 DiCaprio was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year.DiCaprio was cast in "American Psycho" (2000) in 1998 for a reported salary of $20 million, but left the project soon after when he failed to agree with Oliver Stone on the film's direction and took the lead role in "The Beach" instead.The latter, an adaption of Alex Garland's 1996 novel of the same name, saw him play an American backpacking tourist looking for the perfect way of life in a secret island commune in the Gulf of Thailand.