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n. a person who drives a taxicab
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Taxi Driver is a 1976 American vigilante film with neo-noir and psychological thriller elements, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. Set in New York City following the Vietnam War, the film stars Robert De Niro, and features Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks.
The film is regularly cited by critics, film directors, and audiences alike as one of the greatest films of all time. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, it won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The American Film Institute ranked Taxi Driver as the 52nd-greatest American film on its AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list. The film also ranks #17 on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. 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. 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 1994.
Taxi Driver is a 1976 Martin Scorsese film.
Taxi Driver may also refer to:
- Taxicab driver
- Taxi Driver (1954 film), an Indian Hindi film directed by Chetan Anand
- Taxi Driver (1977 film), an Indian Malayalam film
- Taxi Driver (1981 film), a Telugu film directed by S.P. Chitti Babu
- Taxi Driver: Oko Ashewo, a 2015 film starring Odunlade Adekola and Femi Jacobs
- Taxi Driver (TV series), an Israeli TV show that premiered in 2010
- Taxi Driver (album), a 2004 album by Dynamic Duo
- "Taxi Driver" (song), by Gym Class Heroes
- "Taxi Driver", a song by Guitar Wolf from UFO Romantics
- "Taxi Driver", a song by Hanoi Rocks from Self Destruction Blues
- "Taxi Driver", a reggae song by Steel Pulse
"Taxi Driver" is a song by Gym Class Heroes. The song was first released on The Papercut EP, but was also included on the full-length and much more widely released The Papercut Chronicles. In the song's lyrics, frontman Travis McCoy namechecks 27 other bands and artists that Gym Class Heroes enjoy. "Taxi Driver" was the very first video produced for Gym Class Heroes. It was produced, along with many other videos by Bill Pealer, Jason Gillotti, and Ryan Smith long before the band was attached to any record label.
The song, was named #20 of the "50 Worst Songs of the '00s" in a 2009 Village Voice article.
Taxi Driver is a 1954 Hindi movie produced by Navketan Films. The film is directed by Chetan Anand and stars his brother Dev Anand, Dev's wife to be Kalpana Kartik and Johnny Walker. The film's music director is S. D. Burman and lyrics were written by Sahir Ludhianvi.
Taxi Driver is the first album by Dynamic Duo, released in 2004. The album features guest vocals from Brown Eyed Soul, Drunken Tiger, TBNY, Lisa, Bobby Kim, Eun Ji Won, Epik High, Asoto Union and other Korean artists.
Taxi Driver is a 1981 Telugu drama film directed by S.P. Chitti Babu starring Krishnam Raju, Jaya Prada and Mohan Babu in the lead. The music was composed by Chellapilla Satyam.
Taxi Driver ( - pronounced: Texi Driver) is an Israeli Comedy-drama TV show the began broadcasting on Yes Comedy in March 2010.
Taxi Driver is a 1977 Indian Malayalam film, directed P. N. Menon. The film stars Raghavan, Kuttyedathi Vilasini, S. P. Pillai and Sharada in lead roles. The film had musical score by Joshi.
Usage examples of "taxi driver".
The man was a silver-haired Black who had been a taxi driver until one day a passenger left a Hasselblad camera in his car and never put in a claim.
Considering how you were dressed, the taxi driver cruised around trying to find a place to park where we could help you to a bench on the path with as little scrutiny as possible.
I went back to my room and called the taxi driver to be ready at the exit barracks and when.
Her company, Semper Marine Services, is a contractor at the very lowest level of Avi's virtual corporation--only one of a dozen boats-and-divers outfits that they could have hired--so this is a bit like being interrogated by one's janitor or taxi driver.