Martin Scorsese AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list. Scorsese has often said he thinks De Niro's best work under his direction was Rupert Pupkin in "The King of Comedy". After the turn of the century, Scorsese found a new muse with younger actor Leonardo DiCaprio, collaborating for five feature films to date, along with one short. Several critics have compared Scorsese's new partnership with DiCaprio with his previous one with De Niro. Frequent collaborators also include Victor Argo (6), Harry Northup (6), Harvey Keitel (5), Murray Moston (5), J. C. MacKenzie (3), Joe Pesci (3), Frank Vincent (3) and Verna Bloom (3).
Robert De Niro time. They once again appeared together in "Righteous Kill" (2008). De Niro played Master Chief Billy Sunday in the biographical film "Men of Honor" (2000), based on the life of Carl Brashear, the first African American to become a U.S. Navy Master Diver. He also hosted "9/11" (2002), a documentary about the 9/11 attacks, shown on CBS and focusing on video footage made by Jules and Gedeon Naudet that showed the role of firefighters following the attacks. He reprised his role as Jack Byrnes in "Meet the Fockers" (2004) and was featured in "Stardust" (2007). All of the films were