00:00From Taxi Driver to The Irishman, Robert De Niro has become one of the most acclaimed and celebrated actors in all of Hollywood.
00:08Here are 10 roles we love from Robert De Niro.
00:11In 1973, De Niro starred in what would become the first of many collaborations with Martin Scorsese for Mean Streets.
00:18The actor starred alongside Harvey Keitel as Johnny Boy in the American crime film
00:22about a small-time criminal in New York City who gets in over his head as he aspires to work his way up within the local mob.
00:30Mikey, I f*** you right where you breathe because I don't give two s*** about you or nobody else.
00:36Just one year later in 1974, De Niro earned massive success with a key role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II,
00:44stepping in to play the young Vito Corleone, the infamous character originated by Marlon Brando in The First Godfather.
00:50The role earned De Niro his first Academy Award nomination and win for Best Supporting Actor.
01:06In 1976 came De Niro's next collaboration with Scorsese, Taxi Driver.
01:11The psychological thriller follows a war veteran who takes up a job as a taxi driver
01:16working the streets of New York City while his mental state slowly unravels
01:20and he heads towards violent behavior.
01:22The film, which earned De Niro another Oscar nomination,
01:25went on to produce one of the most famous lines in movie history.
01:30You talking to me?
01:34You talking to me?
01:35Then there was 1978's The Deer Hunter, which gave the actor his third Oscar nom.
01:40The film follows three men and how their lives have been affected
01:44during and after their time serving in the Vietnam War.
01:47The movie also starred Christopher Walken, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor,
01:52and Meryl Streep, who was nominated for Supporting Actress.
01:55Stanley, see this?
01:56This is this.
01:57This ain't something else.
01:58This is this.
02:00From now on, you're on your own.
02:02De Niro and Scorsese teamed up once again in 1980's Raging Bull,
02:07which followed hot-tempered real-life boxing champion Jake LaMotta
02:10and recounted the rise and fall of his boxing career,
02:13as well as his troubled personal life.
02:15The film earned De Niro his second Oscar win, this time for Best Actor.
02:20All right, go ahead.
02:21You want me to hit you?
02:22I want you to be with everything you've got.
02:23I want you to f***ing lay me out.
02:24Go ahead.
02:25You sure?
02:26Yeah.
02:26All right.
02:28Hot.
02:29Flash forward a decade, we have one of the most acclaimed films of all time,
02:341990's Goodfellas.
02:36This Scorsese collab also starred Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci,
02:40which follows the story of real-life mobster Henry Hill
02:42and his rise and fall within the mafia.
02:45De Niro played Irish-American gangster Jimmy Conway.
02:48Did you hear what I said?
02:49Don't buy anything, don't get anything, nothing big.
02:52Did you hear what I said?
02:52What's the matter with you?
02:54What are you getting excited for?
02:55What am I getting excited about?
02:56Because you're going to get us all f***ing pinched, that's why.
02:58What are you, stupid?
02:59In 1991, came Cape Fear, a remake of the 1962 film.
03:04This tells the story of a convicted rapist who seeks revenge on a former public defender
03:09and his family, whom he blames for his 14-year prison sentence.
03:13Counselor?
03:15Is that you?
03:18Counselor?
03:19In 2000, De Niro swapped out his usual crime films
03:27for a much more comedic role in Meet the Parents.
03:31The comedy starred Ben Stiller as a man that desperately tries to impress his girlfriend's
03:35parents, played by Blythe Danner and De Niro.
03:37But not everything goes according to plan, and chaos ensues.
03:42Well, Puffs was just the name of the boy's magical dragon.
03:45Right.
03:52Are you a pothead f***er?
03:53No.
03:54After starring in a number of commercially and critically successful films, as well as
03:58a turn for more comedic roles, we're bringing it all the way to 2012 for David O. Russell's
04:03Silver Linings Playbook.
04:05The film, which also stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, follows a man who recently
04:10moves back in with his parents, played by De Niro and Jackie Weaver, after leaving a psychiatric
04:15facility and starting fresh.
04:17I didn't know anything.
04:18I couldn't handle it.
04:21I mean, that's what all this eagler stuff is about.
04:24It's about us spending time now.
04:28And finally, we have De Niro and Scorsese's ninth collaboration together for 2019's The
04:34Irishman.
04:34The story follows the life of Frank Sheeran as he meets and becomes a hitman for the
04:39Bufalino crime family and his ties to the death of Jimmy Hoffa.
04:43It was like the army.
04:45You followed orders.
04:48You did the right thing.
04:51You got rewarded.
04:53Other celebrated roles for De Niro included The King of Comedy, Casino, Heat, Awakenings,
04:59Joker.
05:00The list goes on and on.
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