
De Niro won an Oscar for his role and Scorsese was nominated as best director, as well as the film collected 6 other Oscar nominations. Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, which Hollywood suits were set to cancel, director Martin Scorsese said at Tribeca Film Festival (inset) on. He gained the weight by going on a culinary tour of Italy and France, bingeing on three large meals per day, with lots of pasta, meat, butter, ice cream and beer. 3, 2022 4:24 pm EST Directed by Martin Scorsese, 'Raging Bull' is a ferocious portrait of award-winning boxer Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro), a.

Robert De Niro gained approximately 60 pounds in four months to portray LaMotta in his later post-boxing years. In 1980, Martin Scorsese made Raging Bull, a film starring Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian American middleweight boxer. Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Robert De Niro packed on 60 pounds for which Martin Scorsese film? "
