Chazz Palminteri was nominated for a 1995 Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway. For that same performance, Paliminteri won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male and received a SAG Award nomination.

Palminteri's extensive film credits include Analyze This, Hurlyburly, A Night at the Roxbury, Mulholland Falls, Faithful, Diabolique, Jade, The Usual Suspects, The Perez Family, The Last Word, A Bronx Tale and the forthcoming TNT movie Boss of Bosses. He recently starred in the HBO production Excellent Cadavers.

Palminteri has also written the plays A Bronx Tale and