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Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer. Considered one of his generation's greatest and most influential actors, De Niro has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards. He was honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019. De Niro was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016. De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. His first credited screen role was in Brian de Palma's Greetings (1968). De Niro's first collaboration with Martin Scorsese was with the crime drama film Mean Streets (1973). De Niro has earned two Academy Awards: one for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II (1974) and the other for Best Actor portraying Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's drama Raging Bull (1980). De Niro was also Oscar-nominated for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He is also known for his film roles in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America(1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Angel Heart (1987), The Untouchables (1987), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He directed and acted in A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). His comedic roles include Hi, Mom! (1970), Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999) and its sequel, Analyze That (2002), the Meet the Parents films (2000–2010), and The Intern (2015). Also known for his television roles, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film The Wizard of Lies (2017), earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He received further Emmy Award nominations for producing the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019) and for portraying Robert Mueller on Saturday Night Live. De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which has produced several films alongside his own. Also with Rosenthal, he founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. Many of De Niro's films are considered classics of American cinema. Six of De Niro's films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" as of 2023. Five films are featured on the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the 100 greatest American films ever. Timeout magazine's list of 100 best movies included seven of De Niro's films, as chosen by actors in the industry.

Robert De Niro

Dr. Otto Octavius
for Dr. Otto Octavius in Spider-Man (2001)
Suggested by nightmare1398

Despite David Koepp being credited as the 2002 writer, he only did the early draft for it as it was rewritten by Alvin Sargent & Scott Rosenberg. David Koepp's original script was WAY different. While they are similar dialouge and scenes like the opening lab, Peter waking up to school and fight flash, Norman talking to the mirror, the parade, the dinner and climax on the bridge, they are all executed differently. For one, Peter leaves the lab at night, the fight with the Carjacker is in a factory rather than a warehouses, more scenes with Jamison, no Brant nor Hoffman. Doc Ock was a secondary villain. There's no graduation scene, additional scenes with Peter and Aunt May as he moves out, it was set in the winter after Uncle Ben died and Peter gets the traditional suit, the parade is not in Time Square, the dinner scene is followed by this scene with the cut be discovered by a handshake with Norman, and because Goblin attacked Aunt May, Peter let's out his rage towards MJ and burns his suit with the next morning be the climax in a foggy winter morning with Harry and MJ be bait for Norman/Goblin. He kidnaps MJ as Peter buys a new advanced suit and MJ is the one who blows up Goblin's glider and he doesn't die either but ends up arrested. It was arguably better than what we got instead. He even makes his suit more comic accurately with drawed on webbing and logo, white mesh for eyes with Ditko shaped eyes and colors described as blood red and midnight blue.