Robert De Niro Oscar Acceptance Speech: 53rd Oscars, 1981

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Robert De Niro wins the Oscar for Best Actor for "Raging Bull (1980)" at the 53rd Academy Awards. Sally Field presents the award.

I forgot my line... so the director wrote them down for me. I want to thank everyone. Sister said so often but it's true.. and it's what can I say. I want to thank Bruno; Richard Bruno for the terrific costumes. Frank Warner, Mrs. Corman Pete Savage and if Pete wasn't involved in the film or had he wouldn't have gotten it started. I'm a little nervous excuse me never would have the film never would have gotten started. My quest more for the makeup… Mary Keats. The late gene Baur trial II Owen and Bob Irwin Winkler and Bob Charde off Vicky LaMotta and all the other wives and Joey LaMotta even though he's suing us. I hope that settled soon enough so I can go to go over to his house and eat once in a while… and Mark Martin and Paul Schrader who wrote the script; and of course Jake LaMotta. Whose life…

[Applause]

it's all about. Marty Scorsese who…

[Applause]

gave me and all the other actors and everyone on the film all the love and trust. That anyone could give anyone and it's just wonderful as a director; and I want to thank my mother and father for having me, and my grandmother and grandfather for having them; and everyone else who involved in the film and I hope that I can share this with it with anyone that it means anything to and the rest of the world and especially all those terrible things that are happening and I love everyone…

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