He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for Bullets Over Broadway. He has appeared inside many more significant films, including A Bronx Tale, Analyze This and The Usual Suspects.

He processed his directorial debut by using a 2002 television film Women vs. Men. He likewise directed a 2004 film Noel.

As The dramatist, Palminteri authored A Bronx Tale and Faithful, and as a film writer, he late adapted each one stage productions into motion pictures. A Bronx Tale, which Palminteri has claimed to be semi-autobiographical, is particularly relevant to his career; because he got spent a majority of his acting career within microscopic character roles, he sold a play's film rights to Robert DeNiro sole on a affliction that Palminteri himself exist as allowed to play the role of Machiavellian mafia boss Cub, his number one notable major role within cinema.