Martin Scorsese
Biography
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).
Most directed genres
Recurring actors
- Martin Scorsese 13
- Leonardo DiCaprio 12
- Robert De Niro 11
- Harvey Keitel 9
- Joe Pesci 4
- Bob Dylan 3
- Frank Vincent 3
- George Memmoli 3
Awards and nominations
- 2024 Honorary Golden Bear
- 2024 Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated
- 2020 Academy Award for Best Director Nominated
- 2018 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts
- 2016 Praemium Imperiale
- 2012 BAFTA Fellowship
- 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
- 2010 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
- 2007 Academy Award for Best Director
- 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Director
- 2006 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
- 2005 Grammy Award for Best New New Jack Swing Artist
- 2005 Officer of the Legion of Honour
- 2003 Golden Globe Awards
- 2000 Honorary César
- 1998 Light of Truth Award
- 1997 AFI Life Achievement Award
- 1995 Golden Bear
- 1994 Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated
- 1993 Britannia Awards
- 1991 BAFTA Award for Best Film
- 1991 BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
- 1991 BAFTA Award for Best Direction
- 1990 Silver Lion
- 1986 Cannes Best Director Award
- 1976 Palme d'Or
- — Directors Guild of America Award
- — Kennedy Center Honors
- — National Board of Review Award for Best Film
- — The George Pal Memorial Award
- — Library of Congress Living Legend
- — David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement
- — Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- — honorary doctorate from Princeton University
- — Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- — Evelyn F. Burkey Award
The career in numbers
- US$ 1.5 bi Total budget from 30 film(s) with data
- US$ 2.4 bi Total box office from 27 film(s) with data
- US$ 49 mi Average budget from 30 film(s) with data
- US$ 88 mi Average box office from 27 film(s) with data
- 7.2 Average rating from 39 film(s) with data
- 1.8× Return on investment from 26 film(s) with data
Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.
