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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of cinema. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. Scorsese has also been honored with the AFI Life A…
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s best work under his direction was Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy. After the turn of the century, Scorsese found a new muse with younger actor Leonardo DiCaprio, collaborating on six feature films and one short to date. Several critics have compared Scorsese
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2026· 3 entries
“s best work under his direction was Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy. After the turn of the century, Scorsese found a new muse with younger actor Leonardo DiCaprio, collaborating on six feature films and one short to date. Several critics have compared Scorsese”
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The A.V. Club: It took a Hong Kong remake to earn Martin Scorsese his only Oscar
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2025· 1 entry
The film started production in February 2026
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2024· 3 entries
Won Honorary Golden Bear (2024).
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Scorsese partnered with Seth MacFarlane to showcase Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts at the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival
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Scorsese narrated the documentary film Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger directed by David Hinton
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2023· 3 entries
Receiving a nine-minute standing ovation and was released theatrically on October 20, 2023
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While promoting Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese spoke about his eagerness to continue working, stating: "I'm old
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During an interview with GQ, it was revealed that Scorsese was working on an adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's Home with Todd Field and Jones
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2020· 2 entries
The trailer for Scorsese's Netflix documentary series Pretend It's a City was released
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Apple bought the production and distribution rights to the film, which was released theatrically by Paramount and streamed on Apple TV
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2019· 3 entries
Followed by digital streaming on November 27, 2019, on Netflix
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It was announced that the documentary would be released on Netflix on June 12, 2019, with a concurrent theatrical engagement in twenty American, European, and Australian cities the night before, and an extended theatrica
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Variety's Chris Willman reported that Scorsese's long-anticipated documentary of Bob Dylan's 1975 tour, the Rolling Thunder Revue, would be released by Netflix: "Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorses
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts (2018).
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2016).
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Scorsese identified himself as a Catholic again, saying, "my way has been, and is, Catholicism
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2013· 1 entry
Financing was secured for Silence by Emmett/Furla Films, and filming began in January 2015
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (2012).
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Boardwalk Empire (2011).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Hugo (2011).
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2010· 4 entries
And was released on TV in September 2010
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Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (2010).
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Shutter Island became Scorsese's highest-grossing film
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The Wall Street Journal reported that Scorsese was supporting the David Lynch Foundation's initiative to help 10,000 military veterans overcome posttraumatic stress disorder through Transcendental Meditation; Scorsese ha
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2009· 1 entry
Scorsese signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradi
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Shine a Light”.
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2007· 4 entries
Daily Variety reported that Scorsese would reunite with Leonardo DiCaprio on a fourth picture, Shutter Island
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But Paramount Classics postponed its general release until April 2008
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed (2007).
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Ranked Raging Bull as the fourth American greatest film on their AFI's 100 Years
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2006· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Director for The Departed (2006).
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Awarded Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director for The Departed (2006).
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Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Curtis Hanson, Peter Jackson, Ang Lee and Alexander Payne joined them
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Music Film for No Direction Home (2005).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director for The Aviator (2004).
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2003· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards for Gangs of New York (2003).
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Producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff joined the company
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And clapping for Michael Moore's acceptance speech wherein he criticized President George W
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary César (2000).
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Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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1999· 3 entries
Scorsese directed a documentary on Italian filmmakers titled Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, also known as My Voyage to Italy
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At the 71st Academy Awards, Scorsese and De Niro presented the award to film director Elia Kazan
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Scorsese married Helen Schermerhorn Morris
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Light of Truth Award (1998).
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At the 70th Academy Awards, Scorsese presented the award to film legend Stanley Donen
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1997· 3 entries
Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (1997).
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The American Film Institute ranked Raging Bull as the twenty-fourth greatest American film of all time on their AFI's 100 Years
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B
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1995· 2 entries
Won Golden Bear (1995).
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Titled A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, offering a thorough trek through American cinema
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1994· 1 entry
Scorsese and producer Barbara De Fina formed the production company
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Britannia Awards (1993).
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1991· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Film for Goodfellas (1991).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Goodfellas (1991).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Goodfellas (1991).
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1990· 3 entries
Earned Silver Lion for Goodfellas (1990).
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Scorsese acted in a small role as Vincent van Gogh in the film Dreams by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
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Released his only short-form documentary: Made in Milan about fashion designer Giorgio Armani
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1989· 1 entry
Scorsese collaborated with directors Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen in the anthology film New York Stories (1989), where he directed the first segment, "Life Lessons", co-written by Richard Price, who wrote The Col
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1988· 1 entry
“The Last Temptation of Christ”
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1987· 1 entry
Jump-starting the restoration of Lawrence of Arabia (shortly after Steel's installation as president at Columbia Pictures)
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded Cannes Best Director Award for After Hours (1986).
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Scorsese directed the 18-minute short film Bad featuring Michael Jackson and Wesley Snipes (in his film debut)
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Scorsese made The Color of Money, a sequel to Robert Rossen's The Hustler (1961) with Paul Newman, which co-starred Tom Cruise
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1985· 1 entry
Scorsese married producer Barbara De Fina
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1983· 2 entries
Scorsese made a brief cameo appearance in Anna Pavlova (also known as A Woman for All Time), originally intended to be directed by one of his heroes, Michael Powell
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Scorsese began work on this long-cherished personal project
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1979· 1 entry
Scorsese married actress Isabella Rossellini
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1978· 1 entry
Focusing on Steven Prince, Scorcese's personal assistant who had a small cameo as a cocky gun salesman in Taxi Driver
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1977· 1 entry
Directed the Broadway musical The Act, starring Minnelli
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1976· 3 entries
Awarded Palme d'Or for Taxi Driver (1976).
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Scorsese married writer Julia Cameron
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Which depicted a Vietnam veteran who takes the law into his own hands on New York's crime-ridden streets
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1975· 1 entry
And the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year
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1974· 1 entry
Actress Ellen Burstyn chose Scorsese to direct her in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress
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1969· 1 entry
“Who's That Knocking at My Door”
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1967· 1 entry
Scorsese made his first feature-length film, the black and white I Call First, later retitled Who's That Knocking at My Door, with his fellow students actor Harvey Keitel and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, both of whom were
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1966· 1 entry
Following an infamous motorcycle accident
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1965· 1 entry
Scorsese married Laraine Marie Brennan
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1964· 1 entry
“It was really important because they were filming on 35mm”
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-11-17.
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