Happy birthday mr. Leonardo DiCaprio makes forty and still no Oscar.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The star of "Titanic" and "The Beach" has grown. It confirms much more than an actor with his commitment to the environment that brought him only a few weeks ago to speak in front of 120 heads of state at the UN. One gripe: the statue that has not arrived yet ...

After more than twenty years in the film industry and still more in the world of show business (he was an actor in commercials and TV shows since a kid) Leonardo DiCaprio knows: the image has so much to talk about weather and emergency environment in front of 120 heads of state in the UN Headquarters of the United Nations is presented in a suit and tie, of course, but also with a beard and a goatee, long hair gathered in a ponytail hippy ordered. "I appeal to you as an expert but as a citizen concerned. Every week we see new and undeniable climatic events. Now it's up to you, the time to respond to the greatest challenge facing humanity this is it. We implore you to do so with courage and honesty ".

Today, finally entering into adulthood, Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is confirmed more than an actor or a star on the cover. His commitment to the environment, its donations for the earthquake emergency or against the Company which manages the WildLife US support for Obama (especially when it is committed with the creation of a nature park or thirteenth launches plan to create the world's largest ocean reserves) make it with George Clooney and Brad Pitt faces more political film, although, unlike the two gentlemen, forty of Los Angeles has never even mentioned the possibility of a candidate.

Besides her film career (thirty titles ranging from blockbusters, one out of all the Titanic, the movie with the mentor Martin Scorsese) as rich and varied still not brought her recognition that his talent deserves. Four-time Oscar nominee (the first at age 22 for Good Eating Gilbert Grape by Lasse Hallstrom as the protagonist), DiCaprio has never grabbed the famous statuette although we came close more than once even as an actor first the Aviator in the role of tycoon Howard Hughes, then in that of diamond smuggler in Blood Diamond, and then again with Scorsese, with whom he made five films from Gangs of New York to the Wolf of Wall Street, for which he was nominated as a producer.

But to make a star DiCaprio were other titles, romantic movies that have established him in the late nineties idol of teenagers: the lyrical and post-modern Romeo + Juliet Baz Luhrmann in which DiCaprio won a Golden Bear at the Festival Berlin and especially the super blockbuster James Cameron's Titanic, while the exotic the Beach 2000 ended in a resounding flop at the box office.

From producer to director may seem that the step is short but for the time DiCaprio does not seem to want to place behind the camera. He recently said: "When I make a film I become obsessed with the theme and I'm not sure how I would react if 200 people turning to me with so many questions. I'd be afraid of ending up in a spiral obsessive, for the moment I'm happy to be responsible of my role as an actor. in the future, who knows, you never know. I might try it because I felt it was pretty funny. "The feeling is that if it were to make the jump DiCaprio would do with a project that combines his passion film with its environmental commitment. We went in fact very close to the documentary The 11th Hour on global warming that he wrote, produced and narrated but whose production has entrusted to documentariste sisters Leila and Nadia Conners.

From "Mr Grape" to "The Wolf of Wall Street," the 40-year Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio started his acting career at age 15, by participating in two episodes of the TV series "Lassie". Now that he is 40 years old has to be a prolific producer, has won many international awards putting behind 27 films. The 28th is currently in the works: it's called "The Revenant" and is the story of a hunter beginning of 1800 during a hunting trip was wounded by a bear and abandoned by his companions dying. He'll be back for revenge ... Though always working, and the results are always top notch, Leonardo DiCaprio was not so lucky: Sure, he had five Oscar nominations - including four for best actor and as a producer - but not has been able to take home the coveted prize. Before a career like his, however, even the statue of the Academy Awards seems to fade into the background. At 19 states with Johnny Depp and Juliette Lewis in director Lasse Hallstrom's "Eating Gilbert Grape", in "Romeo + Juliet" and, still a boy, won the hearts of teenagers. However the following year, 1997, that with "Titanic" became an icon of world cinema. Since that time the greatest directors are also his best friends: Woody Allen Danny Boyle, until Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, and of course, Martin Scorsese, everyone wants it. With the latter DiCaprio makes a partnership that is fed from film to film, from "Gangs of New York" to "The Departed" to "Shutter Island" to "The Wolf of Wall Street." A firm believer in the field of environmental protection, has equipped its many homes with solar panels and uses only electric cars. In addition, he travels the world attending conferences and funding campaigns: in 2010, for example, donated a million dollars to the WWF to protect tigers from attacks by poachers; with Netflix, however, is thinking about a documentary for the protection of gorillas in the Congo. Recently, he said he wanted to take a break from the set to devote to these very issues.