Martin Scorsese

83, from Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Artwork for The Wolf of Wall StreetImage of Martin Scorsese

Biography

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.

Timeline

2026Aged 84

  • Poster for The Lady and The Legend

    Self

  • Poster for WahZhaZhe: A Song for the Osage

    (himself)

  • Poster for Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration

    Self

  • Poster for Outcome

    Richie 'Red' Rodriguez

  • Poster for Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis

    Self

  • Poster for The Mandalorian and Grogu

    Hugo Durant (voice)

  • Poster for In the Hand of Dante

    Isaiah

  • Poster for Robert Richardson: The White Devil

    Self

  • Poster for Cinematic Intelligence

    Martin Scorsese (Footage)

  • Poster for The Basics of Philosophy

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Tribeca 25

    Self

  • Poster for Late Fame

    Executive Producer

  • One More Time

    Executive Producer

2025Aged 83

  • Poster for From Darkness to Light

    Self

  • Poster for Oliver Stone: The Outsider

    Self - director

  • Poster for Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  • Poster for Ritratti di cinema

    Self

  • Poster for Breakdown: 1975

    Self

  • Poster for Pet Shop Days

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Outrider

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Homebound

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Die My Love

    Producer

  • Poster for SAQUON

    Executive Producer

2024Aged 82

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master

    Self (archive) - subject, filmmaker

  • Poster for Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

    Self

  • Poster for Beatles '64

    Self

  • Poster for Conversation avec Martin Scorsese, en notes et en images

    Self

  • Poster for Jesus Goes to Hollywood

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Funny Birds

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Absence of Eden

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Freshly Cut Grass

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Escape

    Executive Producer

2023Aged 81

  • Poster for The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Kiarostami at Work

    Self

  • Poster for Killers of the Flower Moon

    Radio Show Producer

  • Poster for The Moviemakers: Scorsese

    Self

  • Poster for Asteroid City

    Thanks

  • Poster for Maestro

    Producer

2022Aged 80

  • Poster for A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé

    Self

  • Poster for Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues

    Self

  • Poster for Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

    Self

  • Poster for Fragments of Paradise

    Self

  • Poster for The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration

    self

  • Poster for Denzel Washington: A Model American

    Self

  • Poster for Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

    Self

  • Poster for Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Sky Is Everywhere

    Thanks

  • Poster for Murina

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Dreaming Walls

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Personality Crisis: One Night Only

    Producer

  • Poster for The Eternal Daughter

    Executive Producer

2021Aged 79

  • Poster for Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  • Poster for I Am Alfred Hitchcock

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Morceaux de Cannes

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for El Planeta

    Self (uncredited)

  • Poster for Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius

    Self

  • Poster for Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams

    Self

  • Poster for We Are Cinema

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Building a Bridge

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Midnight in the Switchgrass

    Thanks

  • Poster for Evolution

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Card Counter

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Souvenir: Part II

    Executive Producer

2020Aged 78

2019Aged 77

2018Aged 76

  • Poster for King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

    Self

  • Poster for The Current War

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Happy as Lazzaro

    Executive Producer

2017Aged 75

  • Poster for Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories

    Self

  • Poster for Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations

    Self

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence

    Self

  • Poster for Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star

    Self

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese on Framing

    Self

  • Poster for The Pulitzer At 100

    Self

  • Poster for Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

    Self

  • Poster for John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs

    Self

  • Poster for Spielberg

    Self

  • Poster for Free Fire

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Long Strange Trip

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Snowman

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Young Lions of Gypsy

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Ciambra

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Abundant Acreage Available

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Elephant and the Butterfly

    Executive Producer

2016Aged 74

  • Poster for Ken San

    Self

  • Poster for Cinema Futures

    Self

  • Poster for Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown

    Self

  • Poster for Lumière!

    Self

  • Poster for Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A

    Self

  • Poster for Mifune: The Last Samurai

    Self - Filmmaker

  • Poster for De Palma

    Thanks

  • Poster for Before the Flood

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Bleed for This

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Silence

    Director

2015Aged 73

  • Poster for Scorsese's GoodFellas

    Self

  • Poster for The Legend of the Palme d'Or

    Self

  • Poster for This Is Orson Welles

    Self

  • Poster for French Cinema Mon Amour

    Self

  • Poster for The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence

    Self

  • Poster for Hitchcock/Truffaut

    Self

  • Poster for Behind the White Glasses

    Self

  • Poster for Campus Code

    Doctor

  • Poster for The Audition

    Self

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese

    Self

  • Poster for Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

    Thanks

  • Poster for Love

    Thanks

  • Poster for The Wannabe

    Executive Producer

  • I Call First

    Original Film Writer

2014Aged 72

2013Aged 71

  • Poster for Abbas Kiarostami: A Report

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for John Ford & Monument Valley

    Self

  • Poster for Milius

    Self

  • Poster for Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

    Self

  • Poster for Seduced and Abandoned

    Self

  • Poster for One Direction: This Is Us

    Self

  • Poster for Trespassing Bergman

    Self

  • Poster for House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

    Self

  • Poster for The Wolf of Wall Street

    John (voice) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Peter Gabriel: Live in Athens 1987

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Family

    Executive Producer

2012Aged 70

2011Aged 69

  • Poster for Marty and Bobby

    Self

  • Poster for Raging Bull: Marty & Bobby

    Self

  • Poster for Marty on Film

    Self

  • Poster for Public Speaking

    Self (uncredited)

  • Poster for Kurosawa's Way

    Self

  • Poster for Woody Allen: A Documentary

    Self

  • Poster for Hugo

    Photographer (uncredited)

  • Poster for Corman's World

    Self - Filmmaker

  • Poster for The Loving Story

    Other

  • Poster for George Harrison: Living in the Material World

    Director

  • Poster for Surviving Progress

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Extraordinary Voyage

    Thanks

2010Aged 68

2009Aged 67

2008Aged 66

  • Poster for Notes on an American Film Director at Work

    Self

  • Poster for Milagrez

    Self

  • Poster for Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood

    Self

  • Poster for Shine a Light

    Self (uncredited)

  • Poster for The World of John Ford

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

    Self

  • Poster for Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies

    Self

  • Poster for In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

    Self

  • Poster for Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

    Self

  • Poster for Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro

    Self

  • Poster for Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

    Self

  • Poster for Saul Bass: Title Champ

    Self

  • Poster for O Retorno do Dragão

    Self

  • Poster for Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

    Self

  • Poster for Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben

    Self

  • Poster for Lymelife

    Executive Producer

2007Aged 65

  • Poster for Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'

    Self

  • Poster for Crossing Criminal Cultures

    Self

  • Poster for Brando

    Self

  • Poster for Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

    Self

  • Poster for Making Casino

    Self

  • Poster for AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

    Self

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver

    Self

  • Poster for Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

    Self

  • Poster for Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

    Self

  • Poster for Cannes: All Access

    Self

  • Poster for 365 Day Project

    Self

2006Aged 64

2005Aged 63

2004Aged 62

2003Aged 61

  • Poster for The John Garfield Story

    Self

  • Poster for Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    Self

  • Poster for A Decade Under the Influence

    Self

  • Poster for The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

    Self

  • Poster for Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York

    Self

  • Poster for The Song of the Little Road

    Self

  • Poster for Feel Like Going Home

    Self

  • Poster for Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

    Self

  • Poster for Biography: Humphrey Bogart

    Self - Director

2002Aged 60

2001Aged 59

  • Poster for Painting with Light

    Self

  • Poster for Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film

    Self

  • Poster for Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes

    Self

  • Poster for The Making of 'Cape Fear'

    Self

  • Poster for The Concert for New York City

    Self (The Neighborhood)

  • Poster for The Neighborhood

    Self

  • Poster for Blow

    Thanks

  • Poster for Rain

    Executive Producer

2000Aged 58

  • Poster for Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

    Self

  • Poster for You Can Count on Me

    Executive Producer

1999Aged 57

  • Poster for Making 'Taxi Driver'

    Self

  • Poster for The Muse

    Martin Scorsese

  • Poster for My Voyage to Italy

    Self - Host

  • Poster for A Conversation with Gregory Peck

    Self

  • Poster for Bringing Out the Dead

    Dispatcher (voice)

  • Poster for Smiling Fish & Goat On Fire

    Thanks

  • Poster for Dogma

    Thanks

1998Aged 56

  • Poster for Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley

    Self

  • Poster for With Friends Like These

    Martin Scorsese

  • Poster for In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese

    Self

  • Poster for The Hi-Lo Country

    Producer

1997Aged 55

1996Aged 54

1995Aged 53

  • Poster for Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

    Self

  • Poster for Search and Destroy

    The Accountant

  • Poster for Robbie Robertson: Going Home

    Self

  • Poster for The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

    Self

  • Poster for More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'

    Self

  • Poster for Michael Jackson Video Greatest Hits: HIStory

    Director

  • Poster for Amazing Stories: The Movie IV

    Director

  • Poster for Clockers

    Producer

  • Poster for Casino

    Screenplay

1994Aged 52

1993Aged 51

  • Poster for Gershwin

    Self

  • Poster for Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'

    Self

  • Poster for The Age of Innocence

    Photographer (uncredited)

  • Poster for Mad Dog and Glory

    Producer

  • Poster for Naked in New York

    Executive Producer

1992Aged 50

  • Poster for Martin a Little...

    himself

  • Poster for Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann

    Self

1991Aged 49

  • Poster for Guilty by Suspicion

    Joe Lesser

  • Poster for Peter Gabriel - POV

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The King of Ads

    Director

  • Poster for Cape Fear

    Director

1990Aged 48

  • Poster for Dreams

    Vincent Van Gogh

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese Directs

    Self

  • Poster for The Grifters

    Opening voice-over (uncredited)

  • Poster for Made in Milan

    Director

  • Poster for Hollywood Mavericks

    Self

  • Poster for The Scorsese Machine

    Self

  • Poster for Making of 'Dreams'

    Self

  • Poster for GoodFellas

    Screenplay

1989Aged 47

1988Aged 46

  • Poster for Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues

    Self

  • Poster for Movies Are My Life

    Self

  • Poster for The Last Temptation of Christ

    Isaiah (uncredited)

  • Poster for Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ

    Self

  • Poster for Not Just Any Flower

    Thanks

  • Poster for Haunted

    Thanks

1987Aged 45

  • Poster for Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg

    Self

  • Poster for Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

    Self - Film Director

  • Poster for Hollywood Uncensored

    Self

1986Aged 44

  • Poster for Before Midnight

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for 'Round Midnight

    Goodley

  • Poster for The Color of Money

    Narrator (voice)

1985Aged 43

  • Poster for After Hours

    Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)

1983Aged 41

  • Poster for Anna Pavlova

    Gatti-Casazza

1982Aged 40

  • Poster for The King of Comedy

    TV Director

1980Aged 38

  • Poster for In the Pope's Eye

    Direttore Tv

  • Poster for Il resto del Pap'occhio

    Direttore Tv

  • Poster for Raging Bull

    Barbizon Stagehand

1979Aged 37

  • Poster for All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman

    Self

1978Aged 36

  • Poster for Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

    Self

  • Poster for The Last Waltz

    Self

  • Poster for American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince

    Self

1977Aged 35

  • Poster for New York, New York

    Director

1976Aged 34

  • Poster for Taxi Driver

    Passenger Watching Silhouette

  • Poster for Cannonball

    Mafioso

1975Aged 33

  • Poster for Lost in the Garden of the World

    Self

1974Aged 32

  • Poster for Italianamerican

    Self (uncredited)

  • Poster for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    Diner Patron (uncredited)

1973Aged 31

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block

    Self

  • Poster for Mean Streets

    Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)

1972Aged 30

  • Poster for Boxcar Bertha

    Brothel Client (uncredited)

  • Poster for Elvis on Tour

    Editor

  • Poster for The Unholy Rollers

    Editor

1971Aged 29

  • Poster for Directed by John Ford

    Self (2006)

  • Poster for Medicine Ball Caravan

    Associate Producer

  • Poster for Minnie and Moskowitz

    Sound Effects Editor

1970Aged 28

1969Aged 27

1968Aged 26

  • Poster for Who's That Knocking at My Door

    Gangster (uncredited)

1967Aged 25

  • Poster for The Big Shave

    Editor

1964Aged 22

  • Poster for Smiles

    Production Assistant

  • Poster for It's Not Just You, Murray!

    Writer

1963Aged 21

  • Poster for Inesita

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

    Writer

1959Aged 17

  • Poster for Vesuvius VI

    Editor

Year unknown

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