Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Robert De Niro to Receive SAG Life Achievement Award
Variety ^ | November 12, 2019 | Dave McNary

Posted on 11/13/2019 8:43:23 AM PST by EdnaMode

Robert De Niro will be honored with a SAG life achievement award.

The legendary actor, who currently stars in Netflix’s “The Irishman” and Warner Bros.’ “Joker,” will receive the performers’ union’s top accolade at the 26th annual SAG Awards on Jan. 19 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

The award is given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession.”

“Robert De Niro is an actor of extraordinary depth and ability,” said SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris. “The characters he creates captivate our imaginations. From the smoldering inferno of young Vito Corleone to the raging bull Jake Lamotta and everybody’s grandpa Ben Whittaker, he continues to touch our hearts and open our minds to new and exciting worlds of understanding and emotion. It is my great privilege to announce that SAG-AFTRA’s highest honor will be presented to one of the most singular talents of our generation, Robert De Niro.”

De Niro won Academy Awards for “The Godfather Part II” and “Raging Bull.” He was nominated for “Taxi Driver,” “The Deer Hunter,” “Awakenings,” “Cape Fear” and “Silver Linings Playbook.”

De Niro won a SAG Award as a cast member of “American Hustle” and received SAG Award nominations for “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Marvin’s Room.” He broke out in 1973 with “Bang the Drum Slowly” and “Mean Streets,” the first of nine collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Those collaborations have included “Goodfellas,” “Cape Fear,” “Casino” and “The Irishman.”

De Niro received Emmy nominations for starring in and producing “Wizard of Lies” and for executive producing “When They See Us.”

In 1989, he and Jane Rosenthal founded the Tribeca Film Center, the first commercial space in Tribeca dedicated to housing film, television, and entertainment companies. After the attacks of 9/11, De Niro and Rosenthal co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival as a way to breathe new life into their neighborhood and spur economic development.

De Niro said, “I have been a member of this union for over 50 years. It’s an honor to receive this award from SAG-AFTRA.”


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: amptp; deniro; hollyweird; hollywood; punchy; robertdeniro; sag; sagaftra; screenactorsguild; tds; trump
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-38 last
To: EdnaMode

None of his movies were ever on my must see list.

To me he was always a personality, period, and never an actor - just someone hired to portray his nasty self in a different role, because the role, the character, was like De Niro himself - nasty.


21 posted on 11/13/2019 9:24:05 AM PST by Wuli
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode

Robert De Zero


22 posted on 11/13/2019 9:42:36 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Wuli

He says things and does things on film that he would be protesting to CNN for the same actions done in the real world...and has no problem taking million dollar paychecks for his inner hypocrisy. Sounds a lot like Joe and Hunter. A fraud.


23 posted on 11/13/2019 9:48:52 AM PST by sanjuanbob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: rlmorel

I was thinking of the Film Actors Guild, but I know the difference. Still, I read “SAG” as “Film Actors Guild”, thanks to Team America.


24 posted on 11/13/2019 9:51:40 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Pollster1

I knew you knew the difference, and that is what was in the story, but...my mind transposed those two organizations in the blink of an eye!


25 posted on 11/13/2019 9:54:22 AM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode

F De Niro!

F the SAG!

Just like this lowlife said about Trump...


26 posted on 11/13/2019 9:55:44 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

[[Is it SAG or FAG?!]]

Saggy Fags


27 posted on 11/13/2019 10:06:24 AM PST by Bob434
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode

More self congratulations from within the circle.


28 posted on 11/13/2019 10:13:04 AM PST by ealgeone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode

Well DeNir saggy and sagging all over.....so why not?

(I no longer watch ANY ‘Awards’ shows. It is just the Hollywood Left giving awards to themselves. Nothing more.


29 posted on 11/13/2019 10:13:11 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode

Potty Mouth Award ?


30 posted on 11/13/2019 10:40:39 AM PST by butlerweave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode

I think Mr. DeNiro is a great actor.

I’ve enjoyed his movies over the years.

He’s worthy of the award.

With all that said, I’ll never again go to see him in a movie, or buy a dvd with him in a starring role. His ugly, vicious comments about Trump and his supporters have made him dead to me.


31 posted on 11/13/2019 10:52:18 AM PST by Kharis13
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode

As an actor I judge him as just OK. I don’t think he is special in any way and rather plays the same role in every movie.


32 posted on 11/13/2019 11:20:50 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode

America Hating and Marxist Pig Robert De Niro will be honored with a SAG life achievement award.


33 posted on 11/13/2019 12:26:53 PM PST by eyeamok
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

A white old man why not a black man or women, let me start the ball rolling..............


34 posted on 11/13/2019 12:34:11 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode

The award is given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession.”


35 posted on 11/14/2019 12:31:37 AM PST by MarvinStinson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode

Usually, when they give you a Lifetime achievement award, your lifetime is just about over.


36 posted on 11/14/2019 6:35:58 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode
Sunday 15 November 1998

The case uncovers the brutal methods used to snare young women - some as young as 15 - into a call-girl agency specialising in wealthy, high- profile clients.

Six people are charged with the running of an international prostitution ring, whose call-girls entertained the actor Robert de Niro...

De Niro, despite a much publicised "arrest" in Paris while filming a movie earlier this year, was questioned only as a witness and occasional client of the network's prostitutes.





37 posted on 11/26/2019 12:38:37 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EdnaMode

Well, it is holloywierd where the pedophiles like little bobby run the place.


38 posted on 11/26/2019 12:45:32 PM PST by CodeToad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-38 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson