Raging Bull (1980). Warner Bros. Home Entertainment It’s the movie that won Robert De Niro his Oscar for Best Actor. It’s the movie that earned Martin Scorsese his first nomination for Best Director. It’s the movie where the guy who would later play Coach on Cheers sees a handsome boxer get mutilated and says, “He ain’t pretty no more.” It’s Raging Bull, and it will punch you in the face. Here are 15 facts to enhance your next viewing of one of the best sports dramas ever made. 1. Rocky. Comparisons to that other Oscar-winning boxing movie from four years earlier were inevitable, but the two were actually connected.