Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese is a Italian-American Réalisateur. Born the November 17th 1942 with Flushing (Long Island, state of New York), parents of sicilian origin , it passes its childhood in the district Little Italy of New York, which largely inspired its career to him. In 2007, with its sixth nomination, it gains finally the Oscar better realizer, for Infiltrated the ( The Departed ), which was also gratifié of that of best film.

Biography

Youth

Asthmatic child and frail, the young person Martin Scorsese cannot practice sport and his/her parents frequently take it along to the cinema. It is intended initially for a religious life and enters to the Séminaire in 1956. Returned at the end of one year, it finishes its studies with the Cardinal Hays School (in the Bronx) then integrates the Université of New York in 1960 where it attends the courses of cinema and takes down a control in 1966. He was besides professor in this same university between 1968 and 1970.

Promising beginnings

He carries out several short films which gain many prices. Its films of youth are fortements influenced by the French New wave and the new American cinema represented by John Cassavetes. Then it carries out its first feature-length film, Who' S that knocking At my door? , left in 1969, is five years after the first turn of crank. This film marks the meeting with one of its actors fetishes, Harvey Keitel. It takes part as an assembler and an assistant realizer in the film Woodstock on the festival of Woodstock in 1969. At the beginning of the Years 1970, Martin Scorsese moves with Hollywood. It meets the producing there Roger Corman which makes it possible to him to make its first Hollywood film: Bertha Boxcar ( Boxcar Bertha ) with Barbara Hershey and David Carradine.

An exemplary career

Encouraged by John Cassavetes to continue a more personal style of realization, Scorsese starts to work on the film Mean Streets . The first work of the realizer, acclaimed by criticism, this film is also the theater of the most important meeting of its career, that with the actor Robert De Niro, who will become from now on the alter ego of the scenario writer to the screen. The following year, Francis Ford Coppola opens to him the doors of the studios Warner Bros. Pictures. It meets its first public success with Alice is not here which will make it possible Ellen Burstyn to obtain the Oscar of the best actress in 1974. As of its following film, it obtains the Palme of gold to the Cannes festival of 1976 for Taxi Driver with Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Harvey Keitel. This same film is worth also four nominations to him with the Oscars.

Extremely of this new success, the following year, Scorsese and De Niro are found once again for New York, New York , with Liza Minelli. Unfortunately, the film is one cooking commercial failure. In 1977, Liza Minnelli proposes to him to put in scene a spectacle at Broadway, The Act , but it gives up at the end of a few weeks because this experiment displeases to him.

It is in a physical status and psychological terrible that it goes back to the work, supported well by Robert De Niro, to carry out one of its chief-of works, Raging Bull . For its memorable performance in the role of the boxer Jake Motta, Robert De Niro will receive the Oscar of the best actor. From now on regarded as one of the largest scenario writers of its generation, Scorsese will connect films, the Waltz of the puppets in 1983, After Hours in 1985, then the Color of the money in 1986, which will be worth with Paul Newman single the Oscar of the best actor of his brilliant career.

Martin Scorsese carries out his child's dream in 1988 by carrying out a film on the Christ, the Last Temptation of Christ ( The Last Temptation off Christ ) adapted novel of Níkos Kazantzákis. The film hustles the dogma religious and made scandal. Demonstrations take place a little everywhere where the film leaves and the Saint-Michel cinema in Paris is burnt. For as much, the film contributes to the Oscars, with in particular the second nomination of the realizer. Parallel to its career and into large in love with the history of the cinema, it creates The Film Foundation in 1990 with seven of his friends. The purpose of this foundation is to encourage the restoration and the safeguarding of the world inheritance cinematographic.

Follow, Freed the in 1990, and the Nerves with sharp in 1991, two successes, with again Robert De Niro. The same year, it is rewarded by the American Cinémathèque for the unit for its work. In 1992, it creates Martin Scorsese Presents , a foundation which restores and exploits the great classics of the cinema, then carries out its first film in costumes, the Time of innocence . New critical success, several nominations with the Oscars, but always no statuette for the scenario writer. With Casino in 1995, Scorsese finds the world of the gangsters in an imposing epopee on the rise and the fall of an owner of a large hotel of Las Vegas in the years 1970. It finds for the eighth time (and last to date) Robert De Niro, but also Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone (which will gain a Golden Globe for its composition). After Casino , it finishes its famous documentary four hours on the American cinema with Michael Henry Wilson, a voyage with Martin Scorsese through the American cinema , ordered by British Film Institute to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the cinema. Then, Martin Scorsese is honoured by the AFI ( American Film Institute ) with the Life Achievement Award in 1997, reward very prestigious in the USA, for the whole of his career.

Between two films, Kundun in 1997, and With open tomb in 1999, it chairs the Cannes festival 1998 which decrees the Palme of Gold to Eternity and a day of Theo Angelopoulos. But the strong image of this edition remains the handing-over of the Grand Prix with Roberto Benigni for the life is beautiful during which the Italian actor-realizer will throw himself to the feet of Scorsese.

Late recognition of its pars

2002 mark a new essential date in the career of the realizer, since at the time of the film Gangs off New York , Scorsese meets Leonardo DiCaprio with which it will make two other films consecutively, Aviator in 2005, then Infiltrated the in 2006. Thanks to this last film, it obtains the greatest public success of its career. It gains the Award Golden Globe of the best realizer before triumphing with the Academy Awards. Infiltrated the obtains four Oscars: better film of the year, better realization, better adapted scenario (William Monahan, according to Infernal Affairs of Siu Fai Mak and Felix Chong) and better assembly (Thelma Schoonmaker of which it is the third Oscar gained with Martin Scorsese after Raging Bull and Aviator ).

Catalog of films

Realizer

Courts and medium-length films

  • 1963 : What' S.A. Nice girl like you doing in this place? , 9 min
  • 1964: It' S not just you, Murray! , 15 min
  • 1967: The Big Shave , 5 min
  • 1974: Italianamerican , 48 min
  • 1986: Mirror, mirror (1985), episode of the series Amazing Stories, 24 min
  • 1990: Made in Milan , 27 min

Feature-length films

Publicity

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Actor

Scenario writer

  • 1969: Who' S that knocking At my door? aka I Cal First
  • 1973: Mean Streets
  • 1990 : Freed the ( Goodfellas )
  • 1993: the Time of innocence ( Old The off Innocence )
  • 1995: a voyage with Martin Scorsese through the American cinema ( has Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American

Movies )

Producer

Executive producer

Appendix

Preferred films of the Nineties of Martin Scorsese

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