Martin Scorsese
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1942-11-17 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Martin Scorsese
Biography
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.
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Known For
Acting
In the Hand of Dante
as Alighieri's mentor
You Never Know
as Himself
Megadoc
as Self
Aldeas—A New Story
as Self
(2025)
End of Daylight
as Self (archive footage)
(2025)
From Darkness to Light
as Self
(2025)
The Making Of A Mockumentary
as Himself (archive footage)
(2024)
(2024)
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
Beatles '64
as Self
(2024)
Jesus Goes to Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
(2023)
Killers of the Flower Moon
as Radio Show Producer
(2023)
Paul Newman: The Restless
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
(2023)
Kiarostami at Work
as Self
(2023)
Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight
as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
(2023)
(2023)
The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2023)
The Moviemakers: Scorsese
as Self
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
Fragments of Paradise
as Self
(2022)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
(2021)
El Planeta
as Self (uncredited)
(2021)
(2021)
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
(2021)
Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
(2021)
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
as Self
(2020)
The Oratorio
as Self - Narrator
(2020)
(2020)
Crazy, Not Insane
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
(2020)
(2020)
(2020)
Making 'The Irishman'
as Self
(2019)
(2019)
(2018)
King Cohen
as Self
(2017)
Martin Scorsese on Framing
as Self
(2017)
(2017)
(2017)
(2017)
Spielberg
as Self
(2017)
The Pulitzer At 100
as Self
(2017)
(2017)
(2017)
(2016)
Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - Filmmaker
(2016)
Cinema Futures
as Self
(2016)
Ken San
as Self
(2016)
(2016)
Lumière!
as Self
(2015)
Scorsese's GoodFellas
as Self
(2015)
Hitchcock/Truffaut
as Self
(2015)
This Is Orson Welles
as Self
(2015)
Behind the White Glasses
as Self
(2015)
The Audition
as Self
(2015)
French Cinema Mon Amour
as Self
(2015)
Campus Code
as Doctor
(2015)
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
as Self
(2015)
(2015)
(2014)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
(2014)
The Wolf Pack
as Self
(2014)
Don Rickles: One Night Only
as Self
(2014)
Life Itself
as Self - Filmmaker
(2014)
Inside Rupert Pupkin
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
(2013)
Seduced and Abandoned
as Self
(2013)
Milius
as Self
(2013)
(2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street
as John (voice) (uncredited)
(2013)
John Ford & Monument Valley
as Self
(2013)
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
Trespassing Bergman
as Self
(2013)
One Direction: This Is Us
as Self
(2013)
(2012)
Side by Side
as Self
(2012)
Bad 25
as Self
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
The Race for Colour
as Self
(2012)
(2012)
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
as Self
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
Casting By
as Self
(2011)
Marty and Bobby
as Self
(2011)
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self
(2011)
Corman's World
as Self - Filmmaker
(2011)
Marty on Film
as Self
(2011)
Kurosawa's Way
as Self
(2011)
Hugo
as Photographer (uncredited)
(2010)
… But Film Is My Mistress
as Self
(2010)
A Letter to Elia
as Self - Narrator
(2010)
(2010)
(2010)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self – Interviewee
(2010)
Public Speaking
as Self (uncredited)
(2010)
(2010)
(2009)
(2009)
American Prince
as Self
(2009)
(2009)
Images from the Playground
as Self
(2008)
(2008)
(2008)
(2008)
Milagrez
as Self
(2008)
Saul Bass: Title Champ
as Self
(2008)
(2008)
(2008)
(2008)
(2008)
Shine a Light
as Self (uncredited)
(2008)
(2008)
O Retorno do Dragão
as Self
(2008)
(2008)
(2007)
The Key to Reserva
as Self (uncredited)
(2007)
(2007)
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
as Narrator (voice)
(2007)
(2007)
(2007)
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2007)
(2007)
(2007)
(2007)
Brando
as Self
(2007)
Crossing Criminal Cultures
as Self
(2007)
Making Casino
as Self
(2007)
(2007)
Cannes: All Access
as Self
(2006)
(2006)
The Real Goodfella
as Self
(2006)
Edge of Outside
as Self
(2006)
A Beautiful Vacation
as Self
(2006)
(2006)
(2006)
(2005)
(2005)
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
as Self
(2005)
(2005)
Raging Bull: After the Fight
as Self
(2005)
(2005)
(2005)
White Heat: Top of the World
as Self
(2005)
Casino: The Story
as Self
(2005)
The Eye of the Beholder
as Self
(2005)
(2005)
Club Oscar
as Sykes (voice)
(2005)
(2005)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
(2005)
(2005)
(2004)
Shark Tale
as Sykes (voice)
(2004)
(2004)
Scorsese on Scorsese
as Self
(2004)
(2004)
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
as Self - Director (voice)
(2004)
(2004)
Lightning in a Bottle
as Self (uncredited)
(2004)
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
as Self - Interviewee
(2004)
(2004)
(2004)
Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
as Self - Host / Narrator
(2004)
The Workaday Gangster
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
On the Set: Elaine’s
as Self
(2003)
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
as Self - Director
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
(2003)
The Song of the Little Road
as Self
(2003)
(2003)
The John Garfield Story
as Self
(2002)
Forever Ealing
as Self
(2002)
New York at the Movies
as Self
(2002)
Gangs of New York
as Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited)
(2002)
Revisiting 'The Last Waltz'
as Self
(2002)
The Magic of Fellini
as Self
(2002)
(2001)
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
as Self
(2001)
The Neighborhood
as Self
(2001)
Painting with Light
as Self
(2001)
(2001)
(2000)
(1999)
Bringing Out the Dead
as Dispatcher (voice)
(1999)
My Voyage to Italy
as Self - Host
(1999)
Making 'Taxi Driver'
as Self
(1999)
The Muse
as Martin Scorsese
(1999)
(1998)
(1998)
With Friends Like These
as Self
(1998)
(1997)
(1997)
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self
(1997)
Obsessed with Vertigo
as Self
(1997)
The Race to Save 100 Years
as Self
(1996)
(1996)
(1995)
(1995)
Search and Destroy
as The Accountant
(1995)
(1995)
Robbie Robertson: Going Home
as Self
(1995)
(1994)
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
as Self - Interviewee
(1994)
Quiz Show
as Martin Rittenhome
(1994)
(1994)
Everybody Just Stay Calm
as Self
(1994)
Jonas in the Desert
as Self
(1993)
The Age of Innocence
as Photographer (uncredited)
(1993)
(1993)
Gershwin
as Self
(1992)
(1991)
Guilty by Suspicion
as Joe Lesser
(1990)
Dreams
as Vincent Van Gogh
(1990)
The Scorsese Machine
as Self
(1990)
Martin Scorsese Directs
as Self
(1990)
The Grifters
as Opening voice-over (uncredited)
(1990)
Hollywood Mavericks
as Self
(1990)
Making of 'Dreams'
as Self
(1989)
New York Stories
as Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie
(1989)
Arena - John Cassavetes
as Self
(1989)
First Works
as Self
(1988)
(1988)
Movies Are My Life
as Self
(1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Isaiah (uncredited)
(1988)
(1987)
Hollywood Uncensored
as Self
(1987)
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Self - Film Director
(1986)
'Round Midnight
as Goodley
(1986)
Before Midnight
as Self (archive footage)
(1986)
(1986)
The Color of Money
as Narrator (voice)
(1985)
After Hours
as Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)
(1983)
Anna Pavlova
as Gatti-Casazza
(1982)
The King of Comedy
as TV Director
(1980)
In the Pope's Eye
as Direttore Tv
(1980)
Il resto del Pap'occhio
as Direttore Tv
(1980)
Raging Bull
as Barbizon Stagehand
(1978)
(1978)
The Last Waltz
as Self
(1978)
(1976)
Cannonball
as Mafioso
(1976)
Taxi Driver
as Passenger Watching Silhouette
(1975)
(1974)
Italianamerican
as Self
(1973)
(1973)
Mean Streets
as Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)
(1972)
Boxcar Bertha
as Brothel Client (uncredited)
(1971)
Directed by John Ford
as Self (2006)
(1970)
Street Scenes 1970
as Self
(1968)
Who's That Knocking at My Door
as Gangster (uncredited)
Crew
In the Hand of Dante
Executive Producer
Untitled Grateful Dead Project
Producer, Director
Feebleminded
Producer
The Memory Police
Executive Producer
What Happens At Night
Producer
Untitled Byron Janis Project
Executive Producer
King Leopold’s Ghost
Producer
Another Turn of the Screw
Executive Producer
Shipwrecks of Sicily
Director, Executive Producer
Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson
Director, Executive Producer
Home
Director, Producer, Screenplay
The Devil in the White City
Director, Producer
Untitled Hawaiian Gangster Project
Director, Producer
Wall of White
Producer
Aldeas—A New Story
Producer, Director
(2025)
Die, My Love
Producer
(2025)
Outrider
Executive Producer
(2025)
Homebound
Executive Producer
(2024)
Funny Birds
Executive Producer
(2024)
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Executive Producer
(2024)
The Freshly Cut Grass
Executive Producer
(2024)
Escape
Executive Producer
(2024)
Beatles '64
Producer
(2024)
The Absence of Eden
Executive Producer
(2023)
Pet Shop Days
Executive Producer
(2023)
Killers of the Flower Moon
Screenplay, Director, Producer
(2023)
Asteroid City
Thanks
(2023)
Maestro
Producer
(2022)
The Eternal Daughter
Executive Producer
(2022)
Murina
Executive Producer
(2022)
Dreaming Walls
Executive Producer
(2022)
(2022)
Personality Crisis: One Night Only
Director, Producer
(2022)
The Sky Is Everywhere
Thanks
(2021)
Evolution
Executive Producer
(2021)
Building a Bridge
Executive Producer
(2021)
(2021)
The Souvenir: Part II
Executive Producer
(2021)
The Card Counter
Executive Producer
(2020)
Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
Writer, Producer, Director
(2020)
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
Executive Producer
(2020)
Shirley
Executive Producer
(2020)
Scorsese Shorts
Director
(2020)
Pieces of a Woman
Executive Producer
(2019)
Tomorrow
Executive Producer
(2019)
The Irishman
Director, Producer
(2019)
Diane
Executive Producer
(2019)
Uncut Gems
Executive Producer
(2019)
The Souvenir
Executive Producer
(2019)
(2019)
Port Authority
Executive Producer
(2018)
The Current War
Executive Producer
(2018)
Happy as Lazzaro
Executive Producer
(2017)
Abundant Acreage Available
Executive Producer
(2017)
Long Strange Trip
Executive Producer
(2017)
The Snowman
Executive Producer
(2017)
The Ciambra
Executive Producer
(2017)
The Elephant and the Butterfly
Executive Producer
(2017)
Free Fire
Executive Producer
(2016)
Silence
Producer, Screenplay, Director
(2016)
De Palma
Thanks
(2016)
Bleed for This
Executive Producer
(2016)
Before the Flood
Executive Producer
(2015)
The Audition
Director
(2015)
Love
Thanks
(2015)
(2015)
The Wannabe
Executive Producer
(2015)
I Call First
Original Film Writer
(2014)
Life Itself
Executive Producer, Thanks
(2014)
The 50 Year Argument
Director
(2014)
Revenge of the Green Dragons
Executive Producer
(2014)
(2014)
The Third Side of the River
Executive Producer
(2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street
Director, Producer
(2013)
Peter Gabriel: Live In Athens 1987
Executive Producer
(2013)
The Family
Executive Producer
(2011)
Hugo
Director, Producer
(2011)
Surviving Progress
Executive Producer
(2011)
The Loving Story
Other
(2011)
The Extraordinary Voyage
Thanks
(2010)
Shutter Island
Director, Producer
(2010)
A Letter to Elia
Director, Producer
(2010)
Public Speaking
Director, Producer
(2009)
The Young Victoria
Producer
(2008)
Shine a Light
Director
(2008)
(2008)
Lymelife
Executive Producer
(2007)
The Key to Reserva
Director
(2007)
(2007)
(2006)
The Departed
Director
(2005)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Director
(2004)
The Aviator
Director, Executive Producer
(2004)
Brides
Executive Producer
(2004)
Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
Director, Screenplay
(2004)
Frankenstein
Executive Producer
(2004)
Lightning in a Bottle
Executive Producer
(2003)
Feel Like Going Home
Director
(2002)
Gangs of New York
Director
(2002)
Deuces Wild
Executive Producer
(2001)
The Neighborhood
Director, Writer
(2001)
Rain
Executive Producer
(2001)
The Concert for New York City
Director
(2001)
Blow
Thanks
(2000)
You Can Count on Me
Executive Producer
(1999)
Bringing Out the Dead
Director
(1999)
My Voyage to Italy
Director, Writer
(1999)
Dogma
Thanks
(1998)
The Hi-Lo Country
Producer
(1997)
Kundun
Director
(1997)
Kicked in the Head
Executive Producer
(1996)
Grace of My Heart
Executive Producer
(1995)
Casino
Director, Screenplay
(1995)
Clockers
Producer
(1995)
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV
Director
(1995)
Search and Destroy
Executive Producer
(1995)
(1993)
Mad Dog and Glory
Producer
(1993)
The Age of Innocence
Director, Screenplay
(1993)
Naked in New York
Executive Producer
(1991)
Cape Fear
Director
(1991)
Peter Gabriel - POV
Executive Producer
(1991)
The King of Ads
Director
(1990)
GoodFellas
Director, Screenplay
(1990)
Made in Milan
Director
(1990)
The Grifters
Producer
(1989)
New York Stories
Director
(1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ
Director, Additional Writing
(1988)
(1986)
The Color of Money
Director
(1985)
After Hours
Director
(1982)
The King of Comedy
Director
(1980)
Raging Bull
Director
(1978)
(1978)
The Last Waltz
Director
(1977)
New York, New York
Director
(1976)
Taxi Driver
Director
(1974)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Director
(1974)
Italianamerican
Director
(1973)
Mean Streets
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Story
(1972)
Boxcar Bertha
Director, Editor
(1972)
Elvis on Tour
Editorial Consultant, Editor
(1972)
The Unholy Rollers
Editor
(1971)
Medicine Ball Caravan
Editor, Associate Producer
(1971)
Minnie and Moskowitz
Sound Effects Editor
(1970)
Woodstock
Editor, Assistant Director
(1970)
Street Scenes 1970
Director
(1970)
Item 72-D: The Adventures of Spa and Fon
Consulting Producer
(1969)
Obsessions
Writer
(1969)
Reflections
Editor
(1968)
Who's That Knocking at My Door
Screenplay, Writer, Director
(1967)
The Big Shave
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
(1964)
It's Not Just You, Murray!
Director, Writer
(1964)
Smiles
Production Assistant
(1963)
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Director, Writer
(1963)
Inesita
Director of Photography