Martin Scorsese is one of the best film directors of our generation. Apart from direction he has shown his blessed talents in the field of screen writing, production and acting. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema. His best contribution includes Mean Streets(1972), Taxi Driver(1976), Raging Bull(1980), The King of Comedy (1983), Goodfellas (1990) etc.
Full Name : Martin Charles ScorseseDOB : November 17, 1942
Top 2 Movies : Goodfellas and The Departed
Latest film : Shutter Island
Upcoming film : Hugo Cabret (Nov 2011)
Upcoming film : Hugo Cabret (Nov 2011)
Net Worth : $40 million
"My whole life has been movies and religion.
That's it. Nothing else."
That's it. Nothing else."
His most commercially successful release The Aviator (2004), and then The Departed (2006) and Shutter Island (2010).
He is well known for his association with actor Robert De Niro. Made 8 films so far with Robert De Niro and talks are going on for their new film "The Irishman".
Scorsese's next feature film will in 3D,an adaptation of Brian Selznick's best-selling children's historical fiction book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret".
In 2007, Scorsese was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. And in August 2007 Scorsese was named the 2nd greatest director of all time in a poll by Total Film magazine.
He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed in 2006.
In December 1996, China listed Scorsese as one of only 50 people who are barred from entering Tibet for directing Kundun. The film was based on the life and writings of the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet.
Steven Spielberg was scheduled to direct Cape Fear while Scorsese was preparing his adaptation of Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark. But later on , the two directors swapped projects and Spielberg won an Oscar for Schindler's List.
Married 5 times and currently married to Helen Morris.
