Martin Scorsese "Goodfellas", and its excessive violence that garnered it a reputation as possibly the most violent American gangster film ever made. Indeed, many of the tropes and tricks of the earlier film resurfaced more or less intact, most obviously the casting of both Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, Pesci once again playing an unbridled psychopath. Sharon Stone was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance. During the filming Scorsese played a background part as a gambler at one of the tables. Scorsese still found time for a four-hour documentary in 1995, titled "A Personal Journey with Martin
Harvey Keitel trying to redeem himself. He co-starred in the movie "The Piano" in 1993, and played an efficient cleanup expert, Winston "The Wolf" Wolfe in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction". Keitel starred as a police detective in Spike Lee's "Clockers" (an adaptation of Richard Price's novel, co-produced by Martin Scorsese). In 1996, Keitel had a major role in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's film "From Dusk till Dawn", and in 1997, he starred in the crime drama "Cop Land", which also starred Sylvester Stallone, Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro. His later roles include the fatherly Satan in "Little Nicky," a wise