"in Scorsese's crime film ""Goodfellas"" (1990), and his role as Rupert Pupkin in the black comedy film ""The King of Comedy"" (1983), earned him BAFTA Award nominations. De Niro has earned four nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for his work in the musical drama ""New York, New York"" (1977), the action comedy ""Midnight Run"" (1988), the gangster comedy ""Analyze This"" (1999), and the comedy ""Meet the Parents"" (2000). Other notable performances include roles in ""1900"" (1976), ""Once Upon a Time in America"" (1984), ""Brazil"" (1985), ""The Mission"" (1986), ""The Untouchables"""
"of 1984, only to see the original cut years later and call it the best of the 1980s. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 86% approval rating with an average rating of 8.6/10 based on 50 reviews. The website's consensus reads, ""Sergio Leone's epic crime drama is visually stunning, stylistically bold, and emotionally haunting, and filled with great performances from the likes of Robert De Niro and James Woods."" The film has since been ranked as one of the best films of the gangster genre. When ""Sight & Sound"" asked several UK critics in 2002 what their favorite"
"1960s time frame and nothing more. Despite its modern critical success, the initial American release did not fare well with critics and received no Academy Award nominations. The film's music was disqualified from Oscar consideration for a technicality, as the studio accidentally omitted the composer's name from the opening credits when trimming its running time for the American release. Once Upon a Time in America Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 epic crime drama film co-written and directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. The film is an Italian-American venture"
"time of its release, but over time it has come to be seen as a classic of the mob film genre. It went on to inspire films such as ""King of New York"". On the other hand, Sergio Leone shot an epic crime drama film Once Upon a Time in America, starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. Though its release of ""US Cut"" was a critical and commercial failure, the ""European Cut"" release and ""Director's Cut"" were both critical success and regained its publicity and reputation. In the late 80s, a film directed by Brian De Palma, ""The Untouchables"","
"usually in the stereotypical role of a thug. Keitel played a corrupt police officer in the 1983 thriller ""Copkiller"" (co-starring musician John Lydon), before taking supporting roles in the romantic drama ""Falling in Love"" (1984), starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, and Brian De Palma's mobster comedy ""Wise Guys"" (1986), starring Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo. Keitel played Judas in Martin Scorsese's controversial ""The Last Temptation of Christ"" (1988) and co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the ""Chinatown"" sequel ""The Two Jakes"" (1990), directed by Jack Nicholson. Ridley Scott cast Keitel as the sympathetic policeman in ""Thelma & Louise"" in"
"veteran Robert De Niro playing a Mob Boss and notable mob film director Martin Scorsese behind the voice of an integral character. The 2010s continued the 2000s trend of bringing new movies featuring both prohibition and post-World War II real life mob incidents into the box office. In 2012, ""Lawless"" was based on the 2008 novel ""The Wettest County in the World"" as the film follows a trio of siblings who run an illegal moonshine business during Prohibition. ""Gangster Squad"" is a crime film directed by Ruben Fleischer, from a screenplay written by Will Beall, starring an ensemble cast that"
"(1987), ""Heat"" (1995), and ""Casino"" (1995). He has directed and starred in films such as the crime drama ""A Bronx Tale"" (1993) and the spy film ""The Good Shepherd"" (2006). Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. was born on August 17, 1943, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, the only child of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr. He is of Irish and Italian descent on his father's side, while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry. De Niro's parents, who had met at the painting classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts, divorced when"
"1984 (1956 film) 1984 is a 1956 British black-and-white science fiction film, based on the novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" by George Orwell, depicting a totalitarian future society. This is the first cinema rendition of the story, directed by Michael Anderson and starring Edmond O'Brien as protagonist Winston Smith, and featuring Donald Pleasence, Jan Sterling, and Michael Redgrave. The character O'Brien, the antagonist, was renamed ""O'Connor"", due to the shared surname of the actor Edmond O'Brien. The film was distributed in 1956 on a double bill with another British sci-fi film, ""The Gamma People"". After the customary distributor agreement expired, the film"
"one bringing the action forward from 1961 to 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the other following its protagonist, Edward Wilson, up to the present day. In September 2012, it was announced that Showtime is developing the sequel as a television series, with Eric Roth as executive producer/writer and Robert De Niro directing the pilot. The Good Shepherd (film) The Good Shepherd is a 2006 spy film produced and directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and De Niro, with an extensive supporting cast. Although it is a fictional film loosely based on real"
"and produced by Alexandre Aja, starring Elijah Wood in the lead role. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic. Frank Zito (Joe Spinell) was abused as a child by his prostitute mother, and as a result becomes a serial killer who murders young women, scalps them and attaches their hair to mannequins. After he awakens from a nightmare about killing a couple on a beach, he dresses and leaves his apartment towards Manhattan into Times Square. When Frank is"
"Thursday (film) Thursday is a 1998 American crime/thriller/black comedy film written and directed by Skip Woods and starring Thomas Jane, Aaron Eckhart, Paula Marshall, Michael Jeter and Mickey Rourke. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Cognac Festival. In a Los Angeles convenience store one late Monday night, a small-time drug dealer named Nick (Aaron Eckhart) is trying to decide what coffee brand to buy. His ex-lover Dallas (Paulina Porizkova) and fellow hitman Billy Hill (James LeGros) are getting impatient and tell him to hurry up. Conflicts between Nick and the cashier (Luck Hari) ensue, resulting in Dallas shooting"
"popular setting for prewar crime films, from the 1950s until the early 21st century most gangster movies were set in either the prohibition era, postwar America, or the present day. The 2007 film ""American Gangster"" directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe also bares mention in fictionalising the life of Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas and his rivalry with the American Mafia. The 2008 Italian mob film ""Gomorrah"" was met with much critical acclaim upon its premiere in North America. The film was directed by Matteo Garrone, based on the book by Roberto Saviano that depicts"
"protagonist Amsterdam Vallon, a young leader of the Irish faction, and thus, Miramax Films got involved with financing the project. The film became one of the success pillars in Leo's career. DiCaprio's acting was well-received but was overshadowed by Daniel Day-Lewis' performance among most critics. After collaborating in ""Gangs of New York"", the duo worked on 2004 biopic ""The Aviator"". Its centers the life of Howard Hughes (Played by DiCaprio), an aviation pioneer and director of ""Hell's Angels"". The film portrays his life between the late 1920s and late 1940s, during which time Hughes became a successful film producer and"
"TV movie ""L.A. Takedown"" in 1989. ""Heat"" was a critical and commercial success, grossing $67 million in the United States and $187 million worldwide (about $ million in 2019) against a $60 million budget. It was well received by critics. The film-critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 86% positive reviews, calling the film ""an engrossing crime drama that draws compelling performances from its stars and confirms Michael Mann's mastery of the genre."" Neil McCauley (De Niro), a highly skilled career criminal, and his crew – Chris Shiherlis (Kilmer), Michael Cheritto (Sizemore), and Trejo – hire Waingro (Gage) to help them rob"
"""generally favorable reviews"". The film's critical profile has increased in recent years, with several critics expressing that, in retrospect, they feel it to be a more accomplished and artistically mature work than the thematically similar ""Goodfellas"". Casino (1995 film) Casino is a 1995 American epic crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci. It is based on the nonfiction book """" by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. The two had previously collaborated on ""Goodfellas"". The film marks the eighth collaboration between director Scorsese and De Niro,"
"De Niro had to convince Leone of his ability to portray Noodles in both the character's twenties and his sixties, and of his focus on character authenticity. David ""Noodles"" Aaronson David ""Noodles"" Aaronson is a fictional character who is the protagonist of the 1952 novel ""The Hoods"" by Harry Grey, and of the book's 1984 film adaptation, ""Once Upon a Time in America"", where he was portrayed by Robert De Niro. According to the novel and film in which he appears, David ""Noodles"" Aaronson is born in the early 1900s into poverty in a Jewish enclave in Manhattan's Lower East"
"tale of love between heroin addicts in New York City, namely the Upper West Side neighborhood. Actor Caleb Landry Jones joined Arielle Holmes in the film's love story. ""Heaven Knows What"" world premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it won the C.I.C.A.E Award, the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Tokyo Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix and Best Director Awards. Radius TWC purchased the film for US 2015 release out of the New York Film Festival. The Safdies directed the well-reviewed 2017 crime film ""Good Time"", starring Robert Pattinson and Ben Safdie as siblings."
"as undergraduates at Yale University and optioned it a few years later. ""Awakenings"" stars Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, and Max von Sydow. The film features a cameo appearance by jazz musician Dexter Gordon (who died before the film's release) and then-unknowns Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, and Vincent Pastore. In 1969, Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a dedicated and caring physician at a local hospital in the The Bronx borough of New York City. After working extensively with the catatonic patients who survived the 1917–1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica, Sayer"
"Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg and Martin Sheen. The film was a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong Triad film ""Infernal Affairs"". Set in Boston, the film follows the parallel double lives of undercover officer William Costigan Jr. (DiCaprio), who has infiltrated Irish mob boss's Frank Costello (Nicholson) and Colin Sullivan (Damon), who has served as a mole in the Massachusetts State Police. The characters are loosely based on famous gangster Whitey Bulger and corrupt FBI agent John Connolly, who grew up with Bulger. ""The Departed"" had gone on to win several awards, including four Oscars at the 79th Academy Awards: Best"
"Dan Aykroyd's villainous character pursues fellow assassin John Cusack in order to include him in a ridiculous assassins' union. These latter two movies use organizing as a plot device, though they involve black market businesses and are far-fetched for this reason. Nonetheless, they demonstrate how, absent a union's presence, the same issues arise in any vocation. Also, both of the movies take place in the Detroit, Michigan area, a city which has produced some great organisers. The 1992 production ""Hoffa"", starring Jack Nicholson as famed labor leader Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters, begins the story where Hoffa's career began: organizing"
"It was directed and produced by Irwin Winkler, known for ""Guilty by Suspicion"", which also starred De Niro. The setting of the film was changed to the New York boxing world, and Harry Fabian is a lawyer. The film draws predominantly from the Dassin film rather than the source novel. Night and the City (novel) Night and the City is the third novel by British author Gerald Kersh, published in 1938. It is a crime thriller set in 1930s London but also deals with social realism themes in the aftermath of the Great Depression. The protagonist of the novel is"
"Taxi Driver Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks and Leonard Harris. Set in a decaying New York City following the Vietnam War, the film tells the story of a lonely veteran (De Niro) working as a taxi driver, who descends into insanity as he plots to assassinate a presidential candidate (Harris) and then the pimp (Keitel) of an underage prostitute (Foster) whom he befriends. Critically acclaimed upon release and nominated for four Academy"
"It was one of the most notable gangster films of the decade. Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci also starred in the film with Pesci earning an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards in all, including Best Picture and Best Director, making ""Goodfellas"" one of the most critically acclaimed crime films of all time. Following their collaboration in ""Goodfellas"", Scorsese, De Niro and Pesci would team up again in 1995's ""Casino"", based on Frank Rosenthal, an associate of the Chicago Outfit, that ran multiple casinos in Las Vegas during"
"Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film) Nineteen Eighty-Four, also known as 1984, is a 1984 British dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell's novel of the same name. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking civil servant in a post-disaster London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. Smith (Hurt) struggles to maintain his sanity and his grip on reality as the regime's overwhelming power and influence persecutes individualism and individual thinking on both a political and personal level. The film, which features"
"team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker as well as Pat Proft in varying combinations. Released on December 2, 1988, the film was a critical and commercial success, which led to two sequels: """" (1991) and """" (1994). Police Squad Lieutenant Frank Drebin, taking a vacation in Beirut, disrupts a conference of America's greatest enemies (Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, and Mikhail Gorbachev) who are trying to conceive a terrorist plan to humiliate the US. In Los Angeles, Officer Nordberg attempts to bust a heroin drug operation at the docks organized by dock's"
"includes Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, and Sean Penn. It is the story of a group of LAPD officers and detectives called the ""Gangster Squad"" who are attempting to keep Los Angeles safe from Mickey Cohen, a real life post-World War II Los Angeles gangster that became a powerful figure in the criminal underworld, and intended to continue to expand his criminal enterprise and his gang during the 1940s and '50s. The film was released January 11, 2013. A 2015 Italian mob film, ""Suburra"", directed by Stefano Sollima, based on the 2013 novel of the same name"
"Night and the City (1992 film) Night and the City is a 1992 American crime drama film and a remake of the 1950 film noir of the same name, itself an adaptation of Gerald Kersh's 1938 novel. The film stars Robert De Niro and Jessica Lange and is directed by Irwin Winkler from a script by Richard Price. Harry Fabian (De Niro) is a fast-talking, two-bit New York lawyer who hangs out at a bar called Boxers, owned by Phil (Gorman) and his wife Helen (Lange). Harry has been having an affair with Helen, who dreams of setting up her"
"The entire film takes place in the New York City metropolitan area and suburbs. There are scenes in locations including Rizzoli Bookstore, Trump Tower, the Hudson River train line, Englewood, NJ and Dobbs Ferry, New York. Falling in Love (1984 film) Falling in Love is a 1984 American romantic drama film starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep and directed by Ulu Grosbard. In the film, two married strangers meet randomly, become friends, and fall in love. They spend time together, riding the train into the city of New York, and begin meeting for coffee or lunch. They enjoy their"
"1984 in film The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The year's highest-grossing film was ""Beverly Hills Cop"". ""Ghostbusters"" overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year. It was the first time in five years that the top-grossing film did not involve George Lucas or Steven Spielberg although Spielberg directed the third placed ""Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"" and executive produced the fourth placed ""Gremlins"". U.S. boxoffice grosses reached $4 billion for the first time and it"
"was panned by critics (then and now), and considered one of Wood's worst films, though many others have praised its camp qualities. It is notable for its emphatic and groundbreaking portrayal of LGBT issues at a time when the media was very hostile to such ideas. In 1954, Wood directed and produced a crime film, ""Jail Bait"" (originally titled ""The Hidden Face""), along with co-writer Alex Gordon, which starred Lyle Talbot and Steve Reeves (in one of his first acting jobs). Bela Lugosi was supposed to play the lead role of the plastic surgeon, but was busy working on another"
"the film won the Academy Award for Best Picture. A 2018 biographical mafia film, ""Gotti"", directed by Kevin Connolly, stars John Travolta as John Gotti, released in June. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 0% based on 38 reviews, and an average rating of 2.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""."" Martin Scorsese is also set to release a biographical mafia film in 2019 through Netflix, The Irishman, starring all three heavyweights in the genre, Robert De Niro as Frank ""The Irishman"" Sheeran, Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa and Joe Pesci as Russell Bufalino."
"Driver"" (1976), starring Robert De Niro; a bar owner and fence in ""The Brink's Job"" (1978); the private detective hired in ""Hardcore"" (1979); the attorney of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson (played by Bill Murray) in ""Where the Buffalo Roam"" (1980); a corrupt space mining-facility boss in the science-fiction film ""Outland"" (1981), opposite Sean Connery; Boatswain Moon in the (1983) pirate comedy ""Yellowbeard"", also starring Cheech and Chong, Madeline Kahn, and members of the comedy troupe Monty Python; a local crime boss named Jocko Dundee on his way to retirement, starring Michael Keaton in the comedy film ""Johnny Dangerously"" (1984);"
"Guilty by Suspicion Guilty by Suspicion is a 1991 American drama film about the Hollywood blacklist, McCarthyism, and the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Written and directed by Irwin Winkler, it starred Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, and George Wendt. The film was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. David Merrill (De Niro), a director in 1950s Hollywood, returns from abroad to find that a rising tide of McCarthyism and the Red Scare has led to his not being allowed to work in films. He will only be allowed to direct once he implicates colleagues as Communist"