Why Robert De Niro Won Two Oscars (and Hasn't Won Since)
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- Robert De Niro, one of the most beloved actors of all time, received two Oscar wins throughout his long and celebrated career. In this video, Cody Dericks from Next Best Picture joins me to break down these victories and discuss why he still hasn't won an Academy Award since 1981. #oscars #academyawards #robertdeniro #bestactor #theawardscontender
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De Niro is an actor who is there for the work, not the fame nor prizes. He has always been gracious when accepting an award, and I'm sure he would be happy to win another Oscar...but at this point in his career, my guess is he's good for now.
De Niro in Deer Hunter is perfection!!
I love him in meet the folkers. So fun
I love when critically acclaimed actor star in silly movies that make millions at the box office
Meet the Fockers is such a fun movie. The jokes and the comedy in that film are so easy to follow and are hilarious as hell. It's a rewatchable movie for me.
It's a fun I enjoy it too.
I love him in "Cape Fear", and I love him in "Stanley and Iris"....
I hope the next video is about Jessica Lange. She’s having a bit of a resurgence right now!
It would be something if she won a third Oscar.
She deserves such now as she deserved it when American Horror Story began. She's #1 for me.
@@kellie-nd1ypI wouldn’t be surprised. With the her film version of “Long Days Journey Into Night” being in limbo. To me it’s foreshadowing a third win for her like when she won her second Oscar for a film that was stuck in limbo.
@@perryjones7771 she's an interesting actress.She has been doing a lot of interesting things in recent years. Like Chastain she keeps going for different kinds of roles.
that look/reaction at 5:36 is hysterical
My thoughts exactly 😂
Thank you for mentioning Jackie Brown and The King Of Comedy. He definitely should have been nominated for those two amazing performances! And he should have 10+ Oscar nominations. I recently fell in love with Falling In Love, 1984, with him and Meryl - they made cheating so romantic!
I just wanted to second Brian's opinion about Towering Inferno being pretty good. (Maybe he could do a video about cheesy 70s disaster movies at the Oscars? That's probably one of my favorite genres, and I know how Brian likes genre films.) Definitely better than any of the Airport movies or Earthquake. I do kind of like Poseidon Adventure a bit more for some reason?
I loved this video. Thank you Brian and Cody for that analysis of Robert de Niro and the Oscars. It's surprising that he was not nominated for Goodfellas like hello that is Scorsese's BEST film. He totally deserved his nominations in both The Deer Hunter and Taxi Driver two extremely iconic performances from de Niro. He is a screen legend for the ages. His portfolio of work over the last 50 years is super impressive. He is truly one of the all time greatest actors in Hollywood.
For Goodfellas it has stiff competition. And Ray Liotta had more screen time then De Niro. It would be a tie for Best Actor.
I wonder if maybe the reason he didn't get a nom for THE IRISHMAN was because the de-aging effect was too distracting for a lot of people and took up a lot of the conversation instead of the performance itself.
That was also a very stacked year for Best Actor
YOU BETRAYED THE LAW!
LAAAAAAWWWWW!
Thank goodness for that exchange, timeless.
For Awakenings he was definitely 2nd place behind Jeremy Irons.
What about Costner and Depardieu ?
I mean The French actor got more acclaim then Irons in terms of consistenscy
Maybe that third Oscar is there waiting for De Niro. Maybe with a strong director, an impeccable script and great acting ensemble it’s possible
I felt like he should have won for “Killers”.
I don’t think he cares
The face at 5:36
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Brian, how do you NOT watch Godfather II (or even #1) multiple times a year!!!???! One of my De Niro non-nominated faves are The King of Comedy also!! Love you and Cody together bouncing off each other
I love Cody’s looks when he doesn't agree with what Brian is saying. I am on #Teambrian in regards to The Towering Inferno. I love that film (OJ notwithstanding).
One of DeNiro’s best performances was from 1973’s Bang the Drum Slowly. Also, I love Towering Inferno. I’m a sucker for 70s disaster movies and Towering Inferno is the best. As far as the three best supporting actors from Godfather II, I’d drop Lee Strasberg and add John Cazale.
Great retrospective! Both wins were incredibly deserved and Taxi Driver would have made a perfect 3rd win but it's hard to disagree with that all timer performance from Peter Finch in Network. I do think he was more deserving to win this year for Killers Of The Flower Moon than Downey Jr in Oppenheimer (but I was also more impressed with Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things as well). Cool video, would love more of these types of videos for actors who've won multiple Oscars. Sally Field featured in the video is a great example ❤
I had all of them ahead of RDJ .I didn't even like Poor Things at all but I still would place Ruffalo ahead .
@kellie-nd1yp True. In my case, not ahead of Sterling K. Brown, but yeah, he was fourth o fifth on many people's list.
@@jonathanvelazquezph.d.2719 yeah it was a career Oscar which I don't begrudge him .Timing is key. He was in a film that was going to be awarded and that is what did it in my opinion .I think some of the others will be better remembered .I simply would not have given it to him for this one.
Hello Bryan, can u do shrek (and its spin offs) at the oscars (and award shows) . Eddie Murphy was nominated for a bafta for best supporting actor for his voice over performance in shrek.
I didn't know shrek was so acclaimed like this
His first name is spelled Brian.
Thanks once again, Brian, for an excellent video. Cody always adds positively to your content. Re DeNiro: He is a highly talented actor who "prostituted" himself by making a few crappy movies just for the money. These are "Dirty Grandpa" and a few others that I understand were terrible. I did not see them. Apparently, Robert's former wife, Grace, spent a lot of money on high-priced clothes and other luxuries. These expenses put DeNiro in debt, from what I have heard, so he felt he needed to act in any movie that came his way, despite the very poor content.
Re future Oscar noms/wins: I think that his time has passed. The younger audiences apparently don't full appreciate his talents and want to give nominations to the younger actors. A prime example, of course, is Robert Downey Jr's win in "Oppenheimer" over DeNiro's performance -- excellent, IMO -- in "Killers of the Flower Moon."
#theawardscontender one thing I'd like you to look at when it comes to Robert De Niro is he's the only actor of 'The Big 4'; De Niro, Nicholson, Pacino & Hoffman that's worked with his contemporaries. De Niro & Nicholson were in The Last Tycoon together. De Niro and Pacino were in; Heat, Righteous Kill & The Irishman together. Finally, De Niro & Hoffman were in; Sleepers, Wag the Dog and a couple Focker movies together. Yet, Nicholson never worked with Pacino or Hoffman and the same for Hoffman with Nicholson & Pacino. None of them have worked together except for working with De Niro. I always found that interesting.
Does it matter
@@lexkanyima2195 does any of this matter? Not really. It's for conversation and content.
DeNiro’s scenes are the best part of Godfather II
5:30 The Towering Inferno is bad ass movie fun! As a boy growing up in Reno NV it was always a "Saturday Night" movie on CBS along with Carrie & The Exorcist (both heavily edited due to content). Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway! And Fred Astaire gets to briefly show his moves on the dance floor! The Towering Inferno is a camp classic with some terrifying scenes! It's terrific 👍
@@marlinfrank1362 I love Towering Inferno
De Niro is one of my all-time favorite actors and imo his Raging Bull performance is top 5 ever, but I would have given the 1974 supporting award to John Huston for Chinatown over John Cazale for Godfather II and Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein. Then De Niro. Huston oozed evil like few others ever have, he was brilliant.
It's not every day that an actor wins an Oscar for their best performance but not Robert De Niro. He won his Best Actor Academy Award for his best leading performance and also won the Supporting Oscar for his best Supporting Role. Isn't that great?!
His Raging Bull win is up there in the vein of Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice and Daniel Day Lewis for There will be blood.
Can't say I've been much of a fan of De Niros work in the last decades but the film "Joy" is actually quite good!
As for movies DeNiro should have been nominated for but didn't, I'd have to go for Once Upon a Time in America. Besides Raging Bull, that is my pick for his best performance of all time.
Please make on al Pacino too he just got one
Are Brian and Cody...a thing?
I never understand why actors try to adopt weird accents in films. Orson Welles' Irish accent in "Lady from Shanghai" almost took me out of that film, and De Niro's southern (?) accent in "Cape Fear" really doesn't work for me either. I question the need for a remake of such a classic film anyway.
Am I the only person shipping Brian and Cody??? 😅
We got Brain and Cody shipping before an Amy Adams win
🎉 shipping them, definitely
They’re definitely boning lol
Ship them to New Guinea.
Historians be like, "They were very good friends"
A great actor in the 20th century,a shambles in the 21st.
I took windowpane acid and went to see The Towering Infurno at the theater for it's original run. It was not pretty.
Cody prefers Ordinary People to Raging Bull?? Ordinary People is so stodgy and pedestrian, whereas Raging Bull is a filmmaker working at the height of his powers and making amazing cinema. If I was to give DeNiro another nomination that he didn't receive it would be for supporting actor in Mean Streets.
I thought Ragging Bull won best picture it's one of the madela effect
Do Jack Nicholson
He deserved his Oscar’s, however he should have also won for Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter. Thanks for the video Brian, I hope you’re doing well. Take care!
For Cape Fear, he should have been nominated as supporting and no doubt he would win.
And King of Comedy performance matches with Raging Bull and Taxi Driver. But probably would not win vs. Kingsley's Gandhi performance.
So 3 wins, more nominations should have happened.
He was too much in that movie in order for being just supporting.
Anthony Hopkins has a screen time of 16 minutes as Hannibal Lecter.
@@Tourist-Q. So you say that De Niro should keep his place and they misplaced Hopkins. Yep, probably more appropriate.
I agree with Cody on The Ordinary People it has the overall story that works while Raging Bull is more the achivements in different elements .Plus Jack Lemmon is also my favorite actor.
DeNiro is more like Bette Davis or Jodie Foster his wins come early and rather close together .I think many do come closer together than far apart with some obvious exceptions.
I would add King of Comedy,The Irishman and Casino for nominations.Proabably Goddfellas too He wasn't in as much but he was excellent .
Robert De Niro played a slimy, stupid, and pathetic character in "The King of Comedy", and he played him so well. That whole movie made me feel unclean watching it, but you can't deny its power. His performance in "This Boy's Life", also where he plays an unlikeable character, could have also been nominated. It wouldn't have won to Tom Hanks in "Philadelphia", but it could have gotten a nod.
Pacino, Nicholson and Hoffman are better and deserved more Oscars.
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BOBBY doesn't act he literally plays the same role in every film its called in the business "Doing Clint Eastwood" where an actor just becomes themselves
Oh yeah, because Travis Bickle, Jake LaMotta, Michael (The Deer Hunter), and his roles in Silver Linings Playbook and Awakenings, ARE totally the same character
Acting was also never about character work either, it's about storytelling and bringing the right energy and emotions to the right context
Disagree with you on his earlier movies and roles. 1995 and on I can agree with
@@MasonGrant0704 1995 ? Bob last won an Oscar in 1980 !
@@sebastiananthony5442 Who said anything about Oscars? you said he plays the same guy and I disagreed with you on his roles pre-1995.
Cody is misinformed. Although both Adler's and Strasberg's acting methods share similarities in their foundation on Stanislavski's acting technique, they are distinctively different int their application of imagination vs substitution. Marlon Brando's acting education is built on Stella Adler's acting technique of imagination rather than Lee Strasberg's method of substitution. Brando emphasised this in his autobiography 'Songs My Mother Taught Me" stating: ''After I had some success, Lee Strasberg tried to take credit for teaching me how to act. He never taught me anything. He would have claimed credit for the sun and the moon if he believed he could get away with it. He tried to project himself as an acting oracle and guru. Some people worshiped him, but I never knew why. I sometimes went to the Actors Studio on Saturday mornings because Elia Kazan was teaching, and there were usually a lot of good-looking girls, but Strasberg never taught me acting. Stella did -- and later Kazan.''
Hopkins was barely seen in Silence of the lambs, while De Niro carried Cape Fear with Nick Nolte.
And people say that you constantly feel the presence of Hannibal Lecter even when he's not seen... Truth be told I don't get that vibe watching the movie. But I do feel Max Cady even during the scenes he's not seen.
That Oscar should've went to Robert de Niro.
I think they made a mistake three years in a row - Washington should have won in 1993, and Day-Lewis should have won in 1994.
Not.
And Washington didn't win at the Golden Globe. And his movie Malcolm X didn't receive that much nominee
@@lexkanyima2195 not sure what you're talking.
What ruined DeNiro’s chances for an Oscar nomination for THE IRISHMAN was his eyes. The CGI was really distracting. His eyes were cartoonish.
He wasn't nominated for Goodfellas or Casino? That seems crazy to me. And you didn't even mention those. :(
He'll win another and if not he'll win a lifetime one. I would've nominated him for New York New York but that film was totally shut out.
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Everyone knows the Oscars are rigged. The true value of an artist has nothing to do with prizes; but what they bring to the table which is very subjective. I loved De Niro in Deer Hunter, Godfather 2, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Heat, Goodfellas and Casino. What all these films have is not just the actor but the whole sum of its parts - the director, the sets, the costumes, the music, the budget, the story and the other 1000 people involved. De Niro was never a real man, but the characters people loved. He's now distroyed that. His mystique is gone. He is only a complaining old man who has ruined his films for me. Kevin Spacey said in an interview when he meets people in the street and they talk about his films and the characters he plays, there is nothing more satisfying. But Spacey is proof there are great actors.
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Cate Blanchett in TAR is Robert De Niro’s Raging Bull great yet the academy awarded the Oscar to a diversity choice 🙄
De Niro got pretty stale after 1995.
Because he's too busy ranting against Donald Trump to put in a decent performance in a film. He's looking more like a madman than a respected actor these days.
He got a lot of acclaim for Killers of the Flower Moon last year. So you don't sound like you know what you are talking about.
@mikegonzalez503 One performance doesn't make him restored to his former glory. The truth is he should stay out of politics and focus on acting.....and I'm not saying this as a Trump fan at all.
@@PC1974 🙄
I prefer the apolitical De Niro as well
@@mikegonzalez503 That wasn't a great performance, and he was too old for that character.