Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese skɔːrˈsɛsi skorSESSee 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 Universitys Steinhardt School of Culture Education and Human Development in 1968 His directorial debut Whos That Knocking at My Door 1967 was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival In the 1970s and 1980s Scorseses films much influenced by his ItalianAmerican background and upbringing in New York City centred on machoposturing 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 voiceover narration graphic depictions of extreme violence and liberal use of profanity were first shown in Mean Streets 1973 Scorsese won the Palme dOr 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 20102014 and Vinyl 2016 as well as the HBO documentary Public Speaking 2010 and the Netflix docuseries Pretend Its 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 Movies1995 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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