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Face Off: DiCaprio vs. Damon
Posted on 1/12/13 at 10:45 am
Posted on 1/12/13 at 10:45 am
A buddy and I were arguing last night over who was the better actor of the two. I said Leo, he said Damon.
Some of the criteria behind my pick were: range of characters (Damon always seems to play the good guy, whereas DiCaprio has displayed the ability to play the antagonist), selectivity of roles, and quality of films.
His main argument was that while Damon has been in some questionable movies, his best films rival that of DiCaprio's.
What does the Movie Board think?
Here are both actors' filmographies:
Leonardo DiCaprio
1991 - Critters 3
1992 - Poison Ivy
1993 - This Boy's Life; What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1994 - The Foot Shooting Party
1995 - The Quick and the Dead; The Basketball Diaries; Total Eclipse
1996 - Romeo + Juliet; Marvin's Room
1997 - Titanic
1998 - The Man in the Iron Mask; Celebrity
2000 - The Beach
2001 - Don's Plum
2002 - Catch Me if You Can; Gangs of New York
2004 - The Aviator
2006 - The Departed; Blood Diamond
2007 - The 11th Hour
2008 - Body of Lies; Revolutionary Road
2010 - Shutter Island; Hubble 3D (Narrator); Inception
2011 - J. Edgar
2012 - Django Unchained
2013 - The Great Gatsby; The Wolf of Wall Street (filming)
3 Academy Award nominations (Best Supporting Actor in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Best Actor in The Aviator, Best Actor in Blood Diamond), 0 wins
8 Golden Globe nominations (Best Supporting Actor in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Best Actor in Titanic, Best Actor in Catch Me If You Can, Best Actor in The Aviator, Best Actor in The Departed, Best Actor in Blood Diamond, Best Actor in Revolutionary Road, Best Actor in J. Edgar, Best Supporting Actor in Django Unchained (pending)), 1 win (The Aviator)
VS.
Matt Damon
1988 - Mystic Pizza; The Good Mother
1989 - Field of Dreams (extra)
1992 - School Ties
1993 - Geronimo: An American Legend
1996 - Glory Daze; Courage Under Fire
1997 - Good Will Hunting; The Rainmaker; Chasing Amy (cameo)
1998 - Rounders; Saving Private Ryan
1999 - The Talented Mr. Ripley; Dogma
2000 - Finding Forrester (cameo); All the Pretty Horses; The Legend of Bagger Vance; Titan A.E.
2001 - The Majestic; Ocean's Eleven; Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (cameo)
2002 - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (cameo); The Bourne Identity; Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (voice); Gerry; The Third Wheel
2003 - Stuck on You
2004 - Howard Zinn: You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train (narrator); Ocean's Twelve; The Bourne Supremacy; Jersey Girl (cameo); EuroTrip (cameo)
2005 - Syriana; The Brothers Grimm
2006 - The Good Shepherd; The Departed
2007 - Ocean's Thirteen; The Bourne Ultimatum; Youth Without Youth (cameo); Arthur (voice)
2008 - Che: Part Two (cameo)
2009 - Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (voice); The Informant!; Invictus; The People Speak
2010 - The Green Zone; Inside Job; Hereafter; True Grit
2011 - The Adjustment Bureau; Contagion; Margaret; Happy Feet Two (voice); We Bought a Zoo
2012 - Promised Land
2013 - Elysium (filming); The Zero Theorem (filming); Behind the Candelabra (filming)
3 Academy Award nominations (Best Actor in Good Will Hunting, Best Supporting Actor in Invictus, Best Writing in Good Will Hunting), 1 win (as a writer in Good Will Hunting)
5 Golden Globe nominations (Best Screenplay in Good Will Hunting, Best Actor in Good Will Hunting, Best Actor in the Talented Mr. Ripley, Best Actor in The Informant!, Best Supporting Actor in Invictus), 1 win (as a writer in Good Will Hunting)
Some of the criteria behind my pick were: range of characters (Damon always seems to play the good guy, whereas DiCaprio has displayed the ability to play the antagonist), selectivity of roles, and quality of films.
His main argument was that while Damon has been in some questionable movies, his best films rival that of DiCaprio's.
What does the Movie Board think?
Here are both actors' filmographies:
Leonardo DiCaprio
1991 - Critters 3
1992 - Poison Ivy
1993 - This Boy's Life; What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1994 - The Foot Shooting Party
1995 - The Quick and the Dead; The Basketball Diaries; Total Eclipse
1996 - Romeo + Juliet; Marvin's Room
1997 - Titanic
1998 - The Man in the Iron Mask; Celebrity
2000 - The Beach
2001 - Don's Plum
2002 - Catch Me if You Can; Gangs of New York
2004 - The Aviator
2006 - The Departed; Blood Diamond
2007 - The 11th Hour
2008 - Body of Lies; Revolutionary Road
2010 - Shutter Island; Hubble 3D (Narrator); Inception
2011 - J. Edgar
2012 - Django Unchained
2013 - The Great Gatsby; The Wolf of Wall Street (filming)
3 Academy Award nominations (Best Supporting Actor in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Best Actor in The Aviator, Best Actor in Blood Diamond), 0 wins
8 Golden Globe nominations (Best Supporting Actor in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Best Actor in Titanic, Best Actor in Catch Me If You Can, Best Actor in The Aviator, Best Actor in The Departed, Best Actor in Blood Diamond, Best Actor in Revolutionary Road, Best Actor in J. Edgar, Best Supporting Actor in Django Unchained (pending)), 1 win (The Aviator)
VS.
Matt Damon
1988 - Mystic Pizza; The Good Mother
1989 - Field of Dreams (extra)
1992 - School Ties
1993 - Geronimo: An American Legend
1996 - Glory Daze; Courage Under Fire
1997 - Good Will Hunting; The Rainmaker; Chasing Amy (cameo)
1998 - Rounders; Saving Private Ryan
1999 - The Talented Mr. Ripley; Dogma
2000 - Finding Forrester (cameo); All the Pretty Horses; The Legend of Bagger Vance; Titan A.E.
2001 - The Majestic; Ocean's Eleven; Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (cameo)
2002 - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (cameo); The Bourne Identity; Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (voice); Gerry; The Third Wheel
2003 - Stuck on You
2004 - Howard Zinn: You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train (narrator); Ocean's Twelve; The Bourne Supremacy; Jersey Girl (cameo); EuroTrip (cameo)
2005 - Syriana; The Brothers Grimm
2006 - The Good Shepherd; The Departed
2007 - Ocean's Thirteen; The Bourne Ultimatum; Youth Without Youth (cameo); Arthur (voice)
2008 - Che: Part Two (cameo)
2009 - Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (voice); The Informant!; Invictus; The People Speak
2010 - The Green Zone; Inside Job; Hereafter; True Grit
2011 - The Adjustment Bureau; Contagion; Margaret; Happy Feet Two (voice); We Bought a Zoo
2012 - Promised Land
2013 - Elysium (filming); The Zero Theorem (filming); Behind the Candelabra (filming)
3 Academy Award nominations (Best Actor in Good Will Hunting, Best Supporting Actor in Invictus, Best Writing in Good Will Hunting), 1 win (as a writer in Good Will Hunting)
5 Golden Globe nominations (Best Screenplay in Good Will Hunting, Best Actor in Good Will Hunting, Best Actor in the Talented Mr. Ripley, Best Actor in The Informant!, Best Supporting Actor in Invictus), 1 win (as a writer in Good Will Hunting)
This post was edited on 1/12/13 at 11:22 am
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Posted on 1/12/13 at 10:52 am to brewhan davey
Leo
Posted on 1/12/13 at 10:53 am to Holland Oates
This is easily Leo
Posted on 1/12/13 at 10:54 am to brewhan davey
Leo is the better actor.
However, Damon's lows arent as bad as Leo's.
However, Damon's lows arent as bad as Leo's.
Posted on 1/12/13 at 10:54 am to brewhan davey
I suppose there is a reason Damon isn't approached for big movies nearly as often as Dicaprio. This really isn't even a debate.
This post was edited on 1/12/13 at 10:57 am
Posted on 1/12/13 at 10:56 am to brewhan davey
Leo definitely is better, but Damon isn't exactly dragging movies down himself. You can't go wrong with either, Leo just has more range.
Posted on 1/12/13 at 10:57 am to Matisyeezy
quote:
You can't go wrong with either, Leo just has more range.
That was one of my main points. Leo has played both good guy and bad guy roles, although he doesn't really do comedies, like Damon does occasionally.
Posted on 1/12/13 at 10:58 am to brewhan davey
Leo, more range
Posted on 1/12/13 at 11:03 am to brewhan davey
Leo in What's Eating Gilbert Grape was amazing.
Posted on 1/12/13 at 11:04 am to brewhan davey
Easily Dicaprio.
Posted on 1/12/13 at 11:04 am to brewhan davey
Is this a joke? Comparing a top tier actor to overrated filth...give me a break. Your friend is a retard. Matt Damon has like 2 good performances in his life
Posted on 1/12/13 at 11:08 am to Carson123987
yeah I can't think of a movie since Good Will Hunting that Damon was irreplaceable in. Dicaprio is in nearly half his movies.
Posted on 1/12/13 at 11:12 am to Carson123987
quote:
Is this a joke? Comparing a top tier actor to overrated filth...give me a break. Your friend is a retard. Matt Damon has like 2 good performances in his life
That was actually how the argument started.. talking about which tier each actor falls on.
Posted on 1/12/13 at 11:19 am to brewhan davey
Leo (not even close)
Side Note: I have seen Matt Damon's IMDB. Adding that he was an extra in Field of Dreams is pretty low from an actor who has done so much work. That is something you see career long extras do to build their resume.
Side Note: I have seen Matt Damon's IMDB. Adding that he was an extra in Field of Dreams is pretty low from an actor who has done so much work. That is something you see career long extras do to build their resume.
Posted on 1/12/13 at 11:22 am to brewhan davey
DiCaprio > Damon
I like both, though.
I like both, though.
Posted on 1/12/13 at 11:23 am to brewhan davey
Leo
He was in Growing Pains
He was in Growing Pains
Posted on 1/12/13 at 11:23 am to LSUJuicer
I didn't think actors maintained their own IMDB page.
Posted on 1/12/13 at 12:20 pm to colorchangintiger
Leo
The Aviator
The Departed
Blood Diamond
Catch Me if You Can
Django Unchained -robbed of as Oscar nomination
Gangs of New York
Shutter Island
Inception
Basketball Diaries
What's eating Gilbert grape
Ya ill stick with Leo
The Aviator
The Departed
Blood Diamond
Catch Me if You Can
Django Unchained -robbed of as Oscar nomination
Gangs of New York
Shutter Island
Inception
Basketball Diaries
What's eating Gilbert grape
Ya ill stick with Leo
Posted on 1/12/13 at 12:49 pm to SDtiger16
quote:So many of those roles Damon couldn't pull off. I can't think of a single Damon role that Leo couldn't pull off. Maybe the bourne movies just cuz that would be kind of ridiculous. Well I kind of take that back. I guess Damon can pull off comedy which Leo has never really tackled.
Leo
The Aviator
The Departed
Blood Diamond
Catch Me if You Can
Django Unchained -robbed of as Oscar nomination
Gangs of New York
Shutter Island
Inception
Basketball Diaries
What's eating Gilbert grape
Ya ill stick with Leo
This post was edited on 1/12/13 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 1/12/13 at 1:00 pm to Carson123987
quote:
Comparing a top tier actor to overrated filth
That's a little harsh
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