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Martin Scorsese is an American filmmaker born on the 17th of November 1942, widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of cinema. He is a major figure of the New Hollywood era, known for films exploring crime, machismo, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption.
Martin Scorsese has won an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He received the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed in 2006, and five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry.
Martin Scorsese was born in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens and grew up in the Little Italy neighborhood of Manhattan. All four of his grandparents were Italian immigrants from Sicily, from Polizzi Generosa on his father's side and Ciminna on his mother's side.
Brian De Palma introduced Martin Scorsese to Robert De Niro. De Niro went on to collaborate with Scorsese on ten feature films and one short, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas, and by several accounts persuaded Scorsese to overcome his cocaine addiction to make Raging Bull.
The Last Temptation of Christ caused worldwide protests against its perceived blasphemy before its 1988 release. Most of the controversy centered on a sequence depicting Christ marrying and raising a family with Mary Magdalene in a Satan-induced hallucination while on the cross.
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio collaborated on six feature films, including Gangs of New York in 2002, The Aviator in 2004, The Departed in 2006, Shutter Island in 2010, The Wolf of Wall Street in 2013, and Killers of the Flower Moon in 2023.