Raging Bull

Origin: U.S (Chartoff-Winkler Productions) 1980
Length: 129 minutes
Format: BW/Technicolor
Director: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler
Screenplay: Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin, from book by Jake La Motta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage
Photography: Michael Chapman
Music: Pietro Mascagni
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Mario Gallo, Frank Adonis, Joseph Bono, Frank Topham, Lori Anne Flax, Charles Scorsese, Don Dunphy, Bill Hanrahan, Rita Bennett
Oscars: Robert De Niro(actor), Thelma Schoonmaker(editing)
Oscar Nominations: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff(best picture), Martin Scorsese(director), Joe Pesci(actor in support role), Cathy Moriarty(actress in support role), Michael Chapman(photography), Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les Lazarowitz(sound)
Links: Raging Bull Wiki, Raging Bull Trailer, Jake LaMotta Wiki

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This boxing biopic was a personal project for actor Robert De Niro, who discovered the as-told-to autobiography of former middleweight champion Jake La Motta and persuaded director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader, his Taxi Driver collaborators, to commit to the intense, apparently unpromising material. With the Rocky movies - ironically also produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff - celebrating the ring underdog who survives and triumphs standing as the most successful sports saga of all time, Raging Bull dares to deal with the anti-Rocky, a hungry contender who winds up a bloated has-been without really learning anything along the way, or finding satisfaction in his achievements.

Raging Bull has garnered a high critical reputation and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made along with Scorsese and De Niro's other famed collaboration from that era, Taxi Driver(1976). It is one of five films that has been named to the National Film Registry in its first year of eligibility( along with Do The Right Thing, Taxi Driver, Toy Story and Fargo).