Travis takes a job as a night shift taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia and loneliness. Marine and Vietnam War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and living alone in New York City. Travis Bickle is a 26-year-old honorably discharged U.S. In 1994, 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 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. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, the film received numerous accolades including the 1976 Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, and four nominations at the 49th Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, Best Actor (for De Niro), and Best Supporting Actress (for Foster).Дespite having generated further controversy since 1981 for its role in John Hinckley Jr.'s motive to attempt to assassinate then- President Ronald Reagan, the film has remained popular, culturally significant and inspirational of its time. The film was theatrically released by Columbia Pictures on February 7, 1976, where it was a critical and commercial success, despite generating controversy for its graphic violence at the climactic ending, and casting of then 12-year-old Foster in the role of a child prostitute.

Production concluded that same year, with a score being composed by Bernard Herrmann in his final score, which he finished just several hours before his death the film is dedicated to him. With cinematographer Michael Chapman, filming began in the summer of 1975 in New York City, with actors taking pay cuts to ensure that the project could be completed on a low budget of $1.9 million. With The Wrong Man (1956) and A Bigger Splash (1973) as inspiration, Scorsese wanted the film to feel like a dream to audiences. Set in a decaying and morally bankrupt New York City following the Vietnam War, the film follows Travis Bickle (De Niro), a taxi driver and veteran, and his deteriorating mental state as he works nights in the city. Taxi Driver is a 1976 American film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks.

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