Martin Scorsese
Director, Producer, Actor, Writer, Editor
November 17, 1942 (83 years)
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.
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.
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| 2026 | Cape Fear · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Late Fame · as Executive Producer |
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| 2025 | Saquon · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Homebound · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | In the Hand of Dante · as Executive Producer |
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| 2024 | Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Escape · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | The Freshly Cut Grass · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Funny Birds · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | The Absence of Eden · as Executive Producer |
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| 2023 | Pet Shop Days · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | The Eternal Daughter · as Executive Producer |
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| 2022 | The Last Movie Stars · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Theodore Roosevelt · as Executive Producer |
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| 2021 | Evolution · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | The Souvenir: Part II · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | The Card Counter · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Murina · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Building a Bridge · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 2021 | Pretend It’s a City · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Pieces of a Woman · as Executive Producer |
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| 2020 | Shirley · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Once Were Brothers · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Uncut Gems · as Executive Producer |
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| 2019 | Port Authority · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | The Souvenir · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Tomorrow · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Happy as Lazzaro · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Diane · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | The Current War · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Drôle de père · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | The Snowman · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Abundant Acreage Available · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | A Ciambra · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Long Strange Trip · as Executive Producer |
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| 2016 | Bleed for This · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Before the Flood · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Free Fire · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Vinyl · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | The Wannabe · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Revenge of the Green Dragons · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Life Itself · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
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| 2014 | The Third Side of the River · as Executive Producer |
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| 2013 | The Family · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Peter Gabriel: Live in Athens 1987 · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Glickman · as Executive Producer |
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| 2011 | Surviving Progress · as Executive Producer |
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| 2010 | Boardwalk Empire · as Executive Producer |
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| 2008 | Lymelife · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
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| 2006 | How I Celebrated the End of the World · as Associate Producer |
| 2004 | The Aviator · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Brides · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Frankenstein · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 2004 | Lightning in a Bottle · as Executive Producer |
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| 2003 | The Blues · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | The Soul of a Man · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Deuces Wild · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | Rain · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | You Can Count on Me · as Executive Producer |
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| 1997 | Kicked in the Head · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Grace of My Heart · as Executive Producer |
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| 1995 | Eric Clapton: Nothing But the Blues · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | Search and Destroy · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
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| 1994 | Con gli occhi chiusi · as Executive Producer |
| 1993 | Naked in New York · as Executive Producer |
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| 1990 | PoV · as Executive Producer |
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| 1971 | Medicine Ball Caravan · as Associate Producer |
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Bastard · as Executive Producer |
| 2026 | Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu · as Ardennian Fry Cook (voice) |
| 2026 | Outcome · as Richie 'red' Rodriguez |
| 2025 | In the Hand of Dante · as Isaiah |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon · as Radio Show Producer |
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| 2019 | The Movies · as Director, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
| 2015 | Campus Code · as Doctor |
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| 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street · as John (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2011 | Hugo · as Photographer (uncredited) |
| 2007 | Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | 30 Rock · as Martin Scorsese (voice) |
| 2005 | Club Oscar · as Sykes (voice) |
| 2004 | The Aviator · as Hell's Angels Projectionist |
| 2004 | Shark Tale · as Sykes (voice) |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York · as Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited) |
| 1999 | Bringing Out the Dead · as Dispatcher (voice) |
| 1995 | Search and Destroy · as The AccountantOn Plex |
| 1994 | Quiz Show · as Sponsor |
| 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) |
| 1983 | Anna Pavlova · as Gatti-Cassaza |
| 1983 | Anna Pavlova · as Gatti-Casazza |
| 1982 | The King of Comedy · as Tv Director |
| 1980 | Raging Bull · as Barbizon StagehandOn Plex |
| 1980 | Il pap'occhio · as Direttore Tv |
| 1980 | Il resto del Pap'occhio · as Direttore Tv |
| 1976 | Cannonball! · as MafiosoOn Plex |
| 1976 | Taxi Driver · as Passenger Watching Silhouette |
| 1974 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore · as Diner Patron (uncredited) |
| 1973 | Mean Streets · as Jimmy Shorts (uncredited) |
| 1972 | Boxcar Bertha · as Brothel Client (uncredited) |
| 1967 | Who's That Knocking at My Door · as Gangster (uncredited) |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon · as Screenplay |
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| 2016 | Silence · as Screenplay |
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| 2015 | I Call First · as Original Film Writer |
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| 2004 | Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty · as Screenplay |
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| 1995 | Casino · as Screenplay |
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| 1993 | The Age of Innocence · as Screenplay |
| 1990 | GoodFellas · as Screenplay |
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| 1973 | Mean Streets · as Screenplay |
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| 1967 | Who's That Knocking at My Door · as Screenplay |
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| 2024 | Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints · as Created By |
| 2020 | Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film · as Director Of Photography |
| 2011 | The Loving Story · as Other |
| 1972 | Elvis on Tour · as Editorial Consultant |
| 1971 | Minnie and Moskowitz · as Sound Effects Editor |
| 1970 | Woodstock · as Assistant Director |