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