The Oscar nominations announcement is only days away, and everything seems to indicate that Killers of The Flower Moon will finally break a nomination streak for Robert De Niro. Killers of the Flower Moon is De Niro and Martin Scorsese’s tenth collaboration. Before this film, they had already worked together in Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, New York, New York, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino, and The Irish Man, which was the iconic duo reunion after 24 years.
Killers of the Flower Moon isn’t doing so well in terms of winning awards during this season. However, it will surely get several Academy Awards Nominations. According to Oscars 2024 predictions, the film will likely compete for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Regarding acting categories, even though Leonardo DiCaprio’s chances of getting an Oscar nomination are pretty much dead, Lily Gladstone might take the awards, while Robert De Niro is most likely going to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor, which will mean the end of a long streak while working with Scorsese.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscars 2024 Chances Look To Be Completely Dead Now
With the Golden Globes ceremony outcomes and recent SAG Awards nominations announcement, Leonardo DiCaprio’s chances at the Oscars are few.
Killers Of The Flower Moon Will Likely Be De Niro’s First Oscar Nomination For A Scorsese Movie Since 1992
Robert De Niro’s Oscar history while working with Martin Scorsese marks a positive tendency considering he has received nominations in 3 out of 9 collaborations so far, which could turn into 4 out of 10 if this year’s prediction finally materializes. His role as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver is the first of the three nominations while working together. With his second nomination, which was for his work in Raging Bull, De Niro won an Academy Award for the second time in his career. The third and last nomination was in 1992 for Cape Fear, meaning he hasn’t been nominated while working with Scorsese in 32 years.
During that time, De Niro and Scorsese worked together in two more movies: Casino, and The Irish Man, both of which featured Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro’s iconic duo. However, De Niro’s performances were overlooked by the Academy, which contributed to the 32-year streak. Nonetheless, leaving out his Scorsese films, De Niro received only one nomination in those 32 years, and it was for Silver Lining’s Playbook when he broke a 21-year nomination streak. In other words, De Niro’s lack of nominations goes beyond his collaborations with Scorsese.
Killers Of The Flower Moon Probably Won’t Break De Niro’s 43-Year Streak Since He Last Won
Even though Killers of the Flower Moon is most likely breaking De Niro’s 32-year nomination streak, it probably won’t break a longer one. De Niro’s last Oscar win was in 1980 for Raging Bull and, despite the fact it would be great to see him break Katherine Hepburn’s Oscar record, all predictions indicate that Robert Downey Jr. will take the statue for his role of Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Such a long winning streak for an icon like De Niro is quite weird and makes one wonder if it will ever be broken, considering he is 80 years old.
Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon is the next film from director Martin Scorsese, based on the non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, initially captured by David Grann. When members of the Osage tribe are murdered in the 1920s via mysterious circumstances shortly after the discovery of oil on Native-American soil, the FBI is established to uncover the true reason behind them.
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio , Louis Cancelmi , Jillian Dion , Scott Shepherd , Jesse Plemons , JaNae Collins , Robert De Niro , Jason Isbell , Cara Jade Myers , Lily Gladstone
- Runtime
- 200minutes
- Writers
- Eric Roth , Martin Scorsese
- Budget
- $200 million
- Studio(s)
- Paramount Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Apple , Paramount Pictures
