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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Oliver Stone, l’Amérique au vitriol
Self - director
2025
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Self
2024
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
Self
2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
Radio Show Producer
2023
Kiarostami at Work
Self
2023
Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
2023
Paul Newman: The Restless
Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
2023
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Self (archive footage)
2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
2022
The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration
self
2022
Fragments of Paradise
Self
2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Self
2022
Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues
Self
2022
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
Self
2022
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
Self
2021
El Planeta
Self (uncredited)
2021
30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation
Self
2020
The Oratorio
Self - Narrator
2020
Martin Scorsese on Framing
Self
2017
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Self
2015
Scorsese's GoodFellas
Self
2015
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
Self
2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
2014
Life Itself
Self - Filmmaker
2014
Don Rickles: One Night Only
Self
2014
The Wolf Pack
Self
2014
The Wolf of Wall Street
John (voice) (uncredited)
2013
Seduced and Abandoned
Self
2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
2013
Milius
Self
2013
John Ford & Monument Valley
Self
2013
Bad 25
Self
2012
The Race for Colour
Self
2012
Side by Side
Self
2012
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Self
2012
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
Self
2012
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
Self
2012
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
Self
2012
Corman's World
Self - Filmmaker
2011
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Self
2011
Kurosawa's Way
Self
2011
Marty on Film
Self
2011
Marty and Bobby
Self
2011
A Letter to Elia
Self - Narrator
2010
Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
Self
2010
… But Film Is My Mistress
Self
2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self – Interviewee
2010
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Self
2010
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Self
2009
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Self
2008
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
Self
2008
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
Self
2008
The Key to Reserva
Self (uncredited)
2007
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Self
2007
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Narrator (voice)
2007
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver
Self
2007
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Self
2007
Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
Self
2007
Edge of Outside
Self
2006
The Searchers: An Appreciation
Self
2006
The Real Goodfella
Self
2006
Casino: The Story
Self
2005
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
Self
2005
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
Self
2005
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
Self
2005
Raging Bull: After the Fight
Self
2005
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Self
2005
Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public
Self
2005
The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On
Self
2005
White Heat: Top of the World
Self
2005
The Eye of the Beholder
Self
2005
Scorsese on Scorsese
Self
2004
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Self
2004
Shark Tale
Sykes (voice)
2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Self
2004
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
Self - Director (voice)
2004
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Self
2004
Lightning in a Bottle
Self (uncredited)
2004
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Self - Director
2003
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
Self
2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
2003
Forever Ealing
Self
2002
New York at the Movies
Self
2002
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Self
2001
Bringing Out the Dead
Dispatcher (voice)
1999
My Voyage to Italy
Self - Host
1999
Making 'Taxi Driver'
Self
1999
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
Self
1997
Obsessed with Vertigo
Self
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
1997
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
Self
1996
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
1995
Search and Destroy
The Accountant
1995
Everybody Just Stay Calm
Self
1994
Quiz Show
Martin Rittenhome
1994
Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady
Self
1994
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
Self - Interviewee
1994
The Age of Innocence
Photographer (uncredited)
1993
Guilty by Suspicion
Joe Lesser
1991
Dreams
Vincent Van Gogh
1990
New York Stories
Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie
1989
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
Self
1988
Hollywood Uncensored
Self
1987
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Self - Film Director
1987
'Round Midnight
Goodley
1986
Before Midnight
Self (archive footage)
1986
After Hours
Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)
1985
In the Pope's Eye
Direttore Tv
1980
Il resto del Pap'occhio
Direttore Tv
1980
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
Self
1978
The Last Waltz
Self
1978
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Self
1978
Cannonball
Mafioso
1976
Taxi Driver
Passenger Watching Silhouette
1976
Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block
Self
1973
In the Hand of Dante
Alighieri's mentor
End of Daylight
Self (archive footage)
2025
From Darkness to Light
Self
2025
The Making Of A Mockumentary
Himself (archive footage)
2025
Jesus Goes to Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2024
Conversation avec Martin Scorsese, en notes et en images
Self
2024
Beatles '64
Self
2024
The Moviemakers: Scorsese
Self
2023
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Self
2021
Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021
Making 'The Irishman'
Self
2020
GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors
Self (Archive Footage)
2020
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Self
2017
Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations
Self
2017
Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini
Self
2014
Casting By
Self
2012
The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
Self
2010
Images from the Playground
Self
2009
O Retorno do Dragão
Self
2008
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Self
2008
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self
2008
The World of John Ford
2008
Michael Powell
2005
On the Set: Elaine’s
Self
2004
Feel Like Going Home
Self
2003
The John Garfield Story
Self
2003
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
Self
2002
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2001
The Concert for New York City
Self (The Neighborhood)
2001
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
Self
2001
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
Self
1992
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
Self
1988
The Color of Money
Narrator (voice)
1986
Megadoc
Self
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
Himself
Outcome
Aldeas—A New Story
Self
The Studio
Martin Scorsese · (1 episode)
2025
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
Self (archive footage)
2024
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Self · (3 episodes)
2023
The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Denzel Washington: A Model American
Self
2022
The Last Movie Stars
Self · (5 episodes)
2022
Stories of a Generation - with Pope Francis
Self · (2 episodes)
2021
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2021
Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
Self
2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Self · (9 episodes)
2021
Pretend It's a City
Self · (7 episodes)
2021
Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
Self
2020
Crazy, Not Insane
Self (archive footage)
2020
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
Self
2020
The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
Self
2020
The Irishman: In Conversation
Self
2019
Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols
2019
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Self
2018
Spielberg
Self
2017
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Self
2017
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Self
2017
The Pulitzer At 100
Self
2017
Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star
Self
2017
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
Self
2017
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Self - Filmmaker
2016
Lumière!
Self
2016
Cinema Futures
Self
2016
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
Self
2016
Ken San
Self
2016
Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese
Self
2015
The Audition
Self
2015
Campus Code
Doctor
2015
Behind the White Glasses
Self
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · (1 episode)
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · (1 episode)
2015
The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence
Self
2015
French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
2015
This Is Orson Welles
Self
2015
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
Self
2015
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014
Inside Rupert Pupkin
Self (archive footage)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · (1 episode)
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
2014
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Self
2013
Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
Self - Participant · (2 episodes)
2013
Trespassing Bergman
Self
2013
One Direction: This Is Us
Self
2013
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
Self (archive footage)
2013
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
Self
2012
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Self
2012
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Self
2012
Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After
Self
2012
Hugo
Photographer (uncredited)
2011
Public Speaking
Self (uncredited)
2010
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Self
2010
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Self
2009
American Prince
Self
2009
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
Self
2008
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Self
2008
Saul Bass: Title Champ
Self
2008
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Self
2008
Shine a Light
Self (uncredited)
2008
Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
Self
2008
Milagrez
Self
2008
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Self
2008
365 Day Project
2007
Cannes: All Access
Self
2007
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
2007
Making Casino
Self
2007
Brando
Self
2007
Crossing Criminal Cultures
Self
2007
A Beautiful Vacation
Self
2006
30 Rock
Martin Scorsese (voice) · (1 episode)
2006
Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero
Self
2006
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
Self
2006
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
Self
2006
Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero
Self
2005
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self (voice) (uncredited)
2005
Club Oscar
Sykes (voice)
2005
The 'New York, New York' Stories
Self
2005
The Workaday Gangster
Self (archive footage)
2004
The Culture Show
Self · (1 episode)
2004
Tanner on Tanner
Self · (4 episodes)
2004
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
Self
2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Self - Interviewee
2004
Leçon de Cinéma
Self · (1 episode)
2004
Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
Self - Host / Narrator
2004
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Self
2003
The Blues
Self · (1 episode)
2003
The Song of the Little Road
Self
2003
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · (1 episode)
2003
Gangs of New York
Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited)
2002
Revisiting 'The Last Waltz'
Self
2002
The Magic of Fellini
Self
2002
The Neighborhood
Self
2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Self
2001
Painting with Light
Self
2001
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Martin Scorsese · (2 episodes)
2000
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
2000
New York: A Documentary Film
Self - Commentator · (1 episode)
1999
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
Self
1999
The Muse
Martin Scorsese
1999
In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Self
1998
With Friends Like These
Self
1998
Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
Self
1998
The Race to Save 100 Years
Self
1997
Scene by Scene
Self · (1 episode)
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
Self · (1 episode)
1996
The Daily Show
Self · (1 episode)
1996
À la recherche des films perdu
Self
1996
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
Self
1995
Robbie Robertson: Going Home
Self
1995
A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
Self - Filmmaker / Host · (3 episodes)
1995
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Self
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · (1 episode)
1994
Hi Octane
Self · (1 episode)
1994
Jonas in the Desert
Self
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · (3 episodes)
1993
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Self
1993
Gershwin
Self
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1992
Making of 'Dreams'
Self
1990
Hollywood Mavericks
Self
1990
The Grifters
Opening voice-over (uncredited)
1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
Self
1990
The Scorsese Machine
Self
1990
First Works
Self
1989
Arena - John Cassavetes
Self
1989
The Last Temptation of Christ
Isaiah (uncredited)
1988
Movies Are My Life
Self
1988
Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg
Self
1987
Anna Pavlova
Gatti-Casazza
1983
The King of Comedy
TV Director
1982
Raging Bull
Barbizon Stagehand
1980
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self · (1 episode)
1978
The Hollywood Greats
Self · (1 episode)
1977
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (3 episodes)
1975
Lost in the Garden of the World
Self
1975
Italianamerican
Self (uncredited)
1974
Spécial cinéma
Self · (2 episodes)
1974
Mean Streets
Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)
1973
Boxcar Bertha
Brothel Client (uncredited)
1972
Directed by John Ford
Self (2006)
1971
Great Performances
Self · (1 episode)
1971
Street Scenes 1970
Self
1970
Who's That Knocking at My Door
Gangster (uncredited)
1968
The Oscars
Self · (6 episodes)
1953
Today
Self · (1 episode)
1952
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · (1 episode)
1944
Mr. Scorsese
Self · (5 episodes)