Robert Anthony De Niro is an American actor and film producer. He is considered one of his generation's greatest and most influential actors. De Niro has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Aw ... ards. He was honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019. De Niro was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016. De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. His first credited screen role was in Brian de Palma's Greetings (1968). De Niro's first collaboration with Martin 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 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 Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He is also known for his film roles in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America(1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Angel Heart (1987), The Untouchables (1987), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He directed and acted in A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). His comedic roles include Hi, Mom! (1970), Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999) and its sequel, Analyze That (2002), the Meet the Parents films (2000–2010), and The Intern (2015). Also known for his television roles, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film The Wizard of Lies (2017), earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He received further Emmy Award nominations for producing the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019) and for portraying Robert Mueller on Saturday Night Live. De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which has produced several films alongside his own. Also with Rosenthal, he founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. 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. Five films are featured on the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the 100 greatest American films ever. Timeout magazine's list of 100 best movies included seven of De Niro's films, as chosen by actors in the industry.
| Organization | Category | Movie | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Silver Linings Playbook | Nominated |
| Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Godfather Part II | Won |
| Academy Awards | Best Actor | The Irishman | Nominated |
| Golden Globes | Best Actor | The Irishman | Nominated |
| Berlin International Film Festival | Best Supporting Actor | The Godfather Part II | Won |
| BAFTA Awards | Best Actor | The Deer Hunter | Nominated |
| BAFTA Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Mission | Won |
| BAFTA Awards | Best Actor | GoodFellas | Nominated |
| BAFTA Awards | Best Actor | The King of Comedy | Nominated |
| SAG Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Silver Linings Playbook | Nominated |
| Venice Film Festival | Best Supporting Actor | Red Lights | Nominated |
Zero Day
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Nothing
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Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
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First Aired: Nov 12, 1977
30 Rock
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Extras
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Saturday Night Live
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Some Good News
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The Bee
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Saturday Night Live
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The Graham Norton Show
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Saturday Night Live
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100 Years of Warner Bros.
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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The Daily Show
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Golden Globe Awards
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Inside the Actors Studio
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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The Cleveland Show
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The Alec Baldwin Show
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Saturday Night Live
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The Reichen Show
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Goldene Kamera Verleihung
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The Graham Norton Show
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Real Time with Bill Maher
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Auf los geht's los
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The View
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Comedy Central Roasts
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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
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Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
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SNL Digital Shorts
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Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
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