Best: Django Unchained (2012) Yet another Oscar snub for DiCaprio would not reflect how good DiCaprio has consistently been since making early waves in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? particularly in his latest snub. As Calvin Candie, DiCaprio offers a beautifully grotesque portrait of villainy, stealing the film utterly, despite his relatively short screen time. He is a perfect Tarantino character, verbose and awful, but utterly irresistible from the moment he appears to the inevitable haze of gun powder that marks his end. Worst: The Man In The Iron Mask (1998) It isn't fair to count Critters 3, though it was terrible, so the Worst label here has to go to the overblown excesses of Randall Wallace's directorial debut, which came on the back of his writing of Braveheart. Sadly, writers don't always make good directors, as Wallace showed with both The Man In The Iron Mask and Pearl Harbour. He sucked all of the swash out of the bountiful historical epic, and it buckled, despite a heady cast including TWO Dicaprios.
