Martin Scorsese
Known for: Directing
Martin Charles Scorsese (/skɔːrˈsɛsi/ skor-SESS-ee, Italian: [skorˈseːze, -se]; born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Scorsese received a Master of Arts degree from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, centred on macho-posturing men and explored crime, machismo, nihilism and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles of extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, voice-over narration, graphic depictions of extreme violence and liberal use of profanity were first shown in Mean Streets (1973). Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with Taxi Driver (1976), which starred Robert De Niro as a disturbed Vietnam Veteran. De Niro became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Irishman (2019). In the following decades, he garnered box office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio, including Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). He worked with both De Niro and DiCaprio on Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He also directed After Hours (1985), The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Age of Innocence (1993), Kundun (1997), Hugo (2011), and Silence (2016). On television, he has directed episodes for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014) and Vinyl (2016), as well as the HBO documentary Public Speaking (2010) and the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021). He has also directed several rock documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), and Shine a Light (2008). He has explored film history in the documentaries A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies(1995) and My Voyage to Italy (1999). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he has founded three nonprofit organisations: The Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007 and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.
Filmography
Film
The Mandalorian and Grogu
Hugo Durant (voice)
2026
Series
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
1975
Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Martin Scorsese
2000
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Series
Entourage
Martin Scorsese
2004
Series
30 Rock
Martin Scorsese (voice)
2006
Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
Series
Great Performances
Self
1971
Series
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest
1992
Film
The Wolf of Wall Street
John (voice) (uncredited)
2013
Series
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
Series
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
The Oscars
Self - Ventura Crossroads Labs Sketch
1953
Series
The Studio
Martin Scorsese
2025
Film
Outcome
Richie 'Red' Rodriguez
2026
Series
Remembers…
Self
2022
Film
Taxi Driver
Passenger Watching Silhouette
1976
Series
Today
Self
1952
Series
The Culture Show
Self
2004
Series
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest
2001
Film
Killers of the Flower Moon
Radio Show Producer
2023
Film
Shark Tale
Sykes (voice)
2004
Series
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
Film
Gangs of New York
Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited)
2002
Film
Raging Bull
Barbizon Stagehand
1980
Film
Hugo
Photographer (uncredited)
2011
Series
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Self
2023
Film
In the Hand of Dante
Isaiah
2026
Series
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Self
2021
Series
The Last Movie Stars
Self
2022
Film
The Age of Innocence
Photographer (uncredited)
1993
Film
Dreams
Vincent Van Gogh
1990
Film
Quiz Show
Sponsor
1994
Film
After Hours
Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)
1985
Series
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints
Self - Narrator
2024
Series
Scene by Scene
Self
1997
Film
Bringing Out the Dead
Dispatcher (voice)
1999
Film
The King of Comedy
TV Director
1982
Series
The Blues
Self
2003
Series
Leçon de Cinéma
Self
2004
Series
The Hollywood Greats
Self
1977
Series
Mr. Scorsese
Self
2025
Series
Tanner on Tanner
Self
2004
Film
The Last Temptation of Christ
Isaiah (uncredited)
1988
Film
Mean Streets
Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)
1973
Series
New York: A Documentary Film
Self - Commentator
1999
Film
Corman's World
Self - Filmmaker
2011
Series
Pretend It's a City
Self
2021
Film
Spielberg
Self
2017
Film
Breakdown: 1975
Self
2025
Film
The Color of Money
Narrator (voice)
1986
Series
E! True Hollywood Story
Self
1996
Film
Shine a Light
Self (uncredited)
2008
Series
Hi Octane
Self
1994
Film
One Direction: This Is Us
Self
2013
Film
The Grifters
Opening voice-over (uncredited)
1990
Film
Boxcar Bertha
Brothel Client (uncredited)
1972
Film
Lumière!
Self
2016
Film
New York Stories
Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie
1989
Film
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Self
2008
Film
The Concert for New York City
Self (The Neighborhood)
2001
Film
The Last Waltz
Self
1978
Film
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Diner Patron (uncredited)
1974
Film
Cannonball
Mafioso
1976
Film
Club Oscar
Sykes (voice)
2005
Film
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Self
2004
Film
Public Speaking
Self (uncredited)
2011
Film
Guilty by Suspicion
Joe Lesser
1991
Film
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
2003
Series
Stories of a Generation - with Pope Francis
Self
2021
Film
Side by Side
Self
2012
Film
Beatles '64
Self
2024
Film
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Self
2011
Film
Crazy, Not Insane
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Hollywood Uncensored
Self
1987
Film
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
2022
Film
The Audition
Self
2015
Film
Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
Self
1998
Film
Casting By
Self
2012
Film
The Muse
Martin Scorsese
1999
Film
Trespassing Bergman
Self
2013
Series
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Film
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2025
Film
Bad 25
Self
2012
Don Rickles: One Night Only
Self
2014
Series
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
Self - Filmmaker / Host
1995
Film
Life Itself
Self - Filmmaker
2014
Film
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Self
2008
Film
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
1995
Series
Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
Self - Participant
2013
Film
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self – Interviewee
2010
Film
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Self - Film Director
1987
Film
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Self
2015
Film
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self (voice) (uncredited)
2005
Film
'Round Midnight
Goodley
1986
Film
Denzel Washington: A Model American
Self
2022
Film
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Self (archive) - subject, filmmaker
2024
Film
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Self - Filmmaker
2016
Film
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
1997
Film
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
2003
Film
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Self
2007
Film
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2007
Film
The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Film
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Self
2018
Film
Brando
Self
2007
Film
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
Self
1999
Film
Kurosawa's Way
Self
2011
Film
With Friends Like These
Martin Scorsese
1998
Film
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Self
2001
Film
The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman
Self
2020
Film
Street Scenes 1970
Self
1970
Film
Scorsese's GoodFellas
Self
2015
Film
Directed by John Ford
Self (2006)
1971
Film
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014
Film
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Film
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Hollywood Mavericks
Self
1990
Film
Behind the White Glasses
Self
2015
Film
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
2007
Film
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
Self
1988
Film
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Self
2008
Film
Martin Scorsese Directs
Self
1990
Film
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Self - Director
2003
Film
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
Self
2014
Film
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Self
2010
Film
Search and Destroy
The Accountant
1995
Film
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Self
2004
Film
Campus Code
Doctor
2015
Film
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Self
2017
Film
Anna Pavlova
Gatti-Casazza
1983
New York at the Movies
Self
2002
Film
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
2013
Film
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
Self
2004
Film
Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
Self
2007
Film
From Darkness to Light
Self
2025
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
Himself
Film
Milius
Self
2013
Film
Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
Self
2021
Film
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Self
2009
Film
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
2007
Film
The Wolf Pack
Self
2014
Film
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
2000
Film
Seduced and Abandoned
Self
2013
Film
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self
2008
Film
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Self
2024
Film
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Self
2012
Film
Ken San
Self
2016
Film
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Self
1978
Film
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Self
2013
Film
A Letter to Elia
Self - Narrator
2010
Film
Ritratti di cinema
Self
2025
Film
Who's That Knocking at My Door
Gangster (uncredited)
1968
Film
… But Film Is My Mistress
Self
2010
Film
In the Pope's Eye
Direttore Tv
1980
Film
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ
Self
1988
Film
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
Self
2020
Film
Lightning in a Bottle
Self (uncredited)
2004
Film
The Irishman: In Conversation
Self
2019
Film
Italianamerican
Self (uncredited)
1974
Film
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Self
2007
Film
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
2003
Film
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Michael Powell
2005
Film
Oliver Stone: El outsider
Self - director
2025
Film
Making 'The Irishman'
Self
2020
Film
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
Forever Ealing
Self
2002
Film
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Narrator (voice)
2007
Film
Crossing Criminal Cultures
Self
2007
Film
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
Self
2006
Film
Cannes: All Access
Self
2007
Film
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Self
2017
Film
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Self
2008
Film
Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021
Film
The Lady and The Legend
Self
2026
Film
The John Garfield Story
Self
2003
Film
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Self
2017
Film
Feel Like Going Home
Self
2003
Everybody Just Stay Calm
Self
1994
Film
Jonas in the Desert
Self
1994
Film
The Pulitzer At 100
Self
2017
Film
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
Self
2008
Film
Movies Are My Life
Self
1988
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
Self
2012
Film
Edge of Outside
Self
2006
Film
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Self
1995
Film
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
Self
2006
Film
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
Self
2002
Film
Making of 'Dreams'
Self
1990
Film
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Self
2001
Film
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
Self
1996
Film
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Self
1993
Film
The Magic of Fellini
Self
2002
Film
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
Self
2015
Film
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Self
2022
Film
Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
Self
2008
Film
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
Self
1995
The Race to Save 100 Years
Self
1997
Film
365 Day Project
Self
2007
GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors
Self (Archive Footage)
2020
Film
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Self
2012
Film
French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
2015
Film
Making Casino
Self
2007
Film
My Voyage to Italy
Self - Host
1999
Film
El Planeta
Self (uncredited)
2021
Film
Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg
Self
1987
Film
Obsessed with Vertigo
Self
1997
Film
The 'New York, New York' Stories
Self
2005
Film
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
Self
2021
Film
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Self
2003
Film
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
Self
2016
Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis
Self
2026
Film
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
Self
2012
Film
In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Self
1998
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
Self
2008
Film
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
Self
2005
Film
Made in Milan
1990
Film
Images from the Playground
Self
2009
Film
The Neighborhood
Self
2001
Film
Scorsese on Scorsese
Self
2004
Film
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
Self
1978
Film
Lost in the Garden of the World
Self
1975
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Self
2009
Film
John Ford & Monument Valley
Self
2013
Film
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Self
2008
Film
The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
Self
2010
Film
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
Self
2012
Film
Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues
Self
2022
Film
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Self
2005
Film
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
Self
2005
Film
First Works
Self
1989
Film
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
Self
2012
Film
Raging Bull: After the Fight
Self
2005
Film
Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration
(himself)
2026
Film
Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero
Self
2005
Film
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Self
2010
Inside Rupert Pupkin
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
Robbie Robertson: Going Home
Self
1995
Film
The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence
Self
2015
Film
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
Film
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Making 'Taxi Driver'
Self
1999
Film
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Self
2012
Film
Milagrez
Self
2008
Film
Saul Bass: Title Champ
Self
2008
Film
Before Midnight
Self (archive footage)
1986
Film
Fragments of Paradise
Self
2022
Film
Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public
Self
2005
Film
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
Self
2003
Film
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Self
1979
Film
Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
Self
2020
Film
Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady
Self
1994
Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After
Self
2012
Film
Il resto del Pap'occhio
Direttore Tv
1980
Film
The Scorsese Machine
Self
1990
Arena - John Cassavetes
Self
1989
Film
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block
Self
1973
The World of John Ford
2008
Film
30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation
Self
2020
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
Self
2004
Film
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Self - Interviewee
2004
Film
The Song of the Little Road
Self
2003
Film
Revisiting 'The Last Waltz'
Self
2002
Film
Martin Scorsese - The Emotion Through The Music
Self
2005
Film
The Eye of the Beholder
Self
2005
Film
American Prince
Self
2009
Film
O Retorno do Dragão
Self
2008
Film
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
Self - Director (voice)
2004
Film
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
Self
2001
Film
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Self
2004
Film
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
Self
2005
Film
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
Self
2016
Film
The Making Of A Mockumentary
Himself (archive footage)
2025
Film
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
Self
2022
Film
Cinema Futures
Self
2016
Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero
Self
2006
Film
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
Self
2008
Film
Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
Self - Host / Narrator
2004
Film
This Is Orson Welles
Self
2015
White Heat: Top of the World
Self
2005
Film
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
Self - Interviewee
1994
Film
Gershwin
Self
1993
Film
The Moviemakers: Scorsese
Self
2023
Film
Painting with Light
Self
2001
Film
Martin Scorsese on Framing
Self
2017
Film
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
Self
1992
Film
Jesus Goes to Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations
Self
2017
Film
The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On
Self
2005
Film
Marty and Bobby
Self
2011
Film
A Beautiful Vacation
Self
2006
Film
The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration
self
2022
Film
Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star
Self
2017
Film
Kiarostami at Work
Self
2023
Film
The Race for Colour
Self
2012
Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols
2019
Film
The Oratorio
Self - Narrator
2020
Refuge
Self
2006
Film
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
Self
2017
Film
The Workaday Gangster
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
The Searchers: An Appreciation
Self
2006
Film
Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese
Self
2015
Film
A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
Self
1997
Marty on Film
Self
2011
Film
WahZhaZhe: A Song for the Osage
(himself)
2026
Film
The Real Goodfella
Self
2006
Film
Martin a Little...
himself
1992
Film
Conversation avec Martin Scorsese, en notes et en images
Self
2024
On the Set: Elaine’s
Self
2004
Film
Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver
Self
2007
Film
Casino: The Story
Self
2005
Film
Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini
Self
2014
À la recherche des films perdu
Self
1996