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American filmmaker (born 1942)

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Martin Charles Scorsese (skor-SESS-ee,^[1][2]Italian:[skorˈseːze,-se]; born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. Perform emerged as one of the vital figures of the New Hollywood stage. He has received many accolades, together with an Academy Award, four BAFTA Credit, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Grant and three Golden Globe Awards. Earth has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, honourableness Film Society of Lincoln Center allotment in 1998, the Kennedy Center Standing in 2007, the Cecil B. Filmmaker Award in 2010 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Four of consummate films have been inducted into representation National Film Registry by the Reflect on of Congress as "culturally, historically achieve aesthetically significant".

Scorsese received a Artist of Arts degree from New Royalty University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Rearing, and Human Development in 1968. Coronet directorial debut, Who's That Knocking hatred My Door (1967), was accepted come into contact with the Chicago Film Festival. In distinction 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese's films, overmuch influenced by his Italian-American background contemporary upbringing in New York City, feelings on macho-posturing men and explore depravity, machismo, nihilism and Catholic concepts revenue guilt and redemption.^[3][4] His trademark styles include extensive use of slow change and freeze frames, graphic depictions acquisition extreme violence and liberal use carp profanity. Mean Streets (1973) was deft blueprint for his filmmaking styles.

Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Metropolis with his psychological drama Taxi Driver (1976), which starred Robert De Niro as a disturbed Vietnam Veteran. Pack Niro became associated with Scorsese protected eight more films including New Royalty, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Irishman (2019). In the following decades, loosen up garnered box office success with clever series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio, including Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Womaniser of Wall Street (2013). He hollow with both 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, Filmmaker has directed episodes for television, containing the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014) and Vinyl (2016), as well hoot the HBO documentary Public Speaking (2010) and the Netflixdocu-seriesPretend It's a City (2021). He is also known characterize several rock music documentaries including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), Shine a Light (2008), brook George Harrison: Living in the Data World (2011). He has also resolved a music video for Michael Jackson's song "Bad".^[5] He has explored films in the documentaries A Personal Voyage with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995), Il Mio Viaggio in Italia (My Voyage to Italy) (1999), folk tale Made in England: The Films cut into Powell and Pressburger (2024).^[6] An defend for film preservation and restoration, unwind founded three nonprofit organizations: The Coating Foundation in 1990, the World Big screen Foundation in 2007 and the Somebody Film Heritage Project in 2017.^[7]

Early have a go and education

Martin Charles Scorsese^[8][a] was national in the Flushing neighborhood of Contemporary York City's Queens borough on Nov 17, 1942.^[10][11] He grew up expose the Little Italy neighborhood of interpretation city's Manhattan borough.^[12] Both of rulership parents, Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) stream Charles Scorsese, worked in the Robe District. Charles was a clothes presser and actor, while Catherine was unblended seamstress and an actress.^[13] All yoke of Scorsese's grandparents were Italian immigrants from Sicily, hailing from Polizzi Generosa on his father's side and Ciminna on his mother's side.^[14][15] The fresh surname of the family was Scozzese, meaning "Scot" or "Scottish" in Romance, and was later changed to Filmmaker because of a transcription error.^[16][17][18]

Scorsese was raised in a predominantly Catholic environment.^[10] As a boy, he had asthma and could not play sports cooperation take part in any activities keep an eye on other children, so his parents boss his older brother would often receive him to movie theaters; it was at this stage in his being that he developed a passion practise cinema. He has spoken of authority influence of Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948).^[19] As a teenager in righteousness Bronx, he frequently rented Powell ride Pressburger's The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) from a store that had tighten up copy of the reel. He was one of only two people who regularly rented it; the other, Martyr A. Romero, also became a director.^[20]

Scorsese has named Sabu and Victor Grown up as his favorite actors in coronate youth. He recalls his father exercise him to see Jean Renoir's The River (1951) and being fascinated infant its depiction of India. He became "obsessed" with Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937) when it was rereleased.^[21] Be active names John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952) and The Searchers (1956) despite the fact that formative influences.^[22] In a documentary rationale Italian neorealism, he commented on Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945) and Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1946) inspired him and influenced top view of his Sicilian roots. Injure his documentary Il Mio Viaggio of great consequence Italia (My Voyage to Italy), Filmmaker noted that the Sicilian episode cataclysm Rossellini's Paisà (1946), which he supreme saw on television with his kindred who were themselves Sicilian immigrants, difficult a significant impact on his life.^[23] He remembers responding "very strongly" confess Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958).^[24] He acknowledges owing a great debt to integrity French New Wave and has avowed that "the French New Wave has influenced all filmmakers who have spurious since, whether they saw the movies or not."^[25] He has also insincere the works of Satyajit Ray,^[23]Ingmar Bergman,^[26][27]Andrzej Wajda,^[28]Michelangelo Antonioni,^[29]Federico Fellini,^[30]Ishirō Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya^[31] as major influences on circlet career. Although there was no convention of reading at home, towards leadership end of the 1950s, Scorsese began to approach literature, being marked amount particular by Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes distance from Underground (1864), James Joyce's A Profile of the Artist as a Minor Man (1916) and Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter (1948).^[32]

Scorsese replete the all-boys Cardinal Hayes High Institution in the Bronx, graduating in 1960.^[33] He had initially desired to turn a priest, attending a preparatory alma mater, but failed after the first era and was unable to attend Fordham University.^[35] This gave way to flicks and consequently Scorsese enrolled in NYU's Washington Square College (now known monkey the College of Arts and Science), where he earned a B.A. worship English in 1964.^[33][36] He went satisfy to earn his MA from Virgin York University's School of Education (now the Steinhardt School of Culture, Tending, and Human Development) in 1968,^[37][38] unadulterated year after the school was founded.^[39]

Career

1963–1972: Short films and feature debut

While assembly the Tisch School of the Portal, Scorsese made the short films What's a Nice Girl like You Involvement in a Place like This? (1963) and It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964). His most famous short accomplish the period is the darkly comical The Big Shave (1967), which hick Peter Bernuth. The film is take in indictment of America's involvement in War, suggested by its alternative title Viet '67.^[40] Scorsese has mentioned on a sprinkling occasions that he was greatly carried away in his early days at Pristine York University by film professor Haig P. Manoogian.^[41] Scorsese's first professional office was when he was at NYU he was the assistant cameraman with reference to cinematographer Baird Bryant on the Lav G. Avildsen directed short film Smiles (1964). Scorsese stated, "It was de facto important because they were filming think it over 35mm". He stated he was plain at the job because he could not judge the distance of excellence focus. He also worked as put in order gaffer for Albert and David Maysles and as an editor for CBS News, the later of whom offered him a full time position nevertheless Scorsese declined due to his catch your eye in film.^[42]

In 1967, Scorsese made coronet first feature-length film, the black be proof against white I Call First, later retitled Who's That Knocking at My Door, with his fellow students actor Doctor Keitel and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, both of whom were to become inclusive collaborators. Roger Ebert saw the disc at the 1967 Chicago International Peel Festival and wrote, in Scorsese's regulate published review: "it brings together digit opposing worlds of American cinema. Advantage the one hand, there have antediluvian traditional films like Marty, View bring forth the Bridge, On the Waterfront brook David and Lisa -- all swarming attempts to function at the minimal where real lives are led be proof against all suffering to some degree evade their makers' romantic and idealistic meaning, about such lives. On the provoke hand there have been experimental motion pictures from Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke gift other pioneers of the New Dynasty underground. In The Connection, Shadows concentrate on Guns of the Trees, they tatty improvised dialog and scenes and obscured and hand-held cameras in an shot to capture the freshness of graceful spontaneous experience ... I Call First brings these two kinds of flicks together into a work that crack absolutely genuine, artistically satisfying and technically comparable to the best films fashion made anywhere. I have no hesitate in describing it as a fixed moment in American movies."^[43]

Scorsese became concern with the influential "movie brats" appeal to the 1970s: Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.^[44][45] It was De Palma who introduced Scorsese to Robert De Niro.^[44] During this period, Scorsese worked though the assistant director and one detail the editors on Michael Wadleigh's movie Woodstock (1970) and met actor–director Bathroom Cassavetes, who became a close boon companion and mentor.^[46]

Scorsese met Roger Corman puzzle out coming to Hollywood to edit Medicine Ball Caravan and Corman, who locked away seen and liked Who's That Unplug at My Door, asked Scorsese strip make a sequel to Bloody Mama (1970). This came to be Boxcar Bertha (1972).^[48] It was Corman who taught Scorsese that entertaining films could be shot with very little impoverishment or time, preparing the young administrator well for the challenges to come to light. Following the film's release, Cassavetes pleased Scorsese to make the films renounce he wanted to make, rather outstrip someone else's projects.

1973–1989: Breakthrough remarkable acclaim

Mean Streets was a breakthrough commissioner Scorsese, Keitel and Robert De Niro. Pauline Kael wrote: "Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets is a true original possession our time, a triumph of oneoff filmmaking. It has its own chimerical look; the characters live in decency darkness of bars, with lighting advocate color just this shade of sensational ... It's about American life down and now, and it doesn't manifestation like an American movie, or note like one. If fit were subtitled, we could hail a new Continent or South American talent — splendid new Buñuel steeped in Verdi, perhaps."^[49] By now the signature Scorsese sound out was in place: macho posturing, bloodied violence, Catholic guilt and redemption, feisty New York locale (though the lion's share of Mean Streets was shot impossible to differentiate Los Angeles), rapid-fire editing and practised soundtrack with contemporary music. Although picture film was innovative, its wired ambiance, edgy documentary style, and gritty street-level direction owed a debt to Cassavetes, Samuel Fuller and early Jean-Luc Godard.^[50] In 1974, actress Ellen Burstyn chose Scorsese to direct her in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, for which she won an Academy Award look after Best Actress. Although well regarded, high-mindedness film remains an anomaly in position director's early career as it focuses on a central female character. Reappearing to Little Italy to explore sovereign ethnic roots, Scorsese directed Italianamerican (1974), a documentary featuring his parents Physicist and Catherine Scorsese.

Scorsese followed be regarding Taxi Driver in 1976, which delineate a Vietnam veteran who takes rank law into his own hands go under New York's crime-ridden streets.^[51] The husk established him as an accomplished producer and also brought attention to photographer Michael Chapman, whose style tends turn high contrasts, strong colors, and intricate camera movements. The film starred Be an average of Niro as the angry and estranged Travis Bickle, and co-starred Jodie Minister to in a highly controversial role kind an underage prostitute, with Harvey Keitel as her pimp.^[52]Taxi Driver also forceful the start of a series signal your intention collaborations between Scorsese and writer Libber Schrader, whose influences included the engagement book of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer, Toilet Ford's The Searchers (1956) and Parliamentarian Bresson's Pickpocket (1959).^[53] Already controversial effect its release, Taxi Driver hit leadership headlines again five years later, in the way that John Hinckley Jr. made an butchery attempt on then-president Ronald Reagan. Purify subsequently blamed his act on coronate obsession with Jodie Foster's Taxi Driver character (in the film, De Niro's character, Travis Bickle, makes an blackwash attempt on a senator).^[54]

Taxi Driver won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival,^[55] also receiving link Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Nobleness critical and financial success of Taxi Driver encouraged Scorsese to move in front with his first big-budget project: nobility highly stylized musical New York, Novel York. This tribute to Scorsese's rural area town and the classic Hollywood melodious was a box-office failure. The lp was the director's third collaboration region De Niro, co-starring with Liza Minnelli. The film is best remembered at the moment for the title theme song, which was popularized by Frank Sinatra. Even supposing possessing Scorsese's usual visual panache gleam stylistic bravura, many critics felt tight enclosed studio-bound atmosphere left it heavy in comparison with his earlier industry. Despite its weak reception, the husk is regarded positively by some critics. Richard Brody wrote:

For Scorsese, boss lifelong cinephile, the essence of Spanking York could be found in loom over depiction in classic Hollywood movies. Unco, his backward-looking tribute to the flaxen age of musicals and noirish idealistic melodramas turned out to be companionship of his most freewheeling and wildcat films.^[56]

In 1977, he directed the Point musical The Act, starring Minnelli.^[57] Goodness disappointing reception of New York, Spanking York drove Scorsese into depression. From one side to the ot this stage Scorsese had developed trig serious cocaine addiction. However, he exact find the creative drive to trade mark the highly regarded The Last Waltz, documenting the final concert by Grandeur Band. It was held at greatness Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco lead into Thanksgiving Day, 1976, and featured give someone a jingle of the most extensive lineups business prominent guest performers at a unmarried concert, including Bob Dylan, Neil Countrified, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Flier, Van Morrison, Paul Butterfield, Neil Parcel, Ronnie Wood and Eric Clapton. Nonetheless, Scorsese's commitments to other projects suspended the release of the film on hold 1978. Another Scorsese-directed documentary, titled American Boy, also appeared in 1978, seek on Steven Prince, the cocky field guns salesman who appeared in Taxi Driver. A period of wild partying followed, damaging the director's already fragile volatile. Scorsese helped provide footage for rectitude documentary Elvis on Tour.

Strong several accounts (Scorsese's included), De Niro saved Scorsese's life when he sure him to kick his cocaine dependence to make his highly regarded integument Raging Bull. Mark Singer summarized Scorsese's condition:

He (Scorsese) was more more willingly than mildly depressed. Drug abuse, and habit of his body in general, culminated in a terrifying episode of intimate bleeding. Robert De Niro came keep see him in the hospital enthralled asked, in so many words, necessarily he wanted to live or euphemistic depart. If you want to live, Extent Niro proposed, let's make this picture—referring to Raging Bull, an as-told-to spot on by Jake LaMotta, the former globe middleweight boxing champion, that De Niro had given him to read length of existence earlier.^[58]

Convinced that he would not at any time make another movie, he poured diadem energies into making the violent biopic of middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta, calling it a kamikaze method carefulness film-making.^[59] The film is widely judged as a masterpiece and was committed the greatest film of the Decade by Britain's Sight & Sound magazine.^[60][61] It received eight Oscar nominations, inclusive of Best Picture, Best Actor for Prickly Niro, Best Supporting Actress for Cathy Moriarty, Best Supporting Actor for Joe Pesci and Scorsese's first for Pre-eminent Director. De Niro won, as upfront Thelma Schoonmaker for editing, but Outshine Director went to Robert Redford bare Ordinary People. From this work forwards, Scorsese's films are always labeled sort "A Martin Scorsese Picture" on promotional material. Raging Bull, filmed in buzz contrast black and white, is circle Scorsese's style reached its zenith: Taxi Driver and New York, New York had used elements of expressionism line of attack replicate psychological points of view, on the other hand here the style was taken take a trip new extremes, employing extensive slow-motion, unintelligent tracking shots, and extravagant distortion remove perspective (for example, the size be fitting of boxing rings would change from race to fight).^[62] Thematically too, the events carried on from Mean Streets direct Taxi Driver: insecure males, violence, guiltiness, and redemption.

Although the screenplay presage Raging Bull was credited to Unenviable Schrader and Mardik Martin (who before co-wrote Mean Streets), the finished calligraphy differed extensively from Schrader's original correspond. It was rewritten several times encourage various writers including Jay Cocks. Authority final draft was largely written gross Scorsese and De Niro.^[63] In 1997, the American Film Institute ranked Raging Bull as the twenty-fourth greatest Denizen film of all time on their AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies inventory. In 2007, they ranked Raging Bull as the fourth American greatest skin on their AFI's 100 Years ... Century Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list.

Scorsese's next project was his fifth partnership with De Niro, The King manager Comedy (1982). It is a mocking on the world of media be first celebrity, whose central character is simple troubled loner who ironically becomes renowned through a criminal act (kidnapping).^[64] Influence film was an obvious departure circumvent the more emotionally committed films without fear had become associated with. Visually, inert was far less kinetic than position style Scorsese had developed previously, ofttimes using a static camera and grovel takes.^[65] Here the expressionism of wreath previous work gave way to moments of almost total surrealism. It immobilize bore many of Scorsese's trademarks, on the other hand. The King of Comedy failed amalgamation the box office, but has corner increasingly well regarded by critics welcome the years since its release. European director Wim Wenders numbered it mid his 15 favorite films.^[66] In 1983, Scorsese made a brief cameo form in Anna Pavlova (also known similarly A Woman for All Time), from the beginning intended to be directed by melody of his heroes, Michael Powell. That led to a more significant precise appearance in Bertrand Tavernier's jazz integument Round Midnight. He also made trig brief venture into television, directing operate episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories.

With After Hours (1985), for which he won a Best Director Furnish at Cannes, Scorsese made an aesthetic shift back to a pared-down, bordering on "underground" film-making style. Filmed on settle extremely low budget, on location, settle down at night in the SoHo neighbourhood of Manhattan, the film is neat as a pin black comedy about one increasingly miserable night for a mild New Royalty word processor (Griffin Dunne) and quality cameos by such disparate actors although Teri Garr and Cheech & Chong. Along with the 1987 Michael General music video "Bad", in 1986 Filmmaker made The Color of Money, top-notch sequel to Robert Rossen's The Hustler (1961) with Paul Newman, which co-starred Tom Cruise. Although adhering to Scorsese's established style, The Color of Money was the director's first official run into mainstream film-making. The film at length won Newman an Oscar and gave Scorsese the clout to finally unobtrusive backing for a project that challenging been a longtime goal for him: The Last Temptation of Christ.

In 1983, Scorsese began work on that long-cherished personal project. The Last Persuading of Christ, based on the 1955 novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, retold the life of Christ in person rather than divine terms. Barbara Candymaker recalls introducing Scorsese to the reservation while they were filming Boxcar Bertha.^[67] The film was slated to slate under the Paramount Pictures banner, on the other hand shortly before principal photography was extract start, Paramount pulled the plug ejection the project, citing pressure from devout groups. In this aborted 1983 repulse, Aidan Quinn was cast as Pull rank, and Sting was cast as Pontius Pilate. (In the 1988 version, these roles were played by Willem Dafoe and David Bowie respectively.) However, mass his mid-1980s flirtation with commercial Spirit, Scorsese made a major return memo personal filmmaking with the project; Worldwide Pictures agreed to finance the hide as Scorsese agreed to make spruce more mainstream film for the apartment in the future (it eventually resulted in Cape Fear).^[68] Even prior disperse its 1988 release, the film (adapted by Taxi Driver and Raging Bull veteran Paul Schrader) caused a overall furor, with worldwide protests against hang over perceived blasphemy effectively turning a low-budget independent film into a media sensation.^[69] Most of the controversy centered eyesight the final passages of the integument, which depicted Christ marrying and rearing a family with Mary Magdalene interpolate a Satan-induced hallucination while on prestige cross.

In 1986, Scorsese directed position 18-minute short film Bad featuring Archangel Jackson and Wesley Snipes (in top film debut). The short also serves as a music video and was shot in the Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets site in Brooklyn over a 6-week time during November and December 1986. Huckster was the film's cinematographer. The plan and choreography were heavily influenced manage without West Side Story (1961). Scorsese likewise noted the influence of Taxi Driver in Spike Lee's documentary Bad 25 (2012).^[70] The short has been unfading by critics as one of influence greatest and most iconic videos bargain all time.^[71][72][73] That year, he esoteric signed a deal with upstart main The Walt Disney Studios to create and direct features, following the go well of The Color of Money.^[74]

Looking erstwhile the controversy, The Last Temptation govern Christ gained critical acclaim and remnants an important work in Scorsese's canon: an explicit attempt to wrestle hear the spirituality underpinning his films penniless until that point. He received sovereign second nomination for a Best Executive Academy Award (again unsuccessfully, this time and again losing to Barry Levinson for Rain Man). Scorsese directed "Life Lessons", tending of three segments in the jumble film New York Stories (1989). Ebert gave the film a mixed argument, while praising Scorsese's short as "really successful".^[75]

1990–1999: Established director

After a decade ad infinitum films considered by critics to have someone on mixed results, some considered Scorsese's mafioso epic Goodfellas (1990) his return dissertation directorial form, and his most fastened and fully realized film since Raging Bull. De Niro and Joe Pesci offered a virtuoso display of Scorsese's bravura cinematic technique in the membrane and re-established, enhanced, and consolidated coronet reputation. After the film was loose, Roger Ebert, a friend and protagonist of Scorsese, named Goodfellas "the finest mob movie ever". It is serried No. 1 on Ebert's movie bill for 1990, along with those vacation Gene Siskel and Peter Travers', contemporary is widely considered one of high-mindedness director's greatest achievements.^[76][77][78] The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, inclusive of Best Picture and Best Director, dominant Scorsese earned his third Best Vicepresident nomination but again lost to swell first-time director, Kevin Costner (Dances with the addition of Wolves). Joe Pesci earned the College Award for Best Supporting Actor on the way to his performance. Scorsese and the integument also won many other awards, with five BAFTA Awards, a Silver Celeb and more. The American Film Guild placed Goodfellas at No. 94 muddle the AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cinema list. On the 2007 updated turn your stomach, they moved Goodfellas up to Rebuff. 92 on the AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list (10th Anniversary Edition) and put Goodfellas at No. 2 on their list of the highest 10 gangster films (after The Godfather).

In 1990, he released his nonpareil short-form documentary: Made in Milan in re fashion designer Giorgio Armani. The later year brought Cape Fear, a remaking of a cult 1962 movie scholarship the same name and the director's seventh collaboration with De Niro. Other foray into the mainstream, the husk was a stylized thriller taking secure cues heavily from Alfred Hitchcock abstruse Charles Laughton's The Night of say publicly Hunter (1955). Cape Fear received spruce mixed critical reception and was lambasted in many quarters for its scenes depicting misogynistic violence. However, the sensational subject matter gave Scorsese a wager to experiment with visual tricks focus on effects. The film garnered two Laurels nominations. Earning $80 million domestically, encourage stood as Scorsese's most commercially in force release until The Aviator (2004), be proof against then The Departed (2006). The lp also marked the first time Filmmaker used wide-screen Panavision with an unquestionable ratio of 2.39:1.

In 1990, Filmmaker acted in a small role bring in Vincent van Gogh in the disc Dreams by Japanese director Akira Filmmaker. Scorsese's 1994 cameo appearance in illustriousness Robert Redford film Quiz Show psychoanalysis remembered for the telling line: "You see, the audience didn't tune behave to watch some amazing display bring in intellectual ability. They just wanted in the neighborhood of watch the money."

In 1994, Filmmaker and producer Barbara De Fina baccilar the production company De Fina-Cappa.^[79] Show the early 1990s, Scorsese also swollen his role as a film director. He produced a wide range have possession of films, including major Hollywood studio oeuvre (Mad Dog and Glory, Clockers), low-budget independent films (The Grifters, Naked extract New York, Grace of My Heart, Search and Destroy, The Hi-Lo Country), and even the foreign film (Con gli occhi chiusi (With Closed Eyes)).

The Age of Innocence (1993) was a significant departure for Scorsese, exceptional period adaptation of the Edith Whartonnovel about the constrictive high society mean late-19th century New York. It was highly lauded by critics upon close-fitting original release but was a casket office bomb, making an overall setback. As noted in Scorsese on Scorsese by editor–interviewer Ian Christie, the talk that Scorsese wanted to make well-ordered film about a failed 19th-century affair of the heart raised many eyebrows among the integument fraternity; all the more when Filmmaker made it clear that it was a personal project and not unembellished studio for-hire job.

Scorsese was fascinated in doing a "romantic piece", near he was strongly drawn to glory characters and the story of Wharton's text. Scorsese wanted his film nominate be as rich an emotional exposure as the book was to him rather than the traditional academic adaptations of literary works. To this smooth down, Scorsese sought influence from diverse put in writing films that had had an enthusiastic impact on him. In Scorsese firmness Scorsese, he documents influences from big screen such as Luchino Visconti's Senso instruct his Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) makeover well as Orson Welles's The Marvellous Ambersons and also Roberto Rossellini's La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (The Taking of Power by Louis XIV). Granted The Age of Innocence was eventually different from these films in footing of narrative, story, and thematic incident, the presence of a lost speak in unison, of lost values as well orang-utan detailed re-creations of social customs mushroom rituals continues the tradition of these films. It came back into ethics public eye, especially in countries specified as the UK and France, on the other hand still is largely neglected in Northward America. The film earned five Institute Award nominations (including Best Adapted Drama for Scorsese), winning the Costume Imitation Oscar. This was his first satisfaction with the Academy Award-winning actor Book Day-Lewis, with whom he would office again on Gangs of New York. This was Scorsese's first film laurels be shot on Super 35 point.

Casino (1995), like The Age ship Innocence before it, focused on well-ordered tightly wound male whose well-ordered be in motion is disrupted by the arrival compensation unpredictable forces. The fact that presence was a violent gangster film forced it more palatable to the director's fans who perhaps were baffled past as a consequence o the apparent departure of the below film. Casino was a box taunt success,^[80] and it received generally poised notices from critics. Comparisons were disliked to his earlier film Goodfellas, current Scorsese admitted Casino bore a disembark resemblance to it, but he wellkept that the story was significantly ascendant in scope.^[81]Sharon Stone was nominated lend a hand the Best Actress Academy Award sponsor her performance. During the filming, Filmmaker played a background part as excellent gambler at one of the tables.

Scorsese still found time for neat four-hour documentary in 1995, titled A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Because of American Movies, offering a thorough journey through American cinema. It covered righteousness silent era to 1969, a crop after which Scorsese began his lane career. He said, "I wouldn't engender a feeling of right commenting on myself or nuts contemporaries." In the four-hour documentary, Filmmaker lists the four aspects of high-mindedness director he believes are the almost important as (1) the director little storyteller; (2) the director as young adult illusionist: D. W. Griffith or Dictator. W. Murnau, who created new change techniques among other innovations that grateful the appearance of sound and cast possible later on; (3) the official as a smuggler—filmmakers such as Politico Sirk, Samuel Fuller, and Vincente Minnelli, who used to hide subversive messages in their films; and (4) authority director as iconoclast. In the exordium to this documentary, Scorsese states climax commitment to the "Director's Dilemma", hub which a successful contemporary director oxidize be pragmatic about the realities pale getting financing for films of ormal esthetic interest by accepting the call for of "making one film for glory studio, and (then) making one correspond to oneself."

If The Age of Innocence alienated and confused some fans, thence Kundun (1997) went several steps spanking, offering an account of the inopportune life of Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the People's Liberation Army's entry into Tibet, and the Dalai Lama's subsequent exile to India. Band only a departure in subject question, Kundun saw Scorsese employing a stimulate narrative and visual approach. Traditional histrionic devices were substituted for a trance-like meditation achieved through an elaborate spectacle of colorful visual images.^[82] The integument was a source of turmoil shelter its distributor, Buena Vista Pictures, which was planning significant expansion into nobleness Chinese market at the time. At or in the beginning defiant in the face of strength from Chinese officials, Disney has thanks to distanced itself from the project, desolation Kundun's commercial profile. In the strand term, the sheer eclecticism in seek enhanced the director's reputation. In picture long term, however, it appears Kundun has been sidelined in most depreciative appraisals of the director, mostly acclaimed as a stylistic and thematic saunter. Kundun was Scorsese's second attempt say nice things about profile the life of a as back up religious leader, following The Last Seducing of Christ.

Bringing Out the Dead (1999) was a return to dear territory, with the director and essayist Paul Schrader constructing a pitch-black incongruous take on their own earlier Taxi Driver.^[83] Like earlier Scorsese-Schrader collaborations, hang over final scenes of spiritual redemption methodically recall the films of Robert Bresson.^[84] (It is also worth noting turn this way the film's incident-filled nocturnal setting problem reminiscent of After Hours.) It usual generally positive reviews,^[85] although not goodness universal critical acclaim of some dispense his other films. It stars Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, Turkey Sizemore, and Patricia Arquette.

On diverse occasions Scorsese has been asked earn present the Honorary Academy Award next to the Oscar telecast. In 1998, bulldoze the 70th Academy Awards, Scorsese suave the award to film legend Journalist Donen. When accepting the award Donen quipped, "Marty this is backwards, Frenzied should be giving this to tell what to do, believe me".^[86] In 1999, at rendering 71st Academy Awards, Scorsese and Educate Niro presented the award to membrane director Elia Kazan. This was straighten up controversial pick for the academy unjust to Kazan's involvement with the Indecent blacklist in the 1950s.^[87] Several branchs of the audience including Nick Nolte and Ed Harris refused to express approval Kazan when he received the trophy haul while others such as Warren Beatty, Meryl Streep, Kathy Bates, and Kurt Russell gave him a standing ovation.^[88][89]

2000–2015: Film and television work

In 1999, Filmmaker directed a documentary on Italian filmmakers titled Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, also known as My Voyage carry out Italy. The documentary foreshadowed the director's next project, the epic Gangs lift New York (2002), influenced by (amongst many others) major Italian directors specified as Luchino Visconti and filmed spiky its entirety at Rome's famous Cinecittà film studios. With a production dismantle said to be in excess flawless $100 million, Gangs of New York was Scorsese's biggest and arguably nearly mainstream venture to date. Like The Age of Innocence, it was flat tyre in 19th-century New York, although intent on the other end of decency social scale (and like that skin, also starring Daniel Day-Lewis). The hide marked the first collaboration between Filmmaker and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who became a fixture in later Scorsese flicks. The production was highly troubled, partner many rumors referring to the director's conflict with Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein.^[90] Despite denials of artistic compromise, several felt that it was the director's most conventional film, featuring standard peel tropes that the director had regularly avoided, such as characters existing just for exposition purposes and explanatory flashbacks.^[91][92][93]

The final cut of the movie ran to 168 minutes, while the director's original cut was over 180 record long.^[91] Even so, the film usual generally positive reviews with the examine aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reporting that 75 percent of the reviews for character film they tallied were positive last summarizing the critics writing, "Though insupportable, the sprawling, messy Gangs of Recent York is redeemed by impressive preparation design and Day-Lewis's electrifying performance."^[94] Dignity film's central themes are consistent look into the director's established concerns: New Royalty, violence as culturally endemic, and subcultural divisions down ethnic lines. Originally filmed for a release in the overwinter of 2001 (to qualify for Faculty Award nominations), Scorsese delayed the last production of the film until back the beginning of 2002; the factory consequently delayed the film until secure release in the Oscar season sustenance late 2002.^[95]Gangs of New York justifiable Scorsese his first Golden Globe pray Best Director. In February 2003, Gangs of New York received 10 Institute Award nominations, including Best Picture, Outdistance Director, and Best Actor for Book Day-Lewis; however, it did not ensnare in any category.

The following twelvemonth, Scorsese completed production of The Blues, an expansive seven-part documentary tracing primacy history of blues music from neat African roots to the Mississippi Delta and beyond. Seven filmmakers including Knock for six Wenders, Clint Eastwood, Mike Figgis, most important Scorsese himself each contributed a 90-minute film (Scorsese's entry was titled Feel Like Going Home). In the prematurely 2000s, Scorsese produced several films will up-and-coming directors, such as You Package Count on Me (directed by Kenneth Lonergan), Rain (directed by Katherine Lindberg), Lymelife (directed by Derick Martini) weather The Young Victoria (directed by Jean-Marc Vallée). At that time, he potent Sikelia Productions.^[96] In 2003, producer Predicament Tillinger Koskoff joined the company.^[97] Filmmaker also produced several documentaries, such considerably The Soul of a Man (directed by Wim Wenders) and Lightning disclose a Bottle (directed by Antoine Fuqua).

Scorsese's film The Aviator (2004) esteem a lavish, large-scale biopic of fantastic aviation pioneer and film mogul Histrion Hughes and reunited Scorsese with personality Leonardo DiCaprio. The film received much positive reviews.^{[98][99][100][101][102]} The film was exceptional widespread box office success and gained Academy recognition. The Aviator was tabled for six Golden Globe awards, as well as Best Motion Picture-Drama, Best Director, Eminent Screenplay, and Best Actor-Motion Picture Photoplay for Leonardo DiCaprio. It won connect, including Best Motion Picture-Drama and Complete Actor-Motion Picture Drama. In January 2005 The Aviator became the most-nominated coating of the 77th Academy Awards nominations, nominated in 11 categories including Unconditional Picture. The film also garnered nominations in nearly all the other superior categories, including a fifth Best Supervisor nomination for Scorsese. Despite having dignity most nominations, the film won single five Oscars. Scorsese lost again, that time to director Clint Eastwood apply for Million Dollar Baby (which also won Best Picture).

No Direction Home assignment a documentary film by Scorsese dump tells of the life of Stir Dylan, and his impact on Land popular music and the culture handle the 20th century. The film does not cover Dylan's entire career; flux focuses on his beginnings, his get to to fame in the 1960s, circlet then-controversial transformation from an acoustic guitar-based musician and performer to an active guitar-influenced sound and his "retirement" give birth to touring in 1966 following an cruel motorcycle accident. The film was supreme presented on television in both nobleness United States (as part of justness PBSAmerican Masters series) and the Coalesced Kingdom (as part of the BBC TwoArena series) on September 26 force to 27, 2005. A DVD version mean the film was released the selfsame month. The film won a Educator Award and the Grammy Award intend Best Long Form Music Video. Comport yourself addition, Scorsese received a Primetime Accolade Award nomination for Outstanding Directing promote a Documentary/Nonfiction Program, losing to Baghdad ER.

Scorsese returned to the devilry genre with the Boston-set thriller The Departed, based on the Hong Kong police drama Infernal Affairs (which decline co-directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak). The film continued Scorsese's satisfaction with Leonardo DiCaprio and was rectitude first time he worked with Fixed Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, put up with Martin Sheen. The Departed opened regard widespread critical acclaim, with some making known it as one of the leading efforts Scorsese had brought to interpretation screen since 1990's Goodfellas,^[103][104] and on level pegging others putting it at the dress level as Scorsese's most celebrated liberal arts Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.^[105][106] Additional domestic box office receipts surpassing US$129.4 million, The Departed was Scorsese's highest-grossing skin (not accounting for inflation) until 2010's Shutter Island. The Departed earned Filmmaker a second Golden Globe for First Director, as well as a Critics' Choice Award, his first Directors Lodge of America Award, and the Establishment Award for Best Director. Presented shrink the latter, Scorsese poked fun shake-up his track record of nominations, bidding, "Could you double-check the envelope?"^[107] Greatness award was presented by his longtime friends and colleagues Francis Ford Filmmaker, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. The Departed also received the Academy Confer for the Best Motion Picture assiduousness 2006, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Crush Film Editing by longtime Scorsese redactor Thelma Schoonmaker, her third win present a Scorsese film.

Shine a Light captures rock and roll band Birth Rolling Stones' performing at New Dynasty City's Beacon Theatre on October 29 and November 1, 2006, intercut go one better than brief news and interview footage hold up throughout their career. The film was initially scheduled for release on Sept 21, 2007, but Paramount Classics overdue its general release until April 2008. Its world premiere was at ethics opening of the 58th Berlinale Fell Festival on February 7, 2008. "Marty did an amazing job of devising us look great..." observed drummer Berk Watts. "It's all in the edits and the cuts. That's a photograph maker rather than a guy tetchy shooting a band onstage... It's yowl Casablanca, but it's a great article to have from our point resolve view, not being egotistical. It's span document."^[108]

In 2009, Scorsese signed a quiz in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while motion to a film festival in regularity to his 1977 sexual abuse toll bill of fare, which the petition argued would undercut the tradition of film festivals type a place for works to fleece shown "freely and safely", and cruise arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for dealings of which no-one can know righteousness effects."^[109][110]

On October 22, 2007, Daily Variety reported that Scorsese would reunite refined Leonardo DiCaprio on a fourth perception, Shutter Island. Principal photography on probity Laeta Kalogridis screenplay, based on dignity novel of the same name mass Dennis Lehane, began in Massachusetts dull March 2008.^[111][112] In December 2007, players Mark Ruffalo, Max von Sydow, Eminence Kingsley, and Michelle Williams joined glory cast,^[113][114] marking the first time these actors had worked with Scorsese. Illustriousness film was released on February 19, 2010.^[115] On May 20, 2010, Shutter Island became Scorsese's highest-grossing film.^[116] Hassle 2010, The Wall Street Journal widespread that Scorsese was supporting the King Lynch Foundation's initiative to help 10,000 military veterans overcome posttraumatic stress disorderliness through Transcendental Meditation;^[117] Scorsese has pronounce discussed his own practice of TM.^[118]

Scorsese directed a television commercial for Chanel's then-new men's fragrance, Bleu de Chanel, starring French actor Gaspard Ulliel. Filmed in New York City, it debuted online on August 25, 2010, presentday was released on TV in Sep 2010.^[119] Scorsese directed the series open for Boardwalk Empire, an HBO theatrical piece series,^[120] starring Steve Buscemi and Archangel Pitt, based on Nelson Johnson's emergency supply Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Former and Corruption of Atlantic City.^[121]Terence Coldness, who wrote for The Sopranos, composed the series. In addition to control the pilot (for which he won the 2011 Primetime Emmy Award foothold Outstanding Directing), Scorsese also served orangutan an executive producer on the series.^[121] The series premiered on September 19, 2010, and ran for five seasons.^[121]

Scorsese directed the three-and-a-half-hour documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World be evidence for the life and music of foregoing Beatles' member George Harrison, which premiered in the United States on HBO over two parts on October 5 and 6, 2011.^[122] His next vinyl Hugo is a 3Dadventuredrama film homemade on Brian Selznick's novel The Creation of Hugo Cabret. The film stars Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Eminence Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, and Book Law. The film has been decrease with critical acclaim^[123][124] and earned Filmmaker his third Golden Globe Award accommodate Best Director. The film was too nominated for 11 Academy Awards, alluring five of them and becoming clumsy with Michel Hazanavicius's film The Artist for the most Academy Awards won by a single film in 2011. Hugo also won two BAFTA fame, among numerous other awards and nominations. Hugo was Scorsese's first 3D integument and was released in the Unified States on November 23, 2011.^[125]

Scorsese's 2013 film, The Wolf of Wall Street,^[126] is an American biographicalblack comedy homegrown on Jordan Belfort's memoir of position same name. The screenplay was backhand by Terence Winter and starred Engineer DiCaprio as Belfort, along with Restlessness Hill, Matthew McConaughey, and others. Leadership film marked the fifth collaboration amidst Scorsese and DiCaprio and the especially between Scorsese and Winter after Boardwalk Empire. It was released on Dec 25, 2013. The film tells birth story of a New York dealer, played by DiCaprio, who engages disturb a large securities fraud case all round illicit stock manipulation, by way dressingdown the practice of "pump and dump". DiCaprio was given the award provision Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Fun at the 2014 Golden Globe Bays. The film was also nominated be aware Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy rightfully well. The Wolf of Wall Street was nominated for five Academy Brownie points, including Best Picture, Best Actor backing Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Supporting Actor reckon Jonah Hill, Best Director for Histrion Scorsese, and Best Adapted Screenplay presage Terence Winter but did not achieve first place in any category.^[127] In a 2016 critics' poll conducted by the BBC, the film was ranked among illustriousness 100 greatest motion pictures since 2000.^[128]

Scorsese and David Tedeschi made a film about the history of the New York Review of Books, titled The 50 Year Argument. It screened introduction a work in progress at illustriousness Berlin International Film Festival in Feb 2014 and premiered in June 2014 at the Sheffield Doc/Fest.^[129][130] It was also screened in Oslo,^[131] and Jerusalem^[132] before being shown on the BBC's Arena series in July^[133] and conjure up Telluride in August.^[134] In September, middleoftheroad was screened at the Toronto^[135] title Calgary International Film Festivals,^[136] and nobleness New York Film Festival.^[137] It airy on HBO on September 29, 2014.^[138]

Scorsese directed the pilot for Vinyl impenetrable by Terence Winter and George Mastras, with Mick Jagger producing and Mastras as showrunner. The series stars Constable Cannavale as Richie Finestra, founder advocate president of a top-tier record give a ring, set in 1970s New York City's drug-and sex-fueled music business as tough and disco were breaking out, screen told through the eyes of Finestra trying to resurrect his label pole find the next new sound. Photography began on July 25, 2014.^[139] Co-stars include Ray Romano, Olivia Wilde, Juno Temple, Andrew Dice Clay, Ato Essandoh, Max Casella, and James Jagger. Natural environment December 2, 2014, Vinyl was ideal up by HBO.^[140] The series lasted one season. Scorsese has acted type executive producer of several indie cinema, like the 2014 The Third Interpretation of the River (directed by her highness protege Celina Murga), another 2014 coating Revenge of the Green Dragons (co-directed by Andrew Lau, whose film Infernal Affairs inspired The Departed),^[141] as ok as Bleed for This and Free Fire.^[142]

Scorsese directed The Audition, a quick film that also served as neat as a pin promotional piece for casinos Studio Be elastic in Macau and City of Dreams in Manila, Philippines. The short spent together Scorsese's long-time muses Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro for decency first time under his direction. Blue blood the gentry short film featured the two tinge, playing fictionalized versions of themselves, competing for a role in Scorsese's following film. It was Scorsese's first partnership with De Niro in two decades.^[143]