Martin Scorsese

Born:

November 17, 1942

Biography:

Scorsese, an asthmatic child, was raised in New York's Little Italy (USA) and spent most of his early years frequenting movie theaters. After he tried unsuccessfully to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood, Martin graduated from New York University as a film major in 1966.

In 1968 he made his first feature film, Who's That Knocking at My Door?, and then agreed to work as an assistant director and editor on the musical documentary Woodstock (1970).

Scorsese won in 1973 critical attention with Mean Streets and even more with Taxi Driver (1976), a brutal, uncompromising film that starred Robert De Niro as a lonely, psychopathic New York cabbie. Martin chose for his next project, Raging bull (1980), black-and-white cinematography to render stark realism to the story of boxing champion Jake La Motta.

In 1986 Scorsese made a conventional Hollywood movie, The color of money but two years later he sparked controversy with his film adaptation of the novel The Last Temptation of Christ. He returned to more familiar subject matter in GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995) but turned to unexpected material with The age of innocence (1993).

By making Kundun (1997) Martin was barred from entering Tibet. His latest film The departed was his biggest financial success to date and it won Martin's only Oscar.

It has been announced that Scorsese will be working on The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and on Silence, the story of Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in feudal Japan.

Academy awards

2007 Won Oscar for: The Departed (2006)
2005 Nominated Best Director for: The Aviator (2004)
2003 Nominated Best Director for: Gangs of New York (2002)
1994 Nominated Best Writing for: The age of innocence (1993)
1991 Nominated Best Director for: Goodfellas (1990)
1991 Nominated Best Writing for: Goodfellas (1990)
1989 Nominated Best Director for: The last temptation of Christ (1988)
1981 Nominated Best Director for: Raging bull (1980)

Selected Movies

Goodfellas (1990)
Taxi driver (1976)
Raging bull (1980)
Casino (1995)
The age of innocence (1993)
The Departed (2006)
The last waltz (1978)
Mean streets (1973)
The king of comedy (1983)
Gangs of New York (2002)

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ABC news - Martin Scorsese directs George Harrison
BBC - Francis Albert and Martin
Coming soon - And your host is...
Deadline Hollywood - Scorsese and the recession
DVD Active - Shutter Island on Blu-ray
First showing - Scorsese's Hugo Cabret Starts Production
Guardian - Scorsese Goes Family-Friendly
HFPA - Scorsese wins DeMille award
HIgh Def Digest - A blu-Raging Bull
High-Def Digest - Gangs of New York in Blu-ray
Hollywood reporter - Scorsese and the Italian Mafia
Hollywood Reporter - Scorsese the historian
Hollywood reporter - Scorsese on TV
MTV - De Niro project revived?
Variety - Martin in Japan
Variety - Martin will receive another award

Rumors and new films

- The Invention of Hugo Cabret -
The story revolves around a boy named Hugo, living in a train station in Paris, who aims to complete the robot that his father had been working on before his death.
Status: The film will be released within 15 months (December 9, 2011)

- The Last Duel -
Based on Eric JagerR17;s historical novel, this tells the story of a duel that occurred in 1386 between knights Jean de Carrouges and Jacques LeGris.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2011

- I Heard You Paint Houses -
The title refers to mob slang for contract killings, and the resulting blood splatter on walls and floors. Robert De Niro will play a killer who is reputed to have carried out more than 25 mob murders.
Status: Maybe, maybe not

- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt -
Leonardo DiCaprio portrays the young Roosevelt in his formative political years and as the commander of the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2011

- Sinatra -
The film will focus on Frank Sinatra's personal and professional life.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2011

- The long play -
An epic look at the music business with a storyline that spans three decades. Mick Jagger will produce.
Status: Maybe, maybe not

- Silence -
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan to see how the evangelical mission is going. There they witness the persecution of Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government, which wishes to purge Japan of all western influence.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2011

- Living in the Material World: George Harrison -
An authorized documentary about George Harrison. Harrison`s widow, Olivia, co produced.
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2011

- The Wolf of Wall Street -
The real life story of a stockbroker, flashy, drug-abusing and hooker-hiring, whoR17s sent to jail for securities fraud and money laundering in the ?90s. With Leonardo Di Caprio.
Status: Maybe, maybe not

- The Elia Kazan Documentary -
Martin will maybe make a documentary about controversial filmmaker Elia Kazan.
Status: Maybe, maybe not

News

This week 20 years ago Goodfellas premiered (September 12, 1990)

More news!

Trivia

When Scorsese taught film at New York University (USA) in the late sixties, one of his students was Oliver Stone.
--Source: Oliver Stone: Interviews, Page 26

Martin has a star on Hollywood Boulevard (Vine street).It’s located near Highland.

Scorsese turned down the chance to direct Schindler’s list in the 1980s, as he felt he couldn’t do as good a job as a Jewish director. He agreed to swap films with Steven Spielberg, taking over Cape Fear (1991) instead.
--Source: Movie Moguls Speak: Interviews with Top Film Producers, Page 171

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