DiCaprio is one of our generation's best actors: McConaughey

Actor Matthew McConaughey, who has been nominated in the best actor category in this year's Academy Awards along with Leonardo DiCaprio, has appreciated the latter's acting skills.

The two recently shared screen space in the Oscar nominated film "The Wolf Of Wall Street".

"...That guy's been doing work that's deserving of being in the conversation and of winning for some time. He's one of our generation's best actors," the "Dallas Buyers Club" star, who recently bagged a Golden Globe for playing and AIDS patient in the Jean-Marc Vallee directorial, said in a statement.

The biopic on Ron Woodroof, an AIDS patient, will release in India Feb 28.