De Niro won his only Best Actor Oscar for this true story of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violent and self-destructive behavior destroyed his professional and personal life. This was De Niro’s fourth of nine collaborations with Scorsese.

“The film that many consider the finest of its decade, ‘Raging Bull,’ has aged well, and not just because it was filmed in black and white.”     – Ty Burr, Boston Globe