Stallone is the only actor in the history of American cinema to have starred in a box office number-one film across six consecutive decades. And then, of course, there were The Expendables films, a fourth of which is coming soon. Stallone saw a decline in popularity in the early 2000s, however, but rebounded back to prominence with additional Rocky and Rambo installments. From the mid-1980s through to the late-1990s, he would go on to become one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors of that era by appearing in a slew of commercially successful action films - despite the fact that they generally panned by critics.

In 1977, Stallone became the third actor in cinema to be nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. Stallone then achieved his greatest critical and commercial success as an actor and screenwriter, starting in 1976 with his role as boxer Rocky Balboa, in the first film in the successful Rocky series (1976–present), for which he also wrote the screenplays. After years of struggling as an actor upon arriving in New York City in 1969 and later Hollywood in 1974, 'Sly' Stallone finally won critical acclaim as an actor for his co-starring role in The Lords of Flatbush. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows,' Sylvester Stallone once said. 'Let me tell you something you already know.

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