Martin Scorsese

Biography

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. He emerged as one of the significant 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 was 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 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, centre on macho-posturing men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence and liberal use of profanity. Mean Streets (1973) was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his psychological drama 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 De Niro and DiCaprio on Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Scorsese's other films include 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). In addition to film, Scorsese has directed episodes for television, including 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 is also known for several rock music documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), and George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011). He has also directed a music video for Michael Jackson's song "Bad". He has explored cinema in the documentaries A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995), Il Mio Viaggio in Italia (My Voyage to Italy) (1999), and Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he founded three nonprofit organizations: The Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007 and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Scorsese, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Self - Interviewee

I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited

Self - Narrator

The Oratorio

Self

The Searchers: An Appreciation

Sykes (voice)

Shark Tale

Mafioso

Cannonball

Self (uncredited)

The Key to Reserva

Martin Rittenhome

Quiz Show

Self

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

Self

Scorsese's GoodFellas

Self

Raging Bull: Inside the Ring

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Marty and Bobby

Self

Raging Bull: Before the Fight

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Raging Bull: After the Fight

Self

Raging Bull: Outside the Ring

Dispatcher (voice)

Bringing Out the Dead

Self

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola

Vincent Van Gogh

Self

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince

Self

...Men filmen är min älskarinna

Self

The Last Waltz

Goodley

Round Midnight

Gangster (uncredited)

Who's That Knocking at My Door

Direttore Tv

Il Pap'occhio

Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)

After Hours

Self

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Self (archive footage)

Alfonso Sansone - produttore per caso

Self

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

Self - Narrator

A Letter to Elia

Self - Director

Biography: Humphrey Bogart

Self

The Real Goodfella

Self

Hollywood Uncensored

Self

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

Self

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Self - Host

Il mio viaggio in Italia

Self (uncredited)

El Planeta

Self - Filmmaker

Corman's World

Self - Film Director

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

Radio Show Producer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Direttore Tv

Il resto del Pap'occhio

Self - Interviewee (archive footage)

Paul Newman, l'intranquille

Self

Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies

Self

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire

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Frank Capra's American Dream

Self

Side by Side

Self

Scorsese on Scorsese

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Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public

Self

The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On

Self

White Heat: Top of the World

Self

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

Self

Bad 25

Self

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

Narrator (voice)

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

Self

Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse

Self

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'

Self

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

Self

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

Self

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime

Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie

New York Stories

Self

Seduced and Abandoned

Self

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

Self

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

Self

Milius

Self

Forever Ealing

Self

New York at the Movies

Self

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

Self

Marty on Film

Self

Kiarostami Mashghoul-e Kar Ast

Self

Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York

Self

Obsessed with Vertigo

Self

Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'

Self

Casino: The Story

Self

Making 'Taxi Driver'

Self

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

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Hommage d’une fille à son père

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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

self

The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration

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Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

Self

The Wolf Pack

The Accountant

Search and Destroy

John (voice) (uncredited)

The Wolf of Wall Street

Self

Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues

Self

The Eye of the Beholder

Self

Don Rickles: One Night Only

Self

Kurosawa, la voie

Self

The Race for Colour

Self - Director (voice)

Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours

Self

Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock

Self

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

Self (archive footage)

Avant minuit

Self

Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady

Self - Filmmaker

Life Itself

Self

Edge of Outside

Self - Interviewee (archive footage)

Robert De Niro, l'arme du silence

Self

30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation

Self

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

Self

Il cineasta e il labirinto

Self

Everybody Just Stay Calm

Self

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

Joe Lesser

Guilty by Suspicion

Self

Sergio Leone - L'italiano che inventò l'America

Self

Fragments of Paradise

Self

Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute

Self

Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro

Self

Martin Scorsese on Framing

Passenger Watching Silhouette

Taxi Driver

Self

Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block

Self (uncredited)

Lightning in a Bottle

Self

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues

Self

John Ford & Monument Valley

Self

Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain

Self – Interviewee

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Self (archive footage)

Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende

Photographer (uncredited)

The Age of Innocence

Self

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Alighieri's mentor

In the Hand of Dante

Self

Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain

Self

Daniel Day-Lewis : l'héritier

Self

This Is Orson Welles

Self

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Self (archive footage)

Inside Rupert Pupkin

Self

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

Self (archive footage)

Noi siamo cinema

Self (archive footage)

عباس کیارستمی: یک گزارش

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump

Self

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Self

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

Self

Dietro gli occhiali bianchi

Self

Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg

Photographer (uncredited)

Hugo

Self

In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese

Self

The Neighborhood

Self

John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs

Barbizon Stagehand

Raging Bull

Self (archive footage)

Harvey Keitel : À l'ombre des ténèbres

Self (archive footage)

End of Daylight

Self

The Audition

Self

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Self

"Una Bella Vacanza" Buon Compleanno Dino Risi!

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

TV Director

The King of Comedy

Self

Stanley Kubrick in Focus

Self

Brando

Himself

You Never Know

Self (archive footage)

Crazy, Not Insane

Self - Interviewee

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

Self

Crossing Criminal Cultures

Self

Filming for Your Life: Making ‘After Hours’

Self

Making Casino

Self

French Cinema Mon Amour

Self

American Prince

Self

Milagrez

Self - Filmmaker

Mifune: The Last Samurai

Self

Cinema Futures

Self

Movies Are My Life

Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols

Self

Street Scenes

Self

The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style

Self

Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'

365 Day Project

Self

Arena - John Cassavetes

Self

健さん

Self

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Self

A Decade Under the Influence

Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited)

Gangs of New York

Self (2006)

Directed by John Ford

Doctor

Campus Code

Self

Saul Bass: Title Champ

Self

With Friends Like These

Self

King Cohen

Self

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

Self

Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben

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Gene Tierney, une star oubliée

Self

The Legend of the Palme d'Or

Self

Jerry Lewis, clown rebelle

Self

The Scorsese Machine

Self

Robbie Robertson: Going Home

Self

Painting with Light

Self

The Song of the Little Road

Self

Italianamerican

Self

Spielberg

Self

The Pulitzer At 100

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Lumière ! L'aventure commence

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Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

Self

Martin Scorsese Directs

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Trespassing Bergman

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Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero

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One Direction: This Is Us

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Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'

Self

First Works

Self

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Self

Bienvenue à Cannes

Opening voice-over (uncredited)

The Grifters

Self - Host / Narrator

Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty

Self

Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood

Self

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

Self (uncredited)

Shine a Light

Self (uncredited)

Public Speaking

Isaiah (uncredited)

The Last Temptation of Christ

Self

Revisiting 'The Last Waltz'

Self

Hollywood Mavericks

Sykes (voice)

Club Oscar

Self

Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero

Self

Gershwin

Self

Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese

Self (voice) (uncredited)

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

Brothel Client (uncredited)

Boxcar Bertha

Self

Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley

Self

The 'New York, New York' Stories

Self

Abderrahmane Sissako - Par-delà les frontières

Self

"La vie est belle" ...quínze ans plus tard!

Self

Jonas in the Desert

Self

The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence

Self

Notes on an American Film Director at Work

Self (archive footage)

And the Oscar Goes To...

Martin Scorsese

The Muse

Self

The Race to Save 100 Years

Self

À la recherche des films perdu

Self

Lost in the Garden of the World

Self

The Irishman: In Conversation

Self

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

Self

Magical Mystery Tour Revisited

Self (archive footage)

The Workaday Gangster

Self

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

Self

Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood

Self

Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films

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More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'

Self

Dante Ferretti - Scenografo italiano

Self

The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman

Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)

Mean Streets

Gatti-Casazza

Анна Павлова

Self

映画の肖像 黒澤明 大林宣彦 映画的対話 MAKING OF 'DREAMS'

Self

The Magic of Fellini

Self

Salvatore - Il calzolaio dei sogni

Self

A Conversation with Gregory Peck

Self

Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film

Narrator (voice)

The Color of Money

Self

Bilder från Lekstugan

Self

The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile

Self

Making 'The Irishman'

Self

O Retorno do Dragão

Self

The John Garfield Story

Self

Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e Battute

Self

A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'

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Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ

Self

Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann

Self

Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!

Self

Andrzej Wajda: Moje inspiracje

Self

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

Self

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Self

Casting By

Self

On the Set: Elaine’s

Self

From Darkness to Light

Self

The Moviemakers: Scorsese

Self

Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini

Self

Megadoc

Self

Beatles '64

Michael Powell

The World of John Ford

Himself

Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame

Self (archive footage)

Jesus Goes to Hollywood

Outcome

Self

Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

Self

Conversation avec Martin Scorsese, en notes et en images

Himself (archive footage)

The Making Of A Mockumentary

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

266

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-11-17

Place of Birth

Queens, New York City, New York, USA

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