Martin Scorsese
Directing • Born 1942-11-17
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.
Filmography
314 credits
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
Movie • 1994
Self - Interviewee
The Oratorio
Movie • 2020
Self - Narrator
The Searchers: An Appreciation
Movie • 2006
Self
Shark Tale
Movie • 2004
Sykes (voice)
Cannonball
Movie • 1976
Mafioso
The Key to Reserva
Movie • 2007
Self (uncredited)
Quiz Show
Movie • 1994
Sponsor
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Movie • 2022
Self
Scorsese's GoodFellas
Movie • 2015
Self
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
Movie • 2005
Self
Marty and Bobby
Movie • 2011
Self
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
Movie • 2005
Self
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
Movie • 2005
Self
Raging Bull: After the Fight
Movie • 2005
Self
Bringing Out the Dead
Movie • 1999
Dispatcher (voice)
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
Movie • 1997
Self
Dreams
Movie • 1990
Vincent Van Gogh
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
Movie • 1978
Self
… But Film Is My Mistress
Movie • 2010
Self
The Last Waltz
Movie • 1978
Self
'Round Midnight
Movie • 1986
Goodley
Who's That Knocking at My Door
Movie • 1968
Gangster (uncredited)
In the Pope's Eye
Movie • 1980
Direttore Tv
After Hours
Movie • 1985
Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Movie • 2004
Self
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Movie • 2007
Self
A Letter to Elia
Movie • 2010
Self - Narrator
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Movie • 2003
Self - Director
The Real Goodfella
Movie • 2006
Self
Hollywood Uncensored
Movie • 1987
Self
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Movie • 2008
Self
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Movie • 2011
Self
My Voyage to Italy
Movie • 1999
Self - Host
El Planeta
Movie • 2021
Self (uncredited)
Corman's World
Movie • 2011
Self - Filmmaker
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Movie • 1987
Self - Film Director
Killers of the Flower Moon
Movie • 2023
Radio Show Producer
Il resto del Pap'occhio
Movie • 1980
Direttore Tv
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
Movie • 2008
Self
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
Movie • 2014
Self
Frank Capra's American Dream
Movie • 1997
Self
Side by Side
Movie • 2012
Self
Scorsese on Scorsese
Movie • 2004
Self
Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public
Movie • 2005
Self
White Heat: Top of the World
Movie • 2005
Self
The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On
Movie • 2005
Self
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Movie • 2001
Self
Bad 25
Movie • 2012
Self
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
Movie • 1996
Self
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Movie • 2007
Narrator (voice)
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
Movie • 2012
Self
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
Movie • 2012
Self
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Movie • 2012
Self
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
Movie • 2012
Self
New York Stories
Movie • 1989
Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie
Seduced and Abandoned
Movie • 2013
Self
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Movie • 2004
Self
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Movie • 2003
Self
Milius
Movie • 2013
Self
Forever Ealing
Movie • 2002
Self
New York at the Movies
Movie • 2002
Self
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Movie • 2013
Self
Marty on Film
Movie • 2011
Self
Kiarostami at Work
Movie • 2023
Self
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
Movie • 2003
Self
Obsessed with Vertigo
Movie • 1997
Self
Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
Movie • 2007
Self
Casino: The Story
Movie • 2005
Self
Making 'Taxi Driver'
Movie • 1999
Self
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Movie • 2007
Self
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
Movie • 2022
Self
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie • 1995
Self
The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration
Movie • 2022
self
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Movie • 1978
Self
The Wolf Pack
Movie • 2014
Self
Search and Destroy
Movie • 1995
The Accountant
The Wolf of Wall Street
Movie • 2013
John (voice) (uncredited)
Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues
Movie • 2022
Self
The Eye of the Beholder
Movie • 2005
Self
Don Rickles: One Night Only
Movie • 2014
Self
Kurosawa's Way
Movie • 2011
Self
The Race for Colour
Movie • 2012
Self
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
Movie • 2004
Self - Director (voice)
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Movie • 2009
Self
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Movie • 2024
Self
Before Midnight
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady
Movie • 1994
Self
Life Itself
Movie • 2014
Self - Filmmaker
Edge of Outside
Movie • 2006
Self
30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation
Movie • 2020
Self
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Movie • 2010
Self
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Movie • 2004
Self
Everybody Just Stay Calm
Movie • 1994
Self
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Movie • 2005
Self
Guilty by Suspicion
Movie • 1991
Joe Lesser
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Movie • 2022
Self
Fragments of Paradise
Movie • 2022
Self
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver
Movie • 2007
Self
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
Movie • 2008
Self
Martin Scorsese on Framing
Movie • 2017
Self
Taxi Driver
Movie • 1976
Passenger Watching Silhouette
Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block
Movie • 1973
Self
Lightning in a Bottle
Movie • 2004
Self (uncredited)
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
Movie • 1988
Self
John Ford & Monument Valley
Movie • 2013
Self
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Movie • 2024
Self
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Movie • 2010
Self – Interviewee
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Age of Innocence
Movie • 1993
Photographer (uncredited)
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Movie • 2015
Self
In the Hand of Dante
Movie • 2025
Isaiah
Denzel Washington: A Model American
Movie • 2022
Self
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
Movie • 2021
Self
This Is Orson Welles
Movie • 2015
Self
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Movie • 1995
Self
Inside Rupert Pupkin
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Movie • 2012
Self
We Are Cinema
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Movie • 2000
Self
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Movie • 2007
Self
Behind the White Glasses
Movie • 2015
Self
Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg
Movie • 1987
Self
Hugo
Movie • 2011
Photographer (uncredited)
In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Movie • 1998
Self
The Neighborhood
Movie • 2001
Self
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Movie • 2017
Self
Raging Bull
Movie • 1980
Barbizon Stagehand
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
The Audition
Movie • 2015
Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Movie • 2007
Self
A Beautiful Vacation
Movie • 2006
Self
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Movie • 2014
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The King of Comedy
Movie • 1982
TV Director
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
Movie • 2012
Self
Brando
Movie • 2007
Self
Crazy, Not Insane
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Movie • 2004
Self - Interviewee
Crossing Criminal Cultures
Movie • 2007
Self
Making Casino
Movie • 2007
Self
French Cinema Mon Amour
Movie • 2015
Self
American Prince
Movie • 2009
Self
Milagrez
Movie • 2008
Self
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Movie • 2016
Self - Filmmaker
Cinema Futures
Movie • 2016
Self
Movies Are My Life
Movie • 1988
Self
Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols
Movie • 2019
Street Scenes 1970
Movie • 1970
Self
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Movie • 2009
Self
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
Movie • 2004
Self
365 Day Project
Movie • 2007
Self
Arena - John Cassavetes
Movie • 1989
Self
Ken San
Movie • 2016
Self
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Movie • 2017
Self
A Decade Under the Influence
Movie • 2003
Self
Gangs of New York
Movie • 2002
Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited)
Directed by John Ford
Movie • 1971
Self (2006)
Campus Code
Movie • 2015
Doctor
Saul Bass: Title Champ
Movie • 2008
Self
With Friends Like These
Movie • 1998
Martin Scorsese
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Movie • 2018
Self
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Movie • 2008
Self
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
Movie • 2008
Self
Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star
Movie • 2017
Self
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
Movie • 2015
Self
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
Movie • 2016
Self
The Scorsese Machine
Movie • 1990
Self
Robbie Robertson: Going Home
Movie • 1995
Self
Painting with Light
Movie • 2001
Self
The Song of the Little Road
Movie • 2003
Self
Italianamerican
Movie • 1974
Self (uncredited)
Spielberg
Movie • 2017
Self
The Pulitzer At 100
Movie • 2017
Self
Lumière!
Movie • 2016
Self
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Movie • 2003
Self
Martin Scorsese Directs
Movie • 1990
Self
Trespassing Bergman
Movie • 2013
Self
Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero
Movie • 2006
Self
One Direction: This Is Us
Movie • 2013
Self
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Movie • 1993
Self
First Works
Movie • 1989
Self
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Movie • 2001
Self
Cannes: All Access
Movie • 2007
Self
The Grifters
Movie • 1990
Opening voice-over (uncredited)
Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
Movie • 2004
Self - Host / Narrator
Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
Movie • 2008
Self
Shine a Light
Movie • 2008
Self (uncredited)
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Movie • 2008
Self
Public Speaking
Movie • 2011
Self (uncredited)
The Last Temptation of Christ
Movie • 1988
Isaiah (uncredited)
Revisiting 'The Last Waltz'
Movie • 2002
Self
Hollywood Mavericks
Movie • 1990
Self
Club Oscar
Movie • 2005
Sykes (voice)
Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero
Movie • 2005
Self
Gershwin
Movie • 1993
Self
Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese
Movie • 2015
Self
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Movie • 2005
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Boxcar Bertha
Movie • 1972
Brothel Client (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
Movie • 1998
Self
The 'New York, New York' Stories
Movie • 2005
Self
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
Movie • 2017
Self
Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After
Movie • 2012
Self
Jonas in the Desert
Movie • 1994
Self
The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence
Movie • 2015
Self
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Movie • 2008
Self
The Muse
Movie • 1999
Martin Scorsese
The Race to Save 100 Years
Movie • 1997
Self
À la recherche des films perdu
Movie • 1996
Self
Lost in the Garden of the World
Movie • 1975
Self
The Irishman: In Conversation
Movie • 2019
Self
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
Movie • 2020
Self
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Movie • 2012
Self
The Workaday Gangster
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Movie • 2013
Self
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
Movie • 2006
Self
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
Movie • 2006
Self
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
Movie • 1995
Self
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Movie • 2010
Self
The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman
Movie • 2020
Self
Mean Streets
Movie • 1973
Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)
Anna Pavlova
Movie • 1983
Gatti-Casazza
Making of 'Dreams'
Movie • 1990
Self
The Magic of Fellini
Movie • 2002
Self
Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
Movie • 2021
Self
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
Movie • 1999
Self
Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
Movie • 2020
Self
The Color of Money
Movie • 1986
Narrator (voice)
Images from the Playground
Movie • 2009
Self
The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
Movie • 2010
Self
Making 'The Irishman'
Movie • 2020
Self
O Retorno do Dragão
Movie • 2008
Self
The John Garfield Story
Movie • 2003
Self
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
Movie • 2001
Self
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
Movie • 2002
Self
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
Movie • 1988
Self
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
Movie • 1992
Self
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Movie • 2017
Self
Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!
Movie • 2021
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations
Movie • 2017
Self
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Movie • 2008
Self
Casting By
Movie • 2012
Self
On the Set: Elaine’s
Movie • 2004
Self
From Darkness to Light
Movie • 2025
Self
The Moviemakers: Scorsese
Movie • 2023
Self
Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini
Movie • 2014
Self
Beatles '64
Movie • 2024
Self
Michael Powell
Movie • 2005
The World of John Ford
Movie • 2008
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
Movie
Himself
Jesus Goes to Hollywood
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Outcome
Movie • 2026
Richie 'Red' Rodriguez
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Movie • 2008
Self
Conversation avec Martin Scorsese, en notes et en images
Movie • 2024
Self
The Making Of A Mockumentary
Movie • 2025
Himself (archive footage)
Aldeas: A New Story
Movie
Self
GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors
Movie • 2020
Self (Archive Footage)
The Concert for New York City
Movie • 2001
Self (The Neighborhood)
Feel Like Going Home
Movie • 2003
Self
Oliver Stone: El outsider
Movie • 2025
Self - director
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Movie • 1979
Self
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Movie • 1974
Diner Patron (uncredited)
Made in Milan
Movie • 1990
Ritratti di cinema
Movie • 2025
Self
Breakdown: 1975
Movie • 2025
Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Movie • 2003
Self
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Movie • 2007
The Lady and The Legend
Movie • 2026
Self
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
Movie • 2026
Ardennian fry cook (voice)
Martin Scorsese, l'émotion par la musique
Movie • 2005
Self
Martin a Little...
Movie • 1992
himself
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001
Self - Guest
Today
TV • 1952
Self
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Self - Guest
30 Rock
TV • 2006
Martin Scorsese (voice)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV • 2000
Martin Scorsese
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
The Hollywood Greats
TV • 1977
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV • 1978
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Blues
TV • 2003
Self
New York: A Documentary Film
TV • 1999
Self - Commentator
100 Years of Warner Bros.
TV • 2023
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Tanner on Tanner
TV • 2004
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Leçon de Cinéma
TV • 2004
Self
Scene by Scene
TV • 1997
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
The Last Movie Stars
TV • 2022
Self
Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
TV • 2013
Self - Participant
The Culture Show
TV • 2004
Self
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
TV • 2021
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Hi Octane
TV • 1994
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Pretend It's a City
TV • 2021
Self
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
TV • 1995
Self - Filmmaker / Host
The Studio
TV • 2025
Martin Scorsese
Stories of a Generation - with Pope Francis
TV • 2021
Self
Mr. Scorsese
TV • 2025
Self
Entourage
TV • 2004
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints
TV • 2024
Self - Narrator
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self (uncredited)
Remembers…
TV • 2022
Self