Theatrical
Goodfellas premiered at the 47th Venice International Film Festival, where Scorsese received the Silver Lion award for best director.[34] It was given a wide release in North America on September 21, 1990.
Home media
Goodfellas was released on DVD in March 1997, in a single-disc, double-sided, single-layer format that requires the disc to be flipped during viewing; in 2004, Warner Home Video released a two-disc, dual-layer version, with remastered picture and sound, and bonus materials such as commentary tracks.[35] In early 2007, the film became available on single Blu-ray with all the features from the 2004 release; an expanded Blu-ray version was released on February 16, 2010, for its 20th anniversary,[36] bundled with a disc with features that include the 2008 documentary Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film.[35] On May 5, 2015, a 25th anniversary edition was released.[37] The film was released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on December 6, 2016.[38] The 25th anniversary release and subsequent releases include a Merrie Melodies & Looney Tunes collection with the shorts I Like Mountain Music (1933), She Was an Acrobat's Daughter (1937), Racketeer Rabbit (1946), and Bugs and Thugs (1957).
