He appeared in Martin Scorsese's " The Departed " as Captain Oliver Queenan, a commanding officer who is watching an undercover cop ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) who is a mole in an Irish American mob run by a vicous mob boss ( Jack Nicholson ).

During the run of Sweet Valley High, the girls made their film debut in the drama The Basketball Diaries ( 1995 ) alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

" Another science fiction project associated with Scott is an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with Leonardo DiCaprio potentially involved.

It was reported in February 2009 that Leonardo DiCaprio was looking to produce one, then in 2011 MGM Studios were said to be planning a reboot with Seth Gordon signed on to direct although no writers or cast were yet on board.

In 2011, Eastwood directed J. Edgar, a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role.

That same year, Hanks collaborated with director Spielberg again, starring opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit crime comedy Catch Me If You Can, based on the true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr.

It also features in the 2010 film Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio, who, at the end of the film is led off to be lobotomized.

In a 2010 conversation with the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, DiCaprio said that two of his grandparents were Russian.

His debut film role was in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3, in which he played the stepson of an evil landlord, a role that DiCaprio described as " your average, no-depth, standard kid with blond hair.

On his Chlotrudis Award-winning performance, Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly commented: " The deeply gifted DiCaprio keeps right up with these older pros and Streep.

Upon the success of Titanic, DiCaprio stated in 2000: " I have no connection with me during that whole Titanic phenomenon and what my face became around the world [...] I'll never reach that state of popularity again, and I don't expect to.

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.

Todd McCarthy of Variety noted that " Richard role is too much the American Everyman and not enough of a well-defined individual to entirely capture one's interest and imagination, and DiCaprio, while perfectly watchable, does not endow him with the quirks or distinguishing marks to make this man from nowhere a dimensional character.

Director Scorsese initially struggled selling his idea of realizing the film until DiCaprio became interested in playing protagonist Amsterdam Vallon, a young leader of the Irish faction, and thus, Miramax Films got involved with financing the project.

Centering on Hughes ' life from the late 1920s to 1947, DiCaprio initially developed the project with Michael Mann, who decided against directing it after back-to-back film biographies in Ali and The Insider.

The same year, DiCaprio reunited with Kate Winslet to film the drama Revolutionary Road ( 2008 ), directed by Winslet's then-husband Sam Mendes.

DiCaprio began a relationship with model Bar Refaeli in November 2005 after meeting her at a Las Vegas party thrown for members of U2.

In an interview with Ukula about his film the 11th Hour, DiCaprio cited global warming as " the number-one environmental challenge.

During the filming of Blood Diamond, DiCaprio worked with 24 orphaned children from the SOS Children's Village in Maputo, Mozambique, and was said to be extremely touched by his interactions with the children.

In 1998 she starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeremy Irons in The Man in the Iron Mask.

However, studios balked at the idea of Affleck and Damon in the lead roles, with many studio executives citing that they wanted Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio.

With US $ 41 million, the film opened at number-one at the box office, giving both DiCaprio and Scorsese their best box office opening yet.

In addition, DiCaprio is said to be involved in the pre-production of Ridley Scott's project Brave New World, Marc Forster's The Chancellor Manuscript and the biopic Sinatra, a film about Frank Sinatra to be directed by Martin Scorsese.

McQuarrie spent the next several years dividing his time between rewriting studio movies ( such as Singer ’ s X-Men ) and developing a screenplay on the life of Alexander the Great, written with Peter Buchman, for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.

( Scorsese and DiCaprio chose to do The Aviator first, making way for Oliver Stone to produce his version of Alexander.

* The Dachau Massacre figures prominently in the back story of Teddy Daniels, the protagonist of Dennis Lehane's psychological mystery-thriller Shutter Island, ( later adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio ).

Intended as a new directorial project for Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio is attached as the star and William Monahan will write the screenplay.

Martin Scorsese cast the actress in the supporting, but vital role, of the dead wife haunting the dreams of marshal Teddy Daniels ( played by Leonardo DiCaprio ) in Shutter Island, a psychological thriller based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 best-selling novel by the same name.

It also appeared in the 2004 movie The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese, which depicts the early years ( late 1920s to the mid-1940s ) of legendary film director and aviator Howard Hughes ; the film starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale, and Cate Blanchett.

He gained another nomination for writing 2004's The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.

His centrality to Ray's work is akin to other key collaborations in the history of cinema — Mifune and Kurosawa, Mastroianni and Fellini, De Niro and Scorsese, DiCaprio and Scorsese, Max von Sydow and Ingmar Bergman, Jerzy Stuhr and Kieślowski.

* Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro-Introduce Martin Scorsese short film

De Niro planned to shoot the movie in early 2005 but DiCaprio could not do it then because he was making The Departed for Martin Scorsese.

Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film to date ( it was surpassed in 2010 by Cameron's directorial follow-up, Avatar ), grossing more than US $ 1. 843 billion in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed DiCaprio into a commercial movie superstar, resulting in fan worship among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as " Leo-Mania.

Also in 2010, DiCaprio starred in director Christopher Nolan's science-fiction film Inception.

In July 2010, it was announced that DiCaprio had pulled out of a Viking movie to be directed by Mel Gibson amid controversy over Gibson's rage-fueled rant tapes and domestic violence probe.

On November 19, 2010, it was announced that DiCaprio will produce and star in the upcoming 2013 movie based on the book Legacy of Secrecy by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

In 2010, his environmental work earned DiCaprio a nomination for the VH1 Do Something Award.

In November 2010, DiCaprio donated $ 1, 000, 000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia's tiger summit, causing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to describe him as a " muzhik " or " real man ".

In the 2010 movie Shutter Island, Teddy Daniels, ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) and his partner are U. S marshals searching for a missing escapee from a psychiatric facility on an island off the coast of Massachusetts.

In 2010, replacing James Franco, he starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan's science fiction thriller Inception, which received favorable reviews.

She appeared as the main antagonist " Mal Cobb " in Christopher Nolan's film Inception, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, which released on 16 July 2010.