Robert De Niro Cannes 2011   Robert De Niro    is an American actor and film producer. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation. [ 1]   [ 2]   De Niro studied acting at HB Studio , Stella Adler Conservatory , and Lee Strasberg 's Actors Studio . He is known for collaborations with director Martin Scorsese  having starred in ten of his films since 1973. He has also acted in several films directed by Brian de Palma , Barry Levinson , and David O. Russell . He has received several accolades  including two Academy Awards  and a Golden Globe Award  as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards . De Niro has received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award  in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors  in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award  in 2011, the Presidential Medal of Freedom  from U.S. president Barack Obama  in 2016, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award  in 2019.
His first credited screen role was in De Palma's  Greetings    (1968). He collaborated with De Palma again on its sequel,  Hi, Mom!    (1970), as well as  The Wedding Party    (1969) and  The Untouchables    (1987)—the latter in which he portrayed Al Capone . De Niro's first collaboration with Scorsese was with the crime drama film  Mean Streets    (1973). De Niro has earned two Academy Awards : one for Best Supporting Actor  for his role as Vito Corleone  in Francis Ford Coppola 's crime drama  The Godfather Part II    (1974) and the other for Best Actor  portraying Jake LaMotta  in Scorsese's drama  Raging Bull    (1980). De Niro was also Oscar-nominated for his roles as Travis Bickle  the psychological drama  Taxi Driver    (1976), a steelworker turned soldier in the Vietnam War  film  The Deer Hunter    (1978), a catatonic  patient in the drama  Awakenings    (1990), a convicted criminal on the loose in the crime thriller  Cape Fear    (1991), a father with OCD  in the romance drama  Silver Linings Playbook    (2012), and William King Hale  in the historical drama  Killers of the Flower Moon    (2023). [ 3]   [ 4]   [ 5]  
Among De Niro's non-Oscar nominated performances in Scorsese films include  New York, New York    (1977),  The King of Comedy    (1983),  Goodfellas    (1990),  Casino    (1995), and  The Irishman    (2019). [ 6]   [ 7]   [ 8]   He took roles in John D. Hancock 's  Bang the Drum Slowly    (1973), Bernardo Bertolucci 's  1900    (1976), Elia Kazan 's  The Last Tycoon    (1976), Ulu Grosbard 's  True Confessions    (1981), Sergio Leone 's  Once Upon a Time in America    (1984), Terry Gilliam 's  Brazil    (1985), Roland Joffe 's  The Mission    (1986), Alan Parker 's  Angel Heart   , Irwin Winkler 's  Guilty by Suspicion    (1991), Ron Howard 's  Backdraft    (1991), Michael Caton-Jones 's  This Boy's Life    (1993), Kenneth Branagh 's  Mary Shelley's Frankenstein    (1995), Michael Mann 's  Heat    (1995), Quentin Tarantino 's  Jackie Brown    (1997), Alfonso Cuarón 's  Great Expectations    (1998), John Frankenheimer 's  Ronin    (1998), and Todd Phillips ' Joker  [ 9]   [ 10]  
De Niro has directed and starred in two films: the coming-of-age  crime drama  A Bronx Tale    (1993) and the historical spy drama film  The Good Shepherd    (2006). He is also known for his roles in comedy films such as  Analyze This    (1999) and its 2002 sequel  and  Meet the Parents    (2000), and reprised his role in the 2004  and 2010  sequels. He has also acted in comedy films such as  Greetings    (1968),  The Wedding Party    Bloody Mama    (1970),  Hi, Mom!    (1970),  Everybody's Fine    (2009),  Last Vegas    (2013),  The Big Wedding    (2013),  The Intern    (2015), and  Dirty Grandpa    (2016). 
On television, he has hosted  Saturday Night Live    thrice from 2002 to 2010. He portrayed Bernie Madoff  in the HBO  television film  The Wizard of Lies    (2017) for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie . He also was Emmy -nominated for his recurring guest role  as Robert Mueller  in  Saturday Night Live    (2019). He played a fictional former President of the United States  in the Netflix  limited series  Zero Day    (2025). On stage, he made his Broadway  debut in the play Cuba and His Teddy Bear  (1986).
Many of De Niro's films are considered classics of American cinema. Six of De Niro's films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry  by the Library of Congress  as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" as of 2023. [ 11]   Five films are featured on the American Film Institute 's (AFI) list of the 100 greatest American films  of all time.  TimeOut    magazine's list of 100 best movies included seven of De Niro's films, as chosen by actors in the industry. De Niro's "You talkin' to me? " dialogue was ranked number 10 on the American Film Institute 's AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes . [ 12]  
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