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Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

Acting · Production · Directing · Crew · Editing · Writing · Camera · Sound

Born November 17, 1942, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (251)
  • 2026As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas — Self (archive footage)
  • 2026Joie de Vivre — Self
  • 2026Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration — Self
  • 2026Robert Richardson: The White Devil — Self
  • 2026The Lady and The Legend — Self
  • 2026Tribeca 25 — Self
  • 2026WahZhaZhe: A Song for the Osage — Self
  • 2025Breakdown: 1975 — Self
  • 2025From Darkness to Light — Self
  • 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  • Mr. Scorsese — Self
  • 2025Oliver Stone: The Outsider — Self - director
  • 2025Ritratti di cinema — Self
  • 2024Conversation avec Martin Scorsese, en notes et en images — Self
  • 2024Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film — Self (archive footage)
  • 2024Jesus Goes to Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • 100 Years of Warner Bros. — Self
  • 2023Kiarostami at Work — Self
  • 2023The Moviemakers: Scorsese — Self
  • 2023The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 2022A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé — Self
  • 2022Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend — Self (archive footage)
  • 2022Denzel Washington: A Model American — Self
  • 2022Film: The Living Record of Our Memory — Self
  • 2022Fragments of Paradise — Self
  • Remembers… — Self
  • 2022Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America — Self
  • 2022The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration — self
  • Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy — Self
  • 2021Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius — Self
  • 2021El Planeta — Self (uncredited)
  • 2021I Am Alfred Hitchcock — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted! — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  • 2021Morceaux de Cannes — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams — Self
  • 2021We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)
  • 202030 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation — Self
  • 2020Crazy, Not Insane — Self (archive footage)
  • 2020GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors — Self (Archive Footage)
  • 2020Making 'The Irishman' — Self
  • 2020The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman — Self
  • 2020The Oratorio — Self - Narrator
  • 2019The Irishman: In Conversation — Self
  • 2018King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen — Self
  • 2017Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories — Self
  • 2017Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations — Self
  • 2017Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star — Self
  • 2017John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs — Self
  • 2017Martin Scorsese on Framing — Self
  • 2017Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence — Self
  • 2017Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World — Self
  • 2017Spielberg — Self
  • 2017The Pulitzer At 100 — Self
  • 2016Cinema Futures — Self
  • 2016Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown — Self
  • 2016Ken San — Self
  • 2016Lumière! — Self
  • 2016Mifune: The Last Samurai — Self - Filmmaker
  • 2016Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A — Self
  • 2015Behind the White Glasses — Self
  • Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
  • 2015French Cinema Mon Amour — Self
  • 2015Hitchcock/Truffaut — Self
  • 2015Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese — Self
  • 2015Scorsese's GoodFellas — Self
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
  • 2015The Legend of the Palme d'Or — Self
  • 2015The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence — Self
  • 2015This Is Orson Welles — Self
  • 2014Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance — Self (archive footage)
  • 2014Don Rickles: One Night Only — Self
  • 2014Inside Rupert Pupkin — Self (archive footage)
  • 2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  • 2014Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini — Self
  • 2014The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
  • 2014The Wolf Pack — Self
  • 2013Abbas Kiarostami: A Report — Self (archive footage)
  • 2013Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story — Self
  • 2013House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! — Self
  • 2013John Ford & Monument Valley — Self
  • 2013Milius — Self
  • 2013One Direction: This Is Us — Self
  • 2013Seduced and Abandoned — Self
  • Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies — Self - Participant
  • 2013Trespassing Bergman — Self
  • 2012Bad 25 — Self
  • 2012Casting By — Self
  • 2012John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man — Self
  • 2012Magical Mystery Tour Revisited — Self
  • 2012Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After — Self
  • 2012Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime — Self
  • 2012Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' — Self
  • 2012Side by Side — Self
  • 2012Stanley Kubrick in Focus — Self
  • 2012The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès — Self
  • 2012The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' — Self
  • 2012The Race for Colour — Self
  • 2011Corman's World — Self - Filmmaker
  • 2011Kurosawa's Way — Self
  • 2011Marty and Bobby — Self
  • 2011Marty on Film — Self
  • 2011Raging Bull: Marty & Bobby — Self
  • 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary — Self
  • 2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Self – Interviewee
  • 2010Dante Ferretti: Production Designer — Self
  • 2010Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen — Self
  • 2010Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann on "Gilda" — Self
  • 2010The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile — Self
  • 2010… But Film Is My Mistress — Self
  • 2009American Prince — Self
  • 2009Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock — Self
  • 2009Images from the Playground — Self
  • 2009The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style — Self
  • 2008Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro — Self
  • 2008In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy — Self
  • 2008Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood — Self
  • 2008Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben — Self
  • 2008Milagrez — Self
  • 2008Notes on an American Film Director at Work — Self
  • 2008O Retorno do Dragão — Self
  • 2008Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators — Self
  • 2008Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film — Self
  • 2008Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock — Self
  • 2008Saul Bass: Title Champ — Self
  • 2008You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story — Self
  • 2007365 Day Project — Self
  • 2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition — Self
  • 2007Brando — Self
  • 2007Cannes: All Access — Self
  • 2007Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts — Self
  • 2007Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 2007Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten — Self
  • 2007Making Casino — Self
  • 2007Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver — Self
  • 2007Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project — Self
  • 2007Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed' — Self
  • 2006A Beautiful Vacation — Self
  • 2006Edge of Outside — Self
  • 2006Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero — Self
  • 2006Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films — Self
  • 2006Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood — Self
  • 2006Refuge — Self
  • 2006The Real Goodfella — Self
  • 2006The Searchers: An Appreciation — Self
  • 2005Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public — Self
  • 2005By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' — Self
  • 2005Casino: The Story — Self
  • 2005Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero — Self
  • 2005Martin Scorsese - The Emotion Through The Music — Self
  • 2005Raging Bull: After the Fight — Self
  • 2005Raging Bull: Before the Fight — Self
  • 2005Raging Bull: Inside the Ring — Self
  • 2005Raging Bull: Outside the Ring — Self
  • 2005The 'New York, New York' Stories — Self
  • 2005The Eye of the Beholder — Self
  • 2005The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On — Self
  • 2005White Heat: Top of the World — Self
  • 2004A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope — Self
  • 2004Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic — Self - Interviewee
  • 2004Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours — Self - Director (voice)
  • 2004Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas' — Self
  • Leçon de Cinéma — Self
  • 2004Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? — Self
  • 2004On the Set: Elaine’s — Self
  • 2004Scorsese on Scorsese — Self
  • Tanner on Tanner — Self
  • The Culture Show — Self
  • 2004The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing — Self
  • 2004The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth — Self
  • 2004The Workaday Gangster — Self (archive footage)
  • 2003A Decade Under the Influence — Self
  • 2003Biography: Humphrey Bogart — Self - Director
  • 2003Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' — Self
  • 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood — Self
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
  • 2003The Evolution of an American Filmmaker — Self
  • 2003The John Garfield Story — Self
  • 2003The Song of the Little Road — Self
  • 2003Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York — Self
  • 2002A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy' — Self
  • 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran' — Self (archival)
  • 2002Forever Ealing — Self
  • 2002New York at the Movies — Self
  • 2002Revisiting 'The Last Waltz' — Self
  • 2002The Magic of Fellini — Self
  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self - Guest
  • 2001Painting with Light — Self
  • 2001Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes — Self
  • 2001Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film — Self
  • 2001The Making of 'Cape Fear' — Self
  • 2000Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows — Self
  • 1999A Conversation with Gregory Peck — Self
  • 1999Making 'Taxi Driver' — Self
  • New York — Self - Commentator
  • 1998In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese — Self
  • 1998Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley — Self
  • 1997A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola — Self
  • 1997Frank Capra's American Dream — Self
  • 1997Obsessed with Vertigo — Self
  • Scene by Scene — Self
  • 1997The Race to Save 100 Years — Self
  • E! True Hollywood Story — Self
  • The Daily Show — Self
  • 1996The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera — Self
  • 1996À la recherche des films perdu — Self
  • 1995More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady' — Self
  • 1995Robbie Robertson: Going Home — Self
  • 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self
  • 1995Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick — Self
  • 1994Everybody Just Stay Calm — Self
  • Hi Octane — Self
  • 1994I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited — Self - Interviewee
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • 1994Jonas in the Desert — Self
  • 1994Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame — Self
  • 1994Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady — Self
  • 1993Gershwin — Self
  • 1993Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • 1992Martin a Little... — himself
  • 1992Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann — Self
  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self - Guest
  • 1990Hollywood Mavericks — Self
  • 1990Making of 'Dreams' — Self
  • 1990Martin Scorsese Directs — Self
  • 1990The Scorsese Machine — Self
  • 1989Arena - John Cassavetes — Self
  • 1989First Works — Self
  • 1988Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues — Self
  • 1988Movies Are My Life — Self
  • 1987Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood — Self - Film Director
  • 1987Hollywood Uncensored — Self
  • 1987Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg — Self
  • 1986Before Midnight — Self (archive footage)
  • 1979All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman — Self
  • 1978Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel — Self
  • The Kennedy Center Honors — Self
  • The Hollywood Greats — Self
  • Arena — Self
  • 1975Lost in the Garden of the World — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited)
  • Spécial cinéma — Self
  • 1973Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block — Self
  • 1971Directed by John Ford — Self (2006)
  • Film '72 — Self
  • Great Performances — Self
  • The Oscars — Self, Self - Ventura Crossroads Labs Sketch
  • Today — Self
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee