The original surname of the family was Scozzese (meaning Scot/Scottish in Italian), later changed to Scorsese because of a transcription error. Both of them were of Italian descent: his paternal grandparents, Francesco Paolo and Teresa Scozzese, emigrated from Polizzi Generosa, while his maternal grandparents, Martino and Domenica Cappa, emigrated from Ciminna, both in the province of Palermo, Sicily. Charles was a clothes presser and an actor while Catherine was a seamstress and an actress. Both of Scorsese's parents, Charles Scorsese and Catherine Scorsese (born Cappa), worked in New York's Garment District. His family moved to Little Italy in Manhattan before he started school. Martin Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942, in the Flushing area of New York City's Queens borough. įrom left: Salvo Cuccia, Scorsese and Vittorio De Seta at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival 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. 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). In addition to film, Scorsese has directed episodes for some television series including the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2011–2015), and Vinyl (2016), as well as the HBO documentary Public Speaking (2010), and the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021). His other films include After Hours (1985), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Age of Innocence (1993), Kundun (1997), Hugo (2011), and Silence (2016). Scorsese reunited with De Niro with The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). In the following decades, Scorsese garnered critical acclaim and box office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through eight more films including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980) The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). His 1973 crime film Mean Streets was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity. In the 1970s and 1980s decades, Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. He has 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. He is the recipient of many major accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Martin Charles Scorsese ( / s k ɔːr ˈ s ɛ s i/ skor- SESS-ee, Italian: born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
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