The 2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards let Robert De Niro know he’s one good fella Sunday night.

The two-time Oscar winner was recognized for Life Achievement during the 26th annual SAG celebration at LA’s Shrine Auditorium. The award honors “career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment” and those who foster the “finest ideals of the acting profession.”

The recognition was given to De Niro by Oscar- and SAG-winner Leonardo DiCaprio (2015’s “The Revenant”), who first worked with the 76-year-old actor as a teen in the 1993 film “This Boy’s Life.”

“The role of an actor is to make us feel they take us to new places, using their skills to guide us towards a deeper understanding of humanity,” DiCaprio said before showing a reel of some of De Niro’s most notable roles. “For almost 50 years, Robert De Niro’s performances have done exactly that.”

“He has astounded us with his portrayals of heroes and villains, loaners and leaders, dreamers and sociopaths,” added DiCaprio, who said that his own father told him, when DiCaprio was 13, that De Niro’s acting was worth learning from. “His characters have echoed through our culture in iconic films.”

De Niro’s career has spanned six decades and crossed genres, from drama — he won Oscars as a washed-up boxer in 1980’s “Raging Bull” and playing Vito Corleone in “The Godfather: Part II” in 1974 — to comedy, including 2000’s “Meet the Parents’ and the “Little Fockers” franchise. And he’s still going strong: De Niro is part of the ensemble cast of four-time SAG-nominated “The Irishman,” which is also up for Best Motion Picture of the Year Oscar at the 2020 Academy Awards on Feb. 9 at LA’s Dolby Theatre.

After receiving a standing ovation, De Niro took the stage to accept the honor and weighed in on the importance of issues such as diversity and abortion rights. Ever outspoken, De Niro pulled no punches to address the “dire situation” he feels our divided country is in right now.

“There’s right and there’s wrong. And there’s common sense and there’s abuse of power,” he said, continuing his vocal objections to the current political climate. “And as a citizen, I have as much right as anybody — an actor, an athlete, a musician, anybody else — to voice my opinion. And if I have a bigger voice because of my situation, I’m going to use it whenever I see a blatant abuse of power,” he said to cheers from the audience.

“And that’s all I’m gonna say about that tonight,” he added

De Niro’s performances are often remembered as much for his delivery of specific lines as they are for his overall portrayals. As a gun-toting, on-the-edge cabbie in 1976’s “Taxi Driver,” he practices the improvised line, “You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?” in front of a mirror, a turn that’s both scary and sad. In 1995’s “Casino,” his mafia-tied casino head schools an underling in how things should be handled. “Listen to me. There are three ways of doing things around here: the right way, the wrong way and the way that I do it,” he says with barely-veiled intimidation. And in the 2000 comedy “Meet the Parents,” when Ben Stiller’s character proclaims, “You can milk anything with nipples,” over dinner with his girlfriend’s folks, her condescending dad, a retired spy played by De Niro, replies, “I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?”