Film auteur Martin Scorsese is one of the legendary writers and directors of the Hollywood film system, responsible for genre-defining films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and, more recently, the Wold of Wall Street.

Scorsese was born in Little Italy, New York in 1942, a locale which has served as the inspiration for many of his future films. He attended the New York University School of Film and made a slew of short films like the Big Shave (1968) that won awards and set him on his course with fame.

His first feature film was Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967), and he won popular acclaim for the feature Mean Streets in 1973, which starred frequent collaborator Robert De Niro. When they teamed together for Taxi Driver (1976) they were awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. Other notable films followed, including New York, New York (1977), the Last Waltz (1978), and Raging Bull (1980), for which Scorsese directed De Niro to an Oscar-winning performance and for which he received eight Academy Awards nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director).

Throughout the 1980s Scorcese continued to direct successful mainstream films like The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991) and more. In 2002 his vision for the film Gangs of New York was completed to critical success, including a Golden Globe awarded for Best Director. His 2004 biopic The Aviator about eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes won five Academy Awards, and he later received an Academy Award for Best Director for the 2006 film The Departed.

Scorsese was bestowed a seventh Academy Award nomination for best director for Hugo (2011), which then won five Academy Awards.

FILMOGRAPHY

2016 Silence (filming)
2015/III The Audition (Short) (post-production)
2014 The 50 Year Argument (Documentary)
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street
2011 Hugo
2011 George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Documentary)
2010 Public Speaking (Documentary)
2010 A Letter to Elia (Documentary)
2010 Shutter Island
2008 Shine a Light (Documentary)
2007 The Key to Reserva (Short)
2006 The Departed
2004 The Aviator
2002 Gangs of New York
2001 The Neighborhood (Short)
2001 My Voyage to Italy (Documentary)
1999 Bringing Out the Dead
1997 Kundun
1995 Casino
1993 The King of Ads (Documentary)
1993 The Age of Innocence
1991 Cape Fear
1990 Made in Milan (Short documentary)
1990 Goodfellas
1989 New York Stories (segment “Life Lessons”)
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ
1986 The Color of Money
1985 After Hours
1982 The King of Comedy
1980 Raging Bull
1978 American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (Documentary)
1978 The Last Waltz (Documentary)
1977 New York, New York
1976 Taxi Driver
1974 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
1974 Italianamerican (Documentary)
1973 Mean Streets
1972 Boxcar Bertha
1970 Street Scenes (Documentary)
1968 The Big Shave (Short)
1967 Who’s That Knocking at My Door
1966 New York City… Melting Point (Documentary)
1964 It’s Not Just You, Murray! (Short)
1963 What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (Short)
1959 Vesuvius VI (Short)