Oscars 2014: Ranking The Best Actors From Worst To Best

4. Leonardo DiCaprio €“ The Wolf Of Wall Street

Placing anyone but Leonardo DiCaprio in the leading role of Martin Scorsese's epic odyssey of hedonism, drug abuse, greed, and more drugs simply wouldn't have yielded similar success. DiCaprio loses himself in the role, because he knows that if he doesn't capture every little slice of absurdity and overindulgent act of the real Jordan Belfort with utmost sincerity, it's all in vain. This results in DiCaprio unhinged, putting on a display of unprecedented energy and insanity; ensuring the film never has a dull moment across its monstrous running time. Whether he's delivering battle cries of greed from his dais, throwing raunchy parties, excessively indulging in drugs, or tossing midgets at giant dart boards, he's infectiously entertaining. There's also the Quaaludes scene which allowed him to severely branch out his acting range into physical comedy. In one scene DiCaprio creates more laughs than most films can in an entire franchise. The only reason he isn't number one is due to the fact that the remaining performances hit much harder on an emotional level. He does deserve SOMETHING for sticking a candle in his a**; just not the Oscar.