/PRNewswire/ - dick clark productions announced today that two-time Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro will be honored with the "Hollywood Career Achievement Award." The awards ceremony will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in, 2015. The Hollywood Film Awards, the official launch of the awards season®, has recognized excellence in the art of cinema and filmmaking for 18 years, honoring some of the world's biggest stars. Honorees have gone on to garner many Oscar nominations and wins.
"The Hollywood Film Awards is an incredible brand, previewing some of the biggest movies and stars of the year, while launching the award season, " said as this year's recipient of the Hollywood Career Achievement Award."
Robert De Niro is currently starring in Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Intern" and will appear next in 20th Century Fox's "Joy, " coming out .
Past honorees of the "Hollywood Career Achievement Award" include, , among others.
"The Wedding Party" in 1969. By 1974 he had won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor in recognition of his critically acclaimed performance in "Bang the Drum Slowly" and from the National Society of Film Critic for Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets." In 1974 De Niro won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the young Vito Corleone in "The Godfather, Part II."
In 1980, he won his second Oscar, as Best Actor, for his extraordinary portrayal of Jake La Motta in Scorsese's "Raging Bull." De Niro has earned Academy Award nominations for his work in five additional films: as vet in "Awakenings;" in 1992 as Max Cady, an ex-con looking for revenge, in Scorsese's remake of the 1962 classic "Cape Fear;" and as a father to a bi-polar son in David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook."
In 2009, De Niro received the coveted Kennedy Center Honor for his distinguished acting. He also received the Hollywood Actor Award from the Film Festival, which he won again in 2012, and the Stanley Kubrick Award from the BAFTA Britannia Awards. In addition, AARP The Magazine gave De Niro the 2010 Movies for Grownups Lifetime Achievement Award. De Niro was honored with the Film Festival. He can be seen in theaters in Warner Bros.' "The Intern." He will next be seen in the upcoming boxing film "Hands of Stone, " Fox 2000 Pictures' "Joy, " Lionsgate's "Dirty Grandpa" and Grindhouse Entertainment's "Bus 657." Currently, he is filming HBO's "Wizard of Lies, " in which he is starring as Bernie Madoff and co-producing.
De Niro recently starred in Warner Bros.' "Grudge Match, " David O. Russell's "American Hustle, " CBS Films' "Last Vegas, " Relativity Media's "The Family, " Millennium's "The Killing Season, " and Lionsgate's "The Big Wedding." Other recent film credits include Focus Features' "Being Flynn, " Grindstone Entertainment's "Freelancers, " and "Red Lights, " New Line Cinema's "New Year's Eve, " thriller "Limitless, " "Little Fockers, " the third installment of the highly successful Tribeca Productions' "Meet the Parents" franchise, Filmauro's Italian romantic comedy "Manuale d'amore 3, " Nu Image Films' psychological thriller "Stone, " and 20th Century Fox's "Machete."
His distinguished body of work also includes performances in "True Confessions" and "Falling in Love";, " "Goodfellas, " and "Casino"; "; "The Untouchables"; "; "Jacknife"; "We're No Angels"; "Backdraft"; "Mad Dog and Glory"; Frankenstein"; "Sleepers" and "Wag the Dog"; "The Fan"; " "Ronin"; "Flawless"; Des McNuff's "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle"; "Fifteen Minutes"; "Showtime";, "Godsend;" "The Bridge of "; DreamWorks's "Shark Tale" "What Just Happened, " "Everybody's Fine."
De Niro takes pride in the development of his production company, Tribeca Productions, the Tribeca Film Center, which he founded with in 2001 as a response to the attacks on the World Trade Center. The festival was conceived to foster the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan through an annual celebration of film, music, and culture; the festival's mission is to promote as a major filmmaking center and help filmmakers reach the broadest possible audiences.
Through Tribeca Productions, De Niro develops projects on which he serves in a combination of capacities, including producer, director and actor. Tribeca's "A Bronx Tale" in 1993 marked De Niro's directorial debut. He later directed and co-starred in "The Good Shepherd" with . Other Tribeca features include "Thunderheart, " "Cape Fear, " "Mistress, " "Night and the City, " "The Night We Never Met, " "Faithful, " "Panther, " "Marvin's Room, " "Wag the Dog, " "Analyze This, " "Flawless, " " The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, " "Meet the Parents, " "Fifteen Minutes, " "Showtime, " "Analyze That" and "Meet the Fockers."
In 1992, Tribeca TV was launched with the acclaimed series "Tribeca." De Niro was one of the executive producers. Tribeca Productions is headquartered at De Niro's Tribeca Film Center in the Tribeca district of New York. The Film Center is a state-of-the-art office building designed for the Film and television industry. The facility features office space, a screening room, banquet hall and restaurant. The center offers a full range of services for entertainment professionals.
Last year's Hollywood Film Awards® honorees and presenters included, , , , , , , , , , , , , , Reese Witherspoon and Shaileene Woodley among others.
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