Leonardo DiCaprio is the best living actor

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Anonymous wrote:I'm still sad Daniel Day Lewis retired from acting. He would have gone on make more phenomenal movies.

He would be my vote.

Same. Immediately thought of DDL when I saw the thread title.

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ugh he's a terrible actor.

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It's Meryl Streep.

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I’m not sure if Leo is a good actor or is just really good at choosing roles, but the combo is always good.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm still sad Daniel Day Lewis retired from acting. He would have gone on make more phenomenal movies.

+100

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I’m still flabbergasted when I think of DDL’s range. From prissy Cecil in A Room With a View to the epitome of masculinity as Hawkeye in Last of the Mohicans… wow. And everything in between.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure if Leo is a good actor or is just really good at choosing roles, but the combo is always good.

This. I don't think he has the range of other actors and I don't always feel completely convinced. However, he does a very good job of choosing both roles and directors (made easier by the fact that almost anyone will work with him and he has his pick of roles) and tends to pick roles that play to his strengths in the kind of understated, naturalistic acting he does. For him, it's all in the nuance. Like in One Battle After Another, his character is a version of a character he's played before, but the nuance is that he's spent the last couple decades smoking a lot of weed. And he does a really good job in weaving this into the role and milking it for both drama and humor. But it's not virtuosic. I'm not, like, transported.

The broadest he's ever gone is that plantation owner in Django Unchained, and while it's a memorable performance, it's not his best work. He does much better sticking within a narrower range, but then really exploring the subtleties within that range.

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He’s very good at a particular type of character. That’s all.

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Daniel Day Lewis is not really retired. He made a movie last year (Anemone, directed by his son). He's taken lengthy hiatuses (hiati?) before, like the time he took 7 years off to study cobbling. He loves acting but finds Hollywood and the process of promoting films to be very personally draining.

I expect he will do at least a few more movies.

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Anonymous wrote:Did Steven Seagal die?

I ❤️ you


Daniel Day, Lewis, Pacino, De Niro, Denzel, Washington. I could go on this is not really a question that can be answered. DiCaprio is excellent, but I wouldn’t say he’s the best. He’s up there, but definitely not to me the greatest living actor.

Also, my personal hot take I really didn’t like him in Titanic because he looked like a teenager. Like a young teenager. That kind of ruined things for me, but it definitely means there was room for him on the door.

Pacine and DeNiro act the same in almost every movie. Washington wasn't good in Gladiator II, but otherwise, I do like him.

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Brad Pitt, hello?! Meryl Streep?

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Anonymous wrote:It's Meryl Streep.

+1 all day long.

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Anonymous wrote:It's Meryl Streep.

+1 all day long.

I’m embarrassed that I forgot about female actors

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Anonymous wrote:Gary Oldman.

Leo is fine but not as diverse.

Gary Oldman is amazing. He had one or maybe two scenes in Oppenheimer playing Harry Truman and he was so good. You forget it's him.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's Meryl Streep.

+1 all day long.

I’m embarrassed that I forgot about female actors

Best actress is it’s own category.