If you have a chance to watch What's Eating Gilbert Grape, that might change your mind. He was 18 years old at the time of filming and he gave one of the most convincing portrayals of an individual with an intellectual disability that I've ever seen. That is, in my opinion, the best example of how convincing his acting could truly be and is vastly different than anything you've seen him in within the last 20 years.

The main target regarding Leo is his penchant for being a playboy with no intentions to marry or settle down anytime soon.

The same tangent they gave Clooney before he got married.

I'm getting downvoted but he only won because it was an incredibly weak Best Actor lineup that year.

Top actor, however, he doesn’t have a range in expressing anger. He always pulls that kind of bulldog face with his teeth and that’s all. But I enjoy even that. Plus he always gets the good scripts and movies.

Interesting setting and world building but a pretty forgettable film. Saw it when it was in theaters and outside of the first city chase, I can't recall a single thing that happened.

My opinion is that he acts from time to time

I don’t disagree with your premise that Leo can be hit or miss as an actor. But your examples are very much confusing me.

You must have watched a different version of Once Upon a Time if your takeaway was Timothy Olyphant > Leo. First of all, he’s in 2 scenes. Second of all, Leo gave a fantastic performance.

And I thought that his performance in Departed is the best in the film, and one of the greatest he’s ever given.

But he’s had had share of duds. And I don’t think, at least from an acting standpoint, that he’s reached the potential that was there in Gilbert Grape. And there’s an argument to be made that a contemporary like Joaquin Phoenix has had a much more interesting career.

He’s not my cup of tea, mostly because I can feel the effort behind his acting, which really turns me off. Its a difficult thing to point out to people, but you can certainly feel it. And until recently, he had very little sense of humor about any of his roles. Most were very self serious.

He’s got talent, sure. But most of the time when I see he’s in a movie I’m probably going to skip it.

Alien and John Carpenter’s The Thing

Cloverfield and Pacific Rim

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare and Scream

He’s had first dibs at every role in Hollywood for like 20 years for a reason.

I thought he was great in Shutter Island and in The Revenant.

He is a movie star but has acting chops. Many stars fall in this category, like Cruise, Will Smith, and Leo. He might not have GREAT acting roles all the time but he makes some damn good movies.

The Revenant is a masterpiece.

The minute I finished The Basketball Diaries, I knew he was going to be one of the greats.

Ever see What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Leo was brilliant.

Wild take, MConaughey is barley acting he’s pretty much just playing himself, since the whole scene is based off that weird chest thumping thing he does in real life

Leo entertains me, that's all I care about, and that is their job.

I rarely see the aviator being mentioned. It's been a long time since i saw it, so maybe a re-watch is due, but i think that was one of his best performances.

Lmao in what world did Timothy Oliphant outshine him? I think Rick Dalton performance is one of the finest acting performances of all time.

Hardy and JGL didn't "outshine" him in Inception either. OP seems to have left quite a bit of his best work off the table.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Catch Me If You Can

The Aviator

Blood Diamond

Shutter Island

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Revenant

I think he's overrated, but not one of the worst actors. In all the films I've seen with him (Inception, Catch Me if You Can, The Great Gatsby, a little bit of Titanic) he's always playing a sort of capricious eccentric, so I think he relies on the same persona, in a way.

There was that moment in Inception, however, where he's supposed to be witnessing something that should be absolutely heartbreaking for his character, and he comes across as more annoyed than anything else. That took me out of the movie.

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I actually have never enjoyed his acting.

My wife watched all of "Don't Look up" and was surprised to learn DiCaprio was in it.

She still thinks if him as a baby faced boy actor or handsome leading man. So either he did a good job of acting like a grumpy scientist or the beard really threw her.

I love Leo’s films , he has managed to consistently work hard and has an incredible list of films without any serious dips , his work for the environment is commendable

However I feel he favours the screaming and shouting acting too much , he does it a lot across pretty much every film and it comes across as too performing rather than subtle acting

I find it hard to find one where he hasn’t at one point resorted to an outrage , fury , screaming or yelling scene where it might not always be necessary