Robert De Niro filmography

[23][22][24] Mark Kermode of The Guardian wrote, "While all these movies are terrific indeed, they pale by comparison with Scorsese and De Niro's finest – and most often overlooked – work: The King of Comedy".

[25] In the film, De Niro plays David "Noodles" Aaronson, who struggles as a street kid in a neighborhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side in the 1920s.

[26][27][28] In 1990, De Niro starred in Penny Marshall's Awakenings, based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir of the same title and for his performance he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 2012, De Niro appeared in the David O. Russell film Silver Linings Playbook, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination.

[35] In 2019, De Niro starred in Todd Phillips' psychological thriller Joker, based on DC Comics characters, as talk show host Murray Franklin.

[39] In the film, he plays the role of Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, a truck driver who becomes a hitman involved with mobster Russell Bufalino and his crime family.

[41][42] De Niro received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role as William King Hale in Scorsese's film Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).