CAREER

Welcome to the career page for Leonardo DiCaprio, down below are the projects that Leo has completed.

ROMEO + JULIET

Character: Romeo Montague

Directed by: Baz Luhrmann

Written by: William Shakespeare (play) Craig Pearce (screenplay) & Baz Luhrmann (screenplay)

Produced by: Baz Luhrmann

Other cast: Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, Harold Perrineau, Pete Postlethwaite

Release date: November 1, 1996

Genre: Drama, Romance

Running time: 2h

Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.

TITANIC

Character: Jack Dawson

Directed by: James Cameron

Written by: James Cameron

Produced by: James Cameron

Other cast: Kate Winslet, Danny Nucci, Jason Barry, Billy Zane, David Warner, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher

Release date: December 19, 1997

Genre: Drama, Romance

Running time: 3h 14min

The journey of “Titanic” begins in the present, at the site of the ship’s watery grave, two-and-a-half miles under the ocean surface. An ambitious fortune hunter (Bill Paxton) is determined to plumb the treasures of this once-stately ship, only to bring to the surface a story left untold. The tragic ruins melt away to reveal the glittering palace that was Titanic as it prepares to launch on its maiden voyage from England. Amidst the thousands of well-wishers bidding a fond bon voyage, destiny has called two young souls, daring them to nurture a passion that would change their lives forever. Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) is a 17-year-old, upper-class American suffocating under the rigid confines and expectations of Edwardian society who falls for a free-spirited young steerage passenger named Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio). Once he opens her eyes to the world that lies outside her gilded cage, Rose and Jack’s forbidden love begins a powerful mystery that ultimately echoes across the years into the present. Nothing on earth is going to come between them — not even something as unimaginable as the sinking of Titanic.

Movie Information

Movie Costs:

Movie Costs $120,000: The original approved budget. $150 million: The amount of the budget used by the end of principal photography. $200,000: The final budget, not including the Rosarito studio. $20,000-30,000: The cost of the Rosarito studio. $1 million: cost per minute including marketing and post-production $300 million: total cost to make and market the movie. $225,000-250,000: average day filming cost. $500,000: The cost of the dome implosion scene. $500,000:The cost of the Southampton dock sequence. $235 million: production and interest $27 million: cost of prints $115 million: worldwide marketing costs $242 million: video marketing and production costs $52 million: residuals and participation $105 million: studio interest and distribution costs $65 million: Paramount’s share in financing the movie.

Rebuilding the ship

7 The number of small to full-size model ships constructed for filming. 45 feet: The length of the model ship used for long shots. 5 months: The amount of time it took to complete the 45 foot model. 775 feet: The size of the full-size ship model, or 90% the size of RMS Titanic. 1.3 million tons: weight of the hydraulic stern 4: The number of indoor soundstages built at Rosarito. 32,000 feet: The size of the indoor wet stage built at Rosarito. 30 feet: depth of the indoor tank 5 million gallons: The size of the indoor tank. 6 acres: The size of the outdoor open air tank built at Rosarito. 17 million gallons: The size of the outdoor tank. 40 acres: The size of the Fox Studios-Baja (Rosarito) area.

Deleted Scenes

While some of the deleted scenes are on the Titanic DVD Special Edition. Not all scenes were mentioned.

Script

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GROWING PAINS

Character: Luke Brower

Created by: Neal Marlens

Produced by: Michael Sullivan

Other cast: Alan Thicke, Joanna Kerns, Kirk Cameron, Tracey Gold, Jeremy Miller, Ashley Johnson

Episodes: Appeared in all episodes of Season 7

Original airdate: TV Series (1985–1992)

Genre: Comedy, Family

Running time: 30min

The misadventures of a family with a home business father and a journalist mother.

About Luke Brower

Luke Brower was introduced to the series in the 7th Season. He was suppose to up the ratings for the show, but it didn’t work the show was cancelled.

CRITTERS 3

Character: Josh

Directed by: Kristine Peterson

Written by: Rupert Harvey (story) & Barry Opper (story) David J. Schow (screenplay)

Produced by: Rupert Harvey, Barry Opper , Mark Ordesky

Other cast: Aimee Brooks, Christian Cousins, Joseph Cousins, William Dennis Hunt, Nina Axelrod, Don Keith Opper

Release date: December 11, 1991

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Running time: 1h 26min

In what appears to be a cross between Critters and The Towering Inferno, the residents of a shoddy L.A. apartment block are chased up to the roof by hoards of the eponymous hairy horrors.

11TH HOUR

Character: himself

Directed by: Leila Conners Petersen & Nadia Conners

Written by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Leila Conners Petersen & Nadia Conners

Produced by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Leila Conners Petersen, Brian Gerber and Chuck Castleberry

“The 11th Hour” is the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how we’ve arrived at this moment — how we live, how we impact the earth’s ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey and sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in addition to over 50 leading scientists, thinkers and leaders who discuss the most important issues that face our planet and people.

ABOUT THE FILM

After collaborating on two short films (Global Warning, Water Planet), filmmakers Nadia Conners, Leila Conners Petersen and Leonardo DiCaprio set out to explore the larger story of the human experience on the planet. Seeking out credible voices to speak to the history of the human species, the state of the oceans, land and air, and social, design and political challenges for change, the trio ultimately netted 150 hours of interviews with over 70 scientists, designers, historians and thinkers. “We reached out to independent experts on the front lines of what could be the greatest challenge of our time – the collapse of our planet’s ecosystems and our search for solutions to create a sustainable future,” says Leonardo DiCaprio.

“We ourselves wanted to understand why humans were on a crash course with nature, and what we had to do to change course,” says Co-Writer/Co-Director/Producer Leila Conners Petersen. Her sister and collaborator, Nadia Conners, adds, “One of the great things about doing this project was being able to meet people that inspired me or opened my mind through their work and writings. It was a great honor and a huge learning experience.”

The 11th Hour examines the human relationship with earth from its earliest glimmers of innovation to the challenges humanity faces in the present to the possibilities of the future. “It was the human mind that was the key to our very survival,” David Suzuki, an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster, says in the film. “Now, when you think that we evolved in Africa about a hundred and fifty thousand years ago, and compared to the other animals that must have been on the plains of that time, we weren’t very impressive. We weren’t very many; we weren’t very big; we weren’t gifted with special senses. The one thing, the key to our survival and our taking over the planet, was the human brain. But because the human mind invented the concept of a future, we’re the only animal on the planet that actually was able to recognize: we could affect the future by what we do today.”

The film posits that in many ways, humanity has detached itself from nature, and grown accustomed to using without thinking to manage the earth’s resources. “The big rupture came in the 1800s, with the steam engine, the fossil fuel age, the industrial revolution,” says Nathan Gardels, author, editor and Media Fellow of the World Economic Forum. “This was a great rupture from earlier forms and rhythms of life, which were generally regenerative. What happened after the industrial revolution was that nature was converted to a resource and that resource was seen as, essentially, eternally abundant. This led to the idea, and the conception behind progress which is: limitless growth, limitless expansion.”

“Finding coal here, and little bit of oil there, and between that and the agricultural revolution, slowly our population crept up until we hit our fist one billion people,” says Thom Hartmann, a best-selling author and progressive radio talk show host. “It didn’t take us a hundred thousand years to go from one billion to two billion. Our second billion only took us a hundred and thirty years. We hit two billion people in 1930. Our third billion took only 30 years, 1960. It’s amazing when you think about it. When John Kennedy was inaugurated, there were half as many people on the planet as there are today.”

“As we go forward, with technology even more powerful than before, we have magnified the presence of the human race inside the ecology, therefore we can do vastly more damage with our technological prowess than we could before,” says Nathan Gardels. “And we have to be even more cautious.”

After 200 years of industrial revolution, the atmosphere has undergone a pronounced shift. “The earth has a natural greenhouse effect,” explains Stephen H. Schneider, Professor and Senior Fellow at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Institute for International Studies. “In fact, we’re about 60 degrees Fahrenheit warmer, thanks to those good guys, water vapor and carbon dioxide and methane – what we call ‘greenhouse gases’ – trapping heat. That’s the good part of the story. The problem is that humans are competing with nature in that when we use our tail pipes and our smoke stacks to put our waste into the atmosphere as if it’s some kind of unpriced sewer, we’re adding – to that amount of greenhouse gases that is natural – unnatural stuff, mostly more carbon dioxide, methane, chemicals that nobody’s ever seen before, chlorofluorocarbons which also effect ozone. And when they build up, they trap extra heat.”

The shift of the planet’s temperature, it seems, is a red flag in relation to human existence. “It’s been enough to melt 20 percent of the sea ice in the arctic,” says author, journalist and environmentalist Bill McKibben. “It’s been enough to speed up the spin and duration of hurricanes about 50%. It’s been enough to start the permafrost beneath the tundra across the north melting.”

“One of the most serious consequences of our actions is global warming brought about by raising levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels,” explains Stephen Hawking, the revered Cambridge professor of Mathematics, theoretical physicist, and author. “The danger is that the temperature increase might become self-sustaining, if it has not done so already. Drought and deforestation are reducing the amount of carbon dioxide recycled into the atmosphere and the warming of the seas may trigger the release of large quantities of CO2 trapped on the ocean floor. In addition, the melting of the Artic and Antarctic ice sheets will reduce the amount of solar energy reflected back into space and so increase the temperature further. We don’t know where the global warming will stop, but the worst case scenario is that earth would become like its sister planet, Venus, with a temperature of 250 centigrade, and raining sulfuric acid. The human race could not survive in those conditions.”

The earth, once covered in mostly green and blue, has also seen a decline in its life-giving rainforests as a direct result of industrial development. “Seventy countries in the world no longer have any intact or original forests,” comments Tzeporah Berman, Program Director for ForestEthics. “And here in the United States, ninety five percent of our old growth forests are already gone. Forest loss is also effecting climate change because forests are the greatest terrestrial storehouse of carbon. So, logging in Canada alone puts as much carbon into the atmosphere as all of the cars in California every year.”

Wangari Maathai, who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, adds: “In my own part of the part of the world, I keep telling people, ‘Let us not cut trees irresponsibly. Let us not destroy especially the forested mountains. Because if you destroy the forests on these mountains, the rivers will stop flowing and the rains will become irregular and the crops will fail and you will die of hunger and starvation. Now the problem is, people don’t make those linkages.”

But with human ingenuity and optimism, there exists the potential to develop alternate systems that sustain, rather than degrade, the earth. “All of these forces sweeping over the planet are the forces created by human beings,” comments National Geographic Society explorer Wade Davis. “And if human beings are the source of the problem we can be the foundation for the solution.”

Adds social entrepreneur, author, journalist and filmmaker Kenny Ausubel, “With existing technologies that we basically already have on the shelf or things that we know we can develop in a very rapid period of time, we could literally reduce the human footprint on planet earth by 90 percent, which would be a huge shift to what we’re doing right now.”

What will guide this massive change? And does nature hold the answers to help restore the planet’s resources, protect our atmosphere and therefore, help all life survive? “I believe this could be like the civil rights movement 40 years ago,” says Nadia Conners. “We have to come together and show our leaders we want change while also showing each other that we are unified in saving the life support systems that we all depend on.”

As an intelligent life-form at the very top of the food chain, humanity nonetheless is susceptible to the same implacable threat faced by generations upon generations of other living organisms. “When we started the project, we wanted to take a ‘big picture’ look at how humans have related to the earth and take stock of the state of the planet,” says Leila Conners Petersen. “It seems so obvious now but I was surprised to find out that humans are facing an extinction crisis along with all other life; that we are not excluded from catastrophic events; that, in fact, we are the most vulnerable even though we have technology. We learned that the earth is going to be fine. It’s us, human beings, that are in trouble.”

“We, as citizens, leaders, consumers and voters, have the opportunity to help integrate ecology into governmental policy and every day living standards,” concludes Leonardo DiCaprio. “During this critical period of human history, healing the damage of industrial civilization is the task of our generation. Our response depends on the conscious evolution of our species and this response could very well save this unique blue planet for future generations.”

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

Character: Jordan Belfort

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Written by: Terence Winter (screenplay), Jordan Belfort (book)

Produced by: Riza Aziz

Other cast: Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie

Release date: December 25, 2013

Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime

Running time: 3h

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.