Martin Scorsese
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.
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- 2024 · Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger as Self
- 2023 · Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain as Self
- 2023 · Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
- 2022 · Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America as Self
- 2022 · Fragments of Paradise as Self
- 2022 · Eric Clapton - Nothing But the Blues as Self
- 2020 · 30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation as Self
- 2017 · Martin Scorsese on Framing as Self
- 2015 · Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self
- 2014 · Life Itself as Self - Filmmaker
- 2014 · Don Rickles: One Night Only as Self
- 2014 · The Wolf Pack as Self
- 2013 · The Wolf of Wall Street as John (voice) (uncredited)
- 2013 · John Ford & Monument Valley as Self
- 2012 · The Race for Colour as Self
- 2011 · Kurosawa's Way as Self
- 2010 · Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self – Interviewee
- 2010 · Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen as Self
- 2009 · Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock as Self
- 2008 · Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro as Self
- 2007 · Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver as Self
- 2007 · Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2006 · Edge of Outside as Self
- 2005 · By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' as Self
- 2005 · The Eye of the Beholder as Self
- 2004 · Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours as Self - Director (voice)
- 2004 · The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth as Self
- 2004 · Lightning in a Bottle as Self (uncredited)
- 1995 · Search and Destroy as The Accountant
- 1994 · Everybody Just Stay Calm as Self
- 1994 · Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady as Self
- 1993 · The Age of Innocence as Photographer (uncredited)
- 1991 · Guilty by Suspicion as Joe Lesser
- 1988 · Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues as Self
- 1986 · Before Midnight as Self (archive footage)
- 1978 · Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel as Self
- 1976 · Taxi Driver as Passenger Watching Silhouette
- 1973 · Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block as Self
- Future · In the Hand of Dante as Alighieri's mentor
- 2025 · End of Daylight as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 · Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film as Self (archive footage)
- 2023 · Killers of the Flower Moon as Radio Show Producer
- 2023 · Kiarostami at Work as Self
- 2023 · Paul Newman: The Restless as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
- 2023 · The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2022 · Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain as Self
- 2022 · The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration as self
- 2022 · Film: The Living Record of Our Memory as Self
- 2022 · A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé as Self
- 2021 · We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius as Self
- 2021 · El Planeta as Self (uncredited)
- 2020 · The Oratorio as Self - Narrator
- 2020 · Crazy, Not Insane as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs as Self
- 2015 · The Audition as Self
- 2015 · Behind the White Glasses as Self
- 2015 · French Cinema Mon Amour as Self
- 2015 · This Is Orson Welles as Self
- 2015 · Scorsese's GoodFellas as Self
- 2014 · Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2014 · The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire as Self
- 2014 · Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · Inside Rupert Pupkin as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Seduced and Abandoned as Self
- 2013 · Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
- 2013 · Milius as Self
- 2013 · Abbas Kiarostami: A Report as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Stanley Kubrick in Focus as Self
- 2012 · Bad 25 as Self
- 2012 · Side by Side as Self
- 2012 · John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man as Self
- 2012 · The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' as Self
- 2012 · Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' as Self
- 2012 · The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès as Self
- 2012 · Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime as Self
- 2011 · Corman's World as Self - Filmmaker
- 2011 · Hugo as Photographer (uncredited)
- 2011 · Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
- 2011 · Marty on Film as Self
- 2011 · Marty and Bobby as Self
- 2010 · A Letter to Elia as Self - Narrator
- 2010 · Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse as Self
- 2010 · … But Film Is My Mistress as Self
- 2009 · American Prince as Self
- 2008 · Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock as Self
- 2008 · Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies as Self
- 2008 · Milagrez as Self
- 2007 · The Key to Reserva as Self (uncredited)
- 2007 · Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self
- 2007 · Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts as Self
- 2007 · Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
- 2007 · Making Casino as Self
- 2007 · Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten as Self
- 2007 · Brando as Self
- 2007 · Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed' as Self
- 2007 · Crossing Criminal Cultures as Self
- 2006 · A Beautiful Vacation as Self
- 2006 · The Searchers: An Appreciation as Self
- 2006 · The Real Goodfella as Self
- 2005 · Casino: The Story as Self
- 2005 · Raging Bull: Inside the Ring as Self
- 2005 · Raging Bull: Before the Fight as Self
- 2005 · Raging Bull: After the Fight as Self
- 2005 · Raging Bull: Outside the Ring as Self
- 2005 · Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public as Self
- 2005 · The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On as Self
- 2005 · White Heat: Top of the World as Self
- 2004 · Scorsese on Scorsese as Self
- 2004 · The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing as Self
- 2004 · Shark Tale as Sykes (voice)
- 2004 · A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope as Self
- 2004 · Filming for Your Life: Making ‘After Hours’ as Self
- 2004 · Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic as Self - Interviewee
- 2003 · Biography - Humphrey Bogart as Self - Director
- 2003 · Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York as Self
- 2003 · The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
- 2002 · Forever Ealing as Self
- 2002 · New York at the Movies as Self
- 2001 · The Neighborhood as Self
- 2001 · The Making of 'Cape Fear' as Self
- 2000 · Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self
- 1999 · Bringing Out the Dead as Dispatcher (voice)
- 1999 · My Voyage to Italy as Self - Host
- 1999 · Making 'Taxi Driver' as Self
- 1998 · In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese as Self
- 1997 · A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola as Self
- 1997 · Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece as Self
- 1997 · Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
- 1996 · The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera as Self
- 1995 · The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self
- 1995 · Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick as Self
- 1994 · Quiz Show as Martin Rittenhome
- 1994 · I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited as Self - Interviewee
- 1990 · Dreams as Vincent Van Gogh
- 1989 · New York Stories as Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie
- 1987 · Hollywood Uncensored as Self
- 1987 · Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Self - Film Director
- 1986 · Round Midnight as Goodley
- 1986 · Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg as Self
- 1985 · After Hours as Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)
- 1982 · The King of Comedy as TV Director
- 1980 · Raging Bull as Barbizon Stagehand
- 1980 · In the Pope's Eye as Direttore Tv
- 1980 · Il resto del Pap'occhio as Direttore Tv
- 1978 · American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince as Self
- 1978 · The Last Waltz as Self
- 1976 · Cannonball as Mafioso
- 1968 · Who's That Knocking at My Door as Gangster (uncredited)
- Future · You Never Know as Himself
- 2024 · Jesus Goes to Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 · Beatles '64 as Self
- 2024 · From Darkness to Light as Self
- 2023 · The Moviemakers: Scorsese as Self
- 2021 · Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams as Self
- 2021 · I Am Alfred Hitchcock as Self
- 2021 · Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted! as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2020 · Making 'The Irishman' as Self
- 2020 · Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film as Self
- 2020 · The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman as Self
- 2017 · Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence as Self
- 2017 · Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations as Self
- 2014 · Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini as Self
- 2012 · Casting By as Self
- 2010 · The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile as Self
- 2009 · Images from the Playground as Self
- 2008 · O Retorno do Dragão as Self
- 2008 · Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators as Self
- 2008 · You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story as Self
- 2005 · Michael Powell as
- 2004 · On the Set: Elaine’s as Self
- 2003 · The John Garfield Story as Self
- 2002 · A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy' as Self
- 2002 · The Magic of Fellini as Self
- 2001 · Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes as Self
- 1999 · A Conversation with Gregory Peck as Self
- 1999 · The Directors: The Films of Roger Corman as Self
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1992 · Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann as Self
- 1990 · Making of 'Dreams' as Self
- 1988 · Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ as Self
- 1986 · The Color of Money as Narrator (voice)
- 1983 · Anna Pavlova as Gatti-Casazza
- 1973 · Mean Streets as Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)
- Future · Megadoc as Self
- Future · The World of John Ford as
- Future · Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame as Himself
- Future · Outcome as
- 2023 · 100 Years of Warner Bros. as Self
- 2022 · The Last Movie Stars as Self
- 2021 · Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
- 2021 · Pretend It's a City as Self
- 2020 · Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band as Self
- 2019 · The Irishman: In Conversation as Self
- 2019 · Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols as
- 2018 · King Cohen as Self
- 2017 · Spielberg as Self
- 2017 · Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World as Self
- 2017 · The Pulitzer At 100 as Self
- 2017 · Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star as Self
- 2017 · Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories as Self
- 2016 · Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Filmmaker
- 2016 · Cinema Futures as Self
- 2016 · Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown as Self
- 2016 · Ken San as Self
- 2016 · Lumière! as Self
- 2015 · Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese as Self
- 2015 · Campus Code as Doctor
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence as Self
- 2015 · The Legend of the Palme d'Or as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! as Self
- 2013 · Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies as Self - Participant
- 2013 · Trespassing Bergman as Self
- 2013 · One Direction: This Is Us as Self
- 2012 · Magical Mystery Tour Revisited as Self
- 2012 · Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After as Self
- 2010 · Public Speaking as Self (uncredited)
- 2010 · Dante Ferretti: Production Designer as Self
- 2009 · The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style as Self
- 2008 · Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben as Self
- 2008 · Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film as Self
- 2008 · Saul Bass: Title Champ as Self
- 2008 · In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy as Self
- 2008 · Shine a Light as Self (uncredited)
- 2008 · Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood as Self
- 2008 · Notes on an American Film Director at Work as Self
- 2007 · 365 Day Project as
- 2007 · Cannes: All Access as Self
- 2006 · 30 Rock as Martin Scorsese (voice)
- 2006 · Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero as Self
- 2006 · Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood as Self
- 2006 · Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films as Self
- 2005 · Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero as Self
- 2005 · No Direction Home: Bob Dylan as Self (voice) (uncredited)
- 2005 · Club Oscar as Sykes (voice)
- 2005 · The 'New York, New York' Stories as Self
- 2004 · The Workaday Gangster as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · The Culture Show as Self
- 2004 · Tanner on Tanner as Self
- 2004 · Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas' as Self
- 2004 · Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- 2004 · Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty as Self - Host / Narrator
- 2003 · Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' as Self
- 2003 · The Blues as Self
- 2003 · The Song of the Little Road as Self
- 2003 · A Decade Under the Influence as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · Gangs of New York as Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited)
- 2002 · Revisiting 'The Last Waltz' as Self
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- 2001 · Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures as Self
- 2001 · Painting with Light as Self
- 2000 · Curb Your Enthusiasm as Martin Scorsese
- 1999 · New York: A Documentary Film as Self - Commentator
- 1999 · The Muse as Martin Scorsese
- 1998 · With Friends Like These as Self
- 1998 · AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self
- 1998 · Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley as Self
- 1997 · The Race to Save 100 Years as Self
- 1997 · Scene by Scene as Self
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as Self
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · À la recherche des films perdu as Self
- 1995 · More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady' as Self
- 1995 · Robbie Robertson: Going Home as Self
- 1995 · A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies as Self - Filmmaker / Host
- 1994 · Hi Octane as Self
- 1994 · Jonas in the Desert as Self
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' as Self
- 1993 · Gershwin as Self
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self - Guest
- 1990 · Hollywood Mavericks as Self
- 1990 · The Grifters as Opening voice-over (uncredited)
- 1990 · Martin Scorsese Directs as Self
- 1990 · The Scorsese Machine as Self
- 1989 · First Works as Self
- 1989 · Arena - John Cassavetes as Self
- 1988 · The Last Temptation of Christ as Isaiah (uncredited)
- 1988 · Movies Are My Life as Self
- 1978 · The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- 1977 · The Hollywood Greats as Self
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1975 · Lost in the Garden of the World as Self
- 1974 · Italianamerican as Self
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1972 · Boxcar Bertha as Brothel Client (uncredited)
- 1971 · Directed by John Ford as Self (2006)
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1970 · Street Scenes as Self
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1952 · Today as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee