History Creator / MartinScorsese

* BannedInChina: For making ''Film/{{Kundun}}'' his film about the Dalai Lama. This is especially sad given that Scorsese has long championed Chinese cinema and films by Tian Zhuangzhuang, Jia Zhangke and several Chinese film-makers have testified to his influence on their works.

* MemeAcknowledgement: When his daughter brought up the existence of the PlayAlongMeme of the imaginary mafia movie ''WebOriginal/{{Goncharov}}'' to him, he played along and confirmed that he made it years ago. Website/{{Tumblr}} promptly lost its mind.

Scorsese gained fame in TheSeventies for his gritty urban dramas starring Creator/HarveyKeitel and Creator/RobertDeNiro, movies that were shocking for their visual invention, unconventional editing, intense performances and graphic violence. They made him a critical favorite, culminating in ''Film/TaxiDriver''.

After the commercial setbacks of ''Film/NewYorkNewYork'' and ''Film/RagingBull'', he entered an uncertain and uneven period in TheEighties, but returned to public and critical favour with ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'', after which he entered a new prolific period where he has averaged one film every two years since 1990. He remains active well into the 21st century, and won UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s for [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestDirecting Best Director]] and [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestPicture Best Picture]] for ''Film/TheDeparted'' after being a notable case of AwardSnub for more than 30 years.

Scorsese is also well known in the wider media since the '80s for his advocacy of film preservation and restoration, serving as [[OurFounder a founder]] and an active spokesman for The Film Foundation and the World Cinema Foundation. He raised attention for the decay of film stock and the preservation of film prints of several filmmakers, both well-known and obscure. He also champions cinema as an art form and has devoted considerable attention to restoring the reputations of forgotten filmmakers and supporting up-and-coming artists from across the world. He was also, along with Creator/SydneyPollack, one of the most fervent advocates for presenting films on home media in their original aspect ratio, long before the practice became standard. In 2023, he, Creator/StevenSpielberg and a couple other filmmakers strongly voiced out their concerns about the staff of Creator/TurnerClassicMovies being gutted by Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery.

He uses [[ProductionPosse many of the same actors]] in his movies, including Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/JoePesci, Creator/HarveyKeitel, and Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio. Publicly, he's well-known for his [[BigOlEyebrows big, bushy eyebrows]], his [[MotorMouth breakneck rate of speech]], and having a physical stature inverse to his standing as a filmmaker[[note]]He's 5'4"; in the ''Hugo'' premiere pictures, he was shorter than a still-prepubescent Creator/AsaButterfield[[/note]]. Aside from filmmaking, he also does occasional acting, in his own movies and others.

* The long-running constantly updated ''Scorsese on Scorsese'' oral interviews by Ian Christie and David Thompson (for middle Scorsese, between ''Goodfellas'' and ''Gangs of New York'') [[note]]Not to be confused with the similarly named volume by Michael Henry Wilson, which is also recommended[[/note]]

* AdamWesting: Appeared in a highly amusing [[https://youtu.be/F0VQ4NwjW1E American Express]] commercial in which he nit picks one-hour photos of his nephew's birthday party as if they were a poorly-executed movie shoot. As the man would later claim, this is exactly how his actual movie shoots go.

* BeingGoodSucks: Among the basic themes in his movies is that it's very hard, very difficult, and oftentimes punishing to be good. And those who try to be good or do good in Scorsese's movies, whether it's Frank in ''Bringing out the Dead'', or the Dalai Lama in ''Kundun'', or Newland Archer in ''The Age of Innocence'', Fr. Rodrigues in ''Silence'', or the FBI Agent Denham in ''The Wolf of Wall Street'', often end up with very little reward, often lose, and at best can hope to survive to continue the struggle. His movie about Jesus, ''The Last Temptation of Christ'', was controversial because it deglamorized Christ's story and merely brought out how painful and almost incomprehensibly heroic (and so divine) Jesus had to have been to make his sacrifice.

** Following the underperformance of films like ''Film/BringingOutTheDead'' and his decades-long passion project ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', Scorsese took on ''Film/TheAviator'' as something of a [[MoneyDearBoy work-for-hire gig]] and even considered retiring after its completion. However the success of ''Aviator'' and [[Film/TheDeparted his]] [[Film/ShutterIsland following]] [[Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet films]] ended up finally making him a commercially bankable director instead of one known for [[AcclaimedFlop acclaimed films with mixed financial results.]]
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Somewhat justified, in that the majority of characters in his best known films (i.e. the ones involving organised crime) tend to be Italian or Irish, two strongly Catholic ethnicities. Scorsese himself was raised Catholic and initially planned to become a priest.
** Averted for two of Scorsese's religious films. ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'' is an adaptation of a work by a Greek Orthodox writer and its screenplay written by Paul Schrader who was Dutch Calvinist. His film ''Kundun'' likewise is a biopic of the 14th Dalai Lama(the one we know today), exploring Buddhist concepts and culture with an eye for detail far beyond more simplistic portraits.
** Played straight however with ''Silence'', his 2016 adaptation of [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian Japanese Catholic]] author Shusaku Endo, which deals with Portuguese Jesuits trying to proselytize their faith in Japan.

* HumansAreBastards: He infuses his characters with realistic flaws. However, in his more cynical films (i.e. ''Goodfellas'', ''The King of Comedy'', ''The Wolf of Wall Street'', etc.), good luck finding a character who isn’t an absolute HateSink.

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Then again, the main characters in his more dramatic works tend to be well-intentioned or have scruples underneath.

* TheMafia: He's created perhaps the most iconic Mafia films outside of ''Film/TheGodfather''. Having grown up in Little Italy, he knew that culture and mentality very well, while ''The Godfather'' was not a realistic film by any means (as admitted by Coppola). His films show the Italian-American mob as merely a part of the larger immigration story and failure of assimilation into American society and UsefulNotes/{{the American Dream}}.

** ''The Color of Money'' and the remake of ''Cape Fear'' was by his own admission made to fund films like ''The Last Temptation of Christ, Literature/TheAgeOfInnocence'' and even ''Goodfellas''[[note]]Initially a tough sell until De Niro signed on[[/note]]. ''Casino'' was also partly a commercial project since the studios were keen for the Goodfellas team to return and that paved the way for ''Kundun'' and later ''Gangs of New York''. ''The Departed'' was intended as a commercial venture for Scorsese to eventually make his long-gestating adaptation of ''Silence'', and Scorsese was surprised that what he considered to be a genre movie ended up winning a long-delayed Oscar.

* TheNarrator : Makes frequent use of it on most of his films. In interviews, Scorsese has even argued against conventional wisdom about narrators by the screenwriting gurus who argue that reliance on this leads to an avoidance of ShowDontTell. In his movies narrators never directly discuss or explain the plot or motivation, but merely add another layer of interaction and observation in his films.

* NothingButHits: An example of the trope at its finest; Scorsese's movies possess some of the best soundtracks ever. Scorsese averts the extreme uses of this, because of his extraordinary knowledge of music (nearly as extensive as his knowledge about cinema) and his music uses varies from the popular, to the unexpected and the GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere such as the use of Georges Delerue's theme from Jean-Luc Godard's ''Contempt'' in ''Casino.''

* ViewersAreGeniuses: The content of his films are generally not incomprehensible but by and large they challenge narrative conventions and genre expectations that audiences are otherwise comfortable with. As a film historian, Scorsese has an eclectic taste and wide knowledge of cinema from around the world, and fully believes that audiences can enjoy all kinds of films, even the ones that require some effort.

* ShoutOut: Martin Scorsese's movies are filled with numerous film and music references, only very subtle that careful viewers and cinephiles can recognize. It's not so much in dialogue as in compositions, gestures by characters, editing and cutting. The range of references in his movies in terms of variety as well as the subtlety with which it is done is a lesson in itself, in that they are there for a reason, suggesting like Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' a deeper layer and connection. Any Scorsese movie will have references to American films, famous and obscure, Italian films, Japanese films or experimental works. ''Taxi Driver'' refers to Hitchcock's obscure film ''The Wrong Man'', Michael Snow's experimental ''Wavelength'' and Jean-Luc Godard's ''2 or 3 Things I Know About Her''. They are that dense.

Important books on Scorsese's career include:
* ''Martin Scorsese: A Journey'' by Mary Pat Kelly
* ''The Scorsese Picture'' by David Ehrenstein (for early Scorsese from his student films to ''The Last Temptation of Christ'')
* ''Conversations with Scorsese'', which consists of several long interviews from Scorsese by Richard Schickel in the style of ''Hitchcock/Truffaut''
* The long-running constantly updated ''Scorsese on Scorsese'' oral interviews by Ian Christie and David Thompson (for middle Scorsese, between ''Goodfellas'' and ''Gangs of New York'') [[note]]Not to be confused with the similarly named volume by Michael Henry Wilson, which is also recommended[[/note]]
* ''Scorsese by Ebert'', a compilation by critic Creator/RogerEbert of all his reviews of Scorsese's movies as well as additional essays, interviews, and analyses of his career

! Filmography:
!!! Fiction

* ''Music/{{Bad}}'' (1987, Music/MichaelJackson music video)

!!! Non-Fiction

As much as he prefers having his films in cinemas, Scorsese has bowed to the market reality with the rise of video streaming. For instance, his expensive gangster film ''Film/TheIrishman'', which was rejected by all of the major studios, was picked up by Creator/{{Netflix}} for its drive for Oscar credibility. Now, Scorsese has a first-look agreement with Creator/AppleTVPlus for his future projects.

* EpicMovie: ''Film/{{Kundun}}'', ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'', ''Film/{{Casino}}'', ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', ''Film/TheAviator'', ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', ''Film/TheIrishman'', and ''Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon'', and to an extent ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'', ''Film/TheDeparted'', and ''Film/ShutterIsland, are all shining examples, with their sprawling scope, huge casts, and considerable runtimes. When Marty wants to do a project at scale, he doesn't half-ass it.

* EpicMovie: ''Film/{{Kundun}}'', ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'', ''Film/{{Casino}}'', ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', ''Film/TheAviator'', ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', ''Film/TheIrishman'', and ''Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon'' are all shining examples, with their sprawling scope, huge casts, and considerable runtimes. When Marty wants to do a project at scale, he doesn't half-ass it.

* EpicMovie: ''Film/{{Kundun}}'', ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'', ''Film/{{Casino}}'', ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', ''Film/TheAviator'', ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', ''Film/TheIrishman'', and ''Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon'' are all shining examples, with their sprawling scope, huge casts, and considerably runtimes. When Marty wants to do a project at scale, he doesn't half-ass it.

* BannedInChina: For making ''Film/{{Kundun}}'' his film about the Dalai Lama. This is especially sad given that Scorsese has long championed Chinese cinema and films by Tian Zhuangzhuang, Jian Zhangke and several Chinese film-makers have testified to his influence on their works.

Scorsese is best known for his films about TheMafia, but he has in fact made films in a wide variety of genres: documentaries, concert films, music videos ({{Music/Michael Jackson}}'s "Bad"), literary adaptations (''The Age of Innocence''), family films (''Film/{{Hugo}}'', itself a literary adaptation), BlackComedy (''The King of Comedy, After Hours, The Wolf of Wall Street''), {{Biopic}}s and religious films.

* MemeAcknowledgement: When his daughter brought up the existence of ''WebOriginal/{{Goncharov}}'' to him, he played along and confirmed that he made it years ago. Website/{{Tumblr}} promptly lost its mind.

* AdamWesting: Appeared in a highly amusing [[https://youtu.be/VkorEW_eIXg American Express]] commercial in which he nit picks one-hour photos of his nephew's birthday party as if they were a poorly-executed movie shoot. As the man would later claim, this is exactly how his actual movie shoots go.

* AdamWesting: Appeared in a highly amusing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45iZP6AWT3c American Express]] commercial in which he nit picks one-hour photos of his nephew's birthday party as if they were a poorly-executed movie shoot. As the man would later claim, this is exactly how his actual movie shoots go.

Martin Charles Scorsese[[note]]Pronounced "scor-SAY-see"[[/note]] (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker of Italian descent, born in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy. He began his career as part of the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood generation of film school students, and is regarded as one of America's (if not the world's) greatest filmmakers and one of the most influential in the latter half of the 20th century.

Scorsese is also well known in the wider media since the '80s for his advocacy of film preservation and restoration, serving as [[OurFounder a founder]] and an active spokesman for The Film Foundation and the World Cinema Foundation. He raised attention for the decay of film stock and the preservation of film prints of several filmmakers, both well-known and obscure. He also champions cinema as an art form and has devoted considerable attention to restoring the reputations of forgotten filmmakers and supporting up-and-coming artists from across the world. He was also, along with Creator/SydneyPollack, one of the most fervent advocates for presenting films on home media in their original aspect ratio, long before the practice became standard. In 2023, he, Creator/StevenSpielberg and a couple other filmmakers strongly voiced out their concerns about the staff of Creator/TurnerClassicMovies being gutted by Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery executive.

Scorsese is also well known in the wider media since the '80s for his advocacy of film preservation and restoration, serving as [[OurFounder a founder]] and an active spokesman for The Film Foundation and the World Cinema Foundation. He raised attention for the decay of film stock and the preservation of film prints of several filmmakers, both well-known and obscure. He also champions cinema as an art form and has devoted considerable attention to restoring the reputations of forgotten filmmakers and supporting up-and-coming artists from across the world. He was also, along with Creator/SydneyPollack, one of the most fervent advocates for presenting films on home media in their original aspect ratio, long before the practice became standard.

!!Tropes common to Scorsese and his works include:

* Main/TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: ''Film/MeanStreets'' released in 1973 is actually intended, by Scorsese, to be set in the mid-60s. ''Bringing out the Dead'' was released in 1999 but intended by him to be set in the early 90s before New York became entirely gentrified and is described as such in the opening title card disclaimer.

* BigOlEyebrows: Sports some pretty prominent ones.

* BlackComedy / ComedicSociopathy: Whatever comedy is in his films, it's gonna be this, and it's ''black''.
* TheCameo: He appeared in ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''.

* CoolOldGuy: Definitely. He's extremely popular among actors not only due to his extraordinary talent but for his benevolent, good-natured personality and it's clear the years haven't dulled his love or passion for cinema in the slightest.

* DarkestHour: He was heavily addicted to cocaine during the 70s and 80s, which along with a troubled marriage, drove him to the edge of despair. He credits such things as the experience of filming ''Film/RagingBull'' as well as the support of critics like Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert with pulling him out of his depression.

* GentlemanAndAScholar: In his interviews he reveals himself to be a history buff and an autodidact who is knowledgeable about history, art and literature who is as much at home at discussing the influence of Caravaggio on his work as well as his love for B-Movies, genre films and directors like Mario Bava and Roger Corman.

* HumansAreBastards / HumansAreFlawed: He infuses his characters with realistic flaws. However, in his more cynical films (i.e. ''Goodfellas'', ''The King of Comedy'', ''The Wolf of Wall Street'', etc.), good luck finding a character who isn’t an absolute HateSink.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Leonardo [=DiCaprio=] and many other younger actors he works with.

* TheMentor: He himself was at both ends.
** The actor-director Creator/JohnCassavetes served as this to Scorsese, telling him after seeing ''Boxcar Bertha'' that [[DareToBeBadass he could do better]] and should make [[DoingItForTheArt more personal films]] instead of genre pieces, which, while well made, were a waste of his talents.
** Scorsese is also grateful to legendary producer Roger Corman for giving him the chance for Boxcar Bertha which he says helped him learn how to do a professional studio production rather than the piecemeal way he had made his student films.
** Michael Powell served as an important advisor during their friendship, inspiring Scorsese to shoot ''Raging Bull'' in black and white. Scorsese's favorite editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, was also Powell's last wife.
** Scorsese himself served as this for Creator/OliverStone and Creator/SpikeLee as a teacher at NYU.

* TheMovieBuff: His knowledge of films, not only silent and classic American, but Italian, Russian, French, Japanese films as well as avant garde films, from different eras is so encyclopedic that many film historians believe [[SeenItAll he has seen every movie]] ever made.
--> '''Creator/StevenSpielberg''': We were gobbling up images as fast as as they would come. We were speaking this dialogue from the great movies of the '30's and '40's out loud, led by Scorsese who knew more than anyone else put together. He inspired us to look at movies we'd never heard of before. He'd get these 16mm Michael Powell films that we'd all sit around looking at.

* NiceGuy: In his later years, he has a reputation as a polite, kind, enthusiastic and humble man whom actors and crew members enjoy working with as evidenced by the amount who've done multiple films with him.
* NoTrueScotsman: Scorsese has expressed the opinion that superhero movies, specifically the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, are "not cinema". He justified this by classifying true cinema as an art form which explores the unexpected and asserting that, in superhero movies, there is no revelation, mystery, or genuine emotional danger. Interestingly he does however have an exception for superhero movies in that he likes the Sam raimi spider man trilogy .

* ThePerfectionist: That American Express commercial he did? That's actually how seriously he takes his movies, and he or any of his assistants will tell you. Most are fine with it as he's still very good to work with and the end results tend to be worth it.

* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He wears thick black-rimmed glasses and he's one of the most acclaimed directors in history in addition to being a walking encyclopedia of film.

* ThoseTwoGuys: He and Creator/RobertDeNiro in the 70s through 90s were often a double act in their public appearances. Now, with SidekickGraduationsStick, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio has taken the same spot.

* UnabashedBMovieFan: Scorsese has always been about his genuine enthusiasm and appreciation for low-budget genre films and B movies and spoken about their influence on his career. Fitting as he, like many others, got his start with B Movie king Creator/RogerCorman.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Creator/JohnCassavetes gave him a speech of this nature after seeing ''Boxcar Bertha''. He also said he considered the (incredibly rare, for him) negative review given to ''The Color of Money'' by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert another version of it, one that he appreciated greatly.

* NoTrueScotsman: Scorsese has expressed the opinion that superhero movies, specifically the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, are "not cinema". He justified this by classifying true cinema as an art form which explores the unexpected and asserting that, in superhero movies, there is no revelation, mystery, or genuine emotional danger.

Martin Charles Scorsese[[note]]scor-SAY-see[[/note]] (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker of Italian descent, born in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy. He began his career as part of the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood generation of film school students, and is regarded as one of America's (if not the world's) greatest filmmakers and one of the most influential in the latter half of the 20th century.

After the commercial setback of ''Film/NewYorkNewYork'' and ''Film/RagingBull'', he entered an uncertain and uneven period in TheEighties, but returned to public and critical favour with ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'', after which he entered a new prolific period where he has averaged one film every two years since 1990. He remains active well into the 21st century, winning UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s for Best Director and Best Picture for ''Film/TheDeparted'' after being a notable case of AwardSnub for more than 30 years.

He uses [[ProductionPosse many of the same actors]] in his movies, including Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/JoePesci, Creator/HarveyKeitel, and Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio. Publicly, he's well-known for his [[BigOlEyebrows big, bushy eyebrows]], his [[MotorMouth breakneck rate of speech]], and having a physical stature[[note]]He's 5'4"; in the ''Hugo'' premiere pictures, he was shorter than a still-prepubescent Creator/AsaButterfield[[/note]] inverse to his standing as a filmmaker. Aside from filmmaking, he also does occasional acting, in his own movies and others.

Important books on Scorsese's career include: ''Martin Scorsese: A Journey'' by Mary Pat Kelly, ''The Scorsese Picture'' by David Ehrenstein (for early Scorsese from his student films to ''The Last Temptation of Christ''), ''Conversations with Scorsese'', which consists of several long interviews from Scorsese by Richard Schickel in the style of ''Hitchcock/Truffaut'', the long-running constantly updated ''Scorsese on Scorsese'' oral interviews (by Ian Christie and David Thompson) (for middle Scorsese: Between ''Goodfellas'' and ''Gangs of New York'') [[note]]Not to be confused with the similarly named volume by Michael Henry Wilson which is also recommended[[/note]], and ''Scorsese by Ebert'', a compilation by critic Creator/RogerEbert of all his reviews of Scorsese's movies as well as additional essays, interviews, and analyses of his career.

He gained fame in TheSeventies for his gritty urban dramas starring Creator/HarveyKeitel and Creator/RobertDeNiro, movies that were shocking for their visual invention, unconventional editing, intense performances and graphic violence. They made him a critical favorite, culminating in ''Film/TaxiDriver''.

Scorsese is best known for his films about TheMafia but he has in fact made films in a wide variety of genres: documentaries, concert films, music videos ({{Music/Michael Jackson}}'s "Bad"), literary adaptations (''The Age of Innocence''), family films (''Film/{{Hugo}}'', itself a literary adaptation), BlackComedy (''The King of Comedy, After Hours, The Wolf of Wall Street''), {{Biopic}}s and religious films.

Scorsese is also well known in the wider media since the 80s for his advocacy of film preservation and restoration, serving as [[OurFounder a founder]] and an active spokesman for The Film Foundation and the World Cinema Foundation. He raised attention for the decay of film stock and the preservation of film prints of several film-makers, both well known and obscure. He also champions cinema as an artform and has devoted considerable attention to restoring the reputations of forgotten film-makers and supporting up-and-coming artists from across the world. He was also, along with Creator/SydneyPollack, one of the most fervent advocates for presenting films on home media in their original aspect ratio, long before the practice became standard.

As much as he prefers having his films in cinemas, Scorsese has bowed to the market reality with the rise of video streaming. For instance, his expensive gangster film, ''Film/TheIrishman'', which was rejected by all of the major studios, was picked up by Creator/{{Netflix}} for its drive for Oscar credibility. Now, Scorsese has a First-Look agreement with Creator/AppleTVPlus for his future projects.

He uses many of the same actors in his movies, including Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/JoePesci, Creator/HarveyKeitel, and Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio. Publicly, he's well-known for his [[BigOlEyebrows big, bushy eyebrows]], his [[MotorMouth breakneck rate of speech]], and having a physical stature[[note]]He's 5'4"; in the ''Hugo'' premiere pictures, he was shorter than a still-prepubescent Creator/AsaButterfield[[/note]] inverse to his standing as a filmmaker. Aside from filmmaking, he also does occasional acting, in his own movies and others.

Important books on Scorsese's career include: ''Martin Scorsese: A Journey'' by Mary Pat Kelly, ''The Scorsese Picture'' by David Ehrenstein (for early Scorsese from his student films to ''The Last Temptation of Christ''), ''Conversations with Scorsese'', which consists of several, long interviews from Scorsese by Richard Schickel in the style of ''Hitchcock/Truffaut'', the long-running constantly updated ''Scorsese on Scorsese'' oral interviews (by Ian Christie and David Thompson) (for middle Scorsese: Between ''Goodfellas'' and ''Gangs of New York'') [[note]]Not to be confused with the similarly named volume by Michael Henry Wilson which is also recommended[[/note]], and ''Scorsese by Ebert'', a compilation by critic Creator/RogerEbert of all his reviews of Scorsese's movies as well as additional essays, interviews, and analyses of his career.

He also appeared in ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''.

* ''Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon'' (TBA)

Martin Charles Scorsese[[note]][[NoPronunciationGuide scor-SAY-see]][[/note]] (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker of Italian descent, born in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy. He began his career as part of the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood generation of film school students, and is regarded as one of America's (if not the world's) greatest filmmakers and one of the most influential in the latter half of the 20th century.

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker of Italian descent, born in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy. He began his career as part of the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood generation of film school students, and is regarded as one of America's (if not the world's) greatest filmmakers and one of the most influential in the latter half of the 20th century.