Martin Scorsese
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Mr. Scorsese as Self
- 2025 · In the Hand of Dante as Isaiah
- 2025 · From Darkness to Light as Self
- 2025 · The Studio as Martin Scorsese
- 2024 · Beatles '64 as Self
- 2023 · Killers of the Flower Moon as Radio Show Producer
- 2023 · Kiarostami at Work 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)
- 2021 · Pretend It's a City as Self
- 2020 · Making 'The Irishman' as Self
- 2020 · Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band as Self
- 2020 · The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman as Self
- 2018 · King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen as Self
- 2017 · The Pulitzer At 100 as Self
- 2017 · Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories as Self
- 2016 · Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Filmmaker
- 2016 · Cinema Futures as Self
- 2016 · Ken San 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 Wolf Pack as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · The Wolf of Wall Street as John (voice) (uncredited)
- 2013 · Trespassing Bergman as Self
- 2013 · One Direction: This Is Us as Self
- 2013 · Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
- 2012 · Bad 25 as Self
- 2012 · Casting By as Self
- 2012 · Magical Mystery Tour Revisited as Self
- 2012 · Side by Side 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
- 2012 · Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' as Self
- 2011 · Corman's World as Self - Filmmaker
- 2011 · Hugo as Photographer (uncredited)
- 2011 · Kurosawa's Way as Self
- 2010 · A Letter to Elia as Self - Narrator
- 2010 · Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen 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 · The Key to Reserva as Self (uncredited)
- 2007 · Cannes: All Access as Self
- 2007 · Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self
- 2007 · Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver 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
- 2006 · 30 Rock as Martin Scorsese (voice)
- 2006 · Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood as Self
- 2005 · No Direction Home: Bob Dylan as Self (voice) (uncredited)
- 2005 · Club Oscar as Sykes (voice)
- 2005 · Raging Bull: Inside the Ring as Self
- 2005 · The Eye of the Beholder as Self
- 2004 · The Culture Show as Self
- 2004 · Tanner on Tanner as Self
- 2004 · Shark Tale as Sykes (voice)
- 2004 · Entourage as Martin Scorsese
- 2004 · The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth as Self
- 2004 · Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- 2003 · Biography: Humphrey Bogart as Self - Director
- 2003 · The Blues as Self
- 2003 · Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York as Self
- 2003 · The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy' as Self
- 2002 · Gangs of New York as Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited)
- 2002 · Forever Ealing as Self
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- 2001 · The Concert for New York City as Self (The Neighborhood)
- 2001 · Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures as Self
- 2000 · Curb Your Enthusiasm as Martin Scorsese
- 1999 · Bringing Out the Dead as Dispatcher (voice)
- 1999 · The Muse as Martin Scorsese
- 1999 · Making 'Taxi Driver' as Self
- 1998 · With Friends Like These as Self
- 1997 · Scene by Scene as Self
- 1997 · Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1995 · Robbie Robertson: Going Home as Self
- 1995 · Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick as Self
- 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
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self - Guest
- 1991 · Guilty by Suspicion as Joe Lesser
- 1990 · Hollywood Mavericks as Self
- 1989 · New York Stories as Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie
- 1988 · The Last Temptation of Christ as Isaiah (uncredited)
- 1988 · Movies Are My Life as Self
- 1986 · The Color of Money as Narrator (voice)
- 1986 · 'Round Midnight as Goodley
- 1985 · After Hours as Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)
- 1983 · Anna Pavlova as Gatti-Casazza
- 1980 · Raging Bull as Barbizon Stagehand
- 1978 · The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- 1978 · The Last Waltz as Self
- 1977 · The Hollywood Greats as Self
- 1976 · Cannonball as Mafioso
- 1976 · Taxi Driver as Passenger Watching Silhouette
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1974 · Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Customer at Dinner (uncredited)
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1973 · Mean Streets as Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame as Himself
- 1995 · The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self
- Future · Aldeas: A New Story as Self
- 2025 · End of Daylight as Self (archive footage)
- 2025 · The Making Of A Mockumentary as Himself (archive footage)
- 2024 · Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger as Self
- 2021 · Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius as Self
- 2020 · GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors as Self (Archive Footage)
- 2015 · The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence as Self
- 2015 · This Is Orson Welles as Self
- 2015 · Scorsese's GoodFellas as Self
- 2014 · Don Rickles: One Night Only as Self
- 2013 · Seduced and Abandoned as Self
- 2013 · John Ford & Monument Valley as Self
- 2013 · Abbas Kiarostami: A Report as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man as Self
- 2012 · The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès as Self
- 2011 · Public Speaking as Self (uncredited)
- 2010 · Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse as Self
- 2010 · The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile as Self
- 2008 · Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock as Self
- 2007 · AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
- 2006 · Edge of Outside as Self
- 2005 · Michael Powell as
- 2005 · Raging Bull: After the Fight as Self
- 2005 · The 'New York, New York' Stories as Self
- 2004 · A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope as Self
- 2004 · Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic as Self - Interviewee
- 1999 · New York: A Documentary Film as Self - Commentator
- 1998 · Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley as Self
- 1997 · Obsessed with Vertigo as Self
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as Self
- 1994 · I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited as Self - Interviewee
- 1990 · The Scorsese Machine as Self
- 1990 · Martin Scorsese Directs as Self
- 1989 · First Works as Self
- 1988 · Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues as Self
- 1980 · In the Pope's Eye as Direttore Tv
- 1974 · Italianamerican as Self (uncredited)
- 1972 · Boxcar Bertha as Brothel Client (uncredited)
- 1971 · Directed by John Ford as Self (2006)
- 1968 · Who's That Knocking at My Door as Gangster (uncredited)
- Future · Outcome as
- 2025 · Oliver Stone, l’Amérique au vitriol as Self - director
- 2024 · Jesus Goes to Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 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 · 100 Years of Warner Bros. as Self
- 2022 · Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America as Self
- 2022 · Denzel Washington: A Model American as Self
- 2022 · The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration as self
- 2022 · Fragments of Paradise as Self
- 2022 · Film: The Living Record of Our Memory as Self
- 2022 · The Last Movie Stars as Self
- 2022 · Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues as Self
- 2022 · A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé as Self
- 2021 · Stories of a Generation - with Pope Francis as Self
- 2021 · We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams as Self
- 2021 · El Planeta as Self (uncredited)
- 2021 · Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
- 2021 · I Am Alfred Hitchcock as Self
- 2021 · Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted! as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2020 · 30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation as Self
- 2020 · The Oratorio as Self - Narrator
- 2020 · Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film as Self
- 2020 · Crazy, Not Insane as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · The Irishman: In Conversation as Self
- 2019 · Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols as
- 2017 · Spielberg 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 on Framing as Self
- 2017 · Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star as Self
- 2017 · Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence as Self
- 2017 · Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations as Self
- 2016 · Lumière! as Self
- 2016 · Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown as Self
- 2015 · Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese as Self
- 2015 · Behind the White Glasses as Self
- 2015 · French Cinema Mon Amour as Self
- 2015 · The Legend of the Palme d'Or as Self
- 2014 · The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire as Self
- 2014 · Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini as Self
- 2014 · Inside Rupert Pupkin 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 · Milius as Self
- 2012 · Stanley Kubrick in Focus as Self
- 2012 · The Race for Colour as Self
- 2011 · Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
- 2011 · Marty on Film as Self
- 2011 · Marty and Bobby as Self
- 2010 · Dante Ferretti: Production Designer as Self
- 2010 · … But Film Is My Mistress as Self
- 2010 · Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self – Interviewee
- 2009 · Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock as Self
- 2009 · The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style as Self
- 2009 · Images from the Playground as Self
- 2009 · American Prince 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 · 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 · 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 · You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story as Self
- 2008 · The World of John Ford as
- 2008 · Milagrez as Self
- 2007 · 365 Day Project as
- 2007 · Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts as Self
- 2007 · Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2007 · Making Casino as Self
- 2007 · Crossing Criminal Cultures as Self
- 2006 · A Beautiful Vacation as Self
- 2006 · Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero as Self
- 2006 · Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films as Self
- 2006 · The Real Goodfella as Self
- 2006 · The Searchers: An Appreciation as Self
- 2005 · Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero as Self
- 2005 · Casino: The Story as Self
- 2005 · By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' as Self
- 2005 · Raging Bull: Outside the Ring as Self
- 2005 · Raging Bull: Before the Fight as Self
- 2005 · The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On as Self
- 2005 · White Heat: Top of the World as Self
- 2005 · Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public as Self
- 2004 · Scorsese on Scorsese as Self
- 2004 · On the Set: Elaine’s as Self
- 2004 · The Workaday Gangster as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing as Self
- 2004 · Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas' as Self
- 2004 · Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours as Self - Director (voice)
- 2004 · Lightning in a Bottle as Self (uncredited)
- 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 · The Song of the Little Road as Self
- 2003 · A Decade Under the Influence as Self
- 2003 · The John Garfield Story as Self
- 2002 · New York at the Movies as Self
- 2002 · Revisiting 'The Last Waltz' as Self
- 2002 · The Magic of Fellini as Self
- 2001 · The Neighborhood as Self
- 2001 · The Making of 'Cape Fear' 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 · A Conversation with Gregory Peck as Self
- 1999 · My Voyage to Italy as Self - Host
- 1998 · In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese as Self
- 1997 · A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola as Self
- 1997 · The Race to Save 100 Years as Self
- 1996 · The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera 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 · A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies as Self - Filmmaker / Host
- 1995 · Search and Destroy as The Accountant
- 1994 · Everybody Just Stay Calm as Self
- 1994 · Quiz Show as Martin Rittenhome
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1994 · Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady as Self
- 1993 · The Age of Innocence as Photographer (uncredited)
- 1993 · Gershwin as Self
- 1992 · Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann as Self
- 1990 · Making of 'Dreams' as Self
- 1990 · Made in Milan as
- 1990 · The Grifters as Opening voice-over (uncredited)
- 1990 · Dreams as Vincent Van Gogh
- 1989 · Arena - John Cassavetes as Self
- 1988 · Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ as Self
- 1987 · Hollywood Uncensored as Self
- 1987 · Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Self - Film Director
- 1987 · Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg as Self
- 1986 · Before Midnight as Self (archive footage)
- 1982 · The King of Comedy as TV Director
- 1980 · Il resto del Pap'occhio as Direttore Tv
- 1979 · All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman as Self
- 1978 · American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince 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
- 1970 · Street Scenes 1970 as Self
- 1952 · Today as Self