Robert De Niro won the Oscar Award for best actor for movie Raging Bull. He was a seven-time Academy Award nominee and won Oscars playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974) and Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980). For his first Oscar win, De Niro was not present and Francis Ford Coppola accepted the award on his behalf. In 2009, he was among the five recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, presented by U.S. President Barack Obama.
