Taxi Driver | |
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Directed by | Martin Scorsese |
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Written by | Paul Schrader |
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Music by | Bernard Herrmann |
Cinematography | Michael Chapman |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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113 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.3 million |
Box office | $28.3 million |
Taxi Driver: Original Soundtrack Recording | |
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Soundtrack album by Bernard Herrmann | |
Released | May 19, 1998 |
Recorded | December 22 and 23, 1975 |
Genre | Soundtracks |
Length | 61:33 |
Label | Arista |
Producer | Michael Phillips, Neely Plumb |
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AllMusic |
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, and features Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks.
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 #17 on Empire'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 fifth-greatest film of all time on its directors' poll. The film was considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the US Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1994.