[47] The disappointing reception that New York, New York received drove Scorsese into depression. Simultaneously, she is known for her philanthropic nature often reaching out to charities to offer help and aid.

Although The Age of Innocence was ultimately different from these films in terms of narrative, story, and thematic concern, the presence of a lost society, of lost values as well as detailed re-creations of social customs and rituals continues the tradition of these films. He has established a filmmaking history involving repeat collaborations with actors and film technicians, including nine films made with Robert De Niro. Some of his films include references/allusions to Westerns, particularly Rio Bravo, The Great Train Robbery, Shane, The Searchers, and The Oklahoma Kid. [154] He is also known for his liberal usage of profanity, dark humor, and violence.[155]. The documentary foreshadowed the director's next project, the epic Gangs of New York (2002), influenced by (amongst many others) major Italian directors such as Luchino Visconti and filmed in its entirety at Rome's famous Cinecittà film studios. Taxi Driver followed in 1976—Scorsese's dark, urban nightmare of one lonely man's gradual descent into insanity. But I am Roman Catholic; there's no way out of it." (1964). Although her mainstream media fame was the result of her relationship and marriage to Scorsese, she was an accomplished book editor long before that, working for the prestigious ‘Random House’ publishing company. Things developed a bit more as Helen got involved in another ‘Random House’ editorial, this time dealing with Martin’s mother’s recipe book. Although well regarded, the film remains an anomaly in the director's early career as it focuses on a central female character. He also made a brief venture into television, directing an episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories. Returning to Little Italy to explore his ethnic roots, Scorsese next came up with Italianamerican, a documentary featuring his parents Charles and Catherine Scorsese. MOS sequences set to popular music or voice-over are regularly seen in his films, often involving aggressive camera movement and/or rapid editing.

[158][159] Frequent collaborators also include: Victor Argo (6), Harvey Keitel (6), Harry Northup (6), Murray Moston (5), Illeana Douglas (4), J. C. MacKenzie (4), Joe Pesci (4), Frank Vincent (3), Barry Primus (3), and Verna Bloom (3). On June 17, 2008, the American Film Institute placed two of Scorsese's films on the AFI's 10 Top 10 list: Raging Bull at number one for the Sports genre and Goodfellas at number two for the Gangster genre. [134] The film had its world premiere at the 57th New York Film Festival on September 27, 2019. The film was also nominated for 11 Academy Awards, winning five of them and becoming tied with Michel Hazanavicius's film The Artist for the most Academy Awards won by a single film in 2011. "Martin Scorsese: Telling Stories through Film", Martin Scorsese praises Federico Fellini and 'La Dolce Vita'. Another foray into the mainstream, the film was a stylized thriller taking its cues heavily from Alfred Hitchcock and Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955). [99], Scorsese directed the series premiere for Boardwalk Empire, an HBO drama series,[100] starring Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt, based on Nelson Johnson's book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City. It was released on December 25, 2013. In 1997, the Institute ranked Raging Bull as the twenty-fourth greatest film of all time on their AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list. DiCaprio was given the award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards. Scorsese's other film work includes the black comedy After Hours (1985), the romantic drama The Age of Innocence (1993), the historical adventure drama Hugo (2011), and the religious epics The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Kundun (1997) and Silence (2016). [43] Already controversial upon its release, Taxi Driver hit the headlines again five years later, when John Hinckley Jr. made an assassination attempt on then-president Ronald Reagan. As Scorsese has commented, "I'm a lapsed Catholic. [196], Scorsese has also garnered favorable responses from numerous film giants including Ingmar Bergman,[197] Frank Capra,[198] Jean-Luc Godard,[199] Werner Herzog,[200] Elia Kazan,[201] Akira Kurosawa,[202] David Lean,[203] Michael Powell,[204] Satyajit Ray,[205] and François Truffaut. They just wanted to watch the money." Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese. On February 12, 2012, at the 65th British Academy Film Awards, Scorsese was the recipient of the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award. It came back into the public eye, especially in countries such as the UK and France, but still is largely neglected in North America. [190] On September 11, 2007, the Kennedy Center Honors committee, which recognizes career excellence and cultural influence, named Scorsese as one of the honorees for the year. On various occasions Scorsese has been asked to present the Honorary Academy Award during the Oscar telecast. Casino was a box office success,[63] but the film received mixed-to-positive notices from critics. Kundun was the Scorsese's second attempt to profile the life of a great religious leader, following The Last Temptation of Christ. Guillermo del Toro. Scorpio. She suffered a major setback in 1990, when she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative nervous system disorder. In the short term, the sheer eclecticism in evidence enhanced the director's reputation. In Scorsese on Scorsese, he documents influences from films such as Luchino Visconti's Senso and his Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) as well as Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons and also Roberto Rossellini's La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (The Taking of Power by Louis XIV). Morris then started living in Paris, with her diplomat father, before returning to New York, to get a degree in Oriental Studies, from Columbia University. They have a daughter together named Francesca Scorsese, born November 16, 1999. The fact that it was a violent gangster film made it more palatable to the director's fans who perhaps were baffled by the apparent departure of the earlier film. She is also the step-mother to Scorsese’s two other daughters from previous marriages, Catherine and Domenica Cameron. They have a daughter, Francesca, who appeared in The Departed and The Aviator. In 1972, Scorsese made the Depression-era exploiter Boxcar Bertha for B-movie producer Roger Corman, who also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and John Sayles launch their careers. Scorsese's film The Aviator (2004) is a lavish, large-scale biopic of eccentric aviation pioneer and film mogul Howard Hughes and reunited Scorsese with actor Leonardo DiCaprio. [64] The film was a source of turmoil for its distributor, Buena Vista Pictures, which was planning significant expansion into the Chinese market at the time. [138] In December 2019, Scorsese's frequent cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto confirmed that Flower Moon was gearing up to start principal photography in March 2020 which was postponed due to the COVID-19 virus. This tribute to Scorsese's home town and the classic Hollywood musical was a box-office failure. On December 2, 2014, Vinyl was picked up by HBO.