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Robert De Niro is an American actor and film producer. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation, he studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. He is known for collaborations with director Martin Scorsese having starred in ten of his films since 1973. He has also acted in several films directed by Brian de Palma, Barry Levinson, and David O. Russell. He has received several accolades including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards. De Niro has received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. president Barack Obama in 2016, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019. His first credited screen role was in De Palma's Greetings (1968). He collaborated with De Palma again on its sequel, Hi, Mom! (1970), as well as The Wedding Party (1969) and The Untouchables (1987)—the latter in which he portrayed Al Capone. De Niro's first collaboration with Scorsese was with the crime drama film Mean Streets (1973). De Niro has earned two Academy Awards: one for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's crime drama The Godfather Part II (1974) and the other for Best Actor portraying Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's drama Raging Bull (1980). De Niro was also Oscar-nominated for his roles as Travis Bickle the psychological drama Taxi Driver (1976), a steelworker turned soldier in the Vietnam War film The Deer Hunter (1978), a catatonic patient in the drama Awakenings (1990), a convicted criminal on the loose in the crime thriller Cape Fear (1991), a father with OCD in the romance drama Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and William King Hale in the historical drama Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Among De Niro's non-Oscar nominated performances in Scorsese films include New York, New York (1977), The King of Comedy (1983), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), and The Irishman (2019). He took roles in John D. Hancock's Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976), Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon (1976), Ulu Grosbard's True Confessions (1981), Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), Roland Joffe's The Mission (1986), Alan Parker's Angel Heart, Irwin Winkler's Guilty by Suspicion (1991), Ron Howard's Backdraft (1991), Michael Caton-Jones's This Boy's Life (1993), Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1995), Michael Mann's Heat (1995), Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997), Alfonso Cuarón's Great Expectations (1998), John Frankenheimer's Ronin (1998), and Todd Phillips' Joker (2019). De Niro has directed and starred in two films: the coming-of-age crime drama A Bronx Tale (1993) and the historical spy drama film The Good Shepherd (2006). He is also known for his roles in comed