Robert DeNiro Movies

Want to know the best Robert DeNiro movies?  How about the worst Robert DeNiro movies?  Curious about Robert DeNiro’s box office grosses or which Robert DeNiro movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Robert DeNiro movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Robert DeNiro (1943-) is a two time Oscar® winner. DeNiro first movie appearance was an uncredited role in 1965’s Three Rooms in Manhatten. After appearing in numerous low budget films, he started to get some notice with his roles in Mean Streets and Bang the Drum Slowly. This led to his star making role as Vito Corleone in 1974’s The Godfather Part II. DeNiro won his first Oscar® for playing the young Godfather. Since becoming a star he has appeared in numerous classic movies…..Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter, Once Upon A Time In America, Backdraft, Heat, Good Fellas, Cape Fear and The Untouchables..just to name a few.

Over the last 40 years, DeNiro has been one of the busiest actors working. On average he has two new movies every year since 1974. Now over 70, DeNiro has not slowed that pace down at all.

His IMDb page shows over 120 acting credits since 1965. This page will rank Robert DeNiro movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and bit parts were not included in the rankings.

Robert DeNiro in 1988's Midnight Run
Robert DeNiro in 1988’s Midnight Run

Robert DeNiro Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Robert DeNiro Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

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  • Sort Robert DeNiro movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Robert DeNiro movie received.
  • Sort Robert DeNiro movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • *** If worldwide gross is the same as domestic gross then worldwide gross was unavailable
Robert DeNiro in 2013's Grudge Match
Robert DeNiro in 2013’s Grudge Match

Possibly Interesting Facts About Robert DeNiro

1. Robert DeNiro has been nominated for 7 Oscars® for acting in his career. He won Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather Part II, he also won Best Actor for 1980’s Raging Bull. His other four nominations were for the movies Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Awakenings, Cape Fear and Silver Linings Playbook.

2. Robert DeNiro has been nominated for 8 Golden Globes® for acting in his career. His one win was for 1980’s Raging Bull. His other nominations were for the movies Taxi Driver, New York New York, The Deer Hunter, Midnight Run, Cape Fear, Analyze This, and Meet the Parents.

3. My favorite Robert DeNiro movie nobody else seems to like…..1993’s Mad Dog and Glory…. which co-stars Bill Murray.

4. Robert DeNiro has been married twice. He is currently married to Grace Hightower. They were married in 1997. DeNiro has four sons….Raphael, Julian, Aaron and Elliot…..and one daughter Drena.

5. DeNiro has directed two movies….1993’s A Bronx Tale and 2006’s The Good Shepherd. It was announced that DeNiro is going to make a sequel to The Good Shepherd sometime in the future.

6. DeNiro has appeared in 8 Martin Scorsese films to date. Their first movie together was 1973’s Mean Streets and their last movie together was 1995’s Casino. It appears Leonardo DiCaprio has taken over the DeNiro parts in Scorsese movies.

7. Roles that DeNiro turned down over the years….Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Depp version), The Departed, Dick Tracy, The Edge, King Kong, Man on Fire, and At Close Range.

8. DeNiro’s parents were divorced when he was three, he was raised by his mother in the Little Italy area of Manhattan. After briefly joining a gang….it was his role as the Cowardly Lion in a school play that got him off the streets and on to the stage for good.

9. DeNiro has been successfully battling prostate cancer since 2003.

10. Check out Robert DeNiro‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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64 thoughts on “Robert DeNiro Movies”

  3. Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, comment, info, trivia, observation, comparison, appraisal and evaluation, always appeciated!

    Happy the visual presentation has met with your approval.

    I prefer Al Pacino from that generation of great actors but there’s no denying De Niro’s place in the pantheon of movie greats, even Pacino was a fan. The top 10 movies on my wonderfully accurate De Niro chart are all highly rated classics, so good in fact that there was no room for Midnight Run or Casino on there, whoa ho! 😉

    I saw both True Confessions and Guilty by Suspicion on video tape a long time ago, for me Guilty was the more interesting of the two. The average rating for Confessions was 5.75, Guilty managed 5.65. They both fare better on Bruce’s chart.

    I admire his acting in Raging Bull but it’s never been a favorite of mine, I much prefer Taxi Driver, I’ve watched that many times over the decades. Brazil is also a huge favorite of mine.

    Diane Keaton is definitely on my video list, as is Streep, but probably not in the current wave of actresses, there are still some classic ladies left over I want to finish with.

    10 De Niro films have scored 10 out of 10 from my sources, how often does that happen?
    Godfather II
    Taxi Driver
    Raging Bull
    Deer Hunter ,The
    Goodfellas
    Untouchables ,The
    Once Upon a Time in America
    Mean Streets
    Brazil
    King of Comedy

    And 10 more have scored 9 out of 10 including Heat and Midnight Run.

    The highest rated De Niro film at IMDB is Godfather II, scoring 9.

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    1. HI STEVE

      Thanks for the backchat and supplementary information. I look forward to the Keaton/Streep videos when you get around to them. The so called “Greatest Sex Kitten of All Time” will do for now !!

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  4. STEVE

    1 I forgot to say in my Bobby De Niro post that in a recent interview Russell Crowe claimed that he had it on good authority that he was Mr Mumbles’ favourite actor. I had always thought that that accolade belonged to Robert De N of whom Mr M once said “He’s so good even he doesn’t realise how good he is,”

    2 However it is possible that there is no contradiction in the matter as Mumbles himself is the actor I most ADMIRE artistically whereas for example Peck, Widmark, The Duke and Laddie entertain me more whilst some of ole Mumbles’ stuff is “dry goods” in my opinion. Therefore the latter 4 are more my favourites for a night’s viewing than Mr M is.

    3 However De Niro and Dustin Hoffman apparently spent a long time as Mumbles’ guests on that island of Mr M’s and it is well known that Robert and Mr M got on life a house on fire at a personal level whereas I doubt if the prickly self-centred Mumbles and the aggressive volatile Russell could have remained too long in each other’s company. Anyway as I’ve said previously it’s just a pity that Joel wasn’t about today to tell us all who our favourites SHOULD be.

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  5. HI STEVE 1. You have now profiled all of the most important actors in the Godfather films and De Niro didn’t surface until GF 2. However the respected British actor Colin Firth recently remarked in a TV interview that after Godfather 2 “Everyone was talking about DeNiro.” And the adulation continues with IMDB for example listing Robert as the 3rd Greatest Actor of All Time.

    2 One quarter of your 40 De Niro posters are among your very best for my taste so here they are in no particular order: Frankenstein, Great Expectations Joy, Wag the Dog, This Boy’s Life, King of Comedy, Brazil and three foreign language ones The Good Shepherd, Once upon a Time In America and The Last Tycoon The best stills in my opinion are Angel Heart, Cop Land, Limitless, Casino, Heat, The Untouchables, Raging Bull which was I thought especially outstanding and The Score.

    3. You and WH agree on 4 of DeNiro’s Top 5 flicks with him choosing Brazil instead of The Deer Hunter which rounds off your own 5. My one disappointment was the exclusion of two of my very fave De Niro flicks, True Confessions and Guilty by Suspicion. Nevertheless overall I felt that this was an entertaining 97.5% rated video.

    4 So much for the Godpop guys but what about the Godpop gal – W of Michael? Bruce has not only given her her own page but ranks her a high 11th on his superb list of the 25 Greatest Actresses of all Time and we wouldn’t want him to be in a position to accuse us of being chauvinistic by not including her in these exchanges. A** COVERING BIT- if you’ve done a video on Diane that I haven’t picked up a link would be helpful as I’d be keen to see it – thanks.

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