He's one of the rare Hollywood actors whose magazine heartthrob status did nothing to keep him away from award🐽s season prestige. He's also one of the few Hollywood actors to really pick and choose his projects, never busying himself up too much and always considering who he's working with. He's Leonardo DiCaprio, and safe to say, you've heard of him before.

Named after the Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci because his mother felt him kick during her pregnancy while loo༺king at a da Vinci painting in Italy, DiCaprio grew up working class poor in Los Angeles neighborhoods like Echo Park and Los Feliz. He began his acting career in the 1980s, working on children's shows and in TV commercials for Kraft cheese and Bubble Yum. His first big break was on the TV sitcom Parenthood (based on the 1989 movie), and later had another recurring gig on the show Growing Pains as homeless boy Luke Brower. In 1991, DiCaprio made his film debut in the horror-comedy Critters 3. It's not quite "the rest is history," but safe to say it's the movies where DiCaprio became widely known.

Before his Oscar victory in 2016, Leonardo DiCaprꦑio was considered one of the finest-ever actors to have never won an Academy Award. Now, he's just one of the finest-ever actors, period, enjoying a career where quality and collaboration take precedence. For proof of that, here's 32 of the greatest movies with Leonardo DiCaprio.

32. The Beach (2000)

Directed by Danny Boyle and based on the book by Alex Garland, The Beach follows an American backpacker (Leoꦜnardo DiCaprio) who seeks to discover an urban legend: a pristine, secluded beach in Thailand, free from tourists and civilization. While Boyle's film version was panned by critics as a weak adaptation of a bo💛ok hailed as seminal for Generation X, DiCaprio still earned high marks for his performance as someone whose idealism morphs into a nightmare.

31. Don's Plum (2001)

It's the movie Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't want you to see. (At least if you're in the U.S. or Canada.) Written and directed by R.D. Robb, this heavily improvised indie drama follows a group of young adults – played by Leonardio DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Amber Benson among others – who meet late one Saturday night at an L.A. diner. While a weekly ritual among the men of the group, their fates take a turn when their female dates for the night change all their lives forever. A legal dispute between the producers and the actors, who thought they had signed on for a short film rather than a full-length feature, has made the movie legally unavailable in North America. So, we're not saying you should go see it, because we can't. But if somehow you come༺ across it, it✱'s worth saying just to say you've seen it.

30. Before the Flood (2016)

Leonardo DiCaprio puts his activist money where his mouth is in Before the Flood, a 2016 call-to-action documentary with major subjects ranging from President Barack Obama to Pope Francis to even Elon Musk. (At the time, Musk was a firm believer in climate change.) A comprehensive look at both the widespread effects of climate change as well as the harm of climate change denial, Before the Flood follows DiCaprio as he personally meets with scientists, activists, and world leaders. Though not the most acclaimed of DiCaprio's doc work, the actor's prominent place in the feature demonstrates his commitment to the cause. Behind the scenes, the filmmakers showed their commitment to climate advocacy by paying a voluntary carbon tax.

29. Hubble 3D (2010)

One of several documentaries narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, Hubble 3D takes advantage of IMAX film technology to take audiences on an eye-opening journey through space via the H🃏ubble Space Telescope. The documentary is essentially a showcase of the Hubble Space Telescope and the many discoveries mankind has made about our universe directly because of it. While Hubble 3D is a mere 43 minutes long, DiCaprio's dignified narration lends a graceful feeling to the experience.