Martin Scorsese is a famous filmmaker with a long career in the industry.
Martin Scorsese is about to release a long-awaited movie which is already viral for its famous cast and of course because of him. So let’s find out more about the famous filmmaker!
- His whole name is Martin Charles Scorsese.
- He is American-Italian.
- He was born on the 17th of November in 1946.
- His zodiac sign is Scorpio.
- He was born in Queen’s, New York City.
- His father was a clothes presser and an actor.
- His mother was a seamstress and an actress.
- He was raised in a Catholic family.
- As a boy, he had asthma and could not play sports or do any activities with other children.
- So his parents and his older brother would often take him to movie theaters.
- At this time of his life, he developed a passion for cinema.
- His favorite actors when he was at a young age were Sabu and Victor Mature.
- At a young age, he was fond of neorealist cinema.
- He earned a B.A. in English in 1964.
- He went on to earn his M.F.A. from NYU’s School of the Arts (now known as the Tisch School of the Arts) in 1966, a year after the school was founded.
- There he created short films.
- Two of them were the What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963) and It’s Not Just You, Murray! (1964).
- His film professor Haig P. Manoogian was a great inspiration for him.
- In 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film.
- The movie was black and white and its name was I Call First.
- It was later retitled Who’s That Knocking at My Door with his fellow students actor Harvey Keitel and editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
- Later both of them became long-term collaborators.
- During the ’70s, Scorsese became friends with the influential “movie brats” of the era: Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg.
- Brian de Palma introduced him to Robert De Niro.
- Robert De Niro is the protagonist in the new Scorsese’s film-the Irishman.
- In 1974, actress Ellen Burstyn chose Scorsese to direct her in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.
- Later she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for that movie.
- Taxi Driver established Martin Scorsese as a director.
- It was released in 1976.
- At the ’80s Scorsese was addicted in cocaine.
- Robert De Niro saved his life by persuading him to quit cocaine and create the movie, Raging Bull.
- This movie was nominated for 8 Oscars.
- Martin Scorses received his first Oscar as Best Director with this movie.
- Robert De Niro also won an Oscar as Best Actor.
- The rest of the decade his movie results were mixed and Oscar-worthy.
- Then he had his great comeback with the movie Goodfellas in 1990.
- Scorsese acted in a small role as Vincent van Gogh in the film Dreams by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
- Since the 1990s, Scorsese has increased his role as a film producer. Scorsese produced a wide range of films.
- In these movies are included major Hollywood studio productions.
- In 1999, Scorsese also produced a documentary on Italian filmmakers titled Il Mio Viaggio in Italia (My Voyage in Italy).
- Gangs of New York was Scorsese’s biggest and arguably most mainstream venture to date.
- It was released in 2002.
- Its budget was over 100 million$
- This was his first collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio.
- In 2004 he created the movie “The Aviator”.
- This movie was nominated for 6 Golden Globe awards.
- In January 2005 The Aviator became the most-nominated film of the 77th Academy Awards nominations.
- It was nominated in 11 categories.
- It won 5 Oscars.
- Neither was for direction.
- But Scorsese was nominated as the Best Director.
- Scorsese has been married five times.
- His first wife was Laraine Marie Brennan.
- Together they have a daughter, Catherine.
- Then he married the writer Julia Cameron in 1976.
- The marriage lasted only 1 year.
- Together they have a daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese.
- She is an actress and appeared in The Age of Innocence.
- Scorsese was married to actress Isabella Rossellini in 1979.
- They got divorced in 1983.
- He then married producer Barbara De Fina in 1985.
- Their marriage ended in divorce in 1991, as well.
- From 1989 until 1997, he dated actress Illeana Douglas.
- Scorsese has been married to Helen Schermerhorn Morris since 1999
- . They have a daughter, Francesca.
- She appeared in The Departed and The Aviator.
- Today Martin Scorsese lives and works in New York City.
- Because of his religion, he believes he’s going to hell due to all of his divorces.
- Scorsese was recognized as an Italian citizen by jus sanguinis in 2018.
- In 2019, after a long time, he created a movie where his long-time partner Robert De Niro is starring.
- The movie’s name is The Irishman.
- The movie is available in the cinemas since November 1st.
- It will be available on Netflix on November 27th.
- Netflix was the platform that “gave birth” to the movie.
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