Taxi Driver

1976

Directed By: Martin Scorsese

Written By: Paul Schrader

Starring: Robert De Niro; Jodie Foster; Albert Brooks; Harvey Keitel; Leonard Harris; Peter Boyle; Cybill Shepherd

Taxi Driver is a 1976 American vigilante film with neo-noir and psychological thriller elements directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. Set in New York City following the Vietnam War, the film stars Robert De Niro.

The film is regularly cited by critics, film directors, and audiences alike as one of the greatest films of all time. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, it won the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The American Film Institute ranked Taxi Driver as the 52nd-Greatest American Film on its AFI’s 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list. The film also ranks No. 17 on Empire Magazine’s 2008 list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All-Time. In 2012 Sight & Sound named it the 31st-Best Film Ever in its decennial critics’ poll, ranked with The Godfather Part II, and the 5th-Greatest Film of All-Time on its directors’ poll. The film was considered “culturally, historically, or aesthetically” significant by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1994.