MARTIN SCORSESE

Birth name:

 Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese

Director and actor

Background--

Birthday: November 17, 1942 in New York City. (71)

Raised in neighborhood of Little Italy, which inspired him in his films. 

Spouses: Laraine Brennan, Julia Cameron, Isabella Rossellini, Helen Morris

3 children.

Acted in--

Mean Streets (1973)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Dreams (1990)

Best Known for--

Goodfellas (1990)

Shutter Island (2010)

The Departed (2006)

Hugo (2011)

Trademark--

Italian mafia theme

Begins his films with segments taken from the middle /end of the story.

Slow motion techniques

Diagetic music, where the source of the music is seen on the screen

Long tracking shots.

Freeze frames

Music by Rolling Stones : Gimme Shelter 

Setting in NYC

Unflinchingly graphic and realistic violence.

Popstars given small acting roles. 

Cameo apperances with his family and himself.

Reference the work of Michael Powell

Movies are cut to the music.

Concern with beauty of every shot.

Encourages improvisation in dialogue.

http://youtu.be/uDXzEEl8ALk?t=40s

List of Directed Films--

Year	Film
1974	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1976	Taxi Driver
1977	New York, New York
1980	Raging Bull
1983	The King of Comedy
1985	After Hours
1986	The Color of Money
1988	The Last Temptation of Christ
1990	Goodfellas
1991	Cape Fear
1993	The Age of Innocence
1995	Casino
1997	Kundun
2002	Gangs of New York
2004	The Aviator
2006	The Departed
2011	Hugo

Awards--

1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Academy Award for Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn

BAFTA Award for Best Film

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role: Ellen Burstyn

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Diane Ladd

1976 Taxi Driver

Cannes Film Festival – Palme d'Or

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Jodie Foster

BAFTA Award for Best Film Music: Bernard Herrmann

BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer: Jodie Foster

1980 Raging Bull

Academy Award for Best Actor: Robert De Niro

Academy Award for Best Film Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker

BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer: Joe Pesci

BAFTA Award for Best Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama: Robert De Niro

1985 After Hours

Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)

1986 The Color of Money

Academy Award for Best Actor: Paul Newman

1990 Goodfellas

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci

BAFTA Award for Best Film

BAFTA Award for Best Direction

BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi

BAFTA Award for Best Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker

BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design: Richard Bruno

Venice Film Festival: Silver Lion for Best Director

1993 The Age of Innocence

Academy Award for Best Costume Design: Gabriella Pescucci

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Miriam Margolyes

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture: Winona Ryder

1995 Casino

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama: Sharon Stone

2002 Gangs of New York

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis

Golden Globe Award for Best Director

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song: U2 for the The Hands That Built America

2004 The Aviator

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett

Academy Award for Best Film Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker

Academy Award for Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson

Academy Award for Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell

Academy Award for Best Art Direction: Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo

BAFTA Award for Best Film

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Cate Blanchett

BAFTA Award for Best Production Design: Dante Ferretti

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score: Howard Shore

2006 The Departed

Academy Award for Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Director

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan

Academy Award for Best Film Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker

Golden Globe Award for Best Director

2011 Hugo

Academy Award for Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson

Academy Award for Best Art Direction: Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo

Academy Award for Best Sound Editing: Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty

Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing: Tom Fleischman and John Midgley

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects: Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning

BAFTA Award for Best Production Design: Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo

Golden Globe Award for Best Director

Scorsese received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997.

CINEMATOGRAPHY

1. Overall Look
The cinematographic aspects of The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, adds up to an overall look. The quality of the film stock is that it shows the point of view of the protagonist when he is paralyzed from his stroke with the use of a blur effect. The lighting of the film helps predict the upcoming of the protagonist and builds up suspense for the audience.The lenses were used artistically. The producer placed a latex skin over the lenses and sewed it together to show the audience what the protagonist sees when his eyes get sewed together. The frames were used to show the beautiful view of the ocean. The producer used the angles to show the whole picture of the long takes, and the camera movements were smooth and sometimes rough to let the audience experience what the protagonist is experiencing.

2. Images
In the film, we can see pictures of the younger Jean-Do and his healthy and well self with his father taking care of him. The picture soon fades to the image of his father having to call his handicapped son and wishing him well, from what he was once before a healthy child, to a handicap.

Image of young and healthy Jean Do

3. Shot Length
The shot length is kept still for a few seconds then slowly zooms out and shows the whole view. The purpose of the long shots are used to empathize the loneliness of Jean-Do.

         The far shot showing the bond and also loneliness in which he feels at the beach with his family

4. Shot Types
The extreme close-ups of the film were used to show the audience the experience of the surgeries that Jean-Do have to go through in the hospital. While the extreme long shots were used to show the feelings of loneliness and isolation that Jean feels since he been paralyzed in the hospital.

                                                          Jean getting his eye sewed.

5. Camera Angles
The angle type that was mainly used is the reverse shot, in which the other character is looking at the pother character so there is an illusion that they are looking at each other. This shows how the protagonist sees and feel about the people he interact with and tells the audience how the protagonist feels about them. The high angle shots are used to show the protagonist's temptations of suicide and wanting to give up, but the low angle shots shows the constant reminder of Jean's will to live.

Jean Do feeling a feeling of hopelessness at the beach.

6. Composition
The composition of the shots were in the rules of thirds and the painterly way. Some scenes shows that Jean is very lonely and has a self pity feeling, while in some rules of third shots, it is shown that he has family and is loved. The scene in which is a bit painterly is the part in which Jean is about to pass away and his body is weak. This is used to show the weakness and fragileness of Jean in his current condition of being ill.

Right before Jean passes away the painterly image of his nurse by his side.

7. Camera Movement
The camera movement is used to show the protagonist's point of view, experiences, feelings, and his thoughts. When Jean is getting carried, the camera shakes and help us feel how the character feels. In other scenes like the parts of which the wind hits the camera shows how the wind bothers and affect Jean but he can not do anything about it because of his current state.

                         The nurse's hair blowing in Jean's face and his inability to do anything


8. Cinematography Style
The cinematography style is intentional to show the point of view of Jean Do's experience of his stay in the hospital. The purpose of this is to help the audience feel as if they are in Jean's position of being paralyzed with a slight hint of humor.

   Jean's days at the hospitals in which he has problems getting the channel changed and is not pleased.