Martin Scorsese

Directing

Born 1942-11-17Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Martin Charles Scorsese (/skɔːrˈsɛsi/ skor-SESS-ee, Italian: [skorˈseːze, -se]; born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Scorsese received a Master of Arts degree from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, centred on macho-posturing men and explored crime, machismo, nihilism and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles of extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, voice-over narration, graphic depictions of extreme violence and liberal use of profanity were first shown in Mean Streets (1973). Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with Taxi Driver (1976), which starred Robert De Niro as a disturbed Vietnam Veteran. De Niro became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Irishman (2019). In the following decades, he garnered box office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio, including Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). He worked with both De Niro and DiCaprio on Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He also directed 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). On television, he has directed episodes for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014) and Vinyl (2016), as well as the HBO documentary Public Speaking (2010) and the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021). He has also directed several rock documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), and Shine a Light (2008). He has explored film history in the documentaries A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies(1995) and My Voyage to Italy (1999). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he has founded three nonprofit organisations: The Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007 and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.

Movies (287)

7.5

The Mandalorian and Grogu

2026Movie7.5

8.0

The Wolf of Wall Street

2013Movie8.0

7.4

Killers of the Flower Moon

Taxi Driver

Shark Tale

Raging Bull

Gangs of New York

Hugo

Outcome

Mean Streets

The Last Temptation of Christ

The King of Comedy

The Age of Innocence

The Grifters

The Color of Money

After Hours

Spielberg

Bringing Out the Dead

Quiz Show

In the Hand of Dante

Lumière!

Tribeca 25

Don Rickles: One Night Only

Dreams

Trespassing Bergman

Guilty by Suspicion

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

2025Movie7.5

8.2

One Direction: This Is Us

2013Movie8.2

6.5

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

2014Movie6.5

7.3

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Breakdown: 1975

'Round Midnight

Directed by John Ford

1971Movie7.0

6.4

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

1987Movie6.4

7.0

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

The Muse

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

New York Stories

Beatles '64

Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film

2001Movie7.4

5.1

The Concert for New York City

2001Movie5.1

6.5

Oliver Stone: The Outsider

Morceaux de Cannes

Movies Are My Life

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Hollywood Mavericks

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band

2020Movie6.8

5.5

The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump

2023Movie5.5

7.3

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

2021Movie7.3

8.0

Raging Bull: After the Fight

Side by Side

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer

Boxcar Bertha

Public Speaking

Cannonball

Crazy, Not Insane

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

2022Movie7.2

7.0

Mifune: The Last Samurai

2016Movie7.0

6.4

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

Shine a Light

Refuge

Street Scenes 1970

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

2007Movie6.8

6.0

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

Corman's World

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Hollywood Uncensored

The Last Waltz

With Friends Like These

1998Movie6.5

4.8

Abbas Kiarostami: A Report

2013Movie4.8

5.6

Notes on an American Film Director at Work

2008Movie5.6

Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration

2026Movie

10.0

Raging Bull: Before the Fight

2005Movie10.0

7.9

A Decade Under the Influence

2003Movie7.9

7.1

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Forever Ealing

Kurosawa's Way

Who's That Knocking at My Door

1968Movie6.0

Cinematic Intelligence

2026Movie

Michael Powell

2005Movie

7.0

Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady

1994Movie7.0

7.3

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

2000Movie7.3

7.1

Milius

2013Movie7.1

Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories

2017Movie

Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

Bad 25

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

2022Movie7.4

8.1

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master

2024Movie8.1

6.7

From Darkness to Light

2025Movie6.7

6.1

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

2013Movie6.1

7.0

The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman

The Audition

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

2017Movie7.6

Marty and Bobby

2011Movie

6.0

The Legend of the Palme d'Or

Italianamerican

Ritratti di cinema

… But Film Is My Mistress

2010Movie6.3

6.2

Seduced and Abandoned

2013Movie6.2

The Basics of Philosophy

2026Movie

6.8

Brando

2007Movie6.8

Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis

2026Movie

WahZhaZhe: A Song for the Osage

2026Movie

4.5

Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley

We Are Cinema

Scorsese's GoodFellas

Life Itself

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

2008Movie6.9

7.6

Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film

2024Movie7.6

6.7

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

2007Movie6.7

Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations

2017Movie

9.0

New York at the Movies

My Voyage to Italy

Denzel Washington: A Model American

2022Movie7.0

6.6

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2010Movie6.6

6.5

Saul Bass: Title Champ

The Wolf Pack

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

The Pulitzer At 100

Anna Pavlova

Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!

2021Movie6.5

7.1

Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius

2021Movie7.1

7.7

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

2024Movie7.7

6.0

Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'

2004Movie6.0

7.8

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

2005Movie7.8

6.9

Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown

2016Movie6.9

9.0

Martin Scorsese Directs

1990Movie9.0

Civilware2025

2025Movie

5.0

Il resto del Pap'occhio

1980Movie5.0

7.2

Hitchcock/Truffaut

2015Movie7.2

All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman

Cannes: All Access

The Irishman: In Conversation

American Prince

Stanley Kubrick in Focus

2012Movie5.3

6.0

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'

2012Movie6.0

6.8

John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs

2017Movie6.8

7.4

Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg

Feel Like Going Home

Behind the White Glasses

2015Movie6.3

6.8

The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style

2009Movie6.8

4.9

Club Oscar

2005Movie4.9

Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock

2009Movie

Painting with Light

2001Movie

Joie de Vivre. Notes, thoughts, words, reflections, faces, and visions concerning Bernardo Bertolucci and the cinephilia of the 20th century that no longer exists

Movie

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

2013Movie

Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films

2006Movie

7.3

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

2003Movie7.3

5.8

Edge of Outside

2006Movie5.8

Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame

1994Movie

7.8

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

1995Movie7.8

7.2

Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours

2004Movie7.2

7.6

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues

1988Movie7.6

6.5

I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited

1994Movie6.5

5.0

Robert Richardson: The White Devil

2026Movie5.0

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire

365 Day Project

The Song of the Little Road

Casting By

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams

2021Movie6.4

6.0

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime

In the Pope's Eye

Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?

2004Movie2.0

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

2012Movie

Biography: Humphrey Bogart

2003Movie

6.6

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

Making of 'Dreams'

The John Garfield Story

Making 'Taxi Driver'

The Scorsese Machine

Fragments of Paradise

El Planeta

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

2003Movie7.4

5.2

French Cinema Mon Amour

2015Movie5.2

9.0

The Workaday Gangster

2004Movie9.0

Raging Bull: Marty & Bobby

2011Movie

The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration

2022Movie

6.0

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

2005Movie6.0

6.8

Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann

1992Movie6.8

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

2008Movie

7.0

Martin Scorsese on Framing

2017Movie7.0

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran'

2002Movie

7.5

More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'

First Works

Everybody Just Stay Calm

1994Movie9.0

5.0

Jesus Goes to Hollywood

2024Movie5.0

10.0

The 'New York, New York' Stories

2005Movie10.0

Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese

2015Movie

On the Set: Elaine’s

2004Movie

6.3

Frank Capra's American Dream

1997Movie6.3

6.8

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

2008Movie6.8

9.0

Raging Bull: Inside the Ring

2005Movie9.0

Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A

2016Movie

6.0

Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence

2017Movie6.0

7.7

White Heat: Top of the World

2005Movie7.7

The Oratorio

2020Movie

6.9

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

A Beautiful Vacation

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

Search and Destroy

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

2008Movie8.5

The Searchers: An Appreciation

2006Movie

10.0

The Lady and The Legend

2026Movie10.0

6.0

The Neighborhood

2001Movie6.0

Conversation avec Martin Scorsese, en notes et en images

2024Movie

1.0

John Ford & Monument Valley

2013Movie1.0

7.1

Obsessed with Vertigo

1997Movie7.1

6.0

Crossing Criminal Cultures

2007Movie6.0

3.4

Campus Code

2015Movie3.4

The World of John Ford

2008Movie

Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols

2019Movie

6.3

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

2004Movie6.3

6.7

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince

1978Movie6.7

6.0

Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After

2012Movie6.0

7.0

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'

1993Movie7.0

5.0

Revisiting 'The Last Waltz'

2002Movie5.0

9.0

A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'

2002Movie9.0

6.6

The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile

2010Movie6.6

Robbie Robertson: Going Home

1995Movie

7.6

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

2004Movie7.6

Martin Scorsese - The Emotion Through The Music

2005Movie

7.6

A Conversation with Gregory Peck

1999Movie7.6

10.0

The Race to Save 100 Years

1997Movie10.0

7.2

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

1996Movie7.2

7.2

Making 'The Irishman'

2020Movie7.2

6.0

Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'

Gershwin

Making Casino

Made in Milan

Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero

2005Movie7.3

8.0

Raging Bull: Outside the Ring

2005Movie8.0

10.0

30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation

Ken San

Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro

2008Movie7.0

7.0

The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On

2005Movie7.0

5.0

The Moviemakers: Scorsese

2023Movie5.0

5.0

Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann on "Gilda"

2010Movie5.0

7.6

Lightning in a Bottle

2004Movie7.6

5.0

Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute

2007Movie5.0

7.8

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

2022Movie7.8

6.5

Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York

A Letter to Elia

The Real Goodfella

A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé

2022Movie

7.2

This Is Orson Welles

2015Movie7.2

Magical Mystery Tour Revisited

Before Midnight

Cinema Futures

Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues

2022Movie7.6

Arena - John Cassavetes

1989Movie

6.5

Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star

2017Movie6.5

Marty on Film

2011Movie

Martin a Little...

1992Movie

Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben

2008Movie

6.0

Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty

O Retorno do Dragão

Jonas in the Desert

À la recherche des films perdu

1996Movie

The Race for Colour

2012Movie

5.3

Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ

1988Movie5.3

4.0

Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood

2006Movie4.0

The Eye of the Beholder

2005Movie

GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors

2020Movie

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola

1997Movie

7.7

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

1978Movie7.7

Milagrez

2008Movie

The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence

2015Movie

7.8

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

2012Movie7.8

7.3

In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese

1998Movie7.3

4.4

Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies

2008Movie4.4

7.1

Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film

2020Movie7.1

4.0

Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver

2007Movie4.0

Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero

2006Movie

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

Inside Rupert Pupkin

Scorsese on Scorsese

The Magic of Fellini

Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini

2014Movie

7.0

Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes

2001Movie7.0

Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood

2008Movie

Lost in the Garden of the World

1975Movie

6.7

Images from the Playground

2009Movie6.7

7.0

Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block

1973Movie7.0

Casino: The Story

2005Movie

9.0

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

2004Movie9.0

Kiarostami at Work

2023Movie

7.8

Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public

2005Movie7.8

TV Shows (43)

5.8

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014Series5.8

6.1

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Daily Show

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Entourage

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993Series7.3

5.4

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Golden Globe Awards

30 Rock

Great Performances

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Film '72

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

The Studio

Spécial cinéma

Arena

The Oscars

Today

Remembers…

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

2001Series6.1

7.1

Stories of a Generation - with Pope Francis

2021Series7.1

7.6

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Mr. Scorsese

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Culture Show

Leçon de Cinéma

The Last Movie Stars

The Blues

New York: A Documentary Film

Scene by Scene

The Hollywood Greats

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy

Tanner on Tanner

Pretend It's a City

Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints

2024Series5.0

8.1

E! True Hollywood Story

1996Series8.1

8.4

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

Family Blend

Hi Octane

Inside the Actors Studio

1994Series

7.5

Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies

2013Series7.5