Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man and Jack Hazan's A Bigger Splash inspired Scorsese's camerawork in Taxi Driver.

Arthur Bremer shot presidential candidate George Wallace.

Robert De Niro starred in The Godfather, Part II.

Dan Perri was Scorsese's original choice to design the titles for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

Columbia Pictures gave Scorsese a budget of $1.3 million for Taxi Driver.

Filming for Taxi Driver began during a New York City summer heat wave and sanitation strike.

Bernard Herrmann completed the recording for the Taxi Driver soundtrack hours before his death.

Martin Scorsese directed Taxi Driver, a neo-noir psychological drama film written by Paul Schrader. The film is set in a morally decaying New York City following the Vietnam War.

Taxi Driver received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Taxi Driver was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (De Niro), and Best Supporting Actress (Foster) at the 49th Academy Awards.

Taxi Driver was theatrically released by Columbia Pictures.

John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, influenced by Taxi Driver.

Taxi Driver was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress.

The first "Collector's Edition" DVD of Taxi Driver was released.

De Niro expressed interest in returning to the character of Travis Bickle in a conversation with Actors Studio host James Lipton.

The "You talkin' to me?" segment was ranked number 10 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.

De Niro and Scorsese announced a possible sequel to Taxi Driver at a 25th-anniversary screening of Raging Bull.

A 30th-anniversary two-disc "Collector's Edition" DVD of Taxi Driver was released.

A Blu-ray of Taxi Driver was released to commemorate the film's 35th anniversary, including a 4K digital restoration.

Sight & Sound named Taxi Driver the 29th-best film ever in its decennial critics' poll.

Schrader disputed this in a 2024 interview, saying, "Robert is the one who wanted to do that. He asked Marty and I. [...] So he pressed Marty on it and Marty asked me and I said, 'Marty, that's the worst fucking idea I've ever heard. He doesn't have a cab anymore. He just sits there [laughs] making letter bombs.' But Bob didn't cotton to that idea, either."