What is the best De Niro film?

By IQ Score on TV Intelligentsia, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and The Godfather Part II anchor the catalog's Masterclass tier. The Scorsese collaborations define De Niro's canonical work.

How many Oscars has De Niro won?

Two — Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather Part II (1974), Best Actor for Raging Bull (1980). He's been nominated nine times.

Which De Niro performance is most underrated?

The King of Comedy (1982), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), and New York New York (1977) are consistently underrated relative to De Niro's marquee titles. The King of Comedy especially has become more culturally legible as social-media-era parasocial-fame dynamics caught up with Rupert Pupkin's premise.

Robert De Niro · Filmography Ranked

Best Robert De Niro Films, Ranked by IQ Score

Five decades of the most-canonical American screen actor. Every De Niro film, ranked by IQ Score.

Robert De Niro's filmography is the most-canonical American screen-acting catalog of the post-1970 era. Two Oscars (Best Supporting for The Godfather Part II in 1974, Best Actor for Raging Bull in 1980). His Scorsese collaborations (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, The Irishman, Cape Fear, The King of Comedy, New York New York, Bringing Out the Dead) define one of the medium's most-canonical actor-director partnerships.

Anchor picks: Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), The Godfather Part II (1974). Plus The Deer Hunter (1978), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), The Irishman (2019).

15 titles · ranked by IQ Score