The role won him an Oscar, and there is no doubt he deserved nothing less than that. La Motta wants to believe he is not an animal, but he is his own worst enemy. He causes tensions and explosive scenes with his family, all of whom ending up leaving him in one way or another. La Motta’s jealousy, rage, and paranoia consume his life. But all of the things that make him successful in the ring are the things that destroy his life outside of the ring. To him, boxing is the definition of being a man.

A complete animal in the ring, but sadly…also a complete animal outside of the ring. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.'new 4K restoration by The Criterion Collection is the definitive copy that everyone should own!'īased on the boxer’s real life, Raging Bull is all about middle-weight champion Jake La Motta. This story first appeared in a December stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. That really stuck with me.” She still regrets taking off for Europe the day the Oscar nominations were announced. “He said the most important thing for an actor was to listen. Moriarty says the best advice she received was from De Niro. Moriarty was 17, living in the Bronx and completely unaware that a bicoastal search was going on for an actress who “must be blonde and have excellent figure.

“I can’t say enough about how much they helped me,” she says. One person who owes her career to the trio was Cathy Moriarty, who received an Oscar nom for supporting actress. The Hollywood Reporter said the film was “probably the most unromanticized movie biography ever produced in Hollywood.” Yet Raging Bull got eight Academy Award nominations, with De Niro winning for actor and Thelma Schoonmaker for editing.

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