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Born in Queens,NY.
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Scorsese’s passion for cinema began early as he was a sickly child and at times bedridden for severe asthma. This led to watching a lot of films with his family as he was limited to a lot of physical activity.
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His upbringing in New York City’s Little Italy neighborhood and his working class background heavily influenced his stories and characters.
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While he originally was drawn to the Roman Catholic priesthood after graduating high school, he failed out the first year of preparatory seminary.
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He attended New York University with his undergraduate and graduate degrees in film
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The start of his career was an independent drama: Whose That Knocking At My Door.
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This movie marked the beginning of an ongoing collaboration between he and Robert DeNiro, whom have since worked on 10 films.
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Mean Streets
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“Well, Mean Streets is always a favorite of mine because of the music and because it was the story of myself and my friends. It was the movie that people originally took notice of. It’s kind of a favorite, but I certainly couldn’t watch it. It’s too personal.”
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The first Scorsese film made on their list: Taxi Driver, #52
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The second film noted on their list: Raging Bull,# 4
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While subjective, Goodfellas is generally regarded as his most popular, and well known movie.
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Rounding out the 3rd choice, Goodfellas, #92
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Received the AFI Life Achievement Award
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Received DGA Lifetime Achievement Award
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The Departed yielded him his first, and only Oscar to date for best director. Out of 16 nominations from 1981-2024.
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He has the most Oscar nominations for Best Director (eight, with one win) of any living director.
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Received the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Cecil B. DeMille Award
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Hugo was made so he could at least have 1 appropriate film to watch with his daughters.
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The highest-grossing film of Scorsese’s career is: The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Known for long films, The Irishman, comes in at 3 hours and 29 minutes.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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Disney’s 20th Century Studios is saying “aloha” to Martin Scorsese‘s Hawaii-set crime thriller starring Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt, no release date or title as of this time. He has also been exploring an array of other possibilities for his next movie starting with A Life of Jesus, based on the book by Shusaku Endo, and a Frank Sinatra biopic.
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At 82 years old "I’m not saying goodbye to cinema at all. I still have more films to make, and I hope God gives me the strength to make them.”