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Robert De Niro
American actor (born )
For his father, the painter, see Robert De Niro Sr.
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Robert Anthony De Niro (də NEER-roh, Italian:[deˈniːro]; born August 17, ) is an American actor and film producer.
He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation.[a] De Niro is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards. He was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in , the Kennedy Center Honors in , the Cecil B.
DeMille Award in , and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in De Niro was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. president Barack Obama in
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 ().
De Niro's first collaboration with Martin Scorsese was with the crime drama film Mean Streets (). 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 () and the other for Best Actor portraying Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's drama Raging Bull ().
De Niro was also Oscar-nominated for Taxi Driver (), The Deer Hunter (), Awakenings (), Cape Fear (), Silver Linings Playbook (), and Killers of the Flower Moon ().
He is also known for his film roles in Bang the Drum Slowly (), (), The King of Comedy (), Once Upon a Time in America (), Brazil (), The Mission (), Angel Heart (), The Untouchables (), Goodfellas (), This Boy's Life (), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (), Heat (), Casino (), Jackie Brown (), Joker (), and The Irishman ().
The fall of saw another Scorsese telling of mob life, this time in Las Vegas. For other people with this surname, see De Niro surname. Archived from the original on September 10, Archived from the original on April 10,He directed and acted in both A Bronx Tale () and The Good Shepherd (). His comedic roles include Hi, Mom! (), Midnight Run (), Wag the Dog (), Analyze This () and its sequel, Analyze That (), the Meet the Parents films (–), and The Intern ().
Also known for his television roles, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film The Wizard of Lies (), earning a nomination for 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 (), and for portraying Robert Mueller on Saturday Night Live.[6]
De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in , which has produced several films alongside his own.
Also with Rosenthal, he founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 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 [7] Five films are featured on the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the greatest American films of all time.
Timeout magazine's list of best movies included seven of De Niro's films, as chosen by actors in the industry.[8]
Early life and education
Robert Anthony De Niro was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City on August 17, ,[10] the only child of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr.[11] His father was of Irish and Italian descent, while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry.
His parents, who had met at the painting classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts, separated when he was two years old after his father announced that he was gay. De Niro was raised by his mother in the Greenwich Village and Little Italy neighborhoods of Manhattan. His father lived nearby, and remained close with De Niro during his childhood.
Nicknamed "Bobby Milk" because of his pale complexion, De Niro befriended many street kids in Little Italy, much to the disapproval of his father. Some, however, have remained his lifelong friends. His mother was raised Presbyterian but became an atheist as an adult, while his father had been a lapsed Catholic since the age of [18] Against his parents' wishes, his grandparents had De Niro secretly baptized into the Catholic Church while he was staying with them during his parents' divorce.
De Niro attended PS 41, a public elementary school in Manhattan, through the sixth grade.
He began acting classes at the Dramatic Workshop and made his stage debut in school at age 10, playing the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz.[20] He later went to Elisabeth Irwin High School, the upper school of the Little Red School House, for the seventh and eighth grades. He was then accepted into the High School of Music & Art for the ninth grade, but attended for only a short time before transferring to a public junior high school: IS 71, Charles Evans Hughes Junior High School.
De Niro attended high school at McBurney School and later, Rhodes Preparatory School. He found performing as a way to relieve his shyness, and became fascinated by cinema, so he dropped out of high school at 16 to pursue acting. He later said, "When I was around 18, I was looking at a TV show and I said, 'If these actors are making a living at it, and they're not really that good, I can't do any worse than them.'" He studied acting at HB Studio and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio.[27] De Niro also studied with Stella Adler, of the Stella Adler Conservatory, where he was exposed to the techniques of the Stanislavski system.
As a young actor, De Niro was inspired by the work of Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Greta Garbo, Geraldine Page, and Kim Stanley.[29]
Career
– Early roles and breakthrough
De Niro's had minor film roles in Encounter, Three Rooms in Manhattan (both released in ) and Les Jeunes Loups ().
Shortly afterwards, De Niro landed a major role in Greetings (), a satirical film about men avoiding the Vietnam Wardraft. The film marked the first of a series of early collaborations between De Niro and director Brian De Palma. A year later, De Niro appeared in the drama Sam's Song in which he portrays a New York City filmmaker.
Also in , he appeared in De Palma's comedy The Wedding Party; although it was filmed in , it was kept unreleased for six years. De Niro, who was still unknown at the time, gained a favorable review from The New York Times'Howard Thompson: "This farcical comedy, modestly produced by a trio of young people and utilizing some unfamiliar faces, is great fun".[30]
He then appeared in Roger Corman's low-budget crime drama Bloody Mama (), a loose adaptation of Ma Barker's life, who was the mother of four American criminals, of which De Niro portrayed one: Lloyd Barker.
Thompson praised the film and thought the cast gave "fine performances".[31] Next, De Niro starred in De Palma's comedy Hi, Mom! (), a sequel to Greetings. Writing for The New Yorker, Richard Brody opined that De Niro "brings unhinged spontaneity" to his character.[32] He also had a small role in Jennifer on My Mind () and in Ivan Passer's Born to Win ().
His last film appearance of was in The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, a crime-comedy based on the novel by Jimmy Breslin.
In , De Niro starred in two performances at The American Place Theatre, directed by Charles Maryan.[33] He then returned to the big screen with Bang the Drum Slowly (), in which he played the lead role as Bruce Pearson, a Major League Baseball player with Hodgkin disease.
His co-stars were Michael Moriarty and Vincent Gardenia. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Mark Harris, the film received critical acclaim and helped De Niro gain further recognition. The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "De Niro proves himself to be one of the best and most likable young character actors in movies with this performance".[34]Variety magazine's Alex Belth also took note of De Niro's "touching" portrayal,[35] while Gardenia was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[36] Harris later wrote about De Niro, "He learned only as much baseball as he needed for his role [] I doubt that he ever cared to touch a baseball again".[35]
In , De Niro began collaborating with Martin Scorsese when he appeared in the crime film Mean Streets (), co-starring Harvey Keitel.[20] Although De Niro was offered a choice of roles, Scorsese wanted De Niro to play "Johnny Boy" Civello, a small time criminal working his way up into a local mob.
While De Niro and Keitel were given freedom to improvise certain scenes, assistant director Ron Satlof recalls De Niro was "extremely serious, extremely involved in his role and preparation", and became isolated from the rest of the cast and crew.Mean Streets debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by the New York Film Festival five months later, to a generally warm response.
Film critic Roger Ebert thought De Niro gave a "marvelous performance, filled with urgency and restless desperation".[40]Pauline Kael of The New York Times was equally impressed by De Niro, writing he is "a bravura actor, and those who have registered him only as the grinning, tobacco-chewing dolt of that hunk of inept whimsey Bang the Drum Slowly will be unprepared for his volatile performance.
De Niro does something like what Dustin Hoffman was doing in Midnight Cowboy, but wilder; this kid doesn't just act – he takes off into the vapors". In , Mean Streets was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[41]
– Scorsese collaboration and acclaim
De Niro had a pivotal role in Francis Ford Coppola's crime epicThe Godfather Part II (), playing the young Vito Corleone.
De Niro had previously auditioned for the first installment, The Godfather (), but quit the project in favor of doing The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Coppola, having remembered him, gave De Niro a role in Part II instead.[42] To portray his character, De Niro spoke mainly in several Sicilian dialects,[20] although he delivered a few lines in English.
The film was a commercial success and grossed $48&#;million at the worldwide box office.[43]The Godfather Part II received eleven nominations at the 47th Academy Awards, winning six, including one for De Niro as Best Supporting Actor.[44] It was De Niro's first Academy win; Coppola accepted the award on his behalf as he did not attend the ceremony.
De Niro and Marlon Brando, who played the older Vito Corleone in the first film, were the first pair of actors to win Academy Awards for portraying the same fictional character.[45]
After working with Scorsese in Mean Streets, De Niro collaborated with him again for the psychological drama Taxi Driver ().
Set in gritty and morally bankrupt New York City following the Vietnam War, the film tells the story of Travis Bickle, a lonely taxi driver who descends into insanity. In preparation for the role, De Niro spent time with members of a U.S. army base to learn their Midwestern accent and mannerisms. He also lost 30 pounds (13&#;kg) in weight, took firearm training and studied the behavior of taxi drivers.
The film was critically acclaimed, in particular for De Niro's performance; The Washington Post critic hailed it as his "landmark performance",[48] and the San Francisco Chronicle wrote "De Niro is dazzling in one of his signature roles".[49] The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actor for De Niro.[51] His "You talkin' to me?" quote, which he improvised,[52] was selected as the 10th most memorable quote in the AFI's Years Movie Quotes by the American Film Institute.
In , the film was chosen by Time magazine as one of the best films of all time.[53]
De Niro had two other film releases in He starred in , a historical drama directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring an ensemble cast, the film is set in the Emilia region of Italy, and tells the story of two men, the landowner Alfredo Berlinghieri (De Niro) and the peasant Olmo Dalcò (Gérard Depardieu), as they witness and participate in the political conflicts between fascism and communism in the first half of the twentieth century.
Next, he played a CEO in The Last Tycoon, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name, as adapted by British screenwriterHarold Pinter. De Niro lost 42 pounds (19&#;kg) for the role, and director Elia Kazan observed that De Niro would rehearse on Sundays, adding "Bobby and I would go over the scenes to be shot. Bobby is more meticulous he's very imaginative.
He's very precise. He figures everything out both inside and outside. He has good emotion.
Deniro robert biography Archived from the original on July 25, November 19, The first, Mistress , is a comedy-drama in which he played ruthless businessman Evan Wright. Set in gritty and morally bankrupt New York City following the Vietnam War , the film tells the story of Travis Bickle , a lonely taxi driver who descends into insanity.He's a character actor: everything he does he calculates. In a good way, but he calculates".[54]:&#;&#; The film received mixed reviews; Variety magazine's critic opined that the film was "unfocused" and called De Niro's performance "mildly intriguing".[55] Film critic Marie Brenner wrote, "it is a role that surpasses even his brilliant and daring portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II his performance deserves to be compared with the very finest".[56]
For De Niro's sole project of , he starred in Scorsese's musical drama New York, New York opposite Liza Minnelli.
De Niro learned to play the saxophone from musician Georgie Auld, to portray saxophonist Jimmy, who falls in love with a pop singer (Minnelli). The film received generally mixed reception, although critics were kinder to De Niro. The film was nominated for four Golden Globe awards including Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for De Niro.[59][60] In , De Niro starred in Michael Cimino's epic war film The Deer Hunter, in which he played a steelworker whose life was changed after serving in the Vietnam War.
He co-starred with Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale, Meryl Streep, and George Dzundza. The story takes place in Clairton, Pennsylvania, a working-class town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh, and in Vietnam. Producer Michael Deeley pursued De Niro for the role, because the fame of his previous films would help make a "gruesome-sounding storyline and a barely known director" marketable.
De Niro, impressed by the script and director's preparation, was among the first to sign on to the film.[62] Reviews for The Deer Hunter were generally positive, and the cast attracted strong praise for their performances.[62] The film received nominations at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), and earned De Niro a nomination for Best Actor at the Academy Awards.[63][64][65] In , the American Film Institute ranked it as the 53rd-greatest American film of all time in their 10th Anniversary Edition of the AFI's Years Movies list.[66]
The fourth collaboration between De Niro and Scorsese was in , with the biographical drama Raging Bull. Adapted from Jake LaMotta's memoir Raging Bull: My Story, De Niro portrays LaMotta, the Italian-American middleweightboxer whose violent behavior and temper destroyed his relationship with his wife and family.
Co-starring Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty, De Niro later said it was one of the toughest roles to prepare for because he had to gain 60 pounds (27&#;kg), and had to learn to box.[20][67] "The book's not great literature, but it's got a lot of heart", De Niro told Scorsese at the time.[68] Although the film received critical acclaim, some reviewers were divided and criticized its "exceedingly violent" content; however, De Niro garnered praise for his realistic portrayal.[69] The critic from The Hollywood Reporter declared that "De Niro is incredible and makes the actor almost unrecognizable as himself; he looks amazingly like La Motta.
De Niro's appearance is also astonishing in the final scenes".[70] Michael Thomson of the BBC observed "the power of Scorsese is matched by the intensity of De Niro who delves deep into the soul of the boxer".[71] At the 53rd Academy Awards, the film received eight nominations, including Best Actor for De Niro for which he won.[73]Raging Bull has since been regarded as one of the greatest films of the s by American critics.[71] De Niro was strongly considered for the role of Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick'sThe Shining, but it ended up going to Jack Nicholson, the director's first choice for the role.[74]
– Dramas, comedies and awards success
De Niro returned to the crime genre with True Confessions (), adapted from the novel of the same name by John Gregory Dunne.
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Less challenging than his previous film, De Niro played a priest who clashes with his brother (Robert Duvall), a detective investigating the murder of a prostitute. Vincent Canby of The New York Times thought the plot was hard to follow at times but praised the actors who "work so beautifully together it sometimes seems like a single performance".[75] To expand his range of acting roles and to prove his acting abilities, De Niro sought out films with a comedic tone throughout the s.
He found it in The King of Comedy (), in which he played the struggling stand-up comedian Rupert Pupkin. De Niro was first to bring the script to the attention of Scorsese, who then gave it a New York setting and darker tone. The film failed to find an audience, and was a box office disappointment, grossing only $&#;million from a budget of $19&#;million.[77][78] However, most critics praised De Niro's performance.
His next film credit was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (), in which he plays David "Noodles" Aaronson, a New York City Jewish gangster. The theatrical cut, with a runtime of minutes, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and received a minute standing ovation.[80] The film was shortened for theaters in the U.S.
( minutes), but this proved to be highly unpopular with critics.[80] After seeing the full cut, Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described the film "excessive as well as tightly controlled" with the actors showing "impressive restraint and power".[81]
Falling in Love, a romantic comedy starring opposite Meryl Streep, was his last release of One year later, De Niro starred in a science fiction for the first time, Brazil, about a daydreaming man living in a dystopian society.
Although the film was unsuccessful at the box office, Brazil was included in The Criterion Collection.[82] In May , De Niro returned to the stage at Longacre Theatre, playing the lead role in the production Cuba and His Teddy Bear.[83] For his next feature film, he co-starred in The Mission () with Jeremy Irons, a period drama about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in eighteenth century South America.
Vincent Canby reviewed the film negatively, and was critical of De Niro's casting: "De Niro, who was very fine as the street-wise priest in True Confessions, is all right here until he opens his mouth".[84] However, the film won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, three BAFTAs, including Best Editing, and two Golden Globes for Best Screenplay and Best Original Score.[85][86][87]
In , De Niro had two minor film roles.
In the first, he was cast as Louis Cyphre in Alan Parker's horror Angel Heart, an adaptation of William Hjortsberg's novel Falling Angel.[88] In the second, he portrayed Al Capone in De Palma's crime drama, The Untouchables. While Pauline Kael opined that De Niro was "lazy" for undertaking small roles, De Palma defended him by saying he was "experimenting with those characters".[33] In July , he traveled to Russia to serve as president of the jury at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival.[89] Finally that year, he provided a voice-over for the documentary Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. The buddy cop film, Midnight Run, was his next effort in Starring opposite Charles Grodin, De Niro played bounty hunter Jack Walsh.
The film received amicable reception and was a commercial success, grossing $81&#;million worldwide.[90][91] In his mixed review, Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote of De Niro:
De Niro has reduced himself in scale here, too, and it's a relief to see him drop the great-actor mantle, and the theatricality.
As a result, he hasn't seemed as fresh since Mean Streets or New York, New York. Walsh is more of a character role than the ones he played in those films; there's less specificity in the conception – he's more of a type – but the actor fits into him snugly, effortlessly, and the chance to play comedy, particularly opposite a comic foil as ideal as Grodin, appears to have revitalized him.[92]
He turned down an opportunity to play Jesus Christ in Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (), although he told the director that he would do it as a favor if needed.
Scorsese cast Willem Dafoe instead.
October 6, October 5, They have a son, Raphael , a former actor who works in New York real estate. Deseret News.In , De Niro starred in several films that were not widely seen. He starred alongside Ed Harris and Kathy Baker in the drama Jacknife. The film revolves around the complex relationship between a Vietnam veteran, his sister and fellow army buddy. Next, he starred in the crime comedy We're No Angels () with Sean Penn and Demi Moore, a remake of the film of the same name.
The pair play escaped convicts who go on the run towards Canada. A year later, he starred in the romantic drama Stanley & Iris opposite Jane Fonda. Film critics did not receive We're No Angels or Stanley & Iris positively; modern review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives them approval ratings of 47% and 33%, respectively.[94][95]
De Niro and Scorsese soon reunited for their sixth collaboration in , with the crime film Goodfellas. It is an adaptation of the non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi.
The film narrates the life of mob associate Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) and his friends and family from to De Niro played James Conway, an Irish truck carjacker and gangster. Goodfellas premiered at the 47th Venice International Film Festival to an "enthusiastic" response from Italian critics, although it grossed a moderate $46&#;million upon its wider release.[96][97] Writing for Rolling Stone magazine, Peter Travers, praised the cast performances, and called De Niro's character "a smooth killer acted with riveting restraint".[98]Chicago Tribune'sGene Siskel was equally impressed by their improvised performances and concluded "easily one of the year's best films".[99] In the awards season, the film was nominated for six Academy Awards, and De Niro was nominated for Best Actor at the BAFTAs.[][] In , the American Film Institute ranked it as the 92nd-greatest American film of all time in their 10th Anniversary Edition of the AFI's Years Movies list.[66] Also in , De Niro appeared in the lead role for Awakenings, directed by Penny Marshall.
The drama, based on Oliver Sacks' book of the same title, tells the story of Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams), who discovers benefits of the drug L-Dopa in and administers it to catatonic patients. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for De Niro.[] Sacks later remarked of the film: "I was pleased with a great deal of it.
I think in an uncanny way, De Niro did somehow feel his way into being Parkinsonian. [] At other levels I think things were sort of sentimentalized and simplified somewhat".[]
De Niro's next film project was the drama Guilty by Suspicion () in which he plays David Merrill, a fictitious film director, returning to the U.S.
during the McCarthy era and Hollywood blacklist. The film received generally favorable reviews.[] He then had a minor role in the mystery drama Backdraft (), playing a veteran fire inspector. De Niro's biggest success of was Cape Fear, his seventh film with Scorsese and a remake of the film of the same name.
De Niro portrays convicted rapist Max Cady, who seeks revenge against a former public defender who originally defended him. De Niro's performance was widely Ansen of Newsweek remarked that De Niro "dominates the film with his lip-smacking, blackly comic and terrifying portrayal of psychopathic self-righteousness".[] The film grossed a successful $&#;million and earned De Niro a Best Actor nomination at the 64th Academy Awards.[][]
– Directorial debut and crime dramas
In , De Niro appeared in two films.
The first, Mistress, is a comedy-drama in which he played ruthless businessman Evan Wright. Of his performance, the critic from The Independent called De Niro "more urbane and coherent than we've seen him for a while".[]Irwin Winkler's Night and the City was his second release, a crime drama remake of the film noirof the same name.
He was cast as New York lawyer Harry Fabian. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a rating of "B−" and was critical of De Niro: "The actor who once got so far inside his roles that he just about detonated the screen – now plays characters who don't seem to have any inner life at all".[] Next, he served as a producer for the mystery thriller Thunderheart ().[] In , he played crime scene photographer Wayne Dobie in the comedy drama Mad Dog and Glory with co-stars Uma Thurman and Bill Murray.
The feature received reasonable reviews and was lauded for the chemistry between De Niro and Murray; The Washington Post critic noted that their "real-life friendship spills over into this jittery, very funny look at the male bonding experience".[] Next, De Niro starred in the coming-of-age film This Boy's Life (), based on the memoir of the same name by Tobias Wolff.
It features Ellen Barkin and Leonardo DiCaprio. Playing stepfather Dwight Hansen of Wolff (DiCaprio), the film was mostly well received, although Timeout magazine believed that "DiCaprio steals the show".[]
De Niro starred in his directorial debut, A Bronx Tale (), a coming-of-age story about an Italian-American boy who is torn between the temptations of organized crime, racism in his community, and the values of his decent father.
The film also stars Chazz Palminteri, who wrote the play of the same name, and is based on his childhood. A Bronx Tale premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to a positive response; Marjorie Baumgarten of The Austin Chronicle wrote "De Niro's choices as a director all seem prudent and un-showy, designed to draw attention to the characters and the story rather than its technical assemblage and much-lauded star".[]Variety magazine'sTodd McCarthy took issue with the film's slow start but complimented De Niro's "impressive sensitivity to the irrational roots of racism and violence".[] A year later, De Niro was cast in the lead role of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, an adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Although the film was commercially successful, earning $&#;million worldwide, the general consensus of reviews were largely negative.[][] Film critic James Berardinelli opined that it was entertaining and De Niro gave a strong performance, despite the film's "frantic" pace.[]
Casino () marked De Niro's return to the crime genre with Scorsese in their eighth collaboration.
Co-starring Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci, the film is based on the book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi. De Niro portrays Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a mob-connected casino operator in Las Vegas. The film's themes revolve around greed, betrayal, wealth, status, and murder that occur between two mobsters, Sam "Ace" Rothstein (De Niro) and Nicky Santoro (Pesci), and a trophy wife (Stone) over a gambling empire.
Casino was released to mostly positive critical reception, and was a success at the worldwide box office.[] Roger Ebert was impressed with the lead performers' abilities to "inhabit their roles with unconscious assurance",[] and The Globe and Mail's critic thought "De Niro does an extraordinarily subtle job of capturing the paradox [] that lie at the heart of this picture".[] Shortly afterwards, he starred in 's crime thriller Heat, about a group of professional bank robbers.
Art Linson, who had previously produced films starring De Niro, sent him the script first. "It was very good, very strong, had a particular feel to it, a reality and authenticity," De Niro said.[] Co-starring Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, and Jon Voight among others, the film was released to wide acclaim; Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune wrote:
De Niro and Pacino redeem everything.
In Heat, they represent a high postwar tradition for movie actors – the ones inspired by Marlon Brando, John Cassavetes and James Dean – who aren't afraid of emotion, who run right into the jaws of a scene to grab it. Like others from their generation – Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Harvey Keitel – they have a keener slant on machismo.
They easily explore its darker strata.[]
Heat marked the first time that Pacino and De Niro appeared on-screen together; they were both in The Godfather Part II but were never in any scenes together because the film takes place in two separate timelines. De Niro as Vito Corleone was in the past and Pacino as his son Michael was in the present.
In , De Niro had minor roles in the French comedy One Hundred and One Nights and in the drama Panther. In , De Niro starred in the sports thriller The Fan, based on the novel of the same name by Peter Abrahams. De Niro plays Gil Renard, a baseball fanatic who loses his sanity.[] His fiftieth film credit was in the crime drama Sleepers (), about four boys who become involved with crime, and are sentenced to a detention center where they are abused by guards, and seek vengeance upon release.
De Niro plays priest Bobby Carillo, a father figure to the four boys.[] Afterwards, he appeared in Marvin's Room () as Dr. Wallace Carter, who treats a woman (Diane Keaton) with leukemia. Writing for the British Empire magazine, Bob McCabe opined that "Performances are all eminently watchable [] but the truncated feel robs the film of anything more than perfunctory pleasures".[] Also in , De Niro co-produced the crime-comedy Faithful.[] In a video game produced by De Niro called 9: The Last Resort was released.
De niro robert movies Retrieved May 31, Retrieved September 20, CBS News. De Niro later portrayed middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta in the commercially unsuccessful but critically adored film Raging Bull , again helmed by Scorsese.A surreal point and click puzzle game about a hotel filled with strange characters. De Niro met the game's director Buzz Hayes when Hayes worked at Lucasfilm.[] The game did not do well at launch and Hayes is quoted as saying "I wouldn’t call it a failure. it was just kind of a quiet landing".[]
The following year, he appeared in James Mangold's Cop Land (), a crime-drama co-starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta.
De Niro plays Internal Affairs investigator Lt. Moe Tilden, who explores police corruption in a New Jersey town. The film opened to a generally warm response, although Barbara Shulgasser of San Francisco Examiner criticized De Niro's acting in certain scenes, suggesting Mangold put De Niro in a "manufactured situation", preventing him from realizing his full potential.[] De Niro co-starred and co-produced Wag the Dog ().
The film is a political satire about a biased publicist (De Niro) and a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) who fabricate a war in Albania to cover up a U.S. president's sex scandal. In January , a month after its release, the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal dominated the headlines, which helped the film generate publicity.[] As a result, Wag the Dog was well-received and made the list of Roger Ebert's ten best films of [] De Niro also had a supporting role in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown in that same year.[]
– Comic roles, thrillers, and slump
De Niro began with an appearance in Great Expectations, a modern adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel of the same name, in which he played Arthur Lustig.
Later that year, his next major role came in Ronin (), about a team of former special operatives that are hired to steal a mysterious briefcase while navigating a maze of shifting loyalties. De Niro plays Sam, an American mercenary formerly associated with the CIA. Ronin premiered at the Venice Film Festival to favorable response; Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised De Niro's confident portrayal as an action hero.[] In , De Niro ventured back into crime-comedy; he was cast as an insecure mob boss opposite Billy Crystal and Lisa Kudrow in Harold Ramis' Analyze This. The film was a box office hit, earning $ million worldwide, and De Niro was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globes.[][] In Flawless (), De Niro appeared as a homophobic police officer, who suffers a stroke, and is assigned to a rehabilitative program with a gay singer.
The critic from the BBC gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, and thought De Niro gave a "refreshingly low-key" performance, in comparison to his previous work.[]
In , De Niro produced and starred in his first live-action animation comedy, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. He voiced the character Fearless Leader, who is a dictator and employer of two mobsters.
The film was critically panned, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a 43% approval rating.[] De Niro played Master Chief 'Billy' Sunday in the biographical drama Men of Honor (), based on the life of Carl Brashear, the first African-American to become a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Although the film garnered mixed reviews, Bob Thomas of the Associated Press wrote "De Niro infuses the role with all his dynamism.
It is his best performance in years".[] That same year, he starred in the comedy Meet the Parents opposite Ben Stiller as Jack Byrnes, a former CIA operative who takes a dislike to Stiller's character. De Niro, who had been seeking comic roles at the time, was encouraged by his producing partner Jane Rosenthal, to take on the role.[] The film was a high earner at the box office, with $&#;million in receipts.[] Film critics welcomed De Niro's transition as a comic actor and ability to make audiences laugh.[][]
After several comedies, De Niro landed a lead role in the crime thriller 15 Minutes (), a story about a homicide detective (De Niro) and a fire marshal (Edward Burns) who join forces to apprehend a pair of Eastern European murderers.
The film's reception was generally unfavorable; William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer took issue with the "in-your-face exaggeration", but he thought De Niro delivered "his usual edgy flair, [] on the mean streets of his native Manhattan".[] De Niro followed up with a heist, in Frank Oz's The Score (), starring Edward Norton, Angela Bassett and Marlon Brando.
He plays a retiring thief when a young man (Norton) persuades him into doing one last heist together. Upon release, The Score fared well with critics, although Peter Rainer of New York magazine did not think the film challenged De Niro or fully utilize his talents.[] The next year, he played an LAPD detective opposite Eddie Murphy in the action-comedy Showtime.
The reviewer from LA Weekly remarked "De Niro isn't actually playing a part but riffing on his own legend", and thought the references to Taxi Driver were "cheap".[]
Also in , he collaborated with Michael Caton-Jones in City by the Sea, who had previously directed De Niro in This Boy's Life.
Starring opposite Frances McDormand and James Franco, he portrayed another police detective in the drama. The film received mixed reviews and under-performed at the theaters.[] He appeared in Analyze That (), a sequel to 's Analyze This. Filming began in New York City, seven months after the September 11 attacks.
De Niro insisted on filming there, stating "It's a New York story, a New York movie. We always intended to keep it there and I'm glad we were able to do it".[] Upon release, most critics thought the sequel was weak; CNN's Paul Clinton remarked "Unfortunately the result is just a bunch of one-liners strung together, of which some work and some don't.
The actual story never gets off the ground".[] Despite these failures, De Niro served as a producer for the critically acclaimed romantic-comedy About a Boy (), and appeared in 9/11 (), a CBS documentary about the September 11 attacks, told from the New York City fire department's point of view.[]
Several critics consider De Niro's career as having begun to slump in the early s, with De Niro starring in roles that were less dramatic than those in the previous decade.[][] He returned to the screen in , playing a doctor in the fantasy drama Godsend.
As of , the film is De Niro's poorest-performing work; Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an approval rating of 4% based on critic reviews.[] He voiced a character in DreamWorks' animation of Shark Tale (). Most critics were also unimpressed, but it was a high earner at the box office.[] After co-producing Stage Beauty (), De Niro reprised his role of Jack Byrnes in 's Meet the Fockers, the sequel to Meet the Parents.
In a scathing review of De Niro, the critic from Slant Magazine wrote "In self-parody mode for the umpteenth time, De Niro mugs for the camera with a series of overblown grimaces and faux-menacing glares".[]The Bridge of San Luis Rey, was De Niro's last release of , based on Thornton Wilder's novel of the same name.
It was also critically panned.[]
In , De Niro starred in the horror Hide and Seek opposite Dakota Fanning, playing Dr. David Callaway who leaves the city with his traumatized daughter after the mother's suicide. Although the film was a financial success, some critics thought De Niro had been miscast, and queried his decision to star in a mediocre feature.[][] In , De Niro turned down a role in The Departed to direct his second film,[] the spy thrillerThe Good Shepherd, a fictional account about the growth of the CIA during its formative years. The film reunited him onscreen with Joe Pesci, co-star from Raging Bull, Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale, Casino, among others. Based on the screenplay by Eric Roth, the project was personal for De Niro, who was raised during the Cold War and fascinated by it.[] Despite starring some of Hollywood's leading actors; Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and Alec Baldwin, the film garnered a mixed reception.
Writing for The Sydney Morning Herald, Sandra Hall noted its slow pace, stating "There's a potentially fascinating slice of American history here, but De Niro has carved it up with an excruciatingly dull knife".[] The critic from USA Today found the plot initially hard to follow, but praises De Niro for "creating a stirring personal tale".[]The Good Shepherd was nominated for Best Art Direction at the 79th Academy Awards.[] Finally in , he voiced the character Emperor Sifrat XVI in Arthur and the Invisibles.[]
– Further film roles
His sole project in was Matthew Vaughn's Stardust, a fantasy adventure, based on Neil Gaiman's novel of the same name.
He plays Captain Shakespeare, the leader of a ship. The film was generally well received, although one critic from New York magazine thought De Niro's performance was "god-awful – yet his gung-ho spirit wins him Brownie points".[] The following year, he starred in the police procedural thriller Righteous Kill opposite Al Pacino, both playing New York City detectives who investigate serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.
The film's response was mainly disappointing; Peter Hartlaub of San Francisco Chronicle thought the story was unoriginal and De Niro lacked energy.[] The film grossed $78&#;million from a budget of $60&#;million.[] Next, he starred in What Just Happened (), a satirical comedy based on Art Linson's experiences as a producer in Hollywood.
The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival as an out-of-competition entry.[]The Sydney Morning Herald opined that most reviewers gave the film a lukewarm reception because of the character he plays, which is "sympathetic" and quieter than his earlier roles.[] In , he was cast as Frank Goode in the drama Everybody's Fine, a remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's Italian film of the same name.
Although the film's response was equally mixed, The Guardian's critic praised De Niro for a "his first decent, watchable performance in quite a while".[]
In , he had a minor part as Senator John McLaughlin in the action film Machete. That same year, he starred in Stone opposite Milla Jovovich and Edward Norton, co-star from The Score.
It is a crime drama where De Niro plays a manipulated parole officer. The film was met with a divided reception; Toronto Star's critic thought De Niro delivered a respectable performance due to Jovovich's support.[] Another critic, Jesse Cataldo from Slant Magazine noted the film's restraint and thought De Niro is repeating himself by playing the same basic characters.[] Next he starred in Little Fockers (), the second sequel to Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers.
Despite universally negative reviews from critics, the film was a box office success, grossing over $&#;million worldwide.[] In one review, The Daily Telegraph wrote "Despite the farcical script, De Niro in particular has his paterfamilias character sensitively tuned".[] That year, De Niro was cast in Edge of Darkness, but he left the project citing creative differences.
He was replaced by Ray Winstone.[][]
In , De Niro starred in the Italian comedy Manuale d'amore 3.[] He also appeared in three other films: Killer Elite, Limitless, and New Year's Eve. Except for Limitless, which received an approval rating of 69% from Rotten Tomatoes, the other two films were met with mixed-to-negative reviews.[] De Niro was also appointed president of the jury for the Cannes Film Festival, making it the second time he has served.[] Continuing into , he starred in the drama Being Flynn, based on Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, a memoir by Nick Flynn.
It was met with a mixed response; critic A. O. Scott