Martin Scorsese
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Biography
Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential directors in film history. Scorsese's body of work explores themes such as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, nihilism, crime and sectarianism. Many of his films are known for their depiction of violence and the liberal use of profanity. Scorsese has also dedicated his life to film preservation and film restoration by founding the nonprofit organization The Film Foundation in 1990, as well as the World Cinema Foundation in 2007 and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.
Scorsese studied at New York University (NYU), where he received a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1964, and received a master's degree in fine arts in film from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1968. In 1967 Scorsese's first feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door was released and was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival, where critic Roger Ebert saw it and called it "a marvelous evocation of American city life, announcing the arrival of an important new director".
He has established a filmmaking history involving repeat collaborations with actors and film technicians, including nine films made with Robert De Niro. His films with De Niro are the psychological thriller Taxi Driver (1976), the biographical sports drama Raging Bull (1980), the satirical black comedy The King of Comedy (1982), the musical drama New York, New York (1977), the psychological thriller Cape Fear (1991), and the crime films Mean Streets (1973), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Irishman (2019). Scorsese has also been noted for his collaborations with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, having directed him in five films: the historical epic Gangs of New York (2002), the Howard Hughes biography The Aviator (2004), the crime thriller The Departed (2006), the psychological thriller Shutter Island (2010), and the Wall Street black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). The Departed won Scorsese an Academy Award for Best Director, and for Best Picture. Scorsese is also known for his long-time collaboration with film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who has edited every Scorsese film beginning with Raging Bull. Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the children's adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
E! True Hollywood Story
The Oscars
The Daily Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Saturday Night Live
30 Rock
Golden Globe Awards
The Kennedy Center Honors
Today
100 Years of Warner Bros.
The Last Movie Stars
The Wolf of Wall Street
Gangs of New York
The King of Comedy
The Last Temptation of Christ
Cannonball
Hugo
After Hours
Raging Bull
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Killers of the Flower Moon
Quiz Show
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Bringing Out the Dead
Shine a Light
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
The Wolf Pack
Taxi Driver
Scorsese's GoodFellas
Shark Tale
Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!
Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
One Direction: This Is Us
The Studio
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
Pretend It's a City
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
The Searchers: An Appreciation
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
The Irishman: In Conversation
Production Credits
Long Strange Trip
Asteroid City
Shine a Light
Hugo
Stories of a Generation - with Pope Francis
The Snowman
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Souvenir
After Hours
Boardwalk Empire
Vinyl
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
You Can Count on Me
The Young Victoria
Midnight in the Switchgrass
Diane
Pretend It's a City
Casino
The King of Comedy
Uncut Gems
The Departed
Dogma
The Last Movie Stars
Love
The Memory Police
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Family
Free Fire
Shirley
Pieces of a Woman
Maestro
Shutter Island
Amazing Stories
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints
The Wolf of Wall Street
Bleed for This
Cape Fear
Taxi Driver
Gangs of New York
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
The Irishman
Mad Dog and Glory
Cape Fear
Silence
GoodFellas
Raging Bull
Killers of the Flower Moon
Bringing Out the Dead
The Aviator
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