New York Times critic Janet Maslin praised DiCaprio's performance, writing " the film's real show-stopping turn comes from Mr. DiCaprio, who makes Arnie's many tics so startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch.

DiCaprio's first effort of 1995 was Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead, a western film in which he appeared alongside Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe, playing the role of Hackman's alleged son named Kid.

The project was one of the first films to cash in on DiCaprio's future star-status, with a worldwide box office take of $ 147 million.

New York Times film critic Janet Maslin praised DiCaprio's performance, writing " the film's real show-stopping turn comes from Mr. DiCaprio, who makes Arnie's many tics so startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch ....

In addition to DiCaprio's first Academy Award nomination in this film, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

A featurette on the first series DVD release, " Finding Leo ", consists of late-night video camera footage ( shot mostly by Merchant ) chronicling Gervais ' fruitless and ultimately unsuccessful attempts to contact DiCaprio's manager.

This was Leonardo DiCaprio's first film.

The film received mixed reviews, although DiCaprio's performance as Hoover was widely praised.

Roger Ebert wrote that the film is " fascinating ," " masterful ," and praised DiCaprio's performance.

" DiCaprio's last film of the year 1995 was The Basketball Diaries, a biopic about Jim Carroll.

DiCaprio's next project was the drama film The Beach ( 2000 ), an adaption of Alex Garland's same-titled 1996 novel.

Budgeted at $ US50 million, the film became a financial success, grossing $ US144 million worldwide, but as with DiCaprio's previous project, the film was largely panned by critics.

A grave marked " J. Dawson " gained fame following the release of the 1997 film Titanic, since the name of Leonardo DiCaprio's character in the film is Jack Dawson.

In the 1997 film Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio's character Jack Dawson mentions that he went ice fishing on the frozen waters of Lake Wissota as a boy.

In the film Blood Diamond, Leonardo DiCaprio's Rhodesian character " Danny Archer " was a former member of 32 Battalion.

* In the film Blood Diamond ( 2006 ), Leonardo DiCaprio's character Danny Archer refers to Djimon Hounsou's character Solomon Vandy as a Kaffir, which triggers the start of a vicious fistfight.

It is the third installment of the Critters series, the sequel to Critters and Critters 2 and Leonardo DiCaprio's film debut.

DiCaprio's maternal grandmother, Helene Indenbirken ( 1915 – 2008 ), was born Yelena Smirnova in Russia.

Sony Pictures was dubious over DiCaprio's casting, and as a result, Stone decided to pay for the actor's salary herself.

Though DiCaprio's performance was generally well-received, with Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman writing that " the shockingly androgynous DiCaprio looks barely old enough to be playing anyone with hormones, but he's a fluid and instinctive actor, with the face of a mischievous angel ," he was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year.

DiCaprio's acting was well-received but remained overshadowed by Daniel Day-Lewis ' performance among most critics.

DiCaprio's performance in The Departed was applauded by critics and earned him a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor.

On November 1, 2010, it was announced that DiCaprio's production company had acquired the rights to the Erik Larson novel, The Devil in the White City.

In 2005 DiCaprio's face was seriously injured when Aretha Wilson, a model, hit him over the head with a broken bottle at a Hollywood party.

Sony was also dubious over DiCaprio's casting.

Another was made for Titanic, in which Leonardo DiCaprio's character swims to the surface after Kate Winslet is rescued to celebrate finally escaping her clutches.

DiCaprio's career began with his appearance in several commercials and educational films.

DiCaprio's parents met while attending college and subsequently moved to Los Angeles.

* The book has been optioned by Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way Productions.

Tardy also ends some of his sentences or when he is frightened with a high-pitched squeal much like Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Arnie Grape, in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

The first two forces are directly interrelated and depend upon film thickness, whereas Af is independent of these two and is a constant for a given knife/coating combination.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

In about seven years Griffith either invented or first realized the possibilities of virtually every resource at the disposal of the film maker.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.

( Coincidentally, Hickson had played a housekeeper in the first film in which Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple.

There, he met director Carlos Marcovich and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and they made what would be his first short film, Vengeance is mine.

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

In 1995, Cuarón released his first feature film produced in the United States, A Little Princess, an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel.

Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

It was the first all-talking non-musical film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.

* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.