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| Birth name | Martin Charles Scorsese | | Birth date | November 17, 1942(age 73) | | Place of birth | Queens, New York, U.S. | | Nationality | American | | Education | Cardinal Hayes High School | | Alma mater | New York University / Tisch | | Occupation | Film director, producer, actor, screenwriter | | Years active | 1963 � present | | Influenced by | Jean Renoir, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell, Federico Fellini, Orson Welles, John Ford, Satyajit Ray, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Stanley Kubrick, Roberto Rossellini, John Cassavetes, Michael Gough, Emeric Pressburger, Luchino Visconti, Ingmar Bergman, Elia Kazan | | Influenced | Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Yates, John Woo, Tim Burton, David Fincher | | Spouse | Laraine Marie Brennan (1965 � ca 71; divorced)
Julia Cameron (1976 � 77; divorced)
Isabella Rossellini (1979 � 82; divorced)
Barbara De Fina (1985 � 91; divorced)
Helen Morris (1999 � present) | | Parents | Charles Scorsese,
Catherine Scorsese |
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Martin Charles Scorsese (-enskɔrˈsɛsipron; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won awards from the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation.
Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, modern crime and violence. Scorsese is hailed as one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of the modern era, directing landmark films such as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas � all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed.
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