In the 1995 drama "The Usual Suspects," Palminteri played U.S.
The film also received Oscar nominations for Best Director (Allen), Best Supporting Actor (Palminteri), Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Tilly), Best Original Screenplay (Allen and Douglas McGrath), Best Production Design ( Santo Loquasto and Susan Bode) and Best Costume Design (Jeffrey Kurland). Dianne Wiest won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a renowned stage star. Woody Allen's 1994 film "Bullets Over Broadway" starred John Cusack as piaywright David Shayne, who discovered a gangster named Cheech had an uncanny aptitude for writing. The boy was played at different stages by Francis Capra and Lillo Brancato, Jr.
The film version starred De Niro as a bus driver determined to keep his young son from being influenced by a local mob boss (played by Palminteri). Robert De Niro made his directorial debut in the 1993 film "A Bronx Tale," based on Paliminteri's 1980s play.
They played Detroit auto plant workers who hatched a plan to steal the contents of a safe at their union's headquarters. Derived from Joseph Conrad's 1908 tale "The Duel: A Military Story" (also known as "The Point of Honor"), the film starred Keitel and Keith Carradine as early 19th-century French army officers involved in a long-standing feud.Ĭo-written and directed by Paul Schrader - who wrote the screenplay for "Taxi Driver" - the 1978 drama "Blue Collar" teamed Keitel, Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto. "The Duellists" (1977) - Sir Ridley Scott's first feature film as a director - might be the best-looking picture ever made. The film was nominated for three other Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster) and Best Original Score (a posthumous nod for Bernard Herrmann). Keitel played a colorful pimp in Scorsese's "Taxi Driver," which earned De Niro his first Best Actor Oscar nomination as the title character who gradually went mad in New York City.