Martin Scorsese | |
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Scorsese at the 79th Academy Awards | |
15 Nominations / 1 Win | |
Role | Director, screenwriter, producer, actor |
Born | November 17, 1942 |
Queens, New York, USA | |
Martin Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film preservationist. Scorsese's expansive body of work tends to address such themes as Italian-American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, and modern crime and violence. Scorsese is hailed as one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of all time, directing landmark films such as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas—all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro. In 2007, Scorsese won his first Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed having been nominated a previous five times.
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- 53rd Academy Awards, 1980
- Best Director — Raging Bull
- 61st Academy Awards, 1988
- Best Director — The Last Temptation of Christ
- 63rd Academy Awards, 1990
- Best Adapted Screenplay — Goodfellas (shared with Nicholas Pileggi)
- Best Director — Goodfellas
- 66th Academy Awards, 1993
- Best Adapted Screenplay — The Age of Innocence (shared with Jay Cocks)
- 84th Academy Awards, 2011
- Best Director — Hugo
- Best Picture — Hugo (shared with Graham King)
- 92nd Academy Awards, 2019
- Best Director — The Irishman
- Best Picture — The Irishman (shared with Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff)
- 96th Academy Awards, 2023
- Best Director — Killers of the Flower Moon
- Best Picture — Killers of the Flower Moon (shared with Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, and Daniel Lupi)
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