Martin Scorsese
Queens, New York City, New York, USA
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Martin Charles Scorsese (/skɔːrˈsɛsi/ skor-SESS-ee, Italian: [skorˈseːze, -se]; born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Scorsese received a Master of Arts degree from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door(1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, centred on macho-posturing men and explored crime, machismo, nihilism and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles of extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, voice-over narration, graphic depictions of extreme violence and liberal use of profanity were first shown in Mean Streets (1973). Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with Taxi Driver (1976), which starred Robert De Niro as a disturbed Vietnam Veteran. De Niro became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Irishman (2019). In the following decades, he garnered box office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio, including Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). He worked with both De Niro and DiCaprio on Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He also directed After Hours (1985), The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Age of Innocence (1993), Kundun (1997), Hugo (2011), and Silence (2016). On television, he has directed episodes for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014) and Vinyl (2016), as well as the HBO documentary Public Speaking (2010) and the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021). He has also directed several rock documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), and Shine a Light (2008). He has explored film history in the documentaries A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies(1995) and My Voyage to Italy (1999). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he has founded three nonprofit organisations: The Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007 and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.
Movie Credits
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero
Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
Conversation avec Martin Scorsese, en notes et en images
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Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
