Which 1980 biographical boxing film about Jake LaMotta stars Robert De Niro?

The 1980 biographical boxing film about Jake LaMotta starring Robert De Niro is Raging Bull.

Directed by Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull adapts LaMotta’s memoir, Raging Bull: My Story. De Niro plays the volatile Italian-American middleweight boxer, whose professional ambition is intertwined with jealousy, rage, and destructive relationships. Joe Pesci plays his brother Joey, while Cathy Moriarty portrays his second wife, Vickie.

The film is known for its stark black-and-white cinematography and intensely choreographed boxing sequences. To portray LaMotta after his boxing career, De Niro gained roughly 60 pounds. The role required him to study boxing technique and capture the physical changes between LaMotta’s athletic years and his later life.

Raging Bull was not a major box-office success at first, but it became widely regarded as one of the greatest American films. De Niro won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film also won Best Film Editing. A common mix-up is with Rocky, which is a fictional boxing drama rather than a LaMotta biography.