2. BASIC INFORMATION (AWARDS)
• Director Martin Scorsese has produced some of the most memorable films in cinema history,
including the iconic Taxi Driver and Academy Award-winner The Departed.
• Scorsese was born November 17 in 1942.
• Martin Scorsese’s movies have influenced some of Hollywood’s biggest directors and, in fact,
he even taught some of them at N.Y.U.
• After completing his MFA in film directing at NYU in 1966, Scorsese briefly worked at the
university as a film instructor. His students included Jonathan Kaplan and Oliver Stone. In 1968,
Scorsese completed his first feature-length film, Who's That Knocking at My Door? While
working on that project, he met Harvey Keitel, whom he would go on to cast in many future
projects, as well as Thelma Schoonmaker, an editor with whom he would collaborate for more
than 40 years.
• Scorsese has also won many Golden globes for his films not only for his thrillers but others also
such as: Best director for Hugo in 2012, best director for The Departed in 2007 and many
others such as Movie of the year for wolf of wall street. Also has been nominated many times
for Shutter Island.
3. REVIEWS
• The Guardian gave Shutter Island one of his well known thrillers a 3 star rating out of 10
‘The performances are solid and the directing is inspired. But Martin Scorsese's grand
ambitions sit uneasily on what is essentially an old-fashioned melodrama. Peter Bradshaw
is exasperated by this shaggy dog tale’
• However the guardian gave The Departed a 4 star rating out of 5 ‘Scorsese has got his
groove back, or most of it, with what is arguably his best picture since GoodFellas: a big,
brash, splatteringly violent mob opera starring Jack Nicholson giving it the full Pavarotti,
with an outrageous and outrageously enjoyable performance that doesn't so much go
over the top as go over the ionosphere.’
