Robert De Niro

At 81 years old, Robert De Niro has this physical status:

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, producer, and director.

He has been nominated for six BAFTA Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actor Guild Awards, among other awards, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.

In 2006, De Niro appeared in the film The Godfather Part II, as the young Vito Corleone; he received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor for his long-term collaboration with director Martin Scorsese. De Niro's first major film appearances were in the sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and Scorsese's crime film Mean Streets (1973).

He received Academy Award nominations for his psychological thrillers Taxi Driver (1976) and Cape Fear (1991), which were both directed by Scorsese.

Michael Cimino's Vietnam war drama The Deer Hunter (1978), Penny Marshall's drama Awakenings (1990), and David O. Russell's romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook (2012) received additional nominations for Michael Cimino's Vietnam war drama The Deer Hunter (1978).

Rupert Pupkin's appearance in The King of Comedy (1983) and his portrayal of gangster Jimmy Conway in the crime film Goodfellas (1990), earned him four Golden Globe Award nominations, as well as the comedy Meet the Parents (1999).

Among the notable performances include those from 1900 (1976), Once Upon a Time in America (1985), The Mission (1986), This Boy's Life (1993), Belize (1995), Jackie Brown (1996), Joker (1998), and The Irishman (both 2019).

He has written and appeared in films such as The Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006).

Early life

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. was born in New York City on August 17, 1943, the first child of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr.'s father, was of Irish and Italian descent, while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German roots. His parents, who had attended Hans Hofmann's painting lessons in Provincetown, Massachusetts, separated when he was two years old after his father declared that he was gay. He was raised by his mother in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and Little Italy communities. His father was born in a nearby neighborhood and he remained close with De Niro during his youth. De Niro befriended many street children in Little Italy, much to his father's disapproval. He was nicknamed "Bobby Milk" due to his pale skin. However, some of whom have remained his lifelong colleagues. His mother was raised Presbyterian but as an adult, an atheist, was born in the United States, and his father was a lapsed Catholic since the age of 12. His grandparents were secretly baptized into the Catholic Church despite his parents' wishes, although he was staying with them during their parents' divorce.

De Niro was a public elementary school in Manhattan from the first grade to the sixth grade. He began acting at the Dramatic Workshop and made his debut in theatre at age ten, playing the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. For the seventh and eighth grades, he went to Elisabeth Irwin High School, the Little Red School House's upper school. He was then accepted into the High School of Music and Art for the ninth grade, but he only lasted for 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 then Rhodes Preparatory School. He discovered acting as a way to banish his anxiety and became fascinated by cinema, so he dropped out of high school at 16 to pursue acting. "I was watching a TV show when I was 18 years old, and I thought, 'If these actors are making it, and they aren't particularly good, I wouldn't do anything wrong than them." He trained at HB Studio and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. De Niro also worked with Stella Adler, of the Stella Adler Conservatory, where he was introduced to the Stanislavski system's techniques. De Niro, a young actor, was inspired by Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Greta Garbo, Geraldine Page, and Kim Stanley's work.

Personal life

Diahnne Abbott, a retired actor from De Niro, was born in 1976. They have a son, Raphael, a retired actor who works in New York real estate, and they have a daughter, Maddiel. Drena De Niro, Abbott's daughter, was also adopted by De Niro from a previous relationship. In 1988, he and Abbott divorced. From 1988 to 1996, he was in a relationship with model Toukie Smith. Julian and Aaron, both de Niro's twin sons, were born in vitro fertilization and delivered by a surrogate mother in 1995.

De Niro married actress Grace Hightower in 1997. Elliot's son was born in 1998 and the family split in 1999. The divorce was never finalized, and the couple reaffirmed their vows in 2004. They were born via surrogate in December 2011. In 2014, he and Hightower moved to a 6,000-square-foot, five-bedroom apartment on 15 Central Park West. It was announced that De Niro and Hightower had divorced after 20 years of marriage, four years later. De Niro has four grandchildren, one from his daughter Drena and three from his son Raphael. In a virtual divorce hearing presided by a Manhattan judge, De Niro's counsel argued that he is "working at an unsustainable rate" in order to "provide Hightower and pay off all his back taxes." De Niro had been "unfairly decreasing" the agreed-upon payments to her, according to a Hightower's lawyer.

De Niro was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October 2003. In December 2003, he underwent surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

De Niro, a long-serving resident of New York City, has been investing in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood since 1989. He has properties on both the east and west sides of Manhattan. In Gardiner, New York, where he lives, he has a 32-hectare (78-acre) estate, which is also his primary residence.

Despite criticism from the Sons of Italy, De Niro was granted Italian citizenship in 2006, despite the Sons of Italy's claims that De Niro destroyed Italy's public image by depicting criminals.

De Niro first supported the inclusion of Vaxxed, a controversial film at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival in 2016. Elliot's autistic son, Elliot, piqued his interest in the film, according to him. After consultation with the festival promoters and the scientific community, the film was postponed from the schedule. In February 2017, De Niro was invited to talk with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chairman of the anti-vaccine non-profit Children's Health Defense Department, to address their questions regarding vaccination safety. De Niro has stated that he is not anti-vaccination, but does not have reservations about their safety.

An explosive weapon was used against De Niro in October 2018. The unit was discovered at the Tribeca Grill, which also houses his production company in Manhattan. According to the FBI, similar systems were sent to high-profile politicians, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and former CIA Director John Brennan.

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Career

In Encounter, Three Rooms, Manhattan, De Niro's film debuts (both appeared in 1965) and Les Jeunes Loups (1968). De Niro appeared in Greetings (1968), a satirical film about men escaping the Vietnam War draft, just a few years later. The film was the first in a line of early collaborations between De Niro and director Brian De Palma. De Niro appeared in Sam's Song, in which he portrays a New York City filmmaker, a year later. He appeared in De Palma's comedy The Wedding Party in 1969, but although it was shot in 1963, it wasn't until six years that it was unreleased. "This farcical comedy, modestly created by a trio of young people and utilizing some unfamiliar faces, is wonderful fun," De Niro, who was still unknown at the time.

He appeared in Roger Corman's low-budget crime drama Bloody Mama (1970), a loose interpretation of Ma Barker's life, and of which De Niro played one: Lloyd Barker. Thompson praised the film and said that the cast had "excellent performances." Next, De Niro appeared in Hi, Mom!, De Palma's demise. (1970) A sequel to Greetings. Richard Brody of The New Yorker claimed that De Niro "brings unhinged spontaneity" to his character. He appeared in Jennifer on My Mind (1971) and in Ivan Passer's Born to Win (1971). In The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, a crime-comedy based on Jimmy Breslin's 1969 book, he had his last film appearance of 1971.

De Niro appeared in two productions at The American Place Theatre directed by Charles Maryan in 1972. He then returned to the big screen with Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), in which he played Bruce Pearson, a Major League Baseball player with Hodgkin disease, in which he appeared as Bruce Pearson, a major League Baseball player with Hodgkin disease. Michael Moriarty and Vincent Gardenia were two of his co-stars. The film, which was based on Mark Harris' 1956 novel of the same name, received critical acclaim and helped De Niro gain more fame. "De Niro develops himself to be one of the finest and most likable young character actors in films in this film," the Hollywood Reporter said. De Niro's "touching" appearance was also noted by Variety magazine's Alex Belth, while Gardenia was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. "He learned only as much baseball as he needed for his job," Harris later wrote about De Niro, "I don't think he ever wanted to touch a baseball again."

When De Niro appeared in the crime film Mean Streets (1973), co-starring Harvey Keitel, he began collaborating with Martin Scorsese in 1973. Although De Niro was given the opportunity to act, Scorsese wanted De Niro to play "Johnny Boy" Civello, a small time criminal who was trying to break into a local mob. Although De Niro and Keitel were allowed to improvise certain scenes, assistant director Ron Satlof recalls De Niro was "fully serious, very concerned in his role and preparation" and became estranged from the rest of the cast and crew. Mean Streets debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and then the New York Film Festival five months later, to a generally positive response. De Niro gave a "marvelous appearance, brimming with excitement and restless desperation," according to film critic Roger Ebert. Pauline Kael of The New York Times was also impressed by De Niro's writing that he is "a bravura actor" and those who have not branded him as the grinning, tobacco-chewing dolt of the hunk of inept whimsey Bang the Drumsel's grinning, chewing dolt of Bang the Drum Slowly is unprepared for his unpredictable appearance. De Niro does something similar to Dustin Hoffman's in Midnight Cowboy, but this kid does more than just act; he explodes.' Mean Streets was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1997.

In Francis Ford Coppola's crime epic The Godfather Part II (1974), De Niro appeared in a young Vito Corleone, playing the young Vito Corleone. De Niro had attended the first installment, The Godfather (1972), but decided against doing The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. De Niro was given a part II role by Coppola, who remembered him. De Niro wrote primarily in several Sicilian dialects, although he did not have a few lines in English. The film was a commercial success and earned $48 million at the international box office, earning $48 million. At the 47th Academy Awards, the Godfather Part II received eleven nominations, six for De Niro as Best Supporting Actor. It was De Niro's first Academy victory; Coppola accepted the award on his behalf because he did not attend the ceremony. De Niro and Marlon Brando, who appeared in the first film as the older Vito Corleone, were the first two actors to win Academy Awards for portraying the same fictional character.

De Niro revived his friendship with him in Mean Streets after assisting Scorsese in the psychological thriller Taxi Driver (1976). Travis Bickle, a bleak taxi driver who descends into insanity during the Vietnam War, is the story told in gritty and morally bankrupt New York City. De Niro spent time with members of a US army base to learn their Midwestern accent and demeanor. He also shed 30 pounds (13 kg), undertook firearms education, and investigated taxi drivers' behavior. The film was widely distributed; in particular for De Niro's role; the Washington Post critic praised it as his "landmark role; and the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "De Niro is stunning in one of his signature roles." Despite the controversy surrounding Jodie Foster's appearance as a child prostitute, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actor for De Niro.

His "You talkin' to me?"

The American Film Institute's quote, which he improvised, was chosen as the 10th most memorable quote in the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes. Time magazine named the film as one of the top films of all time in 2005.

In 1976, De Niro had two other film debuts. He appeared in 1900, a historical drama directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The film, directed by an ensemble cast, follows two men, Alfredo Berlinghieri (De Niro) and the peasant Olmo Dalc (Gérard Depardieu), as they witness and participate in the political struggles between fascism and communism in the first half of the twentieth century. In The Last Tycoon, which is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's book of the same name, and British screenwriter Harold Pinter adapted it. De Niro weighed 42 pounds (19 kg) for the role, and director Elia Kazan predicted that De Niro would rehearse on Sunday, adding, "Bobby and I will go over the scenes to be shot." Bobby is more precise — he's very inventive. He's extremely precise. He finds it both inside and outside. He has a positive attitude. He's a character actor: everything he does he calculates. In a good way, but he estimates." 766 The film received mixed reviews; Variety magazine's critic opined that the film was "unfocused" and called De Niro's performance "mildly revealing." "It's a role that surpasses even his brilliant and daring portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II"; "his performance is deserving to be compared with the finest," film critic Marie Brenner wrote.

He appeared in Scorsese's musical drama in New York, New York, opposite Liza Minnelli for De Niro's sole project of 1977. De Niro learned to play saxophone Georgie Auld, a singer who falls in love with a pop star (Minnelli). The film received largely critical reception, although critics were more generous towards De Niro. De Niro's film was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, including Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. De Niro appeared in Michael Cimino's epic war film The Deer Hunter, in which he played a steelworker whose life was changed after being deployed in the Vietnam War. He co-starred with Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale, Meryl Stazale, and George Dzundza. The tale takes place in Clairton, Pennsylvania, a working-class town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh and Vietnam. Because the success of his previous films made a "gruesome-sounding storyline and a barely known director" marketable, producer Michael Deeley pursued De Niro for the role. De Niro was among the first to sign on to the film, after being inspired by the script and director's work. The Deer Hunter's reviews were generally favorable, and the actresses received a lot of flak for their performances. The film received awards at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), as well as a Best Actor award at the Academy Awards. In the AFI's 10th Anniversary Edition of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list, the American Film Institute named it as the 53rd-best American film of all time in 2007.

In 1980, De Niro and Scorsese's fourth collaboration began, with the biographical drama Raging Bull. LaMotta, the Italian-American middleweight boxer whose brash behavior and temper damaged his marriage with his wife and family, was adapted from Jake LaMotta's memoir Raging Bull: My Story. De Niro later said it was one of the most difficult roles to prepare for because he had to gain 60 pounds (27 kg) and had to learn to box. "The book isn't great literature, but it has a lot of heart," De Niro told Scorsese at the time. Despite critical acclaim, some commentators were split on the film's "excessively violent" content; however, De Niro received accolades for his realistic portrayal. "De Niro is amazing and makes the actor almost unrecognizable as himself," the Hollywood Reporter said; he looks remarkably like La Motta. In the final scenes, De Niro's appearance is also remarkable." "The strength of Scorsese is equaled by the tenacity of De Niro, who delves deep inside the boxer's soul." Michael Thomson of the BBC noted it. The film received eight nominations, including Best Actor for De Niro, which he won, at the 53rd Academy Awards. Raging Bull has since been regarded as one of the best films of the 1980s by American critics. De Niro had been strongly considered for Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, but it fell to Jack Nicholson, the director's first choice for the role.

With True Confessions (1981), adapted from John Gregory Dunne's 1977 novel of the same name, De Niro returned to the crime genre. De Niro played a priest who fights with his brother (Robert Duvall), a cop investigating the assassination of a prostitute. The plot was impossible to follow at times, according to Vincent Canby of The New York Times, but the actors who "work so well together it often appears as if it were one big show." De Niro tried out comedies throughout the 1980s to expand his acting career and to demonstrate his acting abilities. In The King of Comedy (1982), in which he played Rupert Pupkin, he discovered it. De Niro was the first to bring Scorsese's attention, and then gave it a New York setting and a more dramatic tone. The film struggled to find a following, and it was a box office disappointment, grossing only $2.5 million from a $19 million budget. However, the majority of commentators praised De Niro's performance. His next film appearance was in Sergio Leone's "A Time in America (1984), in which he plays David "Noodles" Aaronson, a New York City Jewish gangster. The dramatic cut, which had a runtime of 229 minutes, premiered at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival and was lauded for its 15-minute standing ovation. The film was shortened for theaters in the United States (139 minutes), but critics were outraged by it. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described the film as "excessive as well as tightly controlled," with the actors demonstrating "impressive patience and power" after being full cut.

This was his last appearance of 1984, Falling in Love, a romantic comedy starring Meryl Streep. For the first time, De Niro appeared in a science fiction about a daydreaming man living in a dystopian world one year ago. Despite the fact that the film was unsuccessful at the box office, Brazil was included in The Criterion Collection. De Niro performed in the production Cuba and His Teddy Bear in May 1986, returning to the stage at Longacre Theatre. He co-starred in The Mission (1986), a period drama about a Jesuit missionary in eighteenth-century South America, as well as his next film. "De Niro, who was very good as the streetwise priest in True Confessions, is all right here until he opens his mouth," Vincent Canby wrote of De Niro. However, the film received an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, three BAFTA Awards, including Best Editing and Best Original Score, and two Golden Globes for Best Screenplay and Best Original Score.

De Niro appeared in two minor film roles in 1987. In Alan Parker's horror Angel Heart, an adaptation of William Hjortsberg's 1978 book Falling Angel, he was cast as Louis Cyphre in the first. In the second act of De Palma's crime drama, The Untouchables, he portrayed Al Capone. Although Pauline Kael said De Niro was "lazy" for small roles, De Palma defended him by saying he was "experimenting with those characters." In July 1987, he travelled to Russia to serve as President of the Jury at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival. He starred in the film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam for the final year in the United States. Midnight Run, his next attempt in 1988, was the buddy cop film Midnight Runaway. Jack Walsh, a co-star, appeared opposite Charles Grodin in De Niro's bounty hunter. The film received an amicable reception and was a commercial success, grossing $81 million globally. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a mixed review of De Niro: A mixed review.

He turned down the opportunity to appear Jesus Christ in Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), although the actor told the director that if needed, he'd do it as a favour. Willem Dafoe in Scorsese has been cast instead. De Niro appeared in many films that were not widely distributed in 1989. In the drama Jacknife, he appeared alongside Ed Harris and Kathy Baker. The film revolves around a complicated friendship between a Vietnam veteran, his sister, and a fellow army buddy. Next, he appeared in We're No Angels (1989), a film based on the 1955 film of the same name. Both of them were found not guilty of going to Canada and are on the run. Stanley & Iris, a year later, costarring Jane Fonda. Film reviewers did not endorse We're No Angels or Stanley & Iris positively; Rotten Tomatoes, a film review company, gives them approval ratings of 47 percent and 43 percent, respectively.

With the crime film Goodfellas, De Niro and Scorsese quickly reunited for their sixth collaboration in 1990. It's an extension of Nicholas Pileggi's 1985 non-fiction book Wiseggi's Wiseggi. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) and his associates and families from 1955 to 1980 are chronicled in the film. James Conway, an Irish truck carjacker and gangster, appeared on De Niro. Although Goodfellas received an "enthusiastic" response from Italian commentators at the 47th Venice International Film Festival, the film festival's widest version of the word was released. Peter Travers, a writer for Rolling Stone, praised the cast members' appearances and called De Niro's character "a smooth killer acted with vivacious patience." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune was also captivated by their improvised performances, leading to their conclusion, "easily one of the year's best films." The film had been nominated for six Academy Awards during the awards season, and De Niro was nominated for Best Actor at the BAFTAs. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked it as the 92nd-best American film of all time in its 10th Anniversary of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. De Niro appeared in the lead role in Awakenings, directed by Penny Marshall in 1990. Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams), who discovers the benefits of the drug L-Dopa in 1969 and treats catatonic patients, is the subject of the drama, based on Oliver Sacks' 1973 book of the same name. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for De Niro. "I was thrilled with a lot of it," Sacks later said of the film: De Niro may have stepped into being Parkinsonian in an uncannily manner, I suppose. [...] At other times, I think things were a bit sentimentalized and simplicened somewhat."

De Niro's next film project was Guilty by Suspicion (1991), in which he plays David Merrill, a fictitious film director, who was back to the United States during the McCarthy period and Hollywood blacklist. The film has generally positive reviews. He was only ever involved in the backdraft (1991), as a veteran fire inspector. Cape Fear was De Niro's best success of 1991, his seventh film with Scorsese and a recreation of the 1962 film of the same name. Max Cady, a homeless defender who originally condemned him, is depicted by De Niro in his quest for revenge against a former public defender who originally defended him. De Niro's success was widely lauded. According to Newsweek's David Ansen, De Niro "dominates the film with his lip-smacking, blackly comic, and terrifying portrayal of psychopathic self-righteousness." At the 64th Academy Awards, the film earned De Niro a Best Actor nomination.

De Niro appeared in two films in 1992. Mistress is the first part of a comedy-drama in which he played ruthless businessman Evan Wright. De Niro's appearance at The Independent "more urbane and coherent than we've seen him for a while." Night and the City by Irwin Winkler was his second release, a crime drama based on the 1950 film noir of the same name. Harry Fabian, a New York lawyer, was cast as him. "The actor who came so far inside his roles that he just about detonated the film" now plays characters who don't appear to have any inner life at all," Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a rating of "B" and was skeptical of De Niro: "The actor who once got so far inside his roles that he's now playing characters that don't seem to have any inner life at all." He began working as a producer for the crime drama Thunderheart (1992). Wayne Dobie, a crime scene photographer, appeared in Mad Dog and Glory in 1993, co-stars Uma Thurman and Bill Murray. The feature received positive feedback and was lauded for the chemistry between De Niro and Murray; The Washington Post critic noted that "real-life friendships spilled over into this jittery, very funny look at the male bonding experience." In the coming-of-age film This Boy's Life (1993), based on Tobias Wolff's memoir, De Niro appeared. Ellen Barkin and Leonardo DiCaprio appear in the film. The film starring Dwight Hansen of Wolff (DiCaprio), although Timeout magazine said that "DiCaprio steals the show."

De Niro starred in his debut, A Bronx Tale (1993), a coming-of-age tale about an Italian-American boy who is torn between organized crime, racial prejudice, and the values of his good father. Chazz Palminteri, who wrote the play of the same name, appears in the film as well as his childhood. At the Toronto International Film Festival, a Bronx Tale premiered to a warm reception; Marjorie Baumgarten of The Austin Chronicle wrote "De Niro's choices as a producer were designed to bring attention to the characters and the plot rather than its artistic assemblage and much-lauded actor." Todd McCarthy, a writer for Variety magazine, was concerned with the film's sluggish start, but praised De Niro's "impressive sensitivity to the irrational roots of racial and violence." De Niro appeared in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, an 1818 tale Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a year later. Despite the fact that the film was highly regarded globally, receiving $112 million worldwide, the general consensus of reviews was mostly negative. Despite De Niro's "frantic" pace, film critic James Berardinelli said it was amusing and De Niro gave a good show.

With Scorsese's eighth collaboration, De Niro's return to the crime genre marked their eighth collaboration. The film, starring Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci, is based on Nicholas Pileggi's book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas. Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a mob-connected casino operator in Las Vegas, is depicted by De Niro. Both mobsters Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Pesci), and a trophy wife (Stone) are all aiming for a gambling empire, and the film's themes revolve around greed, betrayal, wealth, position, and murder that occur between two mobsters, including Sam "Ace" Rothstein (De Niro) and Nicky Santoro (Pesci). The casino was welcomed by a majority of critical feedback, and it was a huge success at the international box office. Roger Ebert was wowed by the lead performers' ability to "inhabit their roles with unconscious optimism," and The Globe and Mail's reviewer said, "De Niro does an astonishingly subtle job of portraying the mystery [...] that lie at the center of this story." He appeared in 1995's crime drama Heat about a group of commercial bank robbers. Art Linson, who had produced De Niro films in the past, sent him the script first. "It was really good and robust, had a certain feel to it, a sense of authenticity, and legitimacy," De Niro said. The film, co-starring Al Pacino and Val Kilmer, was released to widespread acclaim; the Chicago Tribune's Michael Wilmington wrote:

De Niro appeared in One Hundred and One Nights in France and in the drama Panther. De Niro appeared in The Fan, a sports drama based on Peter Abrahams' novel of the same name. Gil Renard, a baseball fanatic who loses his sanity, is de Niro's character. His fiftieth film work was in the crime thriller Sleepers (1996), about four boys who become involved with violence and are confined to a detention center where guards beat them to a detention center, where they are abused by guards and then return to a detention center where they are incarcerated by guards. De Niro is a priest named after the four boys' father, Bobby Carillo. He appeared in Marvin's Room (1996) as Dr. Wallace Carter, who treats a woman (Meryl Streep) with leukemia. Bob McCabe wrote for the British Empire magazine, "Perspectively watchable [...] But the film is lacking something more than mere pleasures." De Niro co-produced the crime-comedy Faithful in 1996.

He appeared in James Mangold's Cop Land (1997), a crime-drama starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, and Ray Liotta, for the rest of this year. Lt. Moe Tilden, a New Jersey town's internal affairs prosecutor, investigates police misconduct. The film opened to a generally warm response, but Barbara Shulgasser of San Francisco Examiner sluggish, saying that Mangold placed De Niro in a "manufactured situation" preventing him from realizing his full potential. Wag the Dog, which De Niro co-starred and co-produced, was released in 1997. The film is a political satire about a misogynist (De Niro) and a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) who plan a war in Albania to cover up a sex controversy involving a U.S. president. The Clinton–Lewinsky controversy dominated the headlines in January 1998, a month after it was announced. As a result, Wag the Dog was well-received and appeared on Roger Ebert's ten best films of 1997. In the same year, De Niro appeared as a supporting role in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown.

De Niro debuted in 1998 with a appearance in Great Expectations, a modernization of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel of the same name in which he played Arthur Lustig. His next big role was in Ronin (1998), about a team of former special agents sent to kidna a mysterious briefcase while navigating a maze of shifting loyalties. De Niro plays Sam, an American mercenary who served with the CIA for a brief period of time. Ronin premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1998 to rave reviews; Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised De Niro's confident portrayal as an action hero. In 1999, De Niro ventured back to crime, portraying him as an insecure mob boss alongside Billy Crystal and Lisa Kudrow in Harold Ramis' Analyze This. De Niro was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globes, making the film a huge success worldwide. De Niro, a homophobic police officer who suffers a stroke and is sent to a gay rehabilitative service in Flawless (1999), is a 19th-century police officer with a gay singer. In comparison to his previous work, the BBC critic rated the film 3 out of 5 actors and thought De Niro gave a "refreshingly poor" appearance.

De Niro produced and starred in his first live-action animation film comedy The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle in 2000. He portrayed Fearless Leader, who is both a tyrant and master of two mobsters. The film was critically panned, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a 43 percent approval rating. In the biographical drama Men of Honor (2000), based on Carl Brashear's life, the first African-American to become a US Navy Master Diver, De Niro played Master Chief 'Billy' on Sunday. Though the film received mixed feedback, Associated Press writer Bob Thomas wrote, "De Niro infuses the role with all his dynamism." "It's his best show in years." Jack Byrnes, a former CIA agent who takes a hostile liking to Stiller's character, appeared in Meet the Parents alongside Ben Stiller in the same year. De Niro, who had been looking for comedies at the time, was encouraged by his production partner Jane Rosenthal to play the role. With $330 million in receipts, the film was a top earner at the box office. Film critics applauded De Niro's return as a comedian and his ability to make audiences laugh.

De Niro was a leading role in 15 Minutes (2001), a tale about a murder detective (De Niro) and a fire marshal (Edward Burns) who joined forces to capture two Eastern European murderers. The film's reception was generally unfavorable; William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer criticized the "in-your-face exaggeration," but De Niro's "normal edgy flourish," [...] on the mean streets of his hometown Manhattan." In Frank Oz's The Score (2001), starring Edward Norton, Angela Bassett, and Marlon Brando, De Niro continued as a heist. When a young man (Norton) convinces him to do one last heist together, he plays a retiring thief. The Score did well with critics upon its introduction, but Peter Rainer of New York magazine said that the film did not attempt De Niro or fully utilize his talents. In the action-comedy Showtime next year, he played an LAPD detective opposite Eddie Murphy. "De Niro isn't really playing a part in this story but riffing on his own legend," the LA Weekly writer wrote, and thought the Taxi Driver references were "cheap."

He worked with Michael Caton-Jones in City by the Sea in 2002, who had previously directed De Niro in This Boy's Life. In the drama, he played another police detective opposite Frances McDormand and James Franco. At the theaters, the film received mixed critiques and was underperformed. He appeared in Analyze That (2002), a sequel to 1999's Analyze This. Filming in New York City began seven months after the September 11 attacks. De Niro maintained that filming there was ongoing, stating, "It's a New York story, not a New York film." We always intended to keep it there, and I'm glad we were able to do it." Most commentators thought the sequel was weak upon its unveiling; CNN's Paul Clinton observed, "Unfortunately, the result is just a bunch of one-liners strung together," the sequel's founders said, although some work and some don't. The true story never gets off the ground." De Niro, the producer of the critically acclaimed romantic comedy About a Boy (2004), and a producer on the CBS documentary about the September 11 attacks, despite these setbacks.

Several analysts believe that De Niro's career began to decline in the early 2000s, with De Niro appearing in roles that were less dramatic than those in the previous decade. In 2004, he returned to film as a doctor in the fantasy drama Godsend. The film is De Niro's lowest-performing film as of 2020; Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 4.2 rating out of 139 critic reviews. In DreamWorks' version of Shark Tale (2004), he played a character. Most notably, the majority of observers were unimpressed, but at the box office, it was a high earner. De Niro relived his appearance in Meet the Parents' 2004, which was the sequel to Meet the Parents. "De Niro mugs for the camera in a scathing review of De Niro," the writer for Slant Magazine wrote. De Niro's last release of 2004, based on Thornton Wilder's book of the same name, was The Bridge of San Luis Rey. It had also been panned.

De Niro appeared in the horror Hide and Seek opposite Dakota Fanning, playing Dr. David Callaway, who left the area with his traumatized daughter after the mother's suicide. Despite the film's financial success, some commentators felt De Niro had been miscast and chastised for his role in a mediocre film. De Niro left a role in The Departed to direct his second film, The Good Shepherd, a fictional account of the CIA's rise during its formative years. Joe Pesci, co-star of Raging Bull, Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale, Casino, among other things, was reunited on film. The project, based on Eric Roth's screenplay, was personal to De Niro, who was born during the Cold War and fascinated by it. Despite starring some of Hollywood's top actors, Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, and Alec Baldwin, the film received a mixed reception. Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote about the slowed rate of American history, "There's a potentially fascinating slice of American history here, but De Niro has carved it up with an incredibly dull knife." The plot was initially difficult to follow, according to USA Today's reviewer, but De Niro praises him for "creating a moving personal story." At the 79th Academy Awards, the Good Shepherd was nominated for Best Art Direction. In Arthur and the Invisibles, he finally voiced Emperor Sifrat XVI.

Matthew Vaughn's Stardust, a fantasy adventure based on Neil Gaiman's 1999 book of the same name, was his sole project in 2007. He plays Captain Shakespeare, the captain of a ship. The film was generally well received, but one reviewer from New York magazine thought De Niro's appearance was "god awful," but Brownie's gung-ho spirit earns him Brownie points. He appeared in the crime procedural thriller Righteous Kill opposite Al Pacino in the year's premiere, investigating serial executions of prisoners who have escaped justice. The film's reaction was mostly disappointing; Peter Hartlaub of San Francisco Chronicle thought the plot was unoriginal, and De Niro lacked enthusiasm. From a $60 million budget, the film earned $78 million. He appeared in What Just Happened (2008), a comedy based on Art Linson's experience as a producer in Hollywood. The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 as an out-of-competition entry. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, most reviewers gave the film a lukewarm reception due to his character, which is "sympathetic" and quieter than his earlier roles. Frank Goode was cast in Everybody's Fine, a recreation of Giuseppe Tornatore's Italian film of the same name in 2009. Though the film's reaction was mixed, The Guardian's reviewer lauded De Niro for a "first good, watchable performance in a long time."

He appeared in Machete's 2010 film as Senator John McLaughlin. He appeared in Stone opposite Milla Jovovich and Edward Norton, co-star from The Score in the same year. De Niro plays a manipulative parole officer in a crime drama. The film attracted a split audience, but De Niro's reviewer found it to be a good show thanks to Jovovich's help. Jesse Cataldo of Slant Magazine expressed the film's reluctance and suspicion that De Niro is repeating himself by portraying the same basic characters. He appeared in Little Fockers (2010), the third sequel to Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers. Despite universally critical reviews from analysts, the film was a box office hit, grossing over $310 million worldwide. "Despite the farcical script, De Niro in particular has his paterfamilias character delicately tuned," The Daily Telegraph wrote in one review. De Niro was cast in Edge of Shadow last year, but he cited design differences. Ray Winstone had him replaced.

De Niro appeared in the Italian comedy Manuele d'amore 3 in 2011. He appeared in three other films, Killer Elite, Limitless, and New Year's Eve. The other two films were received mixed to negative feedback, except for Limitless, which received a 69% approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes. De Niro was also named President of the Jury for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, marking his second stint in office. He appeared in Being Flynn, based on Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, a Nick Flynn biography. It received mixed feedback; critic A. O. Scott praised De Niro's ability for playing an estranged father (opposite Paul Dano), calling him "unpredictable and subtle" amid a chaotic plot. Both 2012, De Niro appeared in the thrillers Red Lights and Freelancers.

In the romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook (2012), De Niro plays Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) as the father of a young man who is released from a psychiatric hospital and returns home with his parents to restore his life. The film was a critical and commercial success, winning eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for De Niro. The film earned $236 million around the world. Critics applauded the entire cast; Variety magazine's Justin Chang praised De Niro's calm, saying, "it's impossible to remember the last time De Niro was this graceful and relaxed on screen." De Niro appeared on the television show NYC 22 as an executive producer.

He was the next act on The Big Wedding, Killing Season, and The Family in 2013; the three actors were mostly dismissed by a dismissive response. Last Vegas, his other 2013 book, received some favourable feedback. Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline, and Mary Steenburgen co-star Michael Douglas. Three retirees came to Las Vegas to have a bachelor party for their last remaining single friend. The A.V. shrews a scathing review of De Niro's results. "Understandably the low point of De Niro's career," the club's observer said. He appeared in Grudge Match (2013) opposite Sylvester Stallone as senior boxers step into the ring for one last match. They had previously worked together in 1997's Cop Land. He appeared in The Bag Man, a crime drama from the same year. In 2014, De Niro appeared in a documentary about his father, Robert De Niro, Sr., called Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr., which aired on HBO. He appeared in Nancy Meyers' comedy The Interne in 2015 alongside Anne Hathaway. Both performers did well with analysts; Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times remarked, "De Niro brings a new, relaxed light to his role, tinged with Spencer Tracy's gruff charm." He was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy by the Critics Choice Movie Awards.

He appeared in two short films, including Scorsese's The Audition and JR's Ellis, as well as in 2015. He appeared in Heist, playing Francis "The Pope" Silva, a gangster casino owner who is threatened by criminals and returns to the heist genre. The film was not a box office hit. He appeared in Joy (2015), opposite Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, about an American Inventor Joy Mangano; the film received mostly mixed feedback. He appeared in Dirty Grandpa in 2016, starring a grandfather who goes to Florida with his grandson during spring break. (Zac Efron) Following its release, the film attracted widespread praise for its reputedly disgusting content, and it made several critics' lists of 2016's worst films. He also appeared in Hands of Stone (2016), a biographical sports drama about Panamanian former professional boxer Roberto Durán's career. The Comedian, the year's best-selling film festival honoring filmmakers' achievements, premiered at the AFI Fest, the AFI Fest.

In 2017, De Niro appeared in Barry Levinson's HBO film The Wizard of Lies, earning him critical accolades and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Television Film. De Niro received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2019. He received another Emmy Award for his role as a producer on Ava DuVernay's acclaimed limited series When They See Us.

De Niro returned to television in 2019 by playing talk show host Murray Franklin in Todd Phillips' Joker, a potential origin story for Batman's character The Joker (Joaquin Phoenix). The film was a commercial hit and received eleven nominations at the Academy Awards, including eleven in New York. De Niro reunited with Scorsese for The Irishman in 2004, based on Charles Brandt's 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses. It's their ninth film together, and the first since 1995's Casino, as well as Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel, and Joe Pesci. The film received critical acclaim; Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph praised De Niro's "sensational" appearance and the chemistry with his co-stars, whom he had worked with in earlier films. Despite apparent shortcomings in the film's special effects, the writer of a popular magazine discussed the chemistry, naming him "superb."

De Niro appeared in Nancy Meyers' comedy short film Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish). Diane Keaton, Steve Martin, Kieran Culkin, Martin Short, and Florence Pugh appeared in the short film. De Niro was cast in James Gray's period drama Armageddon Time, but by the time production began, he had dropped out of the project. In Scorsese's crime drama, Killers of the Flower Moon, based on the book of the same name, De Niro will appear alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Scorsese was told in April that the film's budget of $200 million had prompted the filmmakers to consider Netflix or Apple TV+ for future production and distribution. Apple TV was announced in May that it would co-finance and co-distribute the film, with Paramount still distributing.

De Niro starred in the new David O. Russell film Amsterdam in January 2021. Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Michael Shannon, Michael Shannon, Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, and Anya-Taylor Joy are among the group's members. De Niro agreed to appear in the Warner Bros. mob drama Wise Guys, directed by Barry Levinson, in August 2022.

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