Robert De Niro teams up with director Martin Scorsese to create one of cinema's eternal masterpieces. Nominated for eight <b>Academy Awards®</b>, including Best Picture and Best Director, this contemporary classic is "ambitious, violent, poetic and lyrical" (<em>The New York Times</em>). De Niro turns in a powerful, Best Actor Oscar®-winning performance as Jake La Motta, a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty co-star.