and a Screen Actors Guild award.

Both Blood Diamond, a political conflict thriller, and The Departed, a criminal picture, featured Leonardo DiCaprio in 2006. Undercover state policeman Billy Costigan—whom Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed as having a 'continuous 24-hour panic attack'—was a character in Martin Scorsese's The Departed. Working with Jack Nicholson was an experience that Leonardo DiCaprio treasured; he called a scene they shot together 'one of the most unforgettable moments' of his acting career. He went to Boston to meet up with Irish mob associates and bulked up by fifteen pounds. With an estimated $90 million in production costs, the critically praised picture became the highest-grossing collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese, earning $291 million worldwide. Though he thought Nicholson stole the show, Rolling Stone's Peter Travers lauded Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon for their 'explosive, emotionally complicated' performances. Even though Leonardo DiCaprio had a pivotal role in The Departed, Warner Bros. In order to sidestep any potential controversy about his role in Blood Diamond, Pictures nominated him for Best Supporting Actor at the AMPAS. Despite DiCaprio's numerous accomplishments for The Departed, such as a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards, his co-star Mark Wahlberg was the one who received the nominations.

Pictured here at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, Leonardo DiCaprio wore a black suit and played the role of a Rhodesian diamond trafficker caught up in the civil war in Sierra Leone in the biopic Blood Diamond. His encounters with the 24 abandoned children from the SOS Children's Village in Maputo, Mozambique, with whom he worked on set, moved him deeply, he added. He spent six months in Africa getting ready, during which time he picked up tips on camouflage from South African military personnel and conducted interviews with locals to hone his accent. Reviews for the film were mostly positive, and Leonardo DiCaprio's South African accent—which is notoriously hard to mimic—was a talking point. Both Claudia Puig of USA Today and Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post were effusive in their praise of Leonardo DiCaprio, praising his onscreen transformation from kid to man since The Departed. For his role in Blood Diamond, Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for both the Golden Globe and Academy Awards.



Gardener of Eden, a comedy-drama that DiCaprio produced in 2007, 'lacks the required dramatic intensity or dark humor to connect with moviegoers,' says Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter. In 2008, he received the Earthwatch Environmental Film Award for his work on the documentary The 11th Hour, which he produced, co-wrote, and narrated on the condition of the natural environment. Planet Green's Greensburg, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way, aired for three seasons. Rebuilding Greensburg, Kansas in a sustainable manner after the devastating EF5 tornado that struck the town in May 2007 is the central theme of this film. The 2008 espionage thriller Body of Lies, which was adapted from the same-titled book, also featured Leonardo DiCaprio. He portrayed one of three operatives engaged in a Middle Eastern standoff with a terrorist group. Leonardo DiCaprio used brown contacts and colored his hair brown for the part, seeing it as an homage to 1970s political movies such as Three Days of the Condor and The Parallax View. With a budget of $67.5 million and mixed reviews from critics, the picture managed to earn $118 million.

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio worked together in the 2008 drama Revolutionary Road, which was directed by Winslet's ex-husband Sam Mendes. Both stars were hesitant to do romantic comedies like Titanic, but it was Winslet who that they collaborate on a film based on Richard Yates's 1961 book of the same name. According to her research, Justin Haythe's screenplay differed significantly from the 1997 smash hit. As they prepared to play a married couple whose marriage is crumbling in the 1950s, Leonardo DiCaprio felt cramped on the little set they utilized. Kate Winslet was equally nervous. The protagonist was someone who was 'ready to be merely a product of his circumstances,' 'somewhat cowardly,' and 'unheroic,' in his view. With his multi-layered depiction of an overwhelmed character, Leonardo DiCaprio gave what GQ critic Marshall Sella hailed as the 'most mature and unforgettable performance of his lifetime.' Peter Travers praised the pairing and the performance. The picture garnered Leonardo DiCaprio his eighth nomination for a Golden Globe. The film's budget was $35 million, yet it made $75.9 million anyway. With Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, and Isabelle Fuhrman starring in Jaume Collet-Serra's psychological horror thriller Orphan, he brought the 2000s to a close. The picture was financially successful despite negative reviews.

From 2010 until 2013, DiCaprio and Scorsese worked together again on the psychological thriller Shutter Island, which was based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 book of the same name. He portrayed American lawyer Edward 'Tedd'y Daniels. The marshal's sanity is called into doubt when he investigates an island mental institution. In 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio expressed interest in the movie, and he later co-produced it with Phoenix Pictures under the Appian Way banner. Martin Scorsese was the other producer. While filming, Leonardo DiCaprio had dreams of mass murder and thought that hanging out with his buddies was therapeutic because of the horrible events in the film. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave the picture mixed reviews upon its debut, praising Scorsese's directing and performances but criticizing the surprise ending. Peter Travers praised Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, describing it as his 'most haunting and emotionally complex performance yet.' He thought Patricia Clarkson and DiCaprio's cave sequence were especially memorable. With a global total of $294 million on a production budget of under $80 million, the picture was an economic smash.

A picture of seven individuals on stage; everyone is cheering enthusiastically except for Leonardo DiCario, who is positioned on the right. At the 2010 premiere of Christopher Nolan's highly acclaimed ensemble science-fiction picture Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio was seen with the cast of the film. The film follows Dom Cobb, a self-proclaimed 'extractor' who gains access to previously unavailable knowledge by entering the dreams of others. His work is influenced by the phenomena of lucid dreaming and dream incubation. In return for planting an idea in the head of a corporate target, Cobb is offered a chance to return to his previous life. Dream-heists and the thought that his character may influence his actual life via his dreams captivated Leonardo DiCaprio. The film became Leonardo DiCaprio's second highest-grossing picture, earning $836 million globally, on a budget of $160 million. Leonardo DiCaprio chose to forego a portion of his $20 million salary in exchange for a cut of the film's first-dollar gross points, which gave him a say in how much money the movie made from ticket sales. The gamble paid off for Leonardo DiCaprio, who made $50 million from the picture, his biggest paycheck to date.

DiCaprio played the lead role of J. Edgar Hoover in J. Edgar, directed by Clint Eastwood. The film delves into Hoover's life and work as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, as well as his suspected homosexuality. Although critics praised Leonardo DiCaprio for his performance, some believed the picture was inconsistent as a whole. Roger Ebert lauded Leonardo DiCaprio for giving Hoover a complex and multi-faceted personality, speculating that the actor brought out sides of Hoover that the real guy may not have realized existed. Red Riding Hood, a romantic horror film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, was another 2011 production of his. Time magazine ranked it as one of the ten worst movies of 2011, although it nevertheless managed to pull in a respectable sum at the box office. Adapted on Beau Willimon's 2008 play Farragut North, George Clooney's political thriller The Ides of March was produced that year by DiCaprio's Appian Way.

Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western from 2012, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, a plantation owner. The script's overt racism made Leonardo DiCaprio uncomfortable, but the film's co-stars and director Quentin Tarantino persuaded him to keep it real. Although Leonardo DiCaprio cut his palm on glass during production, he persisted in continuing the shoot, and director Quentin Tarantino decided to use the shot into the final edit. He was praised for his evil portrayal and described it as 'blood-chilling' by a writer for Wired magazine, who wrote an article on the film's critical success. A nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Globes was extended to Leonardo DiCaprio for the film. Despite spending under $100 million on production, Django Unchained made $425 million globally.

Leonardo DiCaprio said in January 2013 that he will 'fly around the globe doing good for the environment' during a protracted hiatus from acting. In that year alone, his acting and producing credits totaled four films. His debut was in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, where he played the part of Jay Gatsby, a billionaire. Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire co-star in the 1925 book by F. Scott Fitzgerald with the same name. Though reviewers gave the picture mixed reviews, Leonardo DiCaprio won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his acclaimed performance. Not only was Leonardo DiCaprio 'tough but also sensitive, touching, humorous, a faker, and human,' according to Newsday critic Rafer Guzman. According to Roger Ebert's website contributor Matt Zoller Seitz, who praised his performance, calling it 'iconic—maybe his career best' and 'the movie's biggest and simplest special effect,' the actor delivered a remarkable and earned performance. More than double its budget, the picture earned $353 million globally. In 2013, Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way produced three films: the ensemble crime thriller Runner Runner, the commercially unsuccessful thriller Out of the Furnace, and the black comedy-drama The Wolf of Wall Street. These films were panned by critics and the Guardian's Xan Brooks.

In The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese teamed together for the sixth time. The biopic is based on the life of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who was jailed in the late 90s for money laundering and securities fraud. In 2007, after reading Belfort's book, Leonardo DiCaprio coveted the rights to the memoir and won a bidding battle with Warner Bros., Brad Pitt, and Paramount Pictures to get them. He had always wanted to play the role. The financial crisis of 2007–2008 served as an inspiration for the picture, and he enjoyed Belfort’s forthright and unrepentant depiction of his own events in the book. The collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street was well-received. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter praised Leonardo DiCaprio for playing the role to his fullest extent. According to Film Comment's Jonathan Romney, Leonardo DiCaprio has a remarkable amount of comic aptitude, particularly in the realm of 'rubber-limbed slapstick' comedy. In addition to his Golden Globe and BAFTA nods for Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, he also received Best Actor and Best Picture nominations for the film.

The 2014 British documentary Virunga, in which four individuals struggle to save the world's remaining mountain gorillas from conflict and poaching, was executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, who has since had success with environmental films and awards shows. With the film's April 2014 Tribeca Film Festival debut under his belt, Leonardo DiCaprio was up for the 2015 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. Another documentary he worked on that year as an executive producer was Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret; he was also a part of the September Netflix-exclusive edit of the film. In it, the effects of raising animals for food are discussed.

In 2015, DiCaprio was both the producer and the actor playing the role of fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñarritu's survival thriller The Revenant. In 2016, at the French premiere of the film, he was seen staring to his right. The part was challenging for DiCaprio since he had to sleep in animal corpses and consume raw bison liver. In addition, he mastered the use of a musket, the art of firemaking, the languages of the Native Americans, and the use of traditional medical practices. The film's global earnings were $533 million, despite its $135 million budget. Many critics praised the picture, praising Leonardo DiCaprio in particular for his performance. Both Mark Kermode of The Guardian and Nick De Semlyen of Empire praised Leonardo DiCaprio for his performance, writing that DiCaprio's portrayal emphasized body over discourse. He won many accolades for his performance in the film, including Best Actor from the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and the Academy Award. For the following three years, Leonardo DiCaprio was busy producing films and narrating documentaries. The Ivory Game and Catching the Sun were both produced by him in 2016, and he also served as executive producer, presenter, and narrator for the climate change documentary Before the Flood. Live by Night, a crime drama he created, was critically panned and financially lost $65 million. In 2018, he tried his hand at producing the psychological horror film Delirium and the financially unsuccessful action-adventure film Robin Hood.

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In Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which follows the relationship between Cliff Booth, an aging stuntman, and Rick Dalton, a television actor, DiCaprio made his acting return after a four-year hiatus. He produced and narrated the 2019 climate change documentary Ice on Fire. Both DiCaprio and Pitt took a salary cut, with DiCaprio receiving $10 million and Pitt receiving $7 million, to help fund the project. Pitt was a pleasure to work with for DiCaprio, and Tarantino said the two were the most interesting actors a film has seen since Paul Newman and Robert Redford. The film's emphasis on the camaraderie between his character and Pitt's, as well as its tribute to Hollywood, captivated Leonardo DiCaprio. The hardships and setbacks that he and his actor buddies had to endure in the business served as inspiration. Critics lauded his and Pitt's performances in the picture when it opened at the 2019 Cannes picture Festival. Business Insider's writer hailed Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as one of his finest, while Digital Spy's Ian Sandwell praised the chemistry between the two leads, citing their sequences as among the film's most memorable. The Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild awards were all extended to Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor. There was a $90 million budget for the picture, yet it made $374 million.

The Right Stuff, a TV series based on the 1973 novel of the same name, with Leonardo DiCaprio as an executive producer in 2020. It premiered on Disney+ after a stint in development at National Geographic. In May of that year, DiCaprio made a short appearance in the miniseries The Last Dance's conclusion. Devin DeCaprio had an appearance in Don't Look Up, Adam McKay's satire comedy from 2021. Prior to accepting the role, he collaborated with McKay for five months to revise the screenplay. Leonardo DiCaprio saw the film, in which he co-starred with Jennifer Lawrence as two astronomers trying to alert mankind to an extinction-level comet, as a metaphor for the global community's callousness toward the climate catastrophe. Even if many aren't willing to listen, Leonardo DiCaprio, an outspoken environmentalist, has indicated that he has frequently considered starring in and producing films that address relevant topics. He gave McKay a lot of credit for thinking up a project that would investigate human responses to a major problem from a variety of angles, including politics, society, and science. Film reviewers were divided on the picture, although those who did write about it were unanimous in their appreciation of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. The picture garnered Leonardo DiCaprio Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations. It shattered Netflix's record for most views in a week.

After that, DiCaprio earned $30 million for his role in Martin Scorsese's murder mystery Killers of the Flower Moon, which was adapted on David Grann's novel of the same name. The screenplay went through a lot of changes because Leonardo DiCaprio insisted on portraying the complicated character of Ernest Burkhart, who is the nephew of the killer William King Hale, even though he was originally cast as the heroic FBI agent Thomas Bruce White Sr. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's 'nuanced and uncompromising portrayal as the cretinous Ernest Burkhart extracts new marvels from the actor's long-standing lack of vanit'y was hailed by critics as the career-defining performance. For his performance, he was nominated for another Golden Globe. Next up for Leonardo DiCaprio is The Battle of Baktan Cross, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and set to include Sean Penn and Regina Hall.



Also in 2002, Leonardo DiCaprio was a leading man in the historical drama Gangs of New York, directed by Martin Scorsese and taking place in New York City's Five Points neighborhood in the middle of the nineteenth century. although Leonardo DiCaprio expressed interest in appearing in the picture, Miramax Films became engaged in funding it, although Scorsese had trouble selling the notion of making the film at first. Yet, the eight-month filming was delayed due to financial overruns and producer-director disputes. The picture set a new record for Scorsese's budget, coming in at $103 million. Playing the youthful head of an Irish-American street gang, Amsterdam Vallon, was an appealing job for Leonardo DiCaprio since it represented a departure from his previous 'boyish' performances and a more mature leading man. The critically acclaimed and commercially successful Gangs of New York made $193 million throughout the globe. Although The Observer's Anne Thompson praised Leonardo DiCaprio for his 'low-key, strong performance,' she thought that Daniel Day-Lewis stole the show.

Appian Way Productions, named after the Italian route, was formed by Leonardo DiCaprio in 2004. Citing past experiences where the inclusion of an excessive number of individuals had a detrimental impact on the final output, he expressed an interest in locating original source material and maintaining its core characteristics throughout development. The Assassination of Richard Nixon, which premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and featured Sean Penn as Samuel Byck, was DiCaprio's debut production as an executive producer. The Aviator, which Leonardo DiCaprio co-produced under Appian Way, is a biography of American aviation pioneer and film director Howard Hughes, who suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Scorsese and DiCaprio were back together for the project. He co-created the concept with Michael Mann at first, but Scorsese finally took over. After spending just $110 million on production, The Aviator became a critical and commercial smash, earning $213 million. Empire writer Simond Braund praised Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, praising his nuanced portrayal of Hughes's anxiety and fixation. Best Actor—Motion Picture Drama was his first Golden Globe, and he was also nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA, and a Screen Actors Guild award.

Both Blood Diamond, a political conflict thriller, and The Departed, a criminal picture, featured Leonardo DiCaprio in 2006. Undercover state policeman Billy Costigan—whom Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed as having a 'continuous 24-hour panic attack'—was a character in Martin Scorsese's The Departed. Working with Jack Nicholson was an experience that Leonardo DiCaprio treasured; he called a scene they shot together 'one of the most unforgettable moments' of his acting career. He went to Boston to meet up with Irish mob associates and bulked up by fifteen pounds. With an estimated $90 million in production costs, the critically praised picture became the highest-grossing collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese, earning $291 million worldwide. Though he thought Nicholson stole the show, Rolling Stone's Peter Travers lauded Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon for their 'explosive, emotionally complicated' performances. Even though Leonardo DiCaprio had a pivotal role in The Departed, Warner Bros. In order to sidestep any potential controversy about his role in Blood Diamond, Pictures nominated him for Best Supporting Actor at the AMPAS. Despite DiCaprio's numerous accomplishments for The Departed, such as a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards, his co-star Mark Wahlberg was the one who received the nominations.

Pictured here at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, Leonardo DiCaprio wore a black suit and played the role of a Rhodesian diamond trafficker caught up in the civil war in Sierra Leone in the biopic Blood Diamond. His encounters with the 24 abandoned children from the SOS Children's Village in Maputo, Mozambique, with whom he worked on set, moved him deeply, he added. He spent six months in Africa getting ready, during which time he picked up tips on camouflage from South African military personnel and conducted interviews with locals to hone his accent. Reviews for the film were mostly positive, and Leonardo DiCaprio's South African accent—which is notoriously hard to mimic—was a talking point. Both Claudia Puig of USA Today and Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post were effusive in their praise of Leonardo DiCaprio, praising his onscreen transformation from kid to man since The Departed. For his role in Blood Diamond, Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for both the Golden Globe and Academy Awards.

Gardener of Eden, a comedy-drama that DiCaprio produced in 2007, 'lacks the required dramatic intensity or dark humor to connect with moviegoers,' says Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter. In 2008, he received the Earthwatch Environmental Film Award for his work on the documentary The 11th Hour, which he produced, co-wrote, and narrated on the condition of the natural environment. Planet Green's Greensburg, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way, aired for three seasons. Rebuilding Greensburg, Kansas in a sustainable manner after the devastating EF5 tornado that struck the town in May 2007 is the central theme of this film. The 2008 espionage thriller Body of Lies, which was adapted from the same-titled book, also featured Leonardo DiCaprio. He portrayed one of three operatives engaged in a Middle Eastern standoff with a terrorist group. Leonardo DiCaprio used brown contacts and colored his hair brown for the part, seeing it as an homage to 1970s political movies such as Three Days of the Condor and The Parallax View. With a budget of $67.5 million and mixed reviews from critics, the picture managed to earn $118 million.

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio worked together in the 2008 drama Revolutionary Road, which was directed by Winslet's ex-husband Sam Mendes. Both stars were hesitant to do romantic comedies like Titanic, but it was Winslet who that they collaborate on a film based on Richard Yates's 1961 book of the same name. According to her research, Justin Haythe's screenplay differed significantly from the 1997 smash hit. As they prepared to play a married couple whose marriage is crumbling in the 1950s, Leonardo DiCaprio felt cramped on the little set they utilized. Kate Winslet was equally nervous. The protagonist was someone who was 'ready to be merely a product of his circumstances,' 'somewhat cowardly,' and 'unheroic,' in his view. With his multi-layered depiction of an overwhelmed character, Leonardo DiCaprio gave what GQ critic Marshall Sella hailed as the 'most mature and unforgettable performance of his lifetime.' Peter Travers praised the pairing and the performance. The picture garnered Leonardo DiCaprio his eighth nomination for a Golden Globe. The film's budget was $35 million, yet it made $75.9 million anyway. With Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, and Isabelle Fuhrman starring in Jaume Collet-Serra's psychological horror thriller Orphan, he brought the 2000s to a close. The picture was financially successful despite negative reviews.

From 2010 until 2013, DiCaprio and Scorsese worked together again on the psychological thriller Shutter Island, which was based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 book of the same name. He portrayed American lawyer Edward 'Tedd'y Daniels. The marshal's sanity is called into doubt when he investigates an island mental institution. In 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio expressed interest in the movie, and he later co-produced it with Phoenix Pictures under the Appian Way banner. Martin Scorsese was the other producer. While filming, Leonardo DiCaprio had dreams of mass murder and thought that hanging out with his buddies was therapeutic because of the horrible events in the film. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave the picture mixed reviews upon its debut, praising Scorsese's directing and performances but criticizing the surprise ending. Peter Travers praised Leonardo DiCaprio's performance, describing it as his 'most haunting and emotionally complex performance yet.' He thought Patricia Clarkson and DiCaprio's cave sequence were especially memorable. With a global total of $294 million on a production budget of under $80 million, the picture was an economic smash.

A picture of seven individuals on stage; everyone is cheering enthusiastically except for Leonardo DiCario, who is positioned on the right. At the 2010 premiere of Christopher Nolan's highly acclaimed ensemble science-fiction picture Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio was seen with the cast of the film. The film follows Dom Cobb, a self-proclaimed 'extractor' who gains access to previously unavailable knowledge by entering the dreams of others. His work is influenced by the phenomena of lucid dreaming and dream incubation. In return for planting an idea in the head of a corporate target, Cobb is offered a chance to return to his previous life. Dream-heists and the thought that his character may influence his actual life via his dreams captivated Leonardo DiCaprio. The film became Leonardo DiCaprio's second highest-grossing picture, earning $836 million globally, on a budget of $160 million. Leonardo DiCaprio chose to forego a portion of his $20 million salary in exchange for a cut of the film's first-dollar gross points, which gave him a say in how much money the movie made from ticket sales. The gamble paid off for Leonardo DiCaprio, who made $50 million from the picture, his biggest paycheck to date.

DiCaprio played the lead role of J. Edgar Hoover in J. Edgar, directed by Clint Eastwood. The film delves into Hoover's life and work as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, as well as his suspected homosexuality. Although critics praised Leonardo DiCaprio for his performance, some believed the picture was inconsistent as a whole. Roger Ebert lauded Leonardo DiCaprio for giving Hoover a complex and multi-faceted personality, speculating that the actor brought out sides of Hoover that the real guy may not have realized existed. Red Riding Hood, a romantic horror film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, was another 2011 production of his. Time magazine ranked it as one of the ten worst movies of 2011, although it nevertheless managed to pull in a respectable sum at the box office. Adapted on Beau Willimon's 2008 play Farragut North, George Clooney's political thriller The Ides of March was produced that year by DiCaprio's Appian Way.

Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western from 2012, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, a plantation owner. The script's overt racism made Leonardo DiCaprio uncomfortable, but the film's co-stars and director Quentin Tarantino persuaded him to keep it real. Although Leonardo DiCaprio cut his palm on glass during production, he persisted in continuing the shoot, and director Quentin Tarantino decided to use the shot into the final edit. He was praised for his evil portrayal and described it as 'blood-chilling' by a writer for Wired magazine, who wrote an article on the film's critical success. A nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Globes was extended to Leonardo DiCaprio for the film. Despite spending under $100 million on production, Django Unchained made $425 million globally.

Leonardo DiCaprio said in January 2013 that he will 'fly around the globe doing good for the environment' during a protracted hiatus from acting. In that year alone, his acting and producing credits totaled four films. His debut was in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, where he played the part of Jay Gatsby, a billionaire. Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire co-star in the 1925 book by F. Scott Fitzgerald with the same name. Though reviewers gave the picture mixed reviews, Leonardo DiCaprio won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his acclaimed performance. Not only was Leonardo DiCaprio 'tough but also sensitive, touching, humorous, a faker, and human,' according to Newsday critic Rafer Guzman. According to Roger Ebert's website contributor Matt Zoller Seitz, who praised his performance, calling it 'iconic—maybe his career best' and 'the movie's biggest and simplest special effect,' the actor delivered a remarkable and earned performance. More than double its budget, the picture earned $353 million globally. In 2013, Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way produced three films: the ensemble crime thriller Runner Runner, the commercially unsuccessful thriller Out of the Furnace, and the black comedy-drama The Wolf of Wall Street. These films were panned by critics and the Guardian's Xan Brooks.

In The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese teamed together for the sixth time. The biopic is based on the life of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who was jailed in the late 90s for money laundering and securities fraud. In 2007, after reading Belfort's book, Leonardo DiCaprio coveted the rights to the memoir and won a bidding battle with Warner Bros., Brad Pitt, and Paramount Pictures to get them. He had always wanted to play the role. The financial crisis of 2007–2008 served as an inspiration for the picture, and he enjoyed Belfort’s forthright and unrepentant depiction of his own events in the book. The collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street was well-received. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter praised Leonardo DiCaprio for playing the role to his fullest extent. According to Film Comment's Jonathan Romney, Leonardo DiCaprio has a remarkable amount of comic aptitude, particularly in the realm of 'rubber-limbed slapstick' comedy. In addition to his Golden Globe and BAFTA nods for Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, he also received Best Actor and Best Picture nominations for the film.

The 2014 British documentary Virunga, in which four individuals struggle to save the world's remaining mountain gorillas from conflict and poaching, was executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, who has since had success with environmental films and awards shows. With the film's April 2014 Tribeca Film Festival debut under his belt, Leonardo DiCaprio was up for the 2015 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. Another documentary he worked on that year as an executive producer was Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret; he was also a part of the September Netflix-exclusive edit of the film. In it, the effects of raising animals for food are discussed.

In 2015, DiCaprio was both the producer and the actor playing the role of fur trapper Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Iñarritu's survival thriller The Revenant. In 2016, at the French premiere of the film, he was seen staring to his right. The part was challenging for DiCaprio since he had to sleep in animal corpses and consume raw bison liver. In addition, he mastered the use of a musket, the art of firemaking, the languages of the Native Americans, and the use of traditional medical practices. The film's global earnings were $533 million, despite its $135 million budget. Many critics praised the picture, praising Leonardo DiCaprio in particular for his performance. Both Mark Kermode of The Guardian and Nick De Semlyen of Empire praised Leonardo DiCaprio for his performance, writing that DiCaprio's portrayal emphasized body over discourse. He won many accolades for his performance in the film, including Best Actor from the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and the Academy Award. For the following three years, Leonardo DiCaprio was busy producing films and narrating documentaries. The Ivory Game and Catching the Sun were both produced by him in 2016, and he also served as executive producer, presenter, and narrator for the climate change documentary Before the Flood. Live by Night, a crime drama he created, was critically panned and financially lost $65 million. In 2018, he tried his hand at producing the psychological horror film Delirium and the financially unsuccessful action-adventure film Robin Hood.

In Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which follows the relationship between Cliff Booth, an aging stuntman, and Rick Dalton, a television actor, DiCaprio made his acting return after a four-year hiatus. He produced and narrated the 2019 climate change documentary Ice on Fire. Both DiCaprio and Pitt took a salary cut, with DiCaprio receiving $10 million and Pitt receiving $7 million, to help fund the project. Pitt was a pleasure to work with for DiCaprio, and Tarantino said the two were the most interesting actors a film has seen since Paul Newman and Robert Redford. The film's emphasis on the camaraderie between his character and Pitt's, as well as its tribute to Hollywood, captivated Leonardo DiCaprio. The hardships and setbacks that he and his actor buddies had to endure in the business served as inspiration. Critics lauded his and Pitt's performances in the picture when it opened at the 2019 Cannes picture Festival. Business Insider's writer hailed Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as one of his finest, while Digital Spy's Ian Sandwell praised the chemistry between the two leads, citing their sequences as among the film's most memorable. The Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild awards were all extended to Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor. There was a $90 million budget for the picture, yet it made $374 million.

The Right Stuff, a TV series based on the 1973 novel of the same name, with Leonardo DiCaprio as an executive producer in 2020. It premiered on Disney+ after a stint in development at National Geographic. In May of that year, DiCaprio made a short appearance in the miniseries The Last Dance's conclusion. Devin DeCaprio had an appearance in Don't Look Up, Adam McKay's satire comedy from 2021. Prior to accepting the role, he collaborated with McKay for five months to revise the screenplay. Leonardo DiCaprio saw the film, in which he co-starred with Jennifer Lawrence as two astronomers trying to alert mankind to an extinction-level comet, as a metaphor for the global community's callousness toward the climate catastrophe. Even if many aren't willing to listen, Leonardo DiCaprio, an outspoken environmentalist, has indicated that he has frequently considered starring in and producing films that address relevant topics. He gave McKay a lot of credit for thinking up a project that would investigate human responses to a major problem from a variety of angles, including politics, society, and science. Film reviewers were divided on the picture, although those who did write about it were unanimous in their appreciation of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. The picture garnered Leonardo DiCaprio Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations. It shattered Netflix's record for most views in a week.

After that, DiCaprio earned $30 million for his role in Martin Scorsese's murder mystery Killers of the Flower Moon, which was adapted on David Grann's novel of the same name. The screenplay went through a lot of changes because Leonardo DiCaprio insisted on portraying the complicated character of Ernest Burkhart, who is the nephew of the killer William King Hale, even though he was originally cast as the heroic FBI agent Thomas Bruce White Sr. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's 'nuanced and uncompromising portrayal as the cretinous Ernest Burkhart extracts new marvels from the actor's long-standing lack of vanit'y was hailed by critics as the career-defining performance. For his performance, he was nominated for another Golden Globe. Next up for Leonardo DiCaprio is The Battle of Baktan Cross, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and set to include Sean Penn and Regina Hall.