Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime film co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese, co-written by Mardik Martin, and starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro. It was produced by Warner Bros. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 2, 1973, and was released on October 14.[3] De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as “Johnny Boy” Civello.
In 1997, Mean Streets was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, who deemed it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.[4]
