"Whose life was the 1980 film ""Raging Bull"" about?"
Raging Bull claiming the film to be a sequel to the original film, which could most likely "tarnish" its predecessor's reputation. In August 2012, the producers retitled the film "The Bronx Bull", disassociating itself as a sequel to "Raging Bull", and the lawsuit was subsequently dropped. Raging Bull Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical black-and-white sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's memoir "". It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive and obsessive rage, sexual
Raging Bull Film Institute's (BFI) magazine, "Monthly Film Journal", said ""Raging Bull" may prove to be Scorsese's finest achievement to date". "Raging Bull" was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Cinematography, Sound (Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, and Les Lazarowitz) and Editing at the 1980 Academy Awards. The film won two awards: Best Actor for De Niro and Best Film Editing. The Oscars were held the day after President Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr., who did it as an attempt to impress Jodie Foster, who played a child