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Robert De Niro Trivia
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- He formed his production company, TriBeCa Productions, in 1989.
- His boyhood idols among actors included Montgomery Clift, Robert Mitchum, and Marlon Brando. He preferred the darker, more character-driven work of these men to the older stars of Hollywood for whom their public persona as a star was more important than their immersion into the character.
- He was voted as the best actor of all time at FilmFour.com (2002)
- He started the whole "awards show ribbon" tradition by wearing a green ribbon on his lapel at the 1981 Academy Awards. The ribbon was in rememberance of several African-American children who were victims of a serial killer in Atlanta, Georgia in 1980-1981. The ribbon was given to him by a fan in the bleachers as he arrived; the victims' families had been wearing them for months.
- In 1993, he was tapped to star as Enzo Ferrari in the film Ferrari which was budgeted at $65 million (U.S.) and had Michael Mann attached as director. The project fell through.
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