Martin Scorsese

 Martin Charles Scorsese (/sko:r'sesi/ skor-SESS-ee,[2Martin Charles Scorsese (/sko:r'sesi/ skor: Italian: [skor'se:ze, -e:seborn on 17 November, 1942) is an American film director, producer screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is the recipient of a variety of important awards which include an Academy Award, a Grammy Award and three Emmy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards Two Directors Guild of America Awards and the AFI Life Achievement Award and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".Scorsese received an MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His debut directorial film, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was admitted as part of the Chicago Film Festival. Through the 1970s and 80s decade, Scorsese emerged as one of the most prominent figures of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, heavily inspired by his Italian-American heritage and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and examine machismo, crime, the nihilist, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His distinctive styles include extensive use of freeze and slow motion frames as well as graphic depictions of brutal violence, as well as extensive usage of profanity.His 1973 crime film Mean Streets, dealing with violence and machismo, and exploring Catholic concepts of redemption and guilt, served as a model for his style of filmmaking. Scorsese received the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1976 psychological thriller Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, who became associated with Scorsese through the making of eight more films including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980) The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), and Casino (1995). Scorsese was a star of the 2000s and the 2010s and received critical acclaim as well as box office success due to numerous collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. The films included Gangs of New York (2002, The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006). Shutter Island (2010) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2012) are but some. Returning to his familiar film noirs, Scorsese collaborated with De Niro again on The Irishman (2019). Scorsese also directed the black comedy After Hours (1985), The Age of Innocence (1993) and The Irishman (2019).