“Taxi Driver” from 1976 is a cult film. The production directed by Martin Scorsese was nominated for four Oscars, in the following categories: best picture, best actor in a leading role (Robert De Niro), best supporting actress (Jodie Foster), best original score (Bernard Herrmann). It was the first nomination for Foster, then just fifteen. When Robert De Niro took the lead role, he had already won an Oscar for his performance in “The Godfather Part II.”
Oscars 2024. Jimmy Kimmel jokes about Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro
Now, with two statuettes under her belt (for “The Silence of the Lambs” and “The Accused”), Jodie Foster is nominated for her supporting role in the Netflix production “Nyad”. De Niro was nominated for “Blood Moon”.
During his acceptance speech at the 96th Academy Awards, host Jimmy Kimmel couldn’t help but mention that De Niro and Foster were among the nominees 48 years ago, and it’s the same today. By the way, he allowed himself to joke about the 80-year-old actor and the 61-year-old. From the stage he said of Foster:
48 years ago she was too young to be his daughter, now she is 20 years too old to be his girlfriend.
“It’s true,” Jodie Foster said to the camera. Her partner Alexandra Hedison, like the actress, responded with a smile. And why did Kimmel allow himself to make such a joke? Probably because De Niro, 80, a few months ago.
The taxi driver is 48 years old. De Niro turned down big money for the project
Robert De Niro believed in the potential of the script for the film “Taxi Driver”, written by Paul Schrader, so much that he agreed to star in the production for PLN 35,000. dollars, although he was offered remuneration of half a million dollars for other projects. It was De Niro who came up with the classic line “You talkin’ to me?”, which the screenwriter commented with the words: – It’s the best thing in this movie, and I didn’t write it. .
De Niro is the winner of two awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In addition to “The Godfather Part II”, he won an Oscar for his role in “Raging Bull”.
Source: Gazeta
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