De Niro was unknown at the time the credits mistakenly display his name as "Robert Denero". The film, which was co-directed with Leach and producer Cynthia Munroe, had been shot in 1963 but remained unreleased until 1969, when De Palma's star had risen sufficiently within the Greenwich Village filmmaking scene. Īn early association with a young Robert De Niro resulted in The Wedding Party. Once there, influences as various as drama teacher Wilford Leach, the Maysles brothers, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Andy Warhol, and Alfred Hitchcock impressed upon De Palma the many styles and themes that would shape his own cinema in the coming decades. in the discipline in 1964 and becoming one of the first male students among a female population. After receiving his undergraduate degree in 1962, De Palma enrolled at the newly coed Sarah Lawrence College as a graduate student in their theater department, earning an M.A. He won a regional science-fair prize for a project titled "An Analog Computer to Solve Differential Equations".Ĭareer 1960s and early career Įnrolled at Columbia University as a physics student, De Palma became enraptured with the filmmaking process after viewing Citizen Kane and Vertigo. When he was in high school, he built computers. He had a poor relationship with his father, and would secretly follow him to record his adulterous behavior this would eventually inspire the teenage character played by Keith Gordon in De Palma's 1980 film Dressed to Kill. He was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire, and attended various Protestant and Quaker schools, eventually graduating from Friends' Central School. His Italian-American parents were Vivienne DePalma (née Muti), and Anthony DePalma, an orthopedic surgeon who was the son of immigrants from Alberona, Province of Foggia. 8 Awards and nominations received by De Palma's filmsĭe Palma was born on September 11, 1940, in Newark, New Jersey, the youngest of three boys.His films have been criticized for their violence and sexual content but have also been championed by American critics such as Roger Ebert and Pauline Kael. His direction often makes use of quotations from other films or cinematic styles, and bears the influence of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard. ĭe Palma was a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors.
His films include mainstream box office hits such as Carrie (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980), Scarface (1983), The Untouchables (1987), and Mission: Impossible (1996), as well as cult favorites such as Sisters (1972), Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Blow Out (1981), Body Double (1984), Casualties of War (1989), Carlito's Way (1993), Femme Fatale (2002), and Passion (2012). With a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for his work in the suspense, crime and psychological thriller genres. Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter.
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