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Leonardo DiCaprio, (born Nov. 11, 1974, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.), U.S. actor. His notable early film credits included This Boy’s Life (1993), What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), and William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996). In 1997 he became an international star with the release of Titanic, one of the highest-grossing films ever. DiCaprio subsequently appeared in a number of Martin Scorsese’s films, notably The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). His other credits included Blood Diamond (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), Inception (2010), J. Edgar (2011), The Revenant (2015; Academy Award), and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012) and Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019).

Academy Award Summary

Academy Award, any of a number of awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., to recognize achievement in the film industry. The awards were first presented in 1929, and winners receive a gold-plated statuette commonly

acting Summary

Acting, the performing art in which movement, gesture, and intonation are used to realize a fictional character for the stage, for motion pictures, or for television. (Read Lee Strasberg’s 1959 Britannica essay on acting.) Acting is generally agreed to be a matter less of mimicry, exhibitionism, or

film Summary

Film, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film