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Martin Scorsese

Age: 67
Height: 5' 4"

Birth Place: Queens, New York, USA
Born: Nov. 17th, 1942

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Martin Scorsese's Main TV Roles

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Film School	Martin Scorsese
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NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing Woodstock (1970)), Scorsese directed the gritty exploiter Boxcar Bertha (1972). Mean Streets (1973) followed in 1973 and provided the benchmarks for the Scorsese style: New York settings, loners struggling with inner demons, pointed-shoes rock-meets-opera soundtracks and unrelenting cathartic violence. "Mean Streets" also featured Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, two actors who would help shape that style. After Scorsese directed Ellen Burstyn to a Best Actress Oscar in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), the trio was reunited for the dark journey of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976). The film achieved additional notoriety five years after its release when Bickle's (De Niro) concern for a teenaged hooker played by Jodie Foster inspired John Hinckley (I)'s assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan (I) in 1981. After New York, New York (1977) (which one critic described as a wife-abuse musical) and The Last Waltz (1978), Scorsese released Raging Bull (1980) dedicated to his mentor Haig Manoogian. The biography of middleweight fighter Jake LaMotta earned two Oscars (Actor - DeNiro, Editing - Thelma Schoonmaker) and was later selected as the best film of the decade by U.S. critic gods Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. Scorsese then explored fans as pariah (The King of Comedy (1982)), dark-comic dreams (After Hours (1985)), and revisited pool shark Eddie Felson from The Hustler (1961) ( The Color of Money (1986) with Paul Newman (I)). Scorsese outraged some religious groups by attempting to portray a human son of God in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) before returning to more familiar territory with the Mafia in Goodfellas (1990). He followed with two films which were remakes, Cape Fear (1991) and The Age of Innocence (1993). Besides directing and co-writing, Scorsese has also acted. It's interesting to note he played the gunman at the finale of Mean Streets (1973) and the cab passenger planning to kill his wife in Taxi Driver (1976). He also had a role in Dreams (1990).

TRIVIA:

Apart from his legendary work as a filmmaker, he has been a vocal supporter of film preservation for almost three decades. His efforts to create a strong public awareness for the work of film archives include The Film Foundation, a non-profit organisation which he started together with other filmmakers. The Film Foundation regularly partners with the American film archives on the restoration of "lost" or endangered films. With this background he has agreed to serve as Honorary President of the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna.
Was voted the 4th greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, making him the only living person in the top 5 and the only working film director in the top 10 ('Ingmar Bergman' (qv) being retired as a filmmaker).
Daughter 'Domenica Cameron-Scorsese' (qv) with 'Julia Cameron' (qv).
He was an altar boy at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral, which was used in his early films _I Call First (1967)_ (qv) and _Mean Streets (1973)_ (qv). Old St. Patrick's is also where the baptism scene in _The Godfather (1972)_ (qv) took place.
Says he was happy with the fact that it took so long for him to win Best Director, because if he had won it earlier, it would have affected his directing and films.
As a teenager in the Bronx, Scorsese frequently rented 'Michael Powell (I)' (qv)'s _The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)_ (qv) from a store that only had one copy of the reels. When it wasn't available the owner told him, "that Romero kid has it," referring to 'George A. Romero (I)' (qv) who was also a big fan of the film. Today, both directors cite the film as a major influence.
Scorsese and _Taxi Driver (1976)_ (qv) are, among others, named as inspiration for the 'Massive Attack' (qv) debut "Blue Lines".
When he won his Best Director Oscar for _The Departed (2006)_ (qv), he received the award from legendary directors, 'George Lucas (I)' (qv), 'Francis Ford Coppola' (qv), and 'Steven Spielberg' (qv). The four were part of the "New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s and combined have 9 Academy Awards and 38 Nominations.