Martin Scorsese

 Martin Charles Scorsese (/sko:r'sesi/ Skor-SESSee, Italian: [skor'se:ze, -e:seborn 17 November, 1942) is an American film producer, director screenwriter, actor and director. He is the recipient of many major accolades, including the Academy Award, a Grammy Award as well as three Emmy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards, the AFI Life Achievement Award and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007. Five of his films were accepted by the Library of Congress into the National Film Registry. Scorsese received an MA in Education, Culture and Human Development from New York University in 1968. Scorsese's directorial debut, "Who's That Knocking At My Door" (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. Scorsese was a major figure during the New Hollywood era of the 1970s and the 1980s. Scorsese's films heavily influenced by his Italian-American upbringing as well as his New York City childhood. They focus on the insecure macho males and look at the machismo and crime as well in the context of Catholic notions of redemption, guilt and guilt. [3][4] Scorsese's trademark style makes extensive utilization of slow-motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions as well as extreme violence. His 1973 crime film Mean Streets (which dealt with violence and machismo) was an example of the filmmaking methods he employed. Scorsese has won Cannes' Palme d'Or with Taxi Driver (1976), an action thriller with a star cast that included Robert De Niro. He was later a part of Scorsese through eight other films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (90) and Casino (1995). Scorsese was a big star in the 2000s and the 2010s and was able to enjoy critical acclaim as well as box office success due to several collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio. These films include Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Scorsese returned to his traditional area of crime films, and he collaborated again with De Niro in the film The Irishman (2019). Other films by Scorsese include the dark comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993) and the kid's adventure drama Hugo (2011) and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016).In addition to film, Scorsese has directed episodes for a variety of television shows, including the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2011-2015), and Vinyl (2016) and Vinyl (2016), as well as the HBO documentary Public Speaking (2010), and the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021). He is also known for his rock music documentaries including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005) and Shine a Light (2008). A proponent of film preservation and restoration, he created three non-profit organizations: the Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007 and the African Film Heritage Project in the year 2017.