Film
Martin Scorsese
Director of Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and The Departed
Born 1942
Photo: Montclair Film · CC BY 2.0
«Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.»
Martin Scorsese has directed for more than fifty years, mostly about guilt, violence and New York, and is among the most influential film-makers alive. He is also a leading campaigner for film preservation.
Key achievements
- Academy Award for Best Director, The Departed, 2007
- Founded The Film Foundation, which has restored over 1,000 films
Universities
New York, Greenwich Village
Took a bachelor's degree in 1964 and a master's in film in 1968 at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, then taught there.
Facts
- Severe asthma kept him out of street games as a child, so his parents took him to the cinema instead, which is where his education began.
- He spent a year in a seminary intending to become a priest before switching to film at NYU.
- His Film Foundation has helped restore more than a thousand films from around the world.
Photographs
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