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