B000P0J09M

085391163121

1990

1990-09-21

145

2h 25min

Top rated movie #17 , Won 1 Oscar, 44 wins & 38 nominations total

Martin Scorsese

Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese

Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

Barbara De Fina, Bruce S. Pustin, Irwin Winkler

Michael Ballhaus

James Y. Kwei, Thelma Schoonmaker

Ellen Lewis

Kristi Zea

Maher Ahmad

Leslie Bloom

Richard Bruno

Alan D Angerio, William A. Farley, Carl Fullerton, Ilona Herman, Allen Weisinger

Bruce S. Pustin, Mark Canton

Vebe Borge, Susan E. Fiore, Deborah Lupard, Joseph P. Reidy

John R. Ford, Robert Griffon Jr., Caryl Loeb, John McDonnell, Arne Olsen, Susan Pileggi, Louis Sanchez, Robin Standefer, Bruce Swanson, Bill Gold, Manny Sanchez

Michael Berenbaum, Ron Bochar, William Docker, Tom Fleischman, Frank Graziadei, Brian Johnson, Frank Kern, Bruce Kitzmeyer, Skip Lievsay, Marissa Littlefield, Bruce Pross, Fred Rosenberg, James Sabat, Louis Sabat, Anne Sawyer, Gail Showalter, Jeffrey Stern, Philip Stockton, Cory Coken, Marko A. Costanzo, Mel Zelniker

Connie Brink, Tony Parmelee

Richard Greenberg

Paul Bucossi, Peter Bucossi, Norman Douglass, Roy Farfel, Nicholas J. Giangiulio, Tony Guida, Phil Neilson, Janet Paparazzo, Don Picard, Michael Russo, Alex Stevens, Shawn O Neil

Florian Ballhaus, Jerry DeBlau, David M. Dunlap, Brian Fitzsimons, Dennis Gamiello, John Lowry, Bobby Mancuso, Larry McConkey, Scot A. Nederman-Paul, Peter John Petraglia, Barry Wetcher, Russ Caldwell, Larry Huston, Nils Johnson, Gábor Kövér, Eric Leigh

Sylvia Fay, Laura Rosenthal

Jennifer L. Bryan, Robert Dean Jackson, Thomas Lee Keller, Susan O Donnell, Carol H. Beule, Wendy Rolfe Evered

Amy Auchincloss, Kent Blocher, David Leonard, Tom San Martin, Kate Sanford, Arnold Shuster

Daniel Coss, Amy Herman, Steve Rose, Neri Kyle Tannenbaum, Sasha Tsyrlin

Christopher Brooks

Sheila Paige

Bill Curry Jr., Robert Leddy, Patrick Hogan

Todd Arnow, Elaine Bass, Saul Bass, Marion Billings, Sharon A. Briggs, Robin Chambers, Dermot Conley, Janet Crosby, Alesandra M. Cuomo, Michael DeCasper, John Fischer, Michele Giordano, Julia Judge, Ernie Karpeles, Cayle Lewis, John Manca, David I. Miller, Ron Mitchell, Jan Nizen, Heather Norton, Stephen R. Pacca, Christopher Swartout, Robert Lee Whitlock II, Al Cerullo, Dianne E. Collins, Bill Daly, Richard De Witt

Biography, Crime, Drama

Warner Bros.

USA

English, Italian

R

8.7

1143757

90

Goodfellas (stylized GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of the 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy by Pileggi. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

Scorsese initially titled the film Wise Guy and postponed making it; he and Pileggi later changed the title to Goodfellas. To prepare for their roles in the film, De Niro, Pesci and Liotta often spoke with Pileggi, who shared research material left over from writing the book. According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals wherein Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted. The director made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines he liked most and put them into a revised script, which the cast worked from during principal photography.

Goodfellas premiered at the 47th Venice International Film Festival on September 9, 1990, where Scorsese was awarded with Silver Lion for Best Director, and was released in the United States on September 19, 1990, by Warner Bros. The film was made on a budget of $25 million, and grossed $47 million. Goodfellas received widespread critical acclaim upon release: the critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes calls it arguably the high point of Martin Scorsese s career . The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, with Pesci winning for Best Supporting Actor. The film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, including Best Film and Best Director. Additionally, Goodfellas was named the year s best film by various critics groups.

Goodfellas is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, particularly in the gangster genre. In 2000, it was deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. Its content and style have been emulated in numerous other films and television series.

$25,000,000 (estimated)

$6,368,901

$46,909,721

$47,036,784

Gangster,mafia,organized crime,sadistic psychopath,rise and fall