Martin Scorsese
Biography
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.
Acting (245 movies)
The Oratorio
2020
The Searchers: An Appreciation
2006
Shark Tale
2004
Cannonball
1976
The Key to Reserva
2007
Quiz Show
1994
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
Scorsese's GoodFellas
2015
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
2005
Marty and Bobby
2011
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
2005
Raging Bull: After the Fight
2005
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
2005
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
1997
Dreams
1990
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
1978
… But Film Is My Mistress
2010
The Last Waltz
1978
'Round Midnight
1986
Who's That Knocking at My Door
1968
In the Pope's Eye
1980
After Hours
1985
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
2007
A Letter to Elia
2010
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
2003
The Real Goodfella
2006
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
My Voyage to Italy
1999
El Planeta
2021
Corman's World
2011
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
Il resto del Pap'occhio
1980
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
2008
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
2014
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
Side by Side
2012
Scorsese on Scorsese
2004
Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public
2005
The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On
2005
White Heat: Top of the World
2005
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001
Bad 25
2012
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
1996
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007
Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
2010
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
2012
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
2012
New York Stories
1989
Seduced and Abandoned
2013
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
Milius
2013
Forever Ealing
2002
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
Kiarostami at Work
2023
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
2003
Obsessed with Vertigo
1997
Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
2007
Casino: The Story
2005
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2007
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
2022
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration
2022
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
1978
The Wolf Pack
2014
Search and Destroy
1995
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues
2022
The Eye of the Beholder
2005
Kurosawa's Way
2011
The Race for Colour
2012
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
2004
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024
Before Midnight
1986
Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady
1994
Life Itself
2014
Edge of Outside
2006
30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation
2020
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005
Guilty by Suspicion
1991
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
Fragments of Paradise
2022
Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver
2007
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
2007
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
2008
Martin Scorsese on Framing
2017
Taxi Driver
1976
Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block
1973
Lightning in a Bottle
2004
Directing (57 movies)
Mean Streets
1973
Casino
1995
The Departed
2006
Cape Fear
1991
Raging Bull
1980
GoodFellas
1990
The Aviator
2004
The Age of Innocence
1993
After Hours
1985
Gangs of New York
2002
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
The Key to Reserva
2007
Shutter Island
2010
Boxcar Bertha
1972
The Color of Money
1986
Shine a Light
2008
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
1978
Kundun
1997
New York, New York
1977
The Last Waltz
1978
It's Not Just You, Murray!
1964
Hugo
2011
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974
A Letter to Elia
2010
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
1963
The Big Shave
1967
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
My Voyage to Italy
1999
Public Speaking
2011
Italianamerican
1974
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
The 50 Year Argument
2014
Made in Milan
1990
Personality Crisis: One Night Only
2022
The Audition
2015
The Neighborhood
2001
The Irishman
2019
Who's That Knocking at My Door
1968
Street Scenes 1970
1970
Silence
2016
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
New York Stories
1989
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
1995
The King of Ads
1991
Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
2004
Michael Jackson Video Greatest Hits: HIStory
1995
The Concert for New York City
2001
Feel Like Going Home
2003
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
The King of Comedy
1982
Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
2020
Scorsese Shorts
2020
Taxi Driver
1976
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
1988
Vesuvius VI
1959
Michael Jackson: The Magic Returns
1987
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Vesuvius VI | 1959 | Writer |
| What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? | 1963 | Writer |
| It's Not Just You, Murray! | 1964 | Writer |
| The Big Shave | 1967 | Writer |
| The Big Shave | 1967 | Producer |
| Who's That Knocking at My Door | 1968 | Screenplay |
| Who's That Knocking at My Door | 1968 | Writer |
| Obsessions | 1969 | Writer |
| Mean Streets | 1973 | Screenplay |
| The Grifters | 1990 | Producer |
| GoodFellas | 1990 | Screenplay |
| Peter Gabriel - POV | 1991 | Executive Producer |
| Mad Dog and Glory | 1993 | Producer |
| The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Screenplay |
| Naked in New York | 1993 | Executive Producer |
| Search and Destroy | 1995 | Executive Producer |
| Clockers | 1995 | Producer |
| Casino | 1995 | Screenplay |
| Grace of My Heart | 1996 | Executive Producer |
| Kicked in the Head | 1997 | Executive Producer |
| The Hi-Lo Country | 1998 | Producer |
| My Voyage to Italy | 1999 | Writer |
| You Can Count on Me | 2000 | Executive Producer |
| Rain | 2001 | Executive Producer |
| The Neighborhood | 2001 | Writer |
| The Concert for New York City | 2001 | Writer |
| Deuces Wild | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty | 2004 | Screenplay |
| Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty | 2004 | Producer |
| Lightning in a Bottle | 2004 | Executive Producer |
| Frankenstein | 2004 | Executive Producer |
| Brides | 2004 | Executive Producer |
| The Aviator | 2004 | Executive Producer |
| Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows | 2007 | Producer |
| Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies | 2008 | Producer |
| Lymelife | 2008 | Executive Producer |
| The Young Victoria | 2009 | Producer |
| Shutter Island | 2010 | Producer |
| A Letter to Elia | 2010 | Producer |
| Public Speaking | 2011 | Producer |
| Surviving Progress | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Hugo | 2011 | Producer |
| Peter Gabriel: Live in Athens 1987 | 2013 | Executive Producer |
| The Family | 2013 | Executive Producer |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Producer |
| The Third Side of the River | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Life Itself | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Revenge of the Green Dragons | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| The Wannabe | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Before the Flood | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Bleed for This | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Silence | 2016 | Producer |
| Silence | 2016 | Screenplay |
| Free Fire | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Long Strange Trip | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| The Snowman | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| The Ciambra | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Abundant Acreage Available | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| The Elephant and the Butterfly | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| The Current War | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Happy as Lazzaro | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Diane | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| The Souvenir | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Uncut Gems | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Port Authority | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Tomorrow | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| The Irishman | 2019 | Producer |
| Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film | 2020 | Writer |
| Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film | 2020 | Producer |
| Shirley | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Pieces of a Woman | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Building a Bridge | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Evolution | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| The Card Counter | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| The Souvenir: Part II | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Murina | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues | 2022 | Producer |
| Dreaming Walls | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Personality Crisis: One Night Only | 2022 | Producer |
| The Eternal Daughter | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Killers of the Flower Moon | 2023 | Screenplay |
| Killers of the Flower Moon | 2023 | Producer |
| Maestro | 2023 | Producer |
| Funny Birds | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| The Absence of Eden | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| The Freshly Cut Grass | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Escape | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Beatles '64 | 2024 | Producer |
| Outrider | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Late Fame | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| In the Hand of Dante | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Homebound | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Die My Love | 2025 | Producer |
| SAQUON | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Pet Shop Days | 2025 | Executive Producer |