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Robert De Niro (pronounced /dəˈnɪəroʊ/;
born August 17, 1943) is an American method actor, director and producer. His
first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in
1973. In 1974, he played the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, a
role that won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
His critically acclaimed, longtime
collaboration with Martin Scorsese began with 1973's Mean Streets, and earned De
Niro an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the
1980 film Raging Bull. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his roles
in Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) and Cape Fear (1991). In addition, he received
nominations for his acting in Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978) and Penny
Marshall's Awakenings (1990). Also in 1990, his portrayal as Jimmy Conway in
Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas earned him a BAFTA nomination.[1]
He has earned four nominations for
the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy: New
York, New York (1977), Midnight Run (1988), Analyze This (1999) and Meet the
Parents (2000).
De Niro directed A Bronx Tale
(1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). He has received accolades for his esteemed
career, including the AFI Life Achievement Award and the Golden Globe Cecil B.
DeMille Award.
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Background Information
Born August 17, 1943
New York City, New York, U.S.
Residence TriBeCa, Lower Manhattan
Nationality American
Citizenship United States and Italy
Education High School of Music Art
Alma mater Stella Adler Studio of
Acting
Occupation Actor, director and
producer
Years active 1959present
Home town Manhattan, New York
Spouse Diahnne Abbott (m.
19761988)
Grace Hightower (m. 1997)
Children 6 (including Drena De
Niro)
Parents Robert De Niro, Sr.
Virginia Admiral
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Early
life
Robert De Niro was born in
Greenwich Village,[2] New York City, New York, the son of Virginia Holton
Admiral, a painter and poet, and Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist
painter and sculptor.[3] His father was of Italian and Irish descent, and his
mother was of English, German, French, and Dutch ancestry.[4][5] His Italian
great-grandparents, Giovanni De Niro and Angelina Mercurio, emigrated from
Ferrazzano, in the province of Campobasso, Molise, and his paternal grandmother,
Helen O'Reilly, was the granddaughter of Edward O'Reilly, an immigrant from
Ireland.
De Niro's parents, who had met at
the painting classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown (Cape Cod), Massachusetts,
divorced when he was three years old. De Niro was raised by his mother in the
Little Italy neighborhood of Manhattan, and in Greenwich Village. His father
lived within walking distance and Robert spent much time with him as he was
growing up.[6] De Niro attended PS 41, a public elementary school in Manhattan,
through the sixth grade, and then went to the private Elisabeth Irwin High
School, the upper school of the Little Red School House, for the seventh and
eighth grades.[7] He was accepted at the High School of Music and Art for the
ninth grade, but only attended for a short time, transferring instead to a
public junior high school.[8] He began high school at the private McBurney
School,[9] attended the private Rhodes Preparatory School,[10] but never
graduated.[11] Nicknamed "Bobby Milk" for his pallor, the youthful De Niro hung
out with a group of street kids in Little Italy, some of whom have remained
lifelong friends of his.[12] But the direction of his future had already been
determined by his stage debut at age ten, playing the Cowardly Lion in his
school's production of The Wizard of Oz.[13][2] Along with finding relief from
shyness through performing, De Niro was also entranced by the movies, and he
dropped out of high school at age sixteen to pursue acting.[12] De Niro studied
acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory, as well as Lee Strasberg's Actors
Studio.[11]
Career
Acting
De Niro's first movie role, in
collaboration with Brian De Palma, was in 1963, at the age of 20, when he
appeared opposite his friend Jill Clayburgh in The Wedding Party; however, the
film was not released until 1969. He then played in Roger Corman's 1970 Bloody
Mama, which starred Shelly Winters as Ma Barker. He gained popular attention
with his role as a dying Major League Baseball player in Bang the Drum Slowly
(1973).[2] That same year, he began his collaboration with Martin Scorsese, when
he played the smalltime crook Johnny Boy, alongside Harvey Keitel's Charlie, in
Mean Streets (1973).[2]
In 1974, De Niro had a pivotal role
in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II, playing the young Vito Corleone
- the director having remembered his previous auditions for the roles of Sonny
Corleone, Michael Corleone, Carlo Rizzi and Paulie Gatto, in The Godfather. His
performance earned him his first Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actor,[2]
although Coppola accepted the award, as De Niro was not present at the Oscar
ceremony. He became the first actor to win an Academy Award speaking mainly a
foreign language, in this case, multiple Sicilian dialects[2] (although he
delivered a few lines in English). De Niro and Marlon Brando, who played the
older Vito Corleone in the first film, are the only actors to have won Oscars
portraying the same fictional character. Brando and De Niro came together
onscreen for the only time in The Score (2001).
After working with Scorsese in Mean
Streets, he had a successful working relationship with the director in films
such as Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The
King of Comedy (1983), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and Casino (1995).
They also acted together in Guilty by Suspicion and provided their voices for
the animated feature Shark Tale.
Taxi Driver was particularly
important to De Niro's career: his iconic performance as Travis Bickle shot him
to stardom and forever linked De Niro's name with Bickle's famous "You talkin'
to me?" monologue, which De Niro largely improvised.[14]
In 1976, De Niro appeared, along
with G้rard Depardieu and Donald Sutherland, in Bernardo Bertolucci's epic
biographical exploration of life in Italy before World War II, Novecento (1900),
seen through the eyes of two Italian childhood friends at the opposite sides of
society's hierarchy. In 1978, De Niro played Michael Vronsky in the acclaimed
Vietnam War film The Deer Hunter, for which he was nominated for Best Actor in a
Leading Role.
Fearing he had become typecast in
mob roles, De Niro began expanding into occasional comedic roles in the
mid-1980s and has had much success there as well, with such films as Brazil
(1985), the hit action-comedy Midnight Run (1988), Analyze This (1999), opposite
actor/comedian Billy Crystal, Meet the Parents (2000) and Meet the Fockers
(2004), both opposite Ben Stiller.
Other films include Falling in Love
(1984), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Mission (1986), Angel Heart
(1987), The Untouchables (1987), Goodfellas (1990), Awakenings (1990), Heat
(1995), The Fan (1996), Sleepers (1996), Wag the Dog (1997), Jackie Brown and
Ronin (1998). In 1997, he re-teamed with Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta along with
Sylvester Stallone in the crime drama Cop Land. De Niro played a supporting
role, taking a back seat to Stallone, Keitel, and Liotta.
In 1993, he also starred in This
Boy's Life, featuring then-rising child actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey
Maguire. Around this time, he was offered the role of Mitch Leary in In the Line
of Fire, opposite Clint Eastwood. However, due to scheduling conflicts with A
Bronx Tale, he turned the role down in favor of John Malkovich, who, himself,
received an Academy Award nomination for the role. De Niro would later reference
In the Line of Fire, along with Dirty Harry and Magnum Force, two more of
Eastwood's films, in Righteous Kill.
In 2004, De Niro provided the voice
of Don Lino, the antagonist in the animated film Shark Tale, opposite Will
Smith. He also reprised his role as Jack Byrnes in Meet the Fockers, and was
featured in Stardust. All of the films were successful at the box office, but
they received mixed reviews. When promoting Shark Tale, De Niro said that was
his first experience with voice acting, which he commented, was an enjoyable
time.
De Niro had to turn down a role in
The Departed (Martin Sheen taking the role instead) due to commitments with
preparing The Good Shepherd. He said, "I wanted to. I wish I could've been able
to, but I was preparing The Good Shepherd so much that I couldn't take the time
to. I was trying to figure a way to do it while I was preparing. It just didn't
seem possible."[16]
In 2006, De Niro costarred with
Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie in The Good Shepherd (which he also directed). The
movie also reunited him onscreen with Joe Pesci, with whom De Niro had starred
in Raging Bull, Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale, Once Upon a Time in America and
Casino.
De Niro announced that he would
appear in Martin Campbell's film version of the classic BBC crime series Edge of
Darkness in 2010, alongside Mel Gibson; however, just after he arrived to begin
shooting, De Niro walked from the set due to creative differences.[17] He was
then replaced by Ray Winstone.[18][19] He appeared as Senator John McLaughlin in
the action film Machete, directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis. De
Niro starred in the thriller Stone (2010), along with Edward Norton and Milla
Jovovich. The sequel to Meet the Parents (2000) and Meet the Fockers (2004),
Little Fockers, starring De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Blythe Danner, Teri
Polo, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand, was released on December 22, 2010.
In 2011, De Niro appeared in the
action film Killer Elite with Jason Statham and Clive Owen, in the film
adaptation of the novel The Dark Fields, Limitless, with Bradley Cooper,
directed by Neil Burger, and in New Year's Eve, the romantic comedy film
directed by Garry Marshall.[20][21][22]
Thirty-four years after Bernardo
Bertolucci's 1900, De Niro stars in one of three episodes of the film Manuale
d'amore 3, with Monica Bellucci, directed by Italian director Giovanni
Veronesi.[23][24]
In January 2011, CBS picked up De
Niro's crime pilot, Rookies.[25] In 2011, he was the President of the Jury for
the 64th Cannes Film Festival.[26]
In 2012, he will star in the movies
Freelancers, Red Lights and in Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.
Film
director
In 1993, De Niro made his
directorial debut with A Bronx Tale. The film, written by Chazz Palminteri, was
about Palminteri's turbulent childhood in the Bronx. De Niro agreed to direct
the film after seeing Palminteri's one-man off-Broadway play. De Niro also
played Lorenzo, the bus driver who struggles to keep his son away from local
mobster Sonny, played by Palminteri.
De Niro did not direct another film
until 2006's The Good Shepherd, which starred Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie. The
Good Shepherd depicts the origins of the CIA, with Damon portraying one of the
top counter-intelligence agents during World War II and the Cold War. De Niro
has a small role as General Bill Sullivan, who recruits Damon's character into
the world of counter-intelligence.
Restaurants
His capital ventures have included:
cofounding the film studio TriBeCa Productions; the popular Tribeca Film
Festival; Nobu and TriBeCa Grill, which he co-owns with a developer Paul Wallace
and Broadway producer Stewart F. Lane,[27] The Greenwich Hotel,[28] located in
Tribeca, and the restaurant inside the hotel, Locanda Verde, formally known as
Ago, which is run by executive chef and co-owner, Andrew Carmellini.[29]
According to the July 2010 issue of
Gourmet magazine, De Niro is in negotiations with an internationally renowned
chef, Natalia Jibladze, to launch a yet unnamed restaurant in Manhattan under
his Tribeca trademark. He was in Malaysia recently, and while having lunch with
the Malaysian Prime Minister's wife, was asked to open a Malay restaurant in
Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia.[30]
Other
work
In June 2006, it was announced that
De Niro had donated his film archive including scripts, costumes, and props
to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. On April 27,
2009, it was announced that the De Niro collection at the Ransom Center was open
to researchers and the public. De Niro has said that he is working with Martin
Scorsese on a new project. "I'm trying to actually work... [screenwriter] Eric
Roth and myself and Marty are working on a script now, trying to get it
done."[16]
Acting
style
Praised for his commitment to
roles, stemming from his background in method acting, De Niro gained 60 pounds
(27 kg) and learned how to box for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in Raging
Bull;[2] ground his teeth for Cape Fear; lived in Sicily for The Godfather Part
II; worked as a cab driver for a few weeks for Taxi Driver;[31] and learned to
play the saxophone for New York, New York. He again put on weight for his
performance as Al Capone in The Untouchables (1987).[32]
De Niro's brand of method acting
includes employing whatever extreme tactic he feels is necessary to elicit the
best performance from those with whom he is working. During the filming of The
King of Comedy, for example, he directed a slew of anti-Semitic epithets at
co-star Jerry Lewis in order to enhance and authenticate the anger demonstrated
by his onscreen character. According to People magazine, the technique was
successful. Lewis recalled, "I forgot the cameras were there... I was going for
Bobby's throat."[33]
Personal life
Family
De Niro and his first wife Diahnne
Abbott have a son, Raphael, a former actor who works in New York real
estate.[34] De Niro also adopted Abbott's daughter from a previous relationship,
Drena.
De Niro has twin sons, Julian Henry
and Aaron Kendrik, conceived by in vitro fertilization and delivered by a
surrogate mother in 1995, from a long-term live-in relationship with former
model Toukie Smith.[35]
In 1997, De Niro married his second
wife, actress Grace Hightower, at their Marbletown home.[36] Their son Elliot
was born in 1998 and the couple split in 1999. The divorce was never finalized
and in 2004 they renewed their vows.[36] In December 2011, Hightower and De Niro
welcomed a daughter, Helen Grace, born via surrogate.[37][38]
In addition to his six children De
Niro has three grandchildren - one from his eldest daughter Drena and two from
his son Raphael.[39] [40] [41]
Properties
De Niro, who lives in New York
City, has been investing in the TriBeCa neighborhood in lower Manhattan since
1989. He also has residences on the east and west sides of Manhattan and an
estate in Marbletown in upstate New York.
Legal
issues
In February 1998, during a film
shoot in France, he was taken in for questioning by French police for nine hours
and was then questioned by a magistrate over a prostitution ring. De Niro denied
any involvement, saying that he had never paid for sex, "and even if I had, it
wouldn't have been a crime."[42] The magistrate wanted to speak to him after his
name was mentioned by one of the call girls. In an interview with the French
newspaper, Le Monde, he said, "I will never return to France. I will advise my
friends against going to France," and he would "send your Legion of Honor back
to the ambassador, as soon as possible." French judicial sources say the actor
is regarded as a potential witness, not a suspect.
Prostate cancerIn 2003, it was
announced that De Niro had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, although he went
on to make a full recovery.[43]
Italian
citizenship
De Niro was due to be granted
Italian citizenship at the Venice Film Festival in September 2004. However, the
Sons of Italy lodged a protest with Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi,
claiming De Niro had damaged the image of Italians and Italian Americans by
frequently portraying them in criminal roles. Culture Minister Giuliano Urbani
dismissed the objections, and the ceremony was rescheduled to go forward in Rome
in October. Controversy flared again when De Niro failed to show for two media
appearances in Italy that month, which De Niro blamed on "serious communication
problems" that weren't "handled properly" on his end, stating, "The last thing I
would want to do is offend anyone. I love Italy." The citizenship was conferred
on De Niro on October 21, 2006, during the finale of the Rome Film Festival. De
Niro is registered in the electoral district of Molise, the Italian homeland of
his great-grandparents.
Activism
Politics
De Niro is a supporter of the
Democratic Party, and vocally supported Al Gore in the 2000 presidential
election. De Niro publicly supported John Kerry in the 2004 presidential
election. In 1998, he lobbied Congress against impeaching President Bill
Clinton.[44]
While promoting his movie The Good
Shepherd with co-star Matt Damon on the December 8, 2006 episode of Hardball
with Chris Matthews at George Mason University, De Niro was asked whom he would
like to see as President of the United States. De Niro responded, "Well, I think
of two people: Hillary Clinton and Obama."
On February 4, 2008, De Niro
supported Obama at a rally at the Izod Center in New Jersey before Super
Tuesday.[45]
9/11 attacksDe Niro also hosted
9/11, a documentary about the September 11, 2001 attacks, shown on CBS and
centering on video footage made by Jules and Gedeon Naudet, that focused on the
role of firefighters following the attacks.
Filmography
|
Year |
Film |
Role |
Notes |
|
1965 |
Three Rooms in Manhattan |
Client at the diner |
Uncredited |
|
1968 |
Greetings |
Jon
Rubin |
|
|
1969 |
Sam's Song |
Sam |
|
|
1969 |
The
Wedding Party |
Cecil |
|
|
1970 |
Bloody Mama |
Lloyd Barker |
|
|
Hi,
Mom! |
Jon
Rubin |
|
|
1971 |
Jennifer on My Mind |
Mardigian, Cab driver |
|
|
Born to Win |
Officer Danny |
|
|
The
Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight |
Mario Trantino |
|
|
1973 |
Bang the Drum Slowly |
Bruce Pearson |
New
York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor |
|
Mean Streets |
John 'Johnny Boy' Civello |
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Sant Jordi Awards win |
|
1974 |
The
Godfather Part II |
Vito Corleone |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer |
|
1976 |
Taxi Driver |
Travis Bickle |
New
York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Nominated Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Drama
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Fotogramas de Plata
Sant Jordi Awards win |
|
1900 |
Alfredo Berlinghieri |
Sant Jordi Awards win |
|
The
Last Tycoon |
Monroe Stahr |
Sant Jordi Awards win |
|
1977 |
New
York, New York |
Jimmy Doyle |
Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture
Musical or Comedy
Sant Jordi Awards win |
|
1978 |
The
Deer Hunter |
Michael Vronsky |
Nominated Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Drama
Nominated American Movie Awards |
|
1980 |
Raging Bull |
Jake LaMotta |
Academy Award for Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Drama
National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
|
1981 |
True Confessions |
Monsignor Desmond "Des" Spellacy |
|
|
1983 |
The
King of Comedy |
Rupert Pupkin |
Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
|
1984 |
Once Upon a Time in America |
David "Noodles" Aaronson |
Sant Jordi Awards - Win |
|
Falling in Love |
Frank Raftis |
Sant Jordi Awards - win |
|
1985 |
Brazil |
Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle |
|
|
1986 |
The
Mission |
Rodrigo Mendoza |
|
|
1987 |
Angel Heart |
Louis Cypher |
Nominated Saturn Awards Best Supporting Actor |
|
The
Untouchables |
Al
Capone |
|
|
1988 |
Midnight Run |
Jack Walsh |
Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture
Musical or Comedy |
|
1989 |
Jacknife |
Joseph 'Jacknife' Megessey |
|
|
We're No Angels |
Ned |
|
|
1990 |
Stanley & Iris |
Stanley Everett Cox |
|
|
Goodfellas |
James "Jimmy" Conway |
New
York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
|
Awakenings |
Leonard Lowe |
National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Nominated Academy Award for Best Actor |
|
1991 |
Guilty by Suspicion |
David Merrill |
|
|
Backdraft |
Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale |
|
|
Cape Fear |
Maximilian "Max" Cady |
Nominated Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Drama
Nominated MTV Movie Awards Best Villain And Best Male Performance
Nominated Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
|
1992 |
Night and the City |
Harry Fabian |
|
|
Mistress |
Evan M. Wright |
|
|
1993 |
A
Bronx Tale |
Lorenzo Anello |
also Director |
|
Mad
Dog and Glory |
Wayne 'Mad Dog' Dobie |
|
|
This Boy's Life |
Dwight Hansen |
|
|
1994 |
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein |
The
Creature |
Nominated Saturn Awards
Best Supporting
Actor |
|
1995 |
One
Hundred and One Nights |
Le
mari de la star-fantasme en croisi่re |
|
|
Casino |
Sam
'Ace' Rothstein |
|
|
Heat |
Neil McCauley |
|
|
1996 |
The
Fan |
Gilbert "Gil" Renard |
Nominated MTV Movie Awards Best Villain |
|
Sleepers |
Father Bobby |
|
|
Marvin's Room |
Dr.
Wally |
Nominated Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by
a Cast in a Motion Picture |
|
1997 |
Cop
Land |
Lt.
Moe Tilden |
|
|
Jackie Brown |
Louis Gara |
|
|
Wag
the Dog |
Conrad Brean |
|
|
1998 |
Great Expectations |
Arthur Lustig |
|
|
Ronin |
Sam |
|
|
The
Newton Boys |
Narrator |
|
|
1999 |
Analyze This |
Paul Vitti |
Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture
Musical or Comedy
Nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
Nominated American Comedy Awards |
|
Flawless |
Walter Koontz |
|
|
2000 |
The
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle |
Fearless Leader |
|
|
Men
of Honor |
Chief Leslie William 'Billy' Sunday |
Nominated Satellite Awards
Best Supporting
Actor |
|
Meet the Parents |
Jack Tiberius Byrnes |
Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture
Musical or Comedy
Nominated American Comedy Awards
Nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
Nominated MTV Movie Awards Best On-Screen Team Shared |
|
2001 |
15
Minutes |
Det. Eddie Flemming |
|
|
The
Score |
Nick Wells |
|
|
2002 |
Showtime |
Det. Mitch Preston |
|
|
City by the Sea |
Vincent Anthony LaMarca |
|
|
Analyze That |
Paul Vitti |
|
|
2004 |
Godsend |
Dr.
Richard Wells |
|
|
Shark Tale |
Don
Lino |
Voice |
|
Meet the Fockers |
Jack Tiberius Byrnes |
|
|
The
Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Archbishop of Lima |
|
|
2005 |
Hide and Seek |
David Callaway |
|
|
2006 |
Arthur and the Invisibles |
The
King |
Voice (Eng. version) |
|
The
Good Shepherd |
General Bill Sullivan |
also director |
|
2007 |
Stardust |
Captain Shakespeare |
|
|
2008 |
Righteous Kill |
Det. Thomas "Turk" Cowan |
|
|
What Just Happened |
Ben |
|
|
2009 |
Everybody's Fine |
Frank |
Hollywood Film Festival Best Actor |
|
2010 |
Machete |
Senator McLaughlin |
|
|
Stone |
Jack Mabry |
|
|
Little Fockers |
Jack Tiberius Byrnes |
|
|
2011 |
Manuale d'amore 3 |
Adrian |
|
|
Killer Elite |
Hunter |
|
|
Limitless |
Carl Van Loon |
|
|
New
Year's Eve |
Harry |
|
|
2012 |
Being Flynn |
Jonathan Flynn |
|
|
Red
Lights |
Simon Silver |
|
|
Freelancers |
Sarcone |
|
Awards
and nominations
For more details on this topic, see
List of Robert De Niro awards.
Academy
Award
Won: Best Supporting Actor, The
Godfather Part II (1974)
Nominated: Best Actor, Taxi Driver
(1976)
Nominated: Best Actor, The Deer
Hunter (1978)
Won: Best Actor, Raging Bull (1980)
Nominated: Best Actor, Awakenings
(1990)
Nominated: Best Actor, Cape Fear
(1991)
BAFTA
Award
Nominated: Best Newcomer, The
Godfather Part II (1976)
Nominated: Best Actor, Taxi Driver
(1977)
Nominated: Best Actor, The Deer
Hunter (1979)
Nominated: Best Actor, Raging Bull
(1982)
Nominated: Best Actor, The King of
Comedy (1984)
Nominated: Best Actor, Goodfellas
(1990)
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Dougan, Andy (2003). Untouchable: a
biography of Robert De Niro. Da Capo Press. ISBN 1560254696.
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