Robert De Niro is honored by Meryl Streep and others at A Celebration of Film gala in Austin, Texas

Two of the most respected actors in Hollywood history, Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, attended Saturday’s A Celebration of Film gala at the University of Texas at Austin, with a donation dedicated in De Niro’s name.

De Niro was dressed in a dark navy blue shirt with a gray tie and glasses. Streep was dressed in a dark brown lace coat over a green top with dark brown pants and her hair was pulled back. She wore glasses and dangling earrings to the fall event.

The De Niro Curator of Film Endowment, announced three months ago, will display artifacts from De Niro’s career, including costumes, props and scripts, in the college building. Harry Ransom Centeraccording to the Austin American statesman.

The display will also feature an etched glass window featuring the Goodfellas star. De Niro, 79, made an “unnamed contribution” to fund the donation, according to the paper, which has a goal of $3 million.

Streep, 73, gave a speech at the event saying that De Niro has “the quality of consistency of character, but as an actor he is almost completely unpredictable” and is humble and loyal.

She said De Niro is a loyal friend and thanked him for his rebuilding efforts in setting up the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 after the events of September 11, 2001 in an effort to boost tourism to Manhattan.

De Niro said he began giving pieces of his prolific cinema collection to the Ransom Center in 2006, on the joke that he would otherwise have ended up in a Hoarders episode, the paper reported.

Streep gave a speech at the event saying that De Niro has “the quality of consistency of character, but as an actor he is almost completely unpredictable” and is humble and loyal

She said De Niro is a loyal friend and thanked him for his rebuilding efforts in setting up the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 after the events of September 11, 2001 in an effort to boost tourism to Manhattan.

De Niro thanked the institution’s film curator Steve Wilson “for producing the exhibition,” adding: “Frankly, if I’d seen all my junk standing this elegantly, I think I’d have kept it.”

The Cape Fear actor talks to the exhibition curator, Wilson during the cinematic exhibition

He said he followed in the footsteps of his late father, an artist, by keeping up with past collections, noting how his father’s studio has been preserved as it is since he used it.

“However, it seems like they can walk into the studio and see where he worked and get a sense of his process and his mind,” the actor said. And maybe it was those feelings of connecting to our past through something tangible that motivated me as I kept every script, costume, prop, prize, correspondence, calendar and notes.

“I thought maybe someday my family would get something out of all that mess. It hadn’t occurred to me at first that there might be more interest.’

De Niro said he started giving pieces of his prolific cinema collection to the Ransom Center in 2006, on the joke that otherwise he would have ended up in an episode of Hoarders.

The famous actors posed next to filmmaker Robert Rodriguez during the meeting

Actor Luke Wilson donned a brown suit and blue tie as he posed with Streep and De Niro

Streep enjoyed a moment with a young fan at the Texas gathering

De Niro was dressed in a dark navy blue shirt with a gray tie and glasses

The Casino star said he was “flattered to be around” people being honored at the Harry Ransom Center, which showcases works by iconic artists such as Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, Stella Adler, TS Eliot and Harry. Houdini.

“I imagine my papers are talking to their papers, or at least trying to, and their papers are asking my papers, ‘What the hell are you doing here?'” he said.

He thanked Steve Wilson, the institute’s film curator “for producing the exhibit,” adding, “Frankly, if I’d seen all my junk so elegant, I think I would’ve kept it.”

Other notable show business personalities at the event included actor Luke Wilson and director Robert Rodriguez.