Martin Charles Scorsese, an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor, was born on November 17, 1942.
Where does Martin Scorsese live?
He lives in Queens.
Numerous prestigious honors have been bestowed upon him, including the 2007 Kennedy Center Honor, an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, three Emmy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards, and an AFI Life Achievement Award.
The Library of Congress has recognized five of his films as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically important” and added them to the National Film Registry.
In 1968, Scorsese graduated with a master’s degree from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University.
Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967), his directorial debut, was chosen for the Chicago Film Festival.
Scorsese became one of the key figures of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s and 1980s.
His Italian-American heritage and upbringing in New York City greatly inspired Scorsese’s films, which focus on macho-posing insecure men and examine crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic notions of guilt and redemption.
