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Tom DeNucci is the recipient of the 2013 Rhode Island International Film Festival Robert Burgess Aldrich Award, named for the heralded director of the 1967 war masterpiece The Dirty Dozen. Like Mr. Aldrich, DeNucci also hails from Cranston, Rhode Island, USA. If DeNucci’s career thus far is any indication, the young Director and Actor will be a worthy successor to Mr. Aldrich’s legacy and a prominent voice for his generation.

DeNucci plays a member of boxer Vinny Pazienza’s entourage in Bleed for This (2016), which stars Miles Teller (Whiplash) as Pazienza and Aaron Eckheart (Erin Brokovich) as “Paz’s” trainer. Directed by Ben Younger and executive produced by Martin Scorsese.

In action films, Tom and Ultimate Fighting legend Chuck Liddell wreak havoc as ruthless mercenaries in Altitude (2016), a film that stars Dolph Lundgren (Drago from Rocky IV) and Denise Richards (Wild Things). In Blue Line (2015), DeNucci plays a drug dealer on the edge, under siege from a hard-as-nails cop played by Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan).

Ringing in 2017 Tommy directed The Santa Files (2017) telling the story of a group of kids from Norpole, Maine, and their search for Santa Clause.

Imagine Magazine named Tom DeNucci as its 2015 Shooting Star Award Recipient.