Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro launched his prolific career in Brian De Palma's The Wedding Party in 1969. By 1974, he had won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Godfather, Part II. In 1980, he won his second Oscar, as Best Actor, in Scorsese's Raging Bull. 

De Niro has also earned five Academy Award nominations (Taxi Driver and Cape Fear, The Deer Hunter, Awakenings, and Silver Linings Playbook), as well as receiving the coveted Kennedy Center Honors in 2009.

Upcoming films include The Comeback Trail, Wash Me in the River, Killers of the Flower Moon, About My Father and an untitled David O. Russell project.

De Niro takes pride in the development of Tribeca Productions and the Tribeca Film Festival, which he co-founded in 2002 with Jane Rosenthal as a response to the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Tribeca's A Bronx Tale in 1993 marked De Niro’s directorial debut and he later directed The Good Shepherd.

W. Kamau Bell

Kamau Bell is an Emmy & Peabody Award-winning TV host, filmmaker, comedian, husband, and dad. He is on the road for his new comedy tour, “Who’s With Me?” Tickets are available at www.wkamaubell.com. Kamau is the reigning champion of Celebrity Jeopardy where he played for DonorsChoose. He has also written a chapter in the newly-released Michael Lewis book, Who Is Government? - The Untold Story of Public Service which is a New York Times bestseller. Kamau is also the host of the ACLU’s official podcast At Liberty. 

For seven seasons, he was the host and executive producer of the five-time Emmy Award-winning CNN Original Series United Shades of America, available to stream on Max. In 2023, he won an Emmy for his HBO documentary 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed. He also won a Peabody Award for his 2022 Showtime docu-series We Need to Talk About Cosby. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Do the Work: An Antiracist Activity Book and the author of The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. His comedy special, Private School Negro, is available on Netflix. Kamau is on the board of directors for DonorsChoose, a nonprofit that helps teachers raise money for class projects, and Live Free, a nonprofit dedicated to ending gun violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization. Kamau is also the ACLU’s Celebrity Ambassador for Racial Justice. In 2023, Kamau and his wife Melissa Hudson Bell co-founded Who Knows Best Productions, a media production company in Oakland, CA. He cares too much and sleeps too little.

Martin Scorsese

MARTIN SCORSESE is an Academy Award-winning Director and one of the most influential filmmakers working today. He has directed critically acclaimed, award-winning films including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Shutter Island, Hugo and Silence. In 2007, his film The Departed won an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture. Scorsese also directed The Wolf of Wall Street and The Irishman, which both received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Picture. His latest feature, Killers of The Flower Moon, which received 10 Oscar nominations including Best Director and Best Picture, made its World Premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was released exclusively in theaters worldwide in October 2023 and on Apple TV+ in January 2024. Scorsese has also produced several projects, including the eight-part docudrama series Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, which premiered on Fox Nation. Scorsese has directed numerous documentaries including the Peabody Award winning No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia, Italianamerican, The Last Waltz, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies, Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, Public Speaking, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, and the Emmy nominated docu-series Pretend It’s a City. He received Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Nonfiction Special for his documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World. Additionally, Scorsese co-directed The 50 Year Argument in 2014 with his longtime documentary editor David Tedeschi and executive produced the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, winning an Emmy and DGA Award for directing the pilot episode. Scorsese and Tedeschi also co-directed Personality Crisis: One Night Only, which premiered at the 2022 New York Film Festival and was released on Showtime in April 2023. Scorsese and Tedeschi’s latest collaboration, Beatles 64, which Scorsese produced, premiered on Disney+ on November 29. Scorsese is the founder and chair of The Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of motion picture history.