Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, producer, and director. He is particularly known for his work in crime films, thrillers and collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Born in Manhattan in New York City, De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio. His first major onscreen appearance was in Greetings (1968), an early film from director Brian De Palma. He soon gained recognition in John D. Hancock’s Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), with Michael Moriarty and Vincent Gardenia. His first collaboration with Scorsese was in Mean Streets (1973), with Harvey Keitel.
Stardom followed soon after with his role as the young Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola‘s The Godfather Part II (1974), with Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire, John Cazale, and Diane Keaton, which won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He received further Academy Award Nominations for Best Actor for his roles in Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976), with Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks; and Michael Cimino‘s The Deer Hunter (1978), with Christopher Walken, Cazale, and Meryl Streep.
He won his second Academy Award (in the Best Actor category) for Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980), with Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent, and Nicholas Colasanto. Other films in the early 1980s include Ulu Grosbard’s True Confessions (1981), with DuvallBurgess Meredith, Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, Cyril Cusack, and Kenneth McMillan; The King of Comedy (1982), with Jerry Lewis, Tony Randall, Diahnne Abbott, and Sandra Bernhard; Sergio Leone‘s Once Upon a Time in America (1984), with James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Pesci. Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams, Danny Aiello, Richard Bright, James Hayden, William Forsyhthe, and Jennifer Connelly; Falling in Love (1984), with Streep, Dianne Wiest, David Clennon, Jane Kaczmarek, George Martin, and Keitel; and Terry Gilliam‘s Brazil (1985), with Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Ian Holm, and Bob Hoskins.
Films in the mid to late 1980s include Roland Joffé’s The Mission (1986), with Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi, and Liam Neeson; Alan Parker’s Angel Heart (1987), with Mickey Rourke, Lisa Bonet, and Charlotte Rampling; The Untouchables (1987), with Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy García, and Sean Connery; Martin Brest’s Midnight Run (1988), with Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, and Philip Baker Hall; David Jones’s Jacknife (1989), with Ed Harris and Kathy Baker; and Neil Jordan’s We’re No Angels (1989), with Sean Penn, Hoyt Axton, Kirby, Ray McAnally, James Russo, and Demi Moore.
He received two more Academy Award nominations for Best Actor for his roles Penny Marshall’s Awakenings (1990), with Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Stormare and Max von Sydow; and Scorsese’s Cape Fear (1991), with Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange and Juliette Lewis.
Other notable films of the 1990s include Martin Ritt‘s Stanley & Iris (1990), with Jane Fonda; Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990), with Ray Liotta, Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, and Paul Sorvino; Irwin Winkler’s Guilt by Suspicion (1991), with Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig, and Sam Wanamaker; Ron Howard’s Backdraft (1991), with Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, Jason Gedrick, and J.T. Walsh; Barry Primus’s Mistress (1992), with Aiello, Eli Wallach, Robert Wuhl and Martin Landau; Night and the City (1992), with Lange; Cliff Gorman, Jack Warden, and Alan King; John McNaughton’s Mad Dog and Glory (1993), with Uma Thurman, Bill Murray, Richard Belzer, and David Caruso; Michael Caton-Jones’s This Boys Life (1993), with Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chris Cooper, Carla Gugino, Eliza Dushku, and Tobey Maguire; A Bronx Tale (1993), with Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato Jr., Francis Capra, Taral Hicks, Kathrine Narducci, and Peci – which was also his directorial debut; and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), with Kenneth Branagh (who also directed), Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Aidan Quinn, Holm, and John Cleese.
Films in the mid 1990s includeAgnès Varda’s One Hundred and One Nights (1995), with Michel Piccoli and Marcello Mastroianni; Scorsese’s Casino (1995), with Sharon Stone, Pesci, Don Rickles, Kevin Pollak, Frank Vincent, and Woods; Michael Mann‘s crime thriller Heat (1995), Pacino (their first on screen collaboration), Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Jon Voight, and Val Kilmer; Tony Scott’s The Fan (1996), with Wesley SnipesJohn Leguizamo, Benicio del Toro, and Barkin; Sleepers (1996), with Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Vittorio Gassman, Brad Renfro, Ron Eldard, Jeffrey Donovan, Terry Kinney, Joe Perrino, Geoffrey Wigdor, Jonathan Tucker, Kirby, and Billy Crudup; and Marvin’s Room (1996), with Streep, DiCaprio, Keaton, Hume Cronyn, Gwen Verdon, and Hal Scardino.
Films in the late 1990s include James Mangold’s Cop Land (1997), with Sylvester Stallone, Keitel, Liotta, Peter Berg, Janeane Garofalo, Robert Patrick, Michael Rapaport, Annabella Sciorra, Noah Emmerich, and Moriarty; Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997), with Pam Grier,Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forrester, Bridget Fonda, and Michael Keaton; Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dog (1997), with Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin, Kirsten Dunst, and William H. Macy; Alfonso Cuarón’s Great Expectations (1998), with Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Anne Bancroft; John Frankenheimer’s Ronin (1998), with Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, and Pryce; Harold Ramis’s Analyze This (1999), with Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, and Palminteri; and Joel Schumacher’s Flawless (1999), with Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Films in the 2000s include The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000), with June Foray, Keith Scott, Rene Russo, Jason Alexander, Randy Quaid, and Piper Perabo; George Tillman Jr’s Men of Honor (2000), with Cuba Gooding Jr., Hal Holbrook, David Keith, Rapaport, Powers Boothe, Aunjanue Ellis, and Charlize Theron; Meet the Parents (2000), with Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, James Rebhorn, Jon Abrahams, and Owen Wilson; John Herzfeld’s 15 Minutes (2001), with Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks, Melina Kanakaredes, and Vera Farmiga; Frank Oz‘s The Score (2001), with Edward Norton, Angela Bassett, and Marlon Brando (in his last film role); Showtime (2002), with Eddie Murphy, Russo, Frankie R. Faison, and William Shatner; and City by the Sea (2002), with Frances McDormand, James Franco, Eliza Dushku, Forsythe, and George Dzundza.
More films in the 2000s include Nick Hamm’s Godsend (2004), with Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, and Cameron Bright; a voice role in Shark Tale (2004), with Will Smith, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black, Scorsese, and Michael Imperioli; Meet the Fockers (2004), with Stiller, Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Danner, and Polo; Mary McGuckian’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004), with Pilar López de Ayala, F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Émilie Dequenne, Geraldine Chaplin, Keitel, Michael Polish, Mark Polish, Jim Sheridan, and Dominique Pinon; and Hide and Seek (2005), with Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue, Amy Irving, and Dylan Baker.
He made his second directorial effort with The Good Shepherd (2006), with Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard, Billy Crudup, Keir Dullea, Martina Gedeck, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Lee Pace, Eddie Redmayne, John Sessions, Oleg Stefan, John Turturro, and Pesci. Other films from the mid to late 2000s include a voice role in Luc Besson’s Arthur and the Invisibles (2006), with Anthony Anderson, Jason Bateman, David Bowie, Nate Corddry, Rob Corddry, Emilio Estevez, Jimmy Fallon, Mia Farrow, Freddie Highmore, Keitel, Madonna, Chazz Palminteri, and Snoop Dogg; Matthew Vaughn’s Stardust (2007), with Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais, Jason Flemyng, Rupert Everett, Peter O’Toole, Michelle Pfeiffer, and narration by Ian McKellen; Jon Avnet’s Righteous Kill (2008), with Pacino, John Leguizamo, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy and Curtis Jackson; What Just Happened (2008), with Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro, Robin Wright, Moon Bloodgood, Kristen Stewart, Michael Wincott, Bruce Willis, and Peter Jacobson; and Kirk Jones’s Everybody’s Fine (2009), with Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale.
Films in the 2010s include Robert Rodriguez’s Machete (2010), with Danny Trejo, Steven Seagal, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, and Don Johnson; Stone (2010), with Norton, Milla Jovovich, Frances Conroy, Enver Gjokaj, and Pepper Binkley; Little Fockers (2010), with Stiller, Wilson, Danner, Polo, Hoffman, Streisand, Thomas McCarthy, Jessica Alba, Laura Dern, Kevin Hart, and Keitel; Giovanni Veronesi’s Manual of Love 3 (2011), with Carlo Verdone, Monica Bellucci, Laura Chiatti, Riccardo Scamarcio, Michele Placido, Valeria Solarino, Emanuele Propizio, and Donatella Finocchiaro; Killer Elite (2011), with Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Dominic Purcell, Aden Young, Yvonne Strahovski, and Ben Mendelsohn; Neil Burger’s Limitless (2011), with Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Andrew Howard, and Anna Friel; and Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve (2011), with Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Abigail Breslin, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Josh Duhamel, Zac Efron, Héctor Elizondo, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Seth Meyers, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger, Hilary Swank, and Sofía Vergara.
He earned another Academy Award nomination for his role in David O. Russell‘s, Silver Linings Playbook (2012), with Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, John Ortiz, Shea Whigham, Anupam Kher, and Julia Stiles. Other films around this time include Paul Weitz’s Being Flynn (2012), with Paul Dano, Olivia Thirlby, Lili Taylor, Wes Studi, and Julianne Moore; Rodrigo Cortés’ Red Lights (2012), with Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Jones, Joely Richardson, and Elizabeth Olsen; Freelancers (2012), with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Forest Whitaker, and Vinnie Jones; The Big Wedding (2013), with Heigl, Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, Topher Grace, Susan Sarandon, Williams, Ben Barnes, Christine Ebersole, David Rasche, Patricia Rae, and Ana Ayora; Killing Season (2013), with John Travolta, Milo Ventimiglia, and Elizabeth Olin; The Family (2013), with Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, Dianna Agron, and John D’Leo; Last Vegas (2013), with Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline, Romany Malco, and Mary Steenburgen; American Hustle (2013), with Christian Bale, Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Lawrence. Louis C.K., Michael Peña, and Alessandro Nivola; Peter Segal’s Grudge Match (2013), with Stallone, Hart, Alan Arkin, Kim Basinger, and Jon Bernthal; and The Big Man (2014), with John Cusack, Rebecca Da Costa, Crispin Glover, Purcell, and Sticky Fingaz.
Films in the mid 2010s include Nancy Meyers’s The Intern (2015), with Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Anders Holm, Andrew Rannells, Adam DeVine, and Zack Pearlman; Heist (2015), with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kate Bosworth, Morris Chestnut, Dave Bautista, Gina Carano, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, D.B. Sweeney, Stephen Cyrus Sepher, and Tyson Sullivan; Joy (2015), with Lawrence, Édgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, and Isabella Rossellini, and Cooper; Dirty Grandpa (2016), with Zac Efron, Aubrey Plaza, Zoey Deutch, Julianne Hough and Dermot Mulroney; Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Hands of Stone (2016), with Ramírez, Usher, Ruben Blades, Pedro “Budu” Pérez, Ellen Barkin, Ana de Armas, Oscar Jaenada and Turturro; Taylor Hackford’s The Comedian (2916), with Leslie Mann, Danny DeVito, Edie Falco, Veronica Ferres, Charles Grodin, Cloris Leachman, Patti LuPone, Greer Barnes and Keitel; Joker (2019), with Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, and Conroy; and Scorsese’s The Irishman (2019), with Pacino, Pesci, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Jesse Plemons, and Keitel.
He received another Academy Award nomination (for Best Supporting Actor) in Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), with DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, and Brendan Fraser. Other films in the 2020s include The War with Grandpa (2020), with Thurman, Rob Riggle, Oakes Fegley, Laura Marano, Marin, Jane Seymour, and Walken; George Gallo’s The Comeback Trail (2020), with Jones, Freeman, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch, Eddie Griffin, Kate Katzman, and Blerim Destani; Amsterdam (2022), with Bale, John David Washington, Margot Robbie, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Saldaña, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, Andrea Riseborough, Taylor Swift, Matthias Schoenaerts, Nivola, and Rami Malek; About My Father (2023), with Sebastian Maniscalco, Leslie Bibb, Anders Holm, David Rasche, and Kim Cattrall; Ezra (2023), with Cannavale, William Fitzgerald, Rose Byrne, Vera Farmiga, Whoopi Goldberg, Rainn Wilson, and Tony Goldwyn (who also directed); The Alto Knights (2025), with Debra Messing, Cosmo Jarvis, Kathrine Narducci, and Michael Rispoli.
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965) – directed by Marcel Carné – uncredited
- Encounter (1965) – directed by Norman C. Chaitin
- Young Wolves (1968) – directed by Marcel Carné – uncredited -aka Les jeunes loups
- Greetings (1968) – directed by Brian De Palma
- The Wedding Party (1969) – directed by Brian De Palma, Wilford Leach, & Cynthia Munroe
- Sam’s Song (1969) – directed by Jordan Leondopoulos
- Bloody Mama (1970) – directed by Roger Corman
- Hi, Mom! (1970) – directed by Brian De Palma
- Jennifer on My Mind (1971) – directed by Noel Black
- Born to Win (1971) – directed by Ivan Passer
- The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (1971) – directed by James Goldstone
- Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) – directed by John D. Hancock
- Mean Streets (1973) – directed by Martin Scorsese
- The Godfather: Part II (1974) – directed by Francis Ford Coppola
- Taxi Driver (1976)** – directed by Martin Scorsese
- 1900 (1976) – directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – aka Novecento
- The Last Tycoon (1976) – directed by Elia Kazan
- New York, New York (1977) – directed by Martin Scorsese
- The Deer Hunter (1978) – directed by Michael Cimino
- Raging Bull (1980)** – directed by Martin Scorsese
- True Confessions (1981) – directed by Ulu Grosbard
- The King of Comedy (1983) – directed by Martin Scorsese
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – directed by Sergio Leone
- Falling in Love (1984) – directed by Ulu Grosbard
- Brazil (1985) – directed by Terry Gilliam
- Angel Heart (1987) – directed by Alan Parker
- The Untouchables (1987) – directed by Brian De Palma
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987) – directed by Bill Couturiré – TV movie
- Midnight Run (1988) – directed by Martin Brest
- Jacknife (1989) – directed by David Hugh Jones
- We’re No Angels (1989) – directed by Neil Jordan
- Stanley & Iris (1990) – directed by Martin Ritt
- Goodfellas (1990)** – directed by Martin Scorsese
- Awakenings (1990) – directed by Penny Marshall
- Guilty by Suspicion (1991) – directed by Irwin Winkler
- Backdraft (1991) – directed by Ron Howard
- Cape Fear (1991) – directed by Martin Scorsese
- Mistress (1992) – directed by Barry Primus
- Night and the City (1992) – directed by Irwin Winkler
- Mad Dog and Glory (1993) – directed by John McNaughton
- This Boy’s Life (1993) – directed by Michael Canton-Jones
- A Bronx Tale (1993) – also director
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) – directed by Kenneth Branagh
- One Hundred and One Nights – directed by Agnès Varda -aka La cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
- Casino (1995) – directed by Martin Scorsese
- Heat (1995) – directed by Michael Mann
- The Fan (1996) – directed by Tony Scott
- Sleepers (1996) – directed by Barry Levinson
- Marvin’s Room (1996) – directs by Jerry Zaks
- Cop Land (1997) – directed by James Mangold
- Jackie Brown (1997)** – directed by Quentin Tarantino
- Wag the Dog (1997) – directed by Barry Levinson
- Great Expectations (1998) – directed by Alfonso Cuarón
- Ronin (1998) – directed by John Frankenheimer
- Analyze This (1999) – directed by Harold Ramis
- Flawless (1999) – directed by Joel Schumacher
- The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) – directed by Des McAnuff
- Men of Honor (2000) – directed by George Tillman Jr.
- Meet the Parents (2000) – directed by Jay Roach
- 15 Minutes (2001) – directed by John Herzfeld
- The Score (2001) – directed by Frank Oz
- Showtime (2001) – directed by Tom Dey
- City by the Sea (2002) – directed by Michael Canton-Jones
- Analyze That (2002) – directed by Harold Ramis
- Godsend (2004) – directed by Nick Hamm
- Shark Tale (2004) – directed by Bibo Bergeron, Vicky Jenson, & Rob Letterman
- Meet the Fockers (2004) – directed by Jay Roach
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004) – directed by Mary McGuckian
- Hide and Seek (2005) – directed by John Polson
- Arthur and the Invisibles (2005) – directed by Luc Besson – aka Arthur et les Minimoys
- The Good Shepherd (2005) – also director
- Vanity Fair: Killers Kill, Dead Men Die (2007) – directed by Annie Annie Leibovitz
- Stardust (2007)* – directed by Matthew Vaughn
- What Just Happened (2008) – directed by Barry Levinson
- Righteous Kill (2008) – directed by Jon Avnet
- Everybody’s Fine (2009) – directs by Kirk Jones
- Machete (2010)* – directed by Robert Rodriguez & Ethan Maniquis
- Stone (2010) – directed by John Curran
- Little Fockers (2010) – directed by Paul Weitz
- The Ages of Love (2011) – directed by Giovanni Veronesi – aka Manuale d’am3re
- Limitless (2011) – directed by Neil Burger
- Killer Elite (2011) – directed by Gary McKendry
- New Year’s Eve (2011) – directed by Garry Marshall
- Red Lights (2012) – directed by Rodrigo Cortés
- Being Flynn (2012) – directed by Paul Weitz
- Freelancers (2012) – directed by Jessy Terrero
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012) – directed by David O. Russell
- The Big Wedding (2013) – directed by Justin Zackham
- Killing Season (2013) – directed by Mark Steven Johnson
- The Family (2013) – directed by Luc Besson
- Last Vegas (2013) – directed by Jon Turtletaub
- American Hustle (2013) – directed by David O. Russell – uncredited
- Grudge Match (2013) – directed by Peter Segal
- The Bag Man (2014) – directed by David Grovic
- The Intern (2015) – directed by Nancy Meyers
- The Audition (2015) – directed by Martin Scorsese – short
- Ellis (2015) – directed by JR- short
- Heist (2015) – directed by Scott Mann
- Joy (2015) – directed by David O. Russell
- Dirty Grandpa (2016) – directed by Dan Mazer
- Hands of Stone (2016) – directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz
- The Comedian (2016) – directed by Taylor Hackford
- The Wizard of Lies (2017) – directed by Barry Levinson – TV movie
- Joker (2019) – directed by Todd Philips
- The Irishman (2019) – directed by Martin Scorsese
- The War with Grandpa (2020) – directed by Tim Hill
- The Comeback Trail (2020) – directed by George Gallo
- Amsterdam (2022) – directed by David O. Russell
- Savage Salvation (2022) – directed by Randall Emmett
- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) – directed by Martin Scorsese
- About My Father (2023) – directed by Laura Terruso
- Ezra (2023) – directed by Tony Goldwyn
- The Alto Knights (2025) – directed by Barry Levinson
- Tin Soldier (202-) – directed by Brad Furman
I Review Stuff 