Martin Charles Scorsese (/skɔːrˈsɛsi/ skor-SESS-ee, Italian: [skorˈseːze, -se]; 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 the 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".[5] 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.
| 2025 | End of Daylight as Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | Jesus Goes To Hollywood as Himself (archive) |
| 2024 | Beatles '64 as Self |
| 2024 | From Darkness to Light as Self |
| 2024 | İngiltere'de Yapıldı: Powell ve Pressburger'in Filmleri as Self |
| 2024 | Harvey Keitel : À l'ombre des ténèbres as Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain as Self |
| 2023 | The Moviemakers: Scorsese as Self |
| 2023 | Dolunay Katilleri as Radio Show Producer |
| 2023 | Kiarostami Mashghoul-e Kar Ast as Self |
| 2023 | Robert De Niro, l'arme du silence as Self - Interviewee (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Paul Newman, l'intranquille as Self - Interviewee (archive footage) |
| 2023 | The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2022 | Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende as Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Sergio Leone - L'italiano che inventò l'America as Self |
| 2022 | Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain as Self |
| 2022 | The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration as self |
| 2022 | Fragments of Paradise as Self |
| 2022 | Film: The Living Record of Our Memory as Self |
| 2022 | Eric Clapton - Nothing But the Blues as Self |
| 2022 | Hommage d’une fille à son père as Self |
| 2021 | Noi siamo cinema as Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Salvatore - Il calzolaio dei sogni as Self |
| 2021 | Daniel Day-Lewis : l'héritier as Self |
| 2021 | El Planeta as Self (uncredited) |
| 2021 | I Am Alfred Hitchcock as Self |
| 2021 | Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted! as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Making 'The Irishman' as Self |
| 2020 | 30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation as Self |
| 2020 | The Oratorio as Self - Narrator |
| 2020 | Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film as Self |
| 2020 | Crazy, Not Insane as Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band as Self |
| 2020 | The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman as Self |
| 2019 | The Irishman: In Conversation as Self |
| 2019 | Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols |
| 2018 | King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen as Self |
| 2017 | Spielberg as Self |
| 2017 | John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs as Self |
| 2017 | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World as Self |
| 2017 | The Pulitzer At 100 as Self |
| 2017 | Martin Scorsese on Framing as Self |
| 2017 | Gene Tierney, une star oubliée as Self |
| 2017 | Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence as Self |
| 2017 | Andrzej Wajda: Moje inspiracje as Self |
| 2017 | Abderrahmane Sissako - Par-delà les frontières as Self |
| 2016 | Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Filmmaker |
| 2016 | Cinema Futures as Self |
| 2016 | Jerry Lewis, clown rebelle as Self |
| 2016 | 健さん as Self |
| 2016 | Lumière ! L'aventure commence as Self |
| 2015 | Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese as Self |
| 2015 | The Audition as Self |
| 2015 | Kampüs Kodu as Doctor |
| 2015 | Dietro gli occhiali bianchi as Self |
| 2015 | Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self |
| 2015 | The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence as Self |
| 2015 | French Cinema Mon Amour as Self |
| 2015 | This Is Orson Welles as Self |
| 2015 | The Legend of the Palme d'Or as Self |
| 2015 | Scorsese's GoodFellas as Self |
| 2014 | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
| 2014 | The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire as Self |
| 2014 | Alfonso Sansone - produttore per caso as Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini as Self |
| 2014 | Hayatın Kendisi as Self - Filmmaker |
| 2014 | Don Rickles: One Night Only as Self |
| 2014 | Inside Rupert Pupkin as Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | The Wolf Pack as Self |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Para Avcısı as John (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2013 | House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! as Self |
| 2013 | One Direction: This Is Us as Self |
| 2013 | Trespassing Bergman as Self |
| 2013 | Seduced and Abandoned as Self |
| 2013 | Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self |
| 2013 | Milius as Self |
| 2013 | John Ford & Monument Valley as Self |
| 2013 | عباس کیارستمی: یک گزارش as Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Stanley Kubrick in Focus as Self |
| 2012 | Bad 25 as Self |
| 2012 | Casting By as Self |
| 2012 | Magical Mystery Tour Revisited as Self |
| 2012 | The Race for Colour as Self |
| 2012 | Side by Side as Self |
| 2012 | John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man as Self |
| 2012 | "La vie est belle" ...quínze ans plus tard! as Self |
| 2012 | Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime as Self |
| 2012 | Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' as Self |
| 2012 | The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès as Self |
| 2012 | The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' as Self |
| 2011 | Corman's World as Self - Filmmaker |
| 2011 | Hugo as Photographer (uncredited) |
| 2011 | Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self |
| 2011 | Kurosawa, la voie as Self |
| 2011 | Marty on Film as Self |
| 2011 | Marty and Bobby as Self |
| 2010 | Public Speaking as Self (uncredited) |
| 2010 | Dante Ferretti - Scenografo italiano as Self |
| 2010 | A Letter to Elia as Self - Narrator |
| 2010 | Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse as Self |
| 2010 | The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile as Self |
| 2010 | ...Men filmen är min älskarinna as Self |
| 2010 | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self – Interviewee |
| 2010 | Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen as Self |
| 2009 | Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock as Self |
| 2009 | The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style as Self |
| 2009 | Bilder från Lekstugan as Self |
| 2009 | American Prince as Self |
| 2008 | Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben as Self |
| 2008 | Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film as Self |
| 2008 | O Retorno do Dragão as Self |
| 2008 | Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro as Self |
| 2008 | In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy as Self |
| 2008 | Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock as Self |
| 2008 | Saul Bass: Title Champ as Self |
| 2008 | Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies as Self |
| 2008 | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story as Self |
| 2008 | Shine a Light as Self (uncredited) |
| 2008 | Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood as Self |
| 2008 | Milagrez as Self |
| 2008 | Notes on an American Film Director at Work as Self |
| 2007 | 365 Day Project |
| 2007 | The Key to Reserva as Self (uncredited) |
| 2007 | Bienvenue à Cannes as Self |
| 2007 | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self |
| 2007 | Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts as Self |
| 2007 | Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows as Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2007 | Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver as Self |
| 2007 | AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self |
| 2007 | Making Casino as Self |
| 2007 | Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten as Self |
| 2007 | Brando as Self |
| 2007 | Crossing Criminal Cultures as Self |
| 2007 | Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed' as Self |
| 2006 | "Una Bella Vacanza" Buon Compleanno Dino Risi! as Self |
| 2006 | Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero as Self |
| 2006 | Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films as Self |
| 2006 | Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood as Self |
| 2006 | Edge of Outside as Self |
| 2006 | The Real Goodfella as Self |
| 2006 | The Searchers: An Appreciation as Self |
| 2005 | Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero as Self |
| 2005 | Michael Powell |
| 2005 | No Direction Home: Bob Dylan as Self (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2005 | Casino: The Story as Self |
| 2005 | By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' as Self |
| 2005 | Club Oscar as Sykes (voice) |
| 2005 | Raging Bull: After the Fight as Self |
| 2005 | Raging Bull: Before the Fight as Self |
| 2005 | Raging Bull: Inside the Ring as Self |
| 2005 | Raging Bull: Outside the Ring as Self |
| 2005 | The 'New York, New York' Stories as Self |
| 2005 | Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public as Self |
| 2005 | The Eye of the Beholder as Self |
| 2005 | The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On as Self |
| 2005 | White Heat: Top of the World as Self |
| 2004 | Scorsese on Scorsese as Self |
| 2004 | On the Set: Elaine’s as Self |
| 2004 | The Workaday Gangster as Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing as Self |
| 2004 | Köpekbalığı Hikayesi as Sykes (voice) |
| 2004 | A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope as Self |
| 2004 | Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours as Self - Director (voice) |
| 2004 | Filming for Your Life: Making ‘After Hours’ as Self |
| 2004 | Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas' as Self |
| 2004 | Il cineasta e il labirinto as Self |
| 2004 | Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic as Self - Interviewee |
| 2004 | Lightning in a Bottle as Self (uncredited) |
| 2004 | Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty as Self - Host / Narrator |
| 2003 | Biography - Humphrey Bogart as Self - Director |
| 2003 | Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' as Self |
| 2003 | The Song of the Little Road as Self |
| 2003 | Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York as Self |
| 2003 | The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self |
| 2003 | A Decade Under the Influence as Self |
| 2003 | The John Garfield Story as Self |
| 2002 | A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy' as Self |
| 2002 | New York Çeteleri as Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited) |
| 2002 | Forever Ealing as Self |
| 2002 | New York at the Movies as Self |
| 2002 | Revisiting 'The Last Waltz' as Self |
| 2002 | The Magic of Fellini as Self |
| 2001 | The Neighborhood as Self |
| 2001 | The Making of 'Cape Fear' as Self |
| 2001 | Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures as Self |
| 2001 | Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e Battute as Self |
| 2001 | Painting with Light as Self |
| 2000 | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self |
| 1999 | Yaşamın Kıyısında as Dispatcher (voice) |
| 1999 | A Conversation with Gregory Peck as Self |
| 1999 | Il mio viaggio in Italia as Self - Host |
| 1999 | Making 'Taxi Driver' as Self |
| 1999 | The Directors: The Films of Roger Corman as Self |
| 1999 | Seksi Peri as Martin Scorsese |
| 1998 | In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese as Self |
| 1998 | Böyle Dostlar Düşman Başına as Self |
| 1998 | Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley as Self |
| 1997 | A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola as Self |
| 1997 | The Race to Save 100 Years as Self |
| 1997 | Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece as Self |
| 1997 | Frank Capra's American Dream as Self |
| 1996 | The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera as Self |
| 1996 | À la recherche des films perdu as Self |
| 1995 | More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady' as Self |
| 1995 | The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self |
| 1995 | Robbie Robertson: Going Home as Self |
| 1995 | Search and Destroy as The Accountant |
| 1995 | Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick as Self |
| 1994 | Everybody Just Stay Calm as Self |
| 1994 | Şike as Martin Rittenhome |
| 1994 | Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady as Self |
| 1994 | I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited as Self - Interviewee |
| 1994 | Jonas in the Desert as Self |
| 1993 | Masumiyet Çağı as Photographer (uncredited) |
| 1993 | Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' as Self |
| 1993 | Gershwin as Self |
| 1992 | Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann as Self |
| 1991 | Guilty by Suspicion as Joe Lesser |
| 1990 | 映画の肖像 黒澤明 大林宣彦 映画的対話 MAKING OF 'DREAMS' as Self |
| 1990 | Hollywood Mavericks as Self |
| 1990 | Dolandırıcılar as Opening voice-over (uncredited) |
| 1990 | Martin Scorsese Directs as Self |
| 1990 | Düşler as Vincent Van Gogh |
| 1990 | The Scorsese Machine as Self |
| 1989 | First Works as Self |
| 1989 | New York Üçlemesi as Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie |
| 1989 | Arena - John Cassavetes as Self |
| 1988 | Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ as Self |
| 1988 | Günaha Son Çağrı as Isaiah (uncredited) |
| 1988 | Movies Are My Life as Self |
| 1988 | Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues as Self |
| 1987 | Hollywood Uncensored as Self |
| 1987 | Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Self - Film Director |
| 1986 | Paranın Rengi as Narrator (voice) |
| 1986 | Round Midnight as Goodley |
| 1986 | Avant minuit as Self (archive footage) |
| 1986 | Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg as Self |
| 1985 | Saatler Sonra as Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited) |
| 1983 | Анна Павлова as Gatti-Casazza |
| 1982 | Kahkahalar Kralı as TV Director |
| 1980 | Kızgın Boğa as Barbizon Stagehand |
| 1980 | Il Pap'occhio as Direttore Tv |
| 1980 | Il resto del Pap'occhio as Direttore Tv |
| 1978 | American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince as Self |
| 1978 | The Last Waltz as Self |
| 1978 | Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel as Self |
| 1976 | Cannonball as Mafioso |
| 1976 | Taksi Şoförü as Passenger Watching Silhouette |
| 1975 | Lost in the Garden of the World as Self |
| 1974 | Italianamerican as Self |
| 1973 | Arka Sokaklar as Jimmy Shorts (uncredited) |
| 1973 | Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block as Self |
| 1972 | Soygun ve Aşk as Brothel Client (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Directed by John Ford as Self (2006) |
| 1970 | Street Scenes as Self |
| 1968 | Who's That Knocking at My Door as Gangster (uncredited) |
| In the Hand of Dante as Alighieri's mentor |
| Megadoc as Self |
| Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame as Himself |
| The World of John Ford |
| You Never Know as Himself |
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