• TOP 4: MARTIN CHARLES SCOTESESE
He was born November
17, 1942, is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film
historian. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time. In
1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to
film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a
recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the
cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival Best
Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and
DGA Awards.
Scorsese's
body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic
concepts of guilt and redemption,[18] machismo, modern crime, and violence.
Scorsese is hailed as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers of
all time, directing landmark films such as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver
(1976), Raging Bull (1980), and Goodfellas (1990) – 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 (2006), having been nominated
previously 5 times; he has subsequently been nominated once more, bringing his
total number of nominations for Best Director.
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