<P> The film won several awards . At the 47th Berlin International Film Festival in 1997, DiCaprio won the Silver Bear for Best Actor and Luhrmann won the Alfred Bauer Prize . Luhrmann was also nominated for the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture . At the 69th Academy Awards, Catherine Martin and Brigitte Broch were nominated for Best Art Direction / Set Decoration . </P> <P> Conversely, Roger Ebert gave the film a mixed review of only 2 stars out of 4, saying, "I've seen "King Lear" as a samurai drama and "Macbeth" as a Mafia story, and two different "Romeo and Juliets" about ethnic difficulties in Manhattan ("West Side Story" and "China Girl"), but I have never seen anything remotely approaching the mess that the new punk version of "Romeo & Juliet" makes of Shakespeare's tragedy ." </P> <P> The film was nominated to appear on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Passions list in 2002 . </P> <P> The film was originally released on VHS and DVD in 1997 . A 10th anniversary special edition DVD containing extra features and commentary was released on February 6, 2007, while a Blu - ray edition was released on October 19, 2010 . </P>

Who played mercutio in baz luhrmann's romeo and juliet