THE GIANT OF HOLLYWOOD - MARTIN SCORSESE
Martin Scorsese is an American director, producer, screen writer and film historian whose career spans more than 50 years.
Martin Scorsese is currently filming his upcoming gangster
movie "The Irishman" in and around New York City with a cast that
includes Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, and Ray Romano.
The $125 million mark would make "The
Irishman" one of the most expensive
movies Scorsese has ever made. Netflix
is expected to release the movie in theaters in 2019.
Taxi Driver, Goodfellas,
Silence, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, Raging Bull, The Age of
Innocence, Casino, Shutter Island, Gangs
of New York, The Aviator, Hugo, The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of
Christ are some of the films from his
filmography of 65 long list so far.
Acclaimed
director and producer Martin
Charles Scorsese was borne on November 17, 1942, in Queens,
New York. ... By the time he was 8 years old, Scorsese was already drawing his own storyboards, often complete
with the line, "Directed and Produced by Martin Scorsese."
The
term 'giant'
is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we
have one - Martin Scorsese.
He was born and brought up as a devote Roman Catholic like me.
Martin Scorsese with Pope Francis
Martin Scorsese is the
fourth-oldest winner for the Best Director Academy Award (won for "The Departed"
at age 64 years, 100 days).
Robert De Niro and Leonardo
DiCaprio are two actors with whom he loved to work. Robert De Niro is undoubtedly my all time favorite movie actor.
Robert De Niro
Leonardo DiCaprio
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later provided the inspiration for several of his films. Scorsese earned a B.S. degree in film communications in 1964, followed by an M.A. in the same field in 1966 at New York University's School of Film. During this time, he made numerous prize-winning short films including The Big Shave (1967), and directed his first feature film, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967).
He served as assistant director and an editor of the documentary Woodstock (1970) and won critical and popular acclaim for Mean Streets (1973), which first paired him with actor and frequent collaborator Robert De Niro. In 1976, Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), also starring De Niro, was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and he followed that film with New York, New York (1977) and The Last Waltz (1978). Scorsese directed De Niro to an Oscar-winning performance as boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980), which received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and is hailed as one of the masterpieces of modern cinema. Scorsese went on to direct The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), The Age of Innocence (1993), Casino (1995) and Kundun (1997), among other films. Commissioned by the British Film Institute to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of cinema, Scorsese completed the four-hour documentary, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995), co-directed by Michael Henry Wilson.
His long-cherished project, Gangs of New York (2002), earned numerous critical honors, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Director; the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator (2004) won five Academy Awards, in addition to the Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for Best Picture. Scorsese won his first Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed (2006), which was also honored with the Director's Guild of America, Golden Globe, New York Film Critics, National Board of Review and Critic's Choice awards for Best Director, in addition to four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Scorsese's documentary of the Rolling Stones in concert, Shine a Light (2008), followed, with the successful thriller Shutter Island (2010) two years later. Scorsese received his seventh Academy Award nomination for Best Director, as well as a Golden Globe Award, for Hugo (2011), which went on to win five Academy Awards.
Scorsese also serves as executive producer on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010) for which he directed the pilot episode. Scorsese's additional awards and honors include the Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival (1995), the AFI Life Achievement Award (1997), the Honoree at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 25th Gala Tribute (1998), the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award (2003), The Kennedy Center Honors (2007) and the HFPA Cecil B. DeMille Award (2010). Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio have worked together on five separate occasions: Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
Martin Scorsese directing Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie in the making of "The Wolf of Wall Street".
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Often begins his films
with segments taken from the middle or end of the story (Raging Bull
(1980), Goodfellas
(1990), Casino
(1995) and The
Wolf of Wall Street (2013)).
[slow-motion] Makes use
of slow motion techniques (e.g., Mean Streets
(1973), Taxi
Driver (1976), Raging Bull
(1980), The
Wolf of Wall Street (2013)).
Often uses diagetic
music (i.e., source of music is visible on-screen)
Often uses long
tracking shots (His most famous is from Goodfellas
(1990), following Henry Hill and his future wife Karen through the basement of
the Copacabana night-club and ending up at a newly prepared table). A
notoriously difficult shot to perfect, he has been dubbed by some as the
"King of the Tracking Shot".
Often uses freeze
frames (Raging
Bull
(1980), Goodfellas
(1990), The
Departed (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street
(2013)).
Frequently uses music
by The Rolling
Stones, especially the song "Gimme Shelter" (Goodfellas (1990), Casino
(1995), The
Departed (2006)).
[Cameo] Cameo
appearances by himself and family members like his parents, Charles Scorsese
and Catherine
Scorsese. Catherine played Joe Pesci's
mother in Goodfellas
(1990).
Frequently sets his
films in New York City
Unflinchingly graphic
and realistic violence
Frequently casts pop
stars in small acting roles: Kris
Kristofferson in Alice Doesn't Live Here
Anymore (1974), Clarence Clemons
in New York, New
York
(1977), Mick
Jones, Joe
Strummer, Paul
Simonon and Ellen Foley,
The King of
Comedy (1982), Iggy Pop
in The Color of
Money (1986), David Bowie
in The Last
Temptation of Christ (1988), Debbie Harry
and Peter Gabriel
in New York Stories
(1989), Marc
Anthony and Queen Latifah
in Bringing Out the
Dead
(1999), Gwen
Stefani, Loudon
Wainwright III, Martha Wainwright
and Rufus Wainwright
in The Aviator
(2004). Mark
Wahlberg starred in The Departed
(2006) long after ending his rapper days as "Marty Mark".
Cuts his movies to the
music.
Thick black horn-rimmed
glasses
Thick, dark eyebrows
and grey hair
Though he is particular
about the aesthetics of every shot, he frequently encourages improvisation in
dialogue.
Often when the formal
end-credits song is over before the credit sequence, the remaining minute or so
will have atmospheric sound footage pertaining to the movie. For instance, The Age of Innocence
(1993) had sounds of a horse-drawn carriage; The Last Waltz
(1978) had the Winterland audience filing out as "Greensleeves" was
played on the organ; Gangs
of New York (2002) had modern-day New York City
traffic, and Raging
Bull
(1980) had sounds of Lamotta's nightclub.
Most of his movies
features narration (Mean
Streets (1973), Taxi Driver
(1976), Goodfellas
(1990), Casino
(1995), Bringing
Out the Dead (1999), The Departed
(2006), Hugo
(2011), The
Wolf of Wall Street (2013)).
Fast track-ins and
track-outs
Many of his films
feature double-focus shots, which splice together two shots of characters in
different depths in order to keep both in focus.
His films often contain
extraordinary levels of bad language. The Wolf of Wall Street
(2013) has the most uses of the f-word in a film at 569 and Casino
(1995) has the fourth.
Many of his films
highlight the fun and glamorous side of immoral behavior while also
unflinchingly showing the ultimate cost to both the person and everyone around
them
Many of his films have
at least one character who is known for being extremely violent, temperamental
or generally unpredictable
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(December 19, 1996)
Listed as one of 50 people barred from entering Tibet. Disney clashed with
Chinese officials over the film Kundun
(1997), which Scorsese directed.
Presented with a
special tribute at the 1976 Telluride Film Festival. It was presented by Michael
Powell. [1976]
Is a longtime friend
and was once a housemate of The
Band's
Robbie
Robertson. He directed The
Last Waltz (1978), the documentary of their supposedly last
gig which Robertson produced. Robertson later produced the soundtrack for
Scorsese's The
Color of Money (1986).
Good friends with
editor Thelma
Schoonmaker and cinematographer Michael
Ballhaus. Scorsese introduced Thelma to her husband Michael
Powell and he often quotes Powell as an influence.
His name is pronounced
"Scor-sez-see".
He directed Michael
Jackson's music video Michael
Jackson: Bad (1987). The full length video runs 16
minutes and is in both black and white and color. It is usually shortened down
to just the color segment for television.
He appears as attached
to his pet white Bichon Frise Zoe as he was to his beloved parents - except Zoe
is right beside Marty every day in the office.
Has one daughter with Helen
Morris: Francesca
Scorsese. Has one daughter with Julia
Cameron: Domenica
Cameron-Scorsese.
John
Woo
dedicated his action film The
Killer (1989) to Scorsese on a commentary he did for the
movie's DVD.
He was an altar boy at
Old St. Patrick's Cathedral, which was used in his early films Who's
That Knocking at My Door (1967) and Mean
Streets (1973). Old St. Patrick's is also where the baptism
scene in The
Godfather (1972) took place.
Was at one point slated
to direct Clockers
(1995), but for reasons that are not entirely clear, handed the directing
chores to his onetime NYU student Spike
Lee,
while staying on as producer. He was also at one point going to direct Little
Shop of Horrors (1986) for David
Geffen, with Steven
Spielberg as the executive producer. He was ultimately
uninvolved, but claims that he wanted to shoot the movie in 3-D. It no doubt
would have been a loving homage to Roger
Corman, for whom he directed Boxcar
Bertha (1972).
He took a cameo in his
film Taxi
Driver (1976) (as a man about to kill his wife) only
because the actor who was supposed to play the role was sick on the day the
scene was to be shot. Says he is generally uncomfortable in front of the
camera.
Has a dog named Silas.
Is the subject of the
song "Martin Scorsese" by the alternative band King Missile.
Is of Italian-Sicilian
descent.
Has asthma.
Of the three films he
has been trying to make since the mid-1970s, he has done two: The
Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Gangs
of New York (2002). The third film, a biopic of Dean
Martin called "Dino", has been on hiatus at
Warner Brothers since the late 1990s. Scorsese has a very specific all A-list
cast in mind, probably why this has yet to be produced. He wants Tom
Hanks to star as Martin, Jim
Carrey to play Jerry
Lewis, John
Travolta to play Frank
Sinatra, Hugh
Grant to play Peter
Lawford, and Adam
Sandler to play Joey
Bishop.
Was voted the fourth
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 being retired as a filmmaker).
Has appeared on Curb
Your Enthusiasm (2000) as a shrill version of himself
who comes to regret his decision to cast Larry
David as a violent gangster in a movie after David
repeatedly ruins the suit he needs to wear as the character.
Several characters in
his films refer to the legendary (noir) actor John
Garfield, star of the original film The
Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), which is also mentioned.
He was one of three
major directors to have been offered the opportunity to direct Schindler's
List
(1993) by producer Steven
Spielberg, the other two being Roman
Polanski and Billy
Wilder. Scorsese thought a Jewish filmmaker should direct
this; Polanski was not yet ready to deal with the painful subject (having lost
his mother in the Holocaust); and Wilder (who was retired and who lost his
mother and grandmother in the Holocaust) finally told Spielberg that he should
do this himself.
Because so many of his
actors win or are nominated for awards, actors are dying to work with him. The
film With
Friends Like These... (1998) pokes fun at this very real
desire.
Both The
Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Gangs
of New York (2002) were personal passions of his
that he had wanted to make since the 1970s. When he first starting considering
them, Robert
De Niro was in his mind to play the lead characters in both
(Jesus Christ in "Temptation" and Bill Cutting in "Gangs").
De Niro ultimately turned down the role in "Temptation" and this was
decided he was too old to play Cutting by the time that "Gangs"
finally went into production.
Has famously
collaborated with Robert De Niro in
eight films. Scorsese has said that his creative collaboration with De Niro is
very deep and that they can often understand each other without even talking.
Their collaboration has had many dry spells (including recently), but Scorsese
says he shows almost every script he writes or considers directing to De Niro
to see what the actor's thoughts on them are even when De Niro ultimately has
no involvement in the film.
Has appeared in an
"American Express" ad where he goes to pick up photos of his nephew's
birthday party at a drug store, and then proceeds to nervously pick through
what's wrong with each picture while trying to get the clueless photo-lab
clerk's opinion on them. He proceeds to buy more film with an American Express
card and calls the people on the pictures saying they need to reshoot. Scorsese
says this funny ad is probably the closest he's come to accurately
"playing" himself.
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 organization 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.
With this background he has agreed to serve as Honorary President of the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna.
Personally spurns the
notion of the "director's cut" feeling that once a film has been
completed, this should not be further altered in any way.
He lost three best
director - and best picture - Oscars to leading-man actors turned directors: Robert
Redford, Kevin
Czstner and Clint
Eastwood (Raging
Bull
(1980) lost to Redford's Ordinary
People (1980); Goodfellas
(1990) to Costner's Dances
with Wolves (1990); The
Aviator (2004) to Eastwood's Million
Dollar Baby (2004)). On the only two occasions when
he was Oscar-nominated as Best Director in years ending in zero, he was beaten
by actors making their directorial debuts (Redford and Costner). In similar
circumstance, has lost two times the Best Director Oscar to directors who act
occasionally. Nominations came from Gangs
of New York (2002) (lost out to trained actor Roman
Polanski in The
Pianist (2002)) and The
Last Temptation of Christ (1988) (lost to Barry
Levinson for Rain
Man
(1988)).
In 1975, he accepted
the Oscar for "Best Actress in a Leading Role" on behalf of Ellen
Burstyn, who wasn't present at the awards ceremony. She won
for her performance in Scorsese's Alice
Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
President of jury at
the Cannes Film Festival in 1998.
Has mentioned that he
thought Robert
De Niro's best performance under his direction was as
Rupert Pupkin in The
King of Comedy (1982).
Ranked #3 in Empire
(UK) magazine's "The Greatest directors ever!". [2005]
When asked where
audiences would find the next Martin
Scorsese, he said to look to Wes
Anderson, the young director of Rushmore
(1998).
As of 2013, has
directed seven biopics: Raging
Bull
(1980), The
Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas
(1990), Casino
(1995), Kundun
(1997), The
Aviator (2004) and The
Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
He received a Degree ad
honorem in "Cinema, TV and Multimedia Production" from the University
of Bologna on November 26, 2005.
Served as mentor to Georgia
Lee
and invited her to apprentice for Gangs
of New York (2002) in Europe.
The 1912 American
Mutoscope & Biograph Company short The
Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) heavily influenced Scorsese
in the making of his own gangster films Goodfellas
(1990), and Gangs
of New York (2002). The film was picked by Scorcese
for his 2005 tribute at Beaubourg
(1977) in Paris, France. Biograph is the oldest movie company in America and in
existence today, headed by producer/director Thomas
R. Bond II.
Scorsese and Taxi
Driver (1976) are, among others, named as inspiration for
the Massive
Attack debut "Blue Lines".
He signed a four-year,
first-look deal to develop projects with studio executives of Paramount
Pictures. [November 2006]
The
Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is the highest-grossing movie of
his 47-year career with a worldwide gross of $389,600,694.
The
Aviator (2004) was his first movie to gross over $100
million in the United States.
Has worked with big
names of music business: Elvis
Presley, Bob
Dylan, Jimi
Hendrix, The
Rolling Stones, U2,
Michael
Jackson and David
Bowie.
Directed 18 different
actors in Oscar nominated performances: Jodie
Foster, Robert
De Niro (three times), Joe
Pesci (twice), Leonardo
DiCaprio (twice), Daniel
Day-Lewis, Cate
Blanchett, Winona
Ryder, Ellen
Burstyn, Sharon
Stone, Diane
Ladd,
Cathy
Moriarty, Juliette
Lewis, Lorraine
Bracco, Paul
Newman, Mary
Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Alan
Alda,
Mark
Wahlberg and Jonah
Hill.
Burstyn, De Niro, Newman, Pesci and Blanchett won Oscars for their roles in one
of Scorsese's movies.
When he won his Best
Director Oscar for The
Departed (2006), he received the award from legendary
directors, George
Lucas, Francis
Ford Coppola, and Steven
Spielberg. The four were part of the "New
Hollywood" movement of the 1970s and combined have nine Academy Awards and
38 nominations.
As a teenager in the
Bronx, Scorsese frequently rented Michael
Powell's The
Tales of Hoffmann (1951) from a store that only had one
copy of the reels. When this was not available the owner told him, "that
Romero kid has it", referring to George
A. Romero who was also a huge fan of the film. Today, both
directors cite the film as a major influence.
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.
Recipient of the 2007
Kennedy Center Honors. Other recipients that year were Leon
Fleisher, Steve
Martin, Diana
Ross
and Brian
Wilson.
Says the only thing he regrets
in his career is that he was only able to make The
Last Temptation of Christ (1988) on a small budget although
he imagined it to be a grand version.
Was originally going to
direct The
Honeymoon Killers (1970), but was replaced after a week
of shooting.
Served as a guest
critic on Siskel
& Ebert (1986) following the death of Gene
Siskel. The episode was "The Best Films of the
90s" in which Roger
Ebert cited Scorsese's Goodfellas
(1990) as one of the best films of the 1990s (#3). Scorsese's full list of his
favorite films of the 1990s: 10.) Tie: Malcolm
X
(1992) and Heat
(1995), 9.) Fargo
(1996), 8.) Crash
(1996), 7.) Bottle
Rocket (1994), 6.) Breaking
the Waves (1996), 5.) Bad
Lieutenant (1992), 4.) Eyes
Wide Shut (1999), 3.) A
Borrowed Life (1994), 2.) The
Thin Red Line (1998), 1.) The
Horse Thief (1986).
He was made a Fellow of
the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to
film culture.
Resides in New York
City. His production offices are located on West 57th Street in Manhattan.
Attended Cardinal Hayes
high school in the Bronx as a young man. Fellow alumni included George
Carlin, George
Dzundza, Regis
Philbin, Jamal
Mashburn and Don
DeLillo.
Is a huge fan of the
British Hammer Films series.
Is a huge fan of Fawlty
Towers (1975). He describes the episode, Fawlty
Towers: The Germans (1975), as "so tasteless, it's
hilarious".
In the fifth edition of
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (edited by Steven Jay Schneider), seven
of Scorsese's films are listed: Mean
Streets (1973), Taxi
Driver (1976), Raging
Bull
(1980), The
King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas
(1990), Casino
(1995) and The
Departed (2006).
Haig
Manoogian was Scorsese's mentor at NYU. He eventually
produced Scorsese's first film (Who's
That Knocking at My Door (1967)) and when he died in 1980,
Scorsese dedicated Raging
Bull
(1980) to Manoogian.
Roger
Ebert is a great admirer of Scorsese's work. 14 of
Scorsese's films were given four stars by Ebert (Mean
Streets (1973), Alice
Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi
Driver (1976), Raging
Bull
(1980), After
Hours (1985), The
Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas
(1990), The
Age of Innocence (1993), Casino
(1995), Kundun
(1997), Bringing
Out the Dead (1999), The
Aviator (2004), The
Departed (2006), Shine
a Light (2008)), seven of his films are in Ebert's Great
Movies list (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, After Hours, The Last
Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas and The Age of Innocence), and Ebert has
written an entire book of his reviews, interviews and essays on Scorsese's work
simply titled "Scorsese By Ebert".
As of March 2016, seven
of his films are on the IMDB's Top 250 Films list: Goodfellas
(1990), Taxi
Driver (1976), Raging
Bull
(1980), The
Departed (2006), Casino
(1995), Shutter
Island (2010) and The
Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
On Inside
the Actors Studio (1994), he said the directors that
inspired him the most are John
Cassavetes, Orson
Welles, John
Ford,
Federico
Fellini, Elia
Kazan, Roberto
Rossellini, Michael
Powell and Emeric
Pressburger.
Other than his short
films and documentaries, all his film from 1972 to 1990 were shot in Widescreen
aspect ratio (1.85:1) and all his film from 1992 onward were shot in
CinemaScope aspect ratio (2.35:1).
The death of Federico
Fellini was very similar to his father's death. Bypass
surgery, a stroke and then a coma. Scorsese also noted that they both lasted
exactly the same days in the coma.
Scorsese's elaborate
2010 docu-commercial for "Bleu de Chanel" men's French fragrance,
flashes a very brief image of a clapper board with the name - "C
Cappa" - written on the Director credit space. Apparently this is an
homage to his mother whose maiden name was C(atherine) Cappa.
Directed three films on
the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Movies: Raging
Bull
(1980) at #4, Taxi
Driver (1976) at #52 and Goodfellas
(1990) at #92.
The
Magic Box (1951) was the film that created the biggest
impression on him and made him think he could do filmmaking himself.
According to lifelong
collaborator Thelma
Schoonmaker, Marty's favorite facet of the filmmaking
process is the editing.
Donated his collection
of papers, photographs, memorabilia and other film-related ephemera to the
Wesleyan University Cinema Archive, where it is conserved along with the
collections of such film luminaries as Frank Capra, Clint Eastwood, Ingrid
Bergman, John Waters, Elia Kazan and others. The Archive is kept under the
supervision of renowned film historian, scholar and Professor of Film Studies
Jeanine Basinger.
Went to see The
Searchers (1956) on the afternoon of the day that he
graduated from Parochial school.
Named after his
maternal grandfather, Martin "Filippo" Cappa.
Honorary president of
the Vienna Film Museum. [2005]
President of the jury
at the 13th Marrakech Film Festival in 2013.
Despite being known for
his gangster films, he has only made five films out of almost 50 about the Mob:
Mean
Streets (1973), Goodfellas
(1990), Casino
(1995), Gangs
of New York (2002) and The
Departed (2006). His other films vary in genre and style,
from period epics to musical to biography of the 14th Dalai Lama.
Despite being known for
directing extremely dark and often very violent movies, he is known in real
life to be a very friendly, polite and mild-mannered person who gets along very
well with his cast and crew.
Has written three books
on the cinema - "A Director's Diary: the Making of Kundun", "The
Magic Box: 201 Movie Favorites" and "A Personal journey with Martin
Scorcese Through American Movies" (A literary adaption of his Channel
4/British Film Institute documentary).
Has been directed by
such directors as Robert
Altman, Robert
Redford, Akira
Kurosawa, Albert
Brooks and Irwin
Winkler.
He was awarded a Star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood,
California on February 28, 2003.
Is a huge fan of
comedians. He has also directed comedians such as Alan
King,
Kevin
Pollak, Don
Rickles, Dick
Smothers and Jerry
Lewis.
Once considered
producing a remake of Akira
Kurosawa's High
and Low (1963) with Mike
Nichols as the director.
Eric
Clapton gave Martin Scorsese the gold record of the song
"Sunshine of Your Love" as a gift. Martin Scorsese used this song in Goodfellas
(1990).
Martin Scorsese made
cameo appearances as a photographer in two films that he directed. The two
films are The
Age of Innocence (1993) and Hugo
(2011).
Leonardo
DiCaprio thanked him when he won the Best Actor Oscar for Alejandro
González Iñárritu's The
Revenant (2015). During his acceptance speech, DiCaprio
thanked Scorsese for "teaching him so much about the cinematic art
form" [February 28, 2016].
Despite the fact that
Martin Scorsese does not like remakes, he has directed two. The first was Cape
Fear
(1991) and the second was The
Departed (2006). The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong
film Infernal
Affairs (2002).
St. Patrick's Old
Cathedral is used as a location in two Martin Scorsese films, which are Who's
That Knocking at My Door (1967) and Mean
Streets (1973).
Has a phobia of flying
on airplanes.
Was Francis
Ford Coppola's choice to direct The
Godfather: Part II (1974), but Paramount Pictures wanted
Coppola back, with the promise of his own creative freedom.
Peter Bogdanovich and George
Cuckor signed Martin Scorsese's directing card that allowed him into the
Directors Guild.
President of the
'Cinéfondation and Short Films' jury at the 55th Cannes International Film
Festival in 2002.
Martin Scorsese and
Robert de Niro were brought up blocks apart in the Greenwich Village area of
Manhattan, but never formally met when they were young. When introduced at a
party in 1972, the two came to realize that they had seen each other many times
but had never spoken.
First heard of Leonardo
DiCaprio through old friend Robert
De Niro who had co-starred with Leo in This
Boy's Life (1993). He later spotted him on television one
night in What's
Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) which he thought, at first, was
a documentary. By the time Leo had had his breakthrough outing in the
blockbuster Titanic
(1997), he was now in a position to help green light the production of Gangs
of New York (2002).
All but three of his
feature films have received at least one Academy Award nomination: New
York, New York (1977), The
King of Comedy (1982) and After
Hours (1985).
(November 30, 2016) For
the very first time the director had the great privilege of a private audience
with Pope
Francis in the Vatican in the company of his wife Helen
Morris, daughters Francesca
Scorsese, Cathy
Scorsese and fellow producer Gastón
Pavlovich. Scorsese screened his religious epic Silence
(2016) (Nov. 29th) at the Jesuit-run Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome for
an international group of Jesuits and again (Nov. 30th) in the Vatican for a
select group of guests.
Has directed Victor
Argo
in six films: Boxcar
Bertha (1972), Mean
Streets (1973), Taxi
Driver (1976), After
Hours (1985), The
Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and New
York Stories (1989).
Has directed Illeana
Douglas in four films: The
Last Temptation of Christ (1988), New
York Stories (1989), Goodfellas
(1990) and Cape
Fear
(1991).
Is the only director to
have two films that were selected for preservation in the National Film
Registry in their first year of eligibility (Raging
Bull
(1980) and Goodfellas
(1990)).
Is one of four
directors who have directed Academy Award winning performances in all four
acting categories. The others being William Wyler, Elia Kazan and Hal Ashby.
Martin Scorsese's span of 50 years of cinematic life
influenced me and when I have written about Steven Spielberg, I was also
contemplating to write soon about Marty.
I wish Marty to scale even greater heights in his
future life.
Needless to mention that I have immense satisfaction to feature Martin Scorsese in JOHNNY's BLOG.
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