Martin Scorsese

Extracted Attributes

• Education

  B.S. (1964) and M.A. (1966/1968) in Film Communications from New York University

• Full Name

  Martin Charles Scorsese

• Birthplace

  Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

• Date of Birth

  1942-11-17

• Key Cinematic Themes

  Crime, machismo, nihilism, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption

Timeline

• Martin Scorsese is born in Flushing, Queens, New York City. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1942-11-17

• Graduates with a B.S. degree in film communications from New York University. (Source: IMDb)

  1964-06-01

• Directs his first feature film, 'Who's That Knocking at My Door'. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1967-11-15

• Receives his Master of Arts degree from New York University. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1968-06-01

• Releases 'Mean Streets', establishing his signature style and initiating his long-term collaboration with Robert De Niro. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1973-10-14

• Releases 'Taxi Driver', which goes on to win the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1976-02-08

• Releases 'Raging Bull', which receives eight Academy Award nominations. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1980-11-14

• Establishes the nonprofit film preservation organization, The Film Foundation. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1990-01-01

• Honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1997-02-20

• Releases 'The Departed', which wins him the Academy Award for Best Director. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2006-10-06

• Receives the Kennedy Center Honors. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2007-12-02

• Honored with the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2010-01-17

• Receives the BAFTA Fellowship. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2012-02-12

• Profiled in the Apple TV+ docuseries 'Mr. Scorsese'. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2025-01-01

Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese ( 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 is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of cinema. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. Scorsese has also been honored 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. Five 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 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, centered on macho-posturing men and explore 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, liberal use of profanity and collaboration with Robert De Niro were first shown in Mean Streets (1973). Scorsese continued his association with De Niro directing him in nine more films, including Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Casino (1995), and The Irishman (2019). In the following decades, he also garnered box office success with a series of six collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio, including Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006)—which won him the Academy Award for Best Director—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). In television, Scorsese 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 made several documentaries focusing on rock music such as The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), and Shine a Light (2008) as well as film history with 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 organizations including The Film Foundation in 1990. His life was profiled in the Apple TV+ docuseries Mr. Scorsese (2025).

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• Martin Scorsese | Biography | Research Starters

  RESEARCH STARTER # Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese is a highly influential American filmmaker known for his distinctive cinematic style and exploration of complex themes. Born in 1942 in Flushing, Queens, to Sicilian immigrant parents, Scorsese's upbringing in Little Italy heavily influenced his work, which often delves into themes of crime, morality, and identity. Emerging in the 1970s alongside directors like Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg, he developed a personal filmmaking approach that blends Italian neorealism and the innovations of the French New Wave. [...] Scorsese was one of the first directors in the post-Hollywood studio-system era to create a signature style based on innovative camera work and editing, the use of soundtrack as a kind of Greek chorus commenting on the action, and the use of violence to elucidate the inner moral struggles of characters. Scorsese, along with Sam Peckinpah, is responsible for developing the use of violence in serious films, elevating it above the body-count mayhem of mere action pictures. In films such as Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, Scorsese transcended easy genre definitions to create works as unique and ultimately indefinable as their central characters. Despite periods of mixed critical success, widely acclaimed films such as The Departed and The Wolf of Wall Street reasserted Scorcese's status as a [...] Scorsese was one of the first directors in the post-Hollywood studio-system era to create a signature style based on innovative camera work and editing, the use of soundtrack as a kind of Greek chorus commenting on the action, and the use of violence to elucidate the inner moral struggles of characters. Scorsese, along with Sam Peckinpah, is responsible for developing the use of violence in serious films, elevating it above the body-count mayhem of mere action pictures. In films such as Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, Scorsese transcended easy genre definitions to create works as unique and ultimately indefinable as their central characters. Despite periods of mixed critical success, widely acclaimed films such as The Departed and The Wolf of Wall Street reasserted Scorcese's status as a

• Martin Scorsese

  Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later provided the inspiration for several of his films. Scorsese earned a B.S. degree in film communications in 1964, followed by an M.A. in the same field in 1966 at New York University's School of Film. During this time, he made numerous prize-winning short films including The Big Shave (1967), and directed his first feature film, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967). [...] He served as assistant director and an editor of the documentary Woodstock (1970) and won critical and popular acclaim for Mean Streets (1973), which first paired him with actor and frequent collaborator Robert De Niro. In 1976, Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), also starring De Niro, was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and he followed that film with New York, New York (1977) and The Last Waltz (1978). Scorsese directed De Niro to an Oscar-winning performance as boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980), which received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and is hailed as one of the masterpieces of modern cinema. Scorsese went on to direct The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), GoodFellas (1990), Cape Fear [...] Scorsese also serves as executive producer on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010) for which he directed the pilot episode. Scorsese's additional awards and honors include the Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival (1995), the AFI Life Achievement Award (1997), the Honoree at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 25th Gala Tribute (1998), the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award (2003), The Kennedy Center Honors (2007) and the HFPA Cecil B. DeMille Award (2010). Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio have worked together on five separate occasions: Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

• Martin Scorsese

  # Martin Scorsese ## Filmmaker, Founder & Chair Martin Scorsese was born in 1942 in New York City and was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later provided the inspiration for several of his films. He graduated with degrees in film communications, a B.S. in 1964 and an M.A. in 1966, from New York University’s School of Film. During this time, he made numerous prize-winning short films including The Big Shave. In 1968, he directed his first feature film, Who’s That Knocking at My Door? [...] He served as assistant director and an editor of the documentary Woodstock in 1970 and won critical and popular acclaim for his 1973 film Mean Streets. Scorsese directed his first documentary film, Italianamerican, in 1974. In 1976, Taxi Driver was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He followed with New York, New York in 1977, The Last Waltz in 1978, and Raging Bull in 1980, which received eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. Scorsese went on to direct The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino, Kundun and The Age of Innocence, among other films. [...] Scorsese’s most recent film, The Wolf of Wall Street, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Achievement in directing and Best Motion Picture of the Year. Earlier, he helmed the Emmy Award-winning HBO documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World as well as the Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated film Hugo. He received the Best Director Golden Globe for his work on that film, which went on to win five Academy Awards, and was named the AFI Best Movie of the Year. He also directed the pilot episode and served as an executive producer on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. The series went on to win the Emmy Award and the Golden Globe for best television series drama and Scorsese took home both Emmy and DGA awards for directing.

• Martin Scorsese | American Film Institute

  While Scorsese is without doubt one of his generation’s most brilliant and acclaimed filmmakers, he is also among its most passionate and knowledgeable students and lovers of film history and technique. His work with the Film Foundation has championed the cause of film preservation, he has brought attention to neglected American masters, and he has introduced important films by great foreign directors to American audiences. [...] AFI + AFI Home + About AFI + MISSION AND VISION + EQUITY AND INCLUSION + Protect + History + Board of Trustees + Senior Staff + Impact Report + Afi Campus Access + Los Angeles + Silver + Contact Log In Shop JOIN Support header logo AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE header logo AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE # Martin Scorsese 25th AFI Life Achievement Award Honoree LAA Home History HONOREES ## Martin Scorsese Director, producer, editor, writer, actor, historian, movie buff, film preservationist and champion of artists’ rights, Martin Scorsese has left his mark on virtually every aspect of the motion picture. He is among the finest and most influential of American directors, past and present. [...] It’s easy to think of Scorsese as a kind of poet of the underworld. He has explored the dark, violent and underside of urban life with precision and understanding in powerfully unsettling classics like MEAN STREETS (1973), TAXI DRIVER (1976), AFTER HOURS (1985), GOODFELLAS (1990) and CASINO (1995). But his characters have also wandered far from the jungle of the city and lives of organized crime: they are beleaguered single mothers and frustrated singers (ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, 1974); obsessive show business wannabes and jaded celebrities (THE KING OF COMEDY, 1983); angry ambitious boxer (RAGING BULL , 1980); and tortured artists (NEW YORK STORIES, 1989). Scorsese has examined the agonies of a very human Jesus Christ in THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) and peeled away the

• Martin Scorsese

  ## Early life and education [edit] Martin Charles Scorsese was born in the Flushing neighborhood of New York City's Queens borough on November 17, 1942. He grew up in the Little Italy neighborhood of the city's Manhattan borough. Both of his parents, Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, worked in the Garment District. Charles was a clothes presser and actor, while Catherine was a seamstress and an actress. All four of Scorsese's grandparents were Italian immigrants from Sicily, hailing from Polizzi Generosa on his father's side and Ciminna on his mother's side. The original surname of the family was Scozzese, meaning "Scot" or "Scottish" in Italian, and was changed to Scorsese because of a transcription error. [...] On January 17, 2010, at the 67th Golden Globe Awards, Scorsese was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. On September 18, 2011, at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, Scorsese won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for his work on the series premiere "Boardwalk Empire (episode)") of Boardwalk Empire. In 2011, Scorsese received an honorary doctorate from the National Film School in Lodz. At the awards ceremony he said, "I feel like I'm a part of this school and that I attended it," paying tribute to the films of Wajda, Munk, Has, Polanski and Skolimowski. King Missile wrote "Martin Scorsese "Martin Scorsese (song)")" in his honor. On February 12, 2012, at the 65th British Academy Film Awards, Scorsese was the recipient of the BAFTA Academy [...] In 2007, Scorsese was listed among Time "Time (magazine)") magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. In August 2007, Scorsese was named the second-greatest director of all time in a poll by Total Film magazine, in front of Steven Spielberg and behind Alfred Hitchcock. In 2007, Scorsese was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (N.I.A.F.) at the nonprofit's thirty-second Anniversary Gala. During the ceremony, Scorsese helped launch N.I.A.F.'s Jack Valenti Institute in memory of former foundation board member and past president of the Motion Picture Association of America (M.P.A.A.) Jack Valenti. The Institute provides support to Italian film students in the U.S. Scorsese received his award from Mary Margaret Valenti, Jack Valenti's widow. Certain pieces of