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Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese is an acclaimed American director and producer, a key figure in New Hollywood cinema. Martin Scorsese's nationality is American and Italian. Martin Scorsese was born on 17 November 1942.

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Who is Martin Scorsese?

Martin Scorsese is best known for Renowned filmmaker known for influential films like Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and The Irishman. Martin Scorsese is an American and Italian public figure. Martin Scorsese was born on 17 November 1942, which places Martin Scorsese among the people in the Dead or Alive catalog born in the 1940s. On Dead or Alive, Martin Scorsese is listed in the Screen Icons category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Martin Scorsese is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Renowned filmmaker known for influential films like Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and The Irishman.
Nationality: American and Italian
Born: 17 November 1942
Listed under: Screen Icons

About Martin Scorsese

DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Scorsese received a Master of Arts degree from New York University 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, centered on macho-posturing men and explore 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, liberal use of profanity and collaboration with Robert De Niro were first shown in Mean Streets (1973). In the following decades, he also garnered box office success with a series of six collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio, including Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006)—which won him the Academy Award for Best Director—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). His life was profiled in the Apple TV+ docuseries Mr.

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What is Martin Scorsese known for?

Martin Scorsese is known for Renowned filmmaker known for influential films like Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and The Irishman.

When was Martin Scorsese born?

Martin Scorsese was born on 17 November 1942.

What nationality is Martin Scorsese?

Martin Scorsese's nationality is American and Italian.

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