Director
Martin Scorsese
Born 17 November 1942 · Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Martin Scorsese (born 1942) is an American director from Queens, New York, and a leading figure of the New Hollywood generation. He is known for intense, character-driven films about crime, guilt and redemption, often starring Robert De Niro. He is also a prominent advocate for film preservation.
Key films
Mean Streets (1973)
Breakthrough drama that established his style and his long partnership with Robert De Niro.
Taxi Driver (1976)
Disturbing study of urban alienation that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
Raging Bull (1980)
Black-and-white boxing biopic often ranked among the greatest films of the 1980s.
GoodFellas (1990)
Kinetic mob epic that defined the modern gangster film.
The Departed (2006)
Crime thriller that earned him his first Best Director Oscar.
Key awards
- 1976: Palme d'Or at Cannes for Taxi Driver
- 1997: AFI Life Achievement Award
- 2007: Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed
- 2010: Cecil B. DeMille Award (Golden Globes)
- 2012: BAFTA Fellowship
On Cinespective
Full filmography · 345
- 1959Vesuvius VIDirector
- 1963What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?Director
- 1964It's Not Just You, Murray!Director
- 1967The Big ShaveDirector
- 1968Who's That Knocking at My DoorDirector
- 1968Who's That Knocking at My Door · as Gangster (uncredited)Actor
- 1970Street Scenes 1970Director
- 1970Street Scenes 1970 · as SelfActor
- 1971Directed by John Ford · as Self (2006)Actor
- 1972Boxcar BerthaDirector
- 1972Boxcar Bertha · as Brothel Client (uncredited)Actor
- 1973Mean StreetsDirector
- 1973Mean Streets · as Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)Actor
- 1973Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block · as SelfActor
- 1974Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore · as Diner Patron (uncredited)Actor
- 1974Alice Doesn't Live Here AnymoreDirector
- 1974ItalianamericanDirector
- 1974Italianamerican · as Self (uncredited)Actor
- 1975Lost in the Garden of the World · as SelfActor
- 1976Taxi DriverDirector
- 1976Taxi Driver · as Passenger Watching SilhouetteActor
- 1976Cannonball · as MafiosoActor
- 1977New York, New YorkDirector
- 1978The Last WaltzDirector
- 1978The Last Waltz · as SelfActor
- 1978American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince · as SelfActor
- 1978American Boy: A Profile of Steven PrinceDirector
- 1978Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel · as SelfActor
- 1979All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman · as SelfActor
- 1980Raging BullDirector
- 1980Raging Bull · as Barbizon StagehandActor
- 1980In the Pope's Eye · as Direttore TvActor
- 1980Il resto del Pap'occhio · as Direttore TvActor
- 1982The King of ComedyDirector
- 1982The King of Comedy · as TV DirectorActor
- 1983Anna Pavlova · as Gatti-CasazzaActor
- 1985After HoursDirector
- 1985After Hours · as Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)Actor
- 1986The Color of Money · as Narrator (voice)Actor
- 1986The Color of MoneyDirector
- 1986'Round Midnight · as GoodleyActor
- 1986Before Midnight · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 1987Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg · as SelfActor
- 1987Hollywood Uncensored · as SelfActor
- 1987Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood · as Self - Film DirectorActor
- 1988The Last Temptation of ChristDirector
- 1988The Last Temptation of Christ · as Isaiah (uncredited)Actor
- 1988Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues · as SelfActor
- 1988Movies Are My Life · as SelfActor
- 1988Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of ChristDirector
- 1988Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ · as SelfActor
- 1988Michael Jackson: BadDirector
- 1989New York Stories · as Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel DobieActor
- 1989New York StoriesDirector
- 1989First Works · as SelfActor
- 1989Arena - John Cassavetes · as SelfActor
- 1990GoodFellasDirector
- 1990Dreams · as Vincent Van GoghActor
- 1990The Grifters · as Opening voice-over (uncredited)Actor
- 1990Made in MilanDirector
- 1990Made in MilanActor
- 1990Hollywood Mavericks · as SelfActor
- 1990Making of 'Dreams' · as SelfActor
- 1990The Scorsese Machine · as SelfActor
- 1990Martin Scorsese Directs · as SelfActor
- 1991Cape FearDirector
- 1991Guilty by Suspicion · as Joe LesserActor
- 1991The King of AdsDirector
- 1992Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann · as SelfActor
- 1992Martin a Little... · as himselfActor
- 1993The Age of InnocenceDirector
- 1993The Age of Innocence · as Photographer (uncredited)Actor
- 1993Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' · as SelfActor
- 1993Gershwin · as SelfActor
- 1994Quiz Show · as SponsorActor
- 1994I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited · as Self - IntervieweeActor
- 1994Jonas in the Desert · as SelfActor
- 1994Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady · as SelfActor
- 1994Everybody Just Stay Calm · as SelfActor
- 1994Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame · as SelfActor
- 1995CasinoDirector
- 1995Michael Jackson Video Greatest Hits: HIStoryDirector
- 1995Search and Destroy · as The AccountantActor
- 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies · as SelfActor
- 1995Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick · as SelfActor
- 1995More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady' · as SelfActor
- 1995Robbie Robertson: Going Home · as SelfActor
- 1995Amazing Stories: The Movie IVDirector
- 1996The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera · as SelfActor
- 1996À la recherche des films perdu · as SelfActor
- 1997KundunDirector
- 1997Obsessed with Vertigo · as SelfActor
- 1997Frank Capra's American Dream · as SelfActor
- 1997The Race to Save 100 Years · as SelfActor
- 1997A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola · as SelfActor
- 1998In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese · as SelfActor
- 1998Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley · as SelfActor
- 1998With Friends Like These · as Martin ScorseseActor
- 1999Bringing Out the Dead · as Dispatcher (voice)Actor
- 1999Bringing Out the DeadDirector
- 1999The Muse · as Martin ScorseseActor
- 1999My Voyage to ItalyDirector
- 1999My Voyage to Italy · as Self - HostActor
- 1999Making 'Taxi Driver' · as SelfActor
- 1999A Conversation with Gregory Peck · as SelfActor
- 2000Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows · as SelfActor
- 2001Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film · as SelfActor
- 2001The Making of 'Cape Fear' · as SelfActor
- 2001The Concert for New York CityDirector
- 2001The Concert for New York City · as Self (The Neighborhood)Actor
- 2001The Neighborhood · as SelfActor
- 2001The NeighborhoodDirector
- 2001Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes · as SelfActor
- 2001Painting with Light · as SelfActor
- 2002Gangs of New YorkDirector
- 2002Gangs of New York · as Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited)Actor
- 2002The Magic of Fellini · as SelfActor
- 2002Forever Ealing · as SelfActor
- 2002New York at the Movies · as SelfActor
- 2002Revisiting 'The Last Waltz' · as SelfActor
- 2002A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy' · as SelfActor
- 2002Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran' · as Self (archival)Actor
- 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood · as SelfActor
- 2003A Decade Under the Influence · as SelfActor
- 2003The John Garfield Story · as SelfActor
- 2003Feel Like Going HomeDirector
- 2003The Evolution of an American Filmmaker · as SelfActor
- 2003Feel Like Going Home · as SelfActor
- 2003Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' · as SelfActor
- 2003Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York · as SelfActor
- 2003The Song of the Little Road · as SelfActor
- 2003Biography: Humphrey Bogart · as Self - DirectorActor
- 2004Shark Tale · as Sykes (voice)Actor
- 2004The AviatorDirector
- 2004The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing · as SelfActor
- 2004A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope · as SelfActor
- 2004Lightning in a Bottle · as Self (uncredited)Actor
- 2004Scorsese on Scorsese · as SelfActor
- 2004Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours · as Self - Director (voice)Actor
- 2004Lady by the Sea: The Statue of LibertyDirector
- 2004Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty · as Self - Host / NarratorActor
- 2004Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic · as Self - IntervieweeActor
- 2004Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas' · as SelfActor
- 2004Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? · as SelfActor
- 2004The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth · as SelfActor
- 2004The Workaday Gangster · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2004On the Set: Elaine’s · as SelfActor
- 2005No Direction Home: Bob Dylan · as Self (voice) (uncredited)Actor
- 2005No Direction Home: Bob DylanDirector
- 2005Club Oscar · as Sykes (voice)Actor
- 2005Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public · as SelfActor
- 2005Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero · as SelfActor
- 2005White Heat: Top of the World · as SelfActor
- 2005The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On · as SelfActor
- 2005Raging Bull: Before the Fight · as SelfActor
- 2005Raging Bull: Inside the Ring · as SelfActor
- 2005By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' · as SelfActor
- 2005Raging Bull: Outside the Ring · as SelfActor
- 2005The 'New York, New York' Stories · as SelfActor
- 2005Martin Scorsese - The Emotion Through The Music · as SelfActor
- 2005Michael PowellActor
- 2005The Eye of the Beholder · as SelfActor
- 2005Casino: The Story · as SelfActor
- 2005Raging Bull: After the Fight · as SelfActor
- 2006The DepartedDirector
- 2006Edge of Outside · as SelfActor
- 2006The Real Goodfella · as SelfActor
- 2006A Beautiful Vacation · as SelfActor
- 2006Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood · as SelfActor
- 2006Refuge · as SelfActor
- 2006Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films · as SelfActor
- 2006Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero · as SelfActor
- 2006The Searchers: An Appreciation · as SelfActor
- 2007Joe Strummer: The Future Is UnwrittenActor
- 2007Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project · as SelfActor
- 2007Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows · as Narrator (voice)Actor
- 2007Brando · as SelfActor
- 2007Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts · as SelfActor
- 2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition · as SelfActor
- 2007Cannes: All Access · as SelfActor
- 2007Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed' · as SelfActor
- 2007Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Actor
- 2007Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver · as SelfActor
- 2007Crossing Criminal Cultures · as SelfActor
- 2007365 Day Project · as SelfActor
- 2007Making Casino · as SelfActor
- 2008Shine a Light · as Self (uncredited)Actor
- 2008Shine a LightDirector
- 2008You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story · as SelfActor
- 2008Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies · as SelfActor
- 2008Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film · as SelfActor
- 2008Notes on an American Film Director at Work · as SelfActor
- 2008In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy · as SelfActor
- 2008Saul Bass: Title Champ · as SelfActor
- 2008Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro · as SelfActor
- 2008Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators · as SelfActor
- 2008The World of John FordActor
- 2008O Retorno do Dragão · as SelfActor
- 2008Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood · as SelfActor
- 2008Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben · as SelfActor
- 2008Milagrez · as SelfActor
- 2008Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock · as SelfActor
- 2009Images from the Playground · as SelfActor
- 2009The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style · as SelfActor
- 2009American Prince · as SelfActor
- 2009Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock · as SelfActor
- 2010Shutter IslandDirector
- 2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff · as Self – IntervieweeActor
- 2010A Letter to Elia · as Self - NarratorActor
- 2010A Letter to EliaDirector
- 2010The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile · as SelfActor
- 2010… But Film Is My Mistress · as SelfActor
- 2010Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen · as SelfActor
- 2010Dante Ferretti: Production Designer · as SelfActor
- 2010Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann on "Gilda" · as SelfActor
- 2011Hugo · as Photographer (uncredited)Actor
- 2011HugoDirector
- 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary · as SelfActor
- 2011Corman's World · as Self - FilmmakerActor
- 2011Public Speaking · as Self (uncredited)Actor
- 2011Public SpeakingDirector
- 2011Kurosawa's Way · as SelfActor
- 2011George Harrison: Living in the Material WorldDirector
- 2011Marty on Film · as SelfActor
- 2011Marty and Bobby · as SelfActor
- 2011Raging Bull: Marty & Bobby · as SelfActor
- 2012Side by Side · as SelfActor
- 2012Bad 25 · as SelfActor
- 2012Casting By · as SelfActor
- 2012Stanley Kubrick in Focus · as SelfActor
- 2012John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man · as SelfActor
- 2012The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo' · as SelfActor
- 2012Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' · as SelfActor
- 2012Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime · as SelfActor
- 2012Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After · as SelfActor
- 2012Magical Mystery Tour Revisited · as SelfActor
- 2012The Race for Colour · as SelfActor
- 2012The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès · as SelfActor
- 2013The Wolf of Wall StreetDirector
- 2013The Wolf of Wall Street · as John (voice) (uncredited)Actor
- 2013One Direction: This Is Us · as SelfActor
- 2013Milius · as SelfActor
- 2013Seduced and Abandoned · as SelfActor
- 2013Trespassing Bergman · as SelfActor
- 2013Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story · as SelfActor
- 2013Abbas Kiarostami: A Report · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2013John Ford & Monument Valley · as SelfActor
- 2013House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! · as SelfActor
- 2014Life Itself · as Self - FilmmakerActor
- 2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles · as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)Actor
- 2014The 50 Year ArgumentDirector
- 2014Don Rickles: One Night Only · as SelfActor
- 2014The Wolf Pack · as SelfActor
- 2014Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini · as SelfActor
- 2014Inside Rupert Pupkin · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2014The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire · as SelfActor
- 2014Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2015Hitchcock/Truffaut · as SelfActor
- 2015The Audition · as SelfActor
- 2015The AuditionDirector
- 2015Campus Code · as DoctorActor
- 2015Scorsese's GoodFellas · as SelfActor
- 2015This Is Orson Welles · as SelfActor
- 2015The Legend of the Palme d'Or · as SelfActor
- 2015Behind the White Glasses · as SelfActor
- 2015French Cinema Mon Amour · as SelfActor
- 2015The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence · as SelfActor
- 2015Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese · as SelfActor
- 2016SilenceDirector
- 2016Lumière! · as SelfActor
- 2016Mifune: The Last Samurai · as Self - FilmmakerActor
- 2016Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown · as SelfActor
- 2016Cinema Futures · as SelfActor
- 2016Ken San · as SelfActor
- 2016Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A · as SelfActor
- 2017Spielberg · as SelfActor
- 2017Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World · as SelfActor
- 2017John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs · as SelfActor
- 2017Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star · as SelfActor
- 2017The Pulitzer At 100 · as SelfActor
- 2017Martin Scorsese on Framing · as SelfActor
- 2017Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence · as SelfActor
- 2017Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations · as SelfActor
- 2017Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories · as SelfActor
- 2018King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen · as SelfActor
- 2019The IrishmanDirector
- 2019Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin ScorseseDirector
- 2019The Irishman: In Conversation · as SelfActor
- 2019Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff NicholsActor
- 2020Crazy, Not Insane · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2020Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band · as SelfActor
- 2020Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film · as SelfActor
- 2020Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short FilmDirector
- 2020Making 'The Irishman' · as SelfActor
- 2020Scorsese ShortsDirector
- 2020The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman · as SelfActor
- 202030 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation · as SelfActor
- 2020The Oratorio · as Self - NarratorActor
- 2020GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors · as Self (Archive Footage)Actor
- 2021El Planeta · as Self (uncredited)Actor
- 2021I Am Alfred Hitchcock · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2021Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted! · as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)Actor
- 2021Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius · as SelfActor
- 2021Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams · as SelfActor
- 2021We Are Cinema · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2021Morceaux de Cannes · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2022Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America · as SelfActor
- 2022Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2022Denzel Washington: A Model American · as SelfActor
- 2022Film: The Living Record of Our Memory · as SelfActor
- 2022Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues · as SelfActor
- 2022Personality Crisis: One Night OnlyDirector
- 2022Fragments of Paradise · as SelfActor
- 2022The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration · as selfActor
- 2022A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé · as SelfActor
- 2023Killers of the Flower Moon · as Radio Show ProducerActor
- 2023Killers of the Flower MoonDirector
- 2023The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Actor
- 2023The Moviemakers: Scorsese · as SelfActor
- 2023Kiarostami at Work · as SelfActor
- 2024Beatles '64 · as SelfActor
- 2024Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger · as SelfActor
- 2024Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master · as Self (archive) - subject, filmmakerActor
- 2024Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2024Jesus Goes to Hollywood · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2024Conversation avec Martin Scorsese, en notes et en images · as SelfActor
- 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story · as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)Actor
- 2025Breakdown: 1975 · as SelfActor
- 2025Oliver Stone: The Outsider · as Self - directorActor
- 2025From Darkness to Light · as SelfActor
- 2025Ritratti di cinema · as SelfActor
- 2026The Mandalorian and Grogu · as Hugo Durant (voice)Actor
- 2026Outcome · as Richie 'Red' RodriguezActor
- 2026In the Hand of Dante · as IsaiahActor
- 2026The Basics of PhilosophyActor
- 2026The Lady and The Legend · as SelfActor
- 2026Robert Richardson: The White Devil · as SelfActor
- 2026Tribeca 25 · as SelfActor
- 2026Joie de Vivre · as SelfActor
- 2026As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2026WahZhaZhe: A Song for the Osage · as SelfActor
- 2026Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration · as SelfActor
- 2026Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis · as SelfActor
- 2026Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope FrancisDirector
- 2026Cinematic Intelligence · as Martin Scorsese (Footage)Actor
Filmography data from TMDB. The profile text is a draft written for Cinespective.