Martin Scorcese
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Martin Scorsese in 2007 | |
| Birth name | Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese |
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| Birth | 17 November 1942 (1942-11-17) (age 68) Flushing , New York , NY  United States |
| Nationality | U.S. |
| Occupation (s) | Director Scriptwriter Producer |
| Notable Films | Mean Streets Taxi Driver Raging Bull Goodfellas Casino The Departed |
| Honors | Oscar for best director and best film in 2007 Golden Lion for career at the Venice Film Festival in 1995 Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1976 |
Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker U.S.. Born on 17 November 1942 in Flushing ( New York , USA ), to parents of Sicilian , he spent his childhood near Little Italy in New York, which greatly inspired him his career. In 2007, his sixth nomination, he finally won the Oscar for best director for The Departed (The Departed), who was also rewarded with best film.
He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation , recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contribution to cinema and the president of the Film Foundation , a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation and prevention of the decomposition film stock.
Scorsese's work addresses themes such as Italian-American identity, the Catholic notions of guilt and redemption, machismo and violence. Scorsese is widely considered one of the most important American filmmakers and influential of its time, with such classics as Taxi Driver , Raging Bull and Goodfellas , all with actor Robert De Niro.
He received an MA in filmmaking at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York and has won awards from the Golden Globe , BAFTA , the Directors Guild of America, the best director Oscar for The Departed.
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Youth
Children with asthma and frail, the young Martin Scorsese can not practice a sport and his parents took him frequently to the cinema. It originally aimed at a religious life and entered the seminary in 1956. Returned after a year, he finished his studies at Cardinal Hays School (in the Bronx ), then joined the New York University (NYU) in 1960 where he attended the cinema during the Tisch School and earned a Master in 1966. It is also a professor at the same university between 1968 and 1970.
Promising debut
He directed several short films which won many awards. His films youth are strongly influenced by the New Wave French cinema and the new U.S. represented by John Cassavetes. Then he directed his first feature film, Who's That Knocking at My Door , released in 1969, five years after the first turn of the crank. This film marks the meeting with one of his favorite actors, Harvey Keitel.
He participated as an editor and assistant director of the film Woodstock on the Woodstock festival in 1969. In the early 1970s , Martin Scorsese moved to Hollywood and gets a job as editor at Warner Bros.. Pictures An exemplary career Encouraged by John Cassavetes to pursue a more personal style of execution, Scorsese began work on the film Mean Streets. First director's work, acclaimed by critics, this film is also the scene of the most important event of his career, the one with the actor Robert De Niro , who now becomes the alter ego of the filmmaker on the screen. The following year Francis Ford Coppola opened the doors of the studios Warner Bros.. Pictures. He met his first public success with Alice is not here that will allow Ellen Burstyn to get the Oscar for best actress in 1974. On his next film, he won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1976 for Taxi Driver with Robert De Niro , Jodie Foster and Harvey Keitel. This same film also earned him four nominations at the Oscars. With this new success, the following year, Scorsese and De Niro are found again to New York, New York , with Liza Minelli. Unfortunately, the film is a dismal commercial failure. In 1977 , Liza Minnelli invited him to stage a show to Broadway , The Act, but he left after a few weeks because this experience he dislikes. Scorsese was living with Robbie Robertson , guitarist and former leader of The Band , with whom he spent sleepless nights watching movies, going to cocktail parties and discuss music and movies. Scorsese is so seriously addicted to cocaine. In 1978 released the documentary The Last Waltz features the latest concert The Band. Scorsese had indeed filmed this last concert on the day of Thanksgiving 1976 at Winterland in San Francisco. Among the guests of the Band for this latest concert included Neil Young , Joni Mitchell , Ringo Starr , Van Morrison , Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan. Fan of the Band, Scorsese storyboarded all the songs before the concert. It took two years before The Last Waltz, so finally in theaters. Scorsese filmed interviews and more songs throughout the years 1977 and 1978. It appears especially tired mentally and physically because of his cocaine use. It is in a terrible physical and psychological condition that goes back to work, well supported by Robert De Niro , to achieve one of his masterpieces, Raging Bull. For his memorable performance in the role of boxer Jake LaMotta , Robert De Niro will receive the Oscar for best actor. Now considered one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation, Scorsese Tautou film, The King of Comedy in 1983, After Hours in 1985 and The Color of Money in 1986, earning Paul Newman 's only Best Actor Oscar for his brilliant career. Martin Scorsese then his childhood dream in 1988 by making a film about Christ , The Last Temptation of Christ (The Last Temptation of Christ), adapted from the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. The film pushes the religious dogma and scandal. Demonstrations were held across the film where fate and film Espace Saint-Michel in Paris is burning. However, the film contributes to the Oscars, including the second appointment of the director. Parallel to his career and a great lover of film history, he created The Film Foundation in 1990 with seven of his friends. This foundation aims to promote the restoration and preservation of heritage film world. Ensue, Goodfellas in 1990, and Cape Fear in 1991, two successful, with new Robert De Niro. The same year he was awarded the American Cinematheque for all his work. In 1992 , he founded Martin Scorsese Presents , a foundation that restores and operates the classics of cinema, he made his first costume drama, The Age of Innocence. New critical success, many nominations at the Oscars , but still no statue for the filmmaker. With Casino in 1995, Scorsese finds the world of gangsters in a grand epic about the rise and fall of a boss of a big hotel in Las Vegas , inspired by Frank Rosenthal in the 1970's. He finds for the eighth time, and last to date, Robert De Niro , but Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone , who won the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama. After Casino , he completed his famous four-hour documentary on American cinema with Michael Henry Wilson , A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies , commissioned by the British Film Institute to celebrate the centenary of the birth of cinema. Then Martin Scorsese is honored by the AFI ( American Film Institute ) of the Life Achievement Award in 1997 , very prestigious award in the United States for his entire career. Between films, Kundun in 1997, and the Dead in 1999, he chaired the 1998 Cannes Film Festival , which awarded the Palme d'Or to Eternity and A Day by Theo Angelopoulos. But the strong image of this edition is the presentation of the Grand Prize to Roberto Benigni for Life Is Beautiful in which the Italian actor-director will throw himself at the feet of Scorsese. 2002 marks another important date in the career of the director, since the occasion of the film Gangs of New York , Scorsese met Leonardo DiCaprio with whom he toured two other films consecutively, Aviator in 2005 and The Departed in 2006. With this latest film remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak , he obtained the greatest success of his public career. He won the Golden Globe Award for best director before triumphing in the Oscar movies. The Departed received four Oscars: Best Picture , Best Director , Best Adapted Screenplay ( William Monahan , based on Infernal Affairs for Siu Fai Mak and Felix Chong ) and best editing ( Thelma Schoonmaker which is the third Oscar winner Martin Scorsese after Raging Bull and Aviator ). In 2010 , he returned for the fourth time the actor Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island , an adaptation of the thriller of the same name by Dennis Lehane. He then starts to Paris , the shooting of The Invention of Hugo Cabret , this time adapted from the novel of the same name by Brian Selznick. The film is scheduled for 2011. From 3 to 11 December 2010, he participated in FIFM: International Film Festival of Marrakech (Morocco). ( http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/Temoignages_a648.html ) On 13 December 2010, he participated with his friends Clint Eastwood , David Lynch , George Lucas and Oliver Stone at a charity gala titled "Operation welfare for warriors" for the benefit of the David Lynch Foundation , which promotes Transcendental Meditation to reduce violence in schools difficult. The goal is to help veterans and soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder , . Martin Scorsese who practiced Transcendental Meditation since several years, sharing this activity with the Beatles George Harrison on which he is currently finishing a film called: Living in the Material World George Harrison, and whose output is expected in 2011 . Actors fetishes
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