Martin Scorsese#Frequent collaborators

File:Cuccia-Scorsese-Deseta.jpg, Scorsese, and Vittorio De Seta at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival]]

Martin Charles Scorsese{{Cite web|url=http://www.americanancestors.org/third-set-of-ten-hollywood/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524152257/http://www.americanancestors.org/third-set-of-ten-hollywood/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 24, 2011|title=#83 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: A Third Set of Ten Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof), with a Coda on Two Directors|date=May 24, 2011}}{{efn|His birth name was Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2014-01-22 |title=Martin Scorsese Fast Facts |url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/22/us/martin-scorsese-fast-facts/index.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=CNN}}}} was born in the Flushing neighborhood of New York City's Queens borough on November 17, 1942.{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/110533/Martin-Scorsese/biography |title=Martin Scorsese |access-date=January 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210213146/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/110533/Martin-Scorsese/biography |archive-date=February 10, 2012|author=Jason Ankeny |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2012 |url-status=dead }}"Martin Scorsese: Telling Stories through Film" The Washington Times, November 30, 2007 He grew up in the Little Italy neighborhood of the city's Manhattan borough.{{cite web |url=http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/martin-scorsese-biography |title=Martin Scorsese Biography |publisher=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=January 24, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226231708/http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/martin-scorsese-biography |archive-date=February 26, 2014}} Both of his parents, Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, worked in the Garment District. Charles was a clothes presser and actor, while Catherine was a seamstress and an actress.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/26/Martin-Scorsese.html |title=Martin Scorsese Biography (1942–2011) |publisher=Filmreference.com |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113033818/http://filmreference.com/film/26/Martin-Scorsese.html |archive-date=January 13, 2010}} All four of Scorsese's grandparents were Italian immigrants from Sicily, hailing from Polizzi Generosa on his father's side and Ciminna on his mother's side.{{cite book |last=Casillo |first=Robert |date=2006 |title=Gangster Priest – The Italian American cinema of Martin Scorsese |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dc-Ms8-YMUAC&q=%22Martin+Cappa%22+Scorsese&pg=PA3 |chapter=The Immigrant Generations: Italianamerican |location=Canada |publisher=University of Toronto Press |page=3 |isbn=9780802091130 |access-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045117/https://books.google.com/books?id=Dc-Ms8-YMUAC&q=%22Martin+Cappa%22+Scorsese&pg=PA3 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last=Dubois |first=Régis |date=2019 |title=Martin Scorsese, l'infiltré |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PmDHDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Martino+Cappa%22+Scorsese&pg=PT90 |chapter=Résurrection |location=France |language=fr |publisher=Nouveau Monde Editions |isbn=9782369427780 |access-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045118/https://books.google.com/books?id=PmDHDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Martino+Cappa%22+Scorsese&pg=PT90 |url-status=live }} The original surname of the family was Scozzese, meaning "Scot" or "Scottish" in Italian, and was later changed to Scorsese because of a transcription error.{{cite web |url=https://tg24.sky.it/intrattenimento/2018/09/26/martin-scorsese-cittadino-italiano.html |title=Martin Scorsese è ora cittadino italiano |date=September 26, 2018 |publisher=Sky TG24 |access-date=April 18, 2020 |archive-date=June 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622001407/https://tg24.sky.it/intrattenimento/2018/09/26/martin-scorsese-cittadino-italiano.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.palermotoday.it/cronaca/comune-polizzi-generosa-trascritta-nascita-martin-scorsese.html |title=Martin Scorsese è cittadino italiano: trascritto atto di nascita a Polizzi |publisher=PalermoToday |access-date=April 18, 2020 |archive-date=August 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803215046/https://www.palermotoday.it/cronaca/comune-polizzi-generosa-trascritta-nascita-martin-scorsese.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://palermo.repubblica.it/societa/2018/09/26/news/martin_scorsese_diventa_italiano_trascritto_l_atto_di_cittadinanza_nel_paesino_siciliano_dei_suoi_nonni-207392031/ |title=Una lunga ricerca per avere la cittadinanza: ma adesso Martin Scorsese è italiano |date=September 26, 2018 |publisher=La Repubblica |access-date=April 18, 2020 |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045132/https://palermo.repubblica.it/societa/2018/09/26/news/martin_scorsese_diventa_italiano_trascritto_l_atto_di_cittadinanza_nel_paesino_siciliano_dei_suoi_nonni-207392031/ |url-status=live }}

Scorsese was raised in a predominantly Catholic environment. As a boy, he had asthma and could not play sports or take part in any activities with other children, so his parents and his older brother would often take him to movie theaters; it was at this stage in his life that he developed a passion for cinema. He has spoken of the influence of Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948).{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Black-Narcissus-The-Criterion-Collection/dp/B00004XQN4 |title=Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection) (2001) DVD commentary |date=January 30, 2001 |publisher=Criterion |access-date=October 27, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104105357/http://www.amazon.com/Black-Narcissus-The-Criterion-Collection/dp/B00004XQN4 |archive-date=November 4, 2013}} As a teenager in the Bronx, he frequently rented Powell and Pressburger's The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) from a store that had one copy of the reel. He was one of only two people who regularly rented it; the other, George A. Romero, also became a director.{{cite web |url=http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2015-07-08-george-a-romero-talks-zombies-religion-and-genocide-in-karlovy-vary-feature-story-by-richard-mowe |title=Romero – master of the macabre |publisher=Eye for Film |access-date=July 23, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723173645/http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2015-07-08-george-a-romero-talks-zombies-religion-and-genocide-in-karlovy-vary-feature-story-by-richard-mowe |archive-date=July 23, 2015}}

Scorsese has named Sabu and Victor Mature as his favorite actors in his youth. He recalls his father taking him to see Jean Renoir's The River (1951) and being fascinated by its depiction of India. He became "obsessed" with Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937) when it was rereleased.{{cite video| title=Martin Scorsese on Jean Renoir's The River| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w7H9pEby0M}} He names John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952) and The Searchers (1956) as formative influences.{{cite video| title=Martin Scorsese on the films of John Ford| work=American Masters| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA_4_lVdDeQ}} In a documentary on Italian neorealism, he commented on how Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945) and Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1946) inspired him and influenced his view of his Sicilian roots. In his documentary Il Mio Viaggio in Italia (My Voyage to Italy), Scorsese noted that the Sicilian episode of Rossellini's Paisà (1946), which he first saw on television with his relatives who were themselves Sicilian immigrants, had a significant impact on his life.{{cite web |author=Chris Ingui |title=Martin Scorsese hits DC, hangs with the Hachet |url=http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2002/03/04/Arts/Martin.Scorsese.Hits.Dc.Hangs.With.The.Hachet-195598.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826214118/http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2002/03/04/Arts/Martin.Scorsese.Hits.Dc.Hangs.With.The.Hachet-195598.shtml |archive-date=August 26, 2009 |access-date=June 6, 2009 |publisher=Hatchet}} He remembers responding "very strongly" to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958).{{cite video| title=Martin Scorsese on Vertigo| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StcvV1pZXz4| work=British Film Institute}} He acknowledges owing a great debt to the French New Wave and has stated that "the French New Wave has influenced all filmmakers who have worked since, whether they saw the films or not."{{cite web |url=http://www.newwavefilm.com/new-wave-cinema-guide/nouvelle-vague-where-to-start.shtml |title=New Wave Film Guide: Nouvelle Vague & International New Wave Cinema – Where to Start |publisher=Newwavefilm.com |access-date=January 5, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113132259/http://www.newwavefilm.com/new-wave-cinema-guide/nouvelle-vague-where-to-start.shtml |archive-date=January 13, 2012}} He has also cited the works of Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman,{{cite web |author=Jay Antani |year=2004 |title=Raging Bull: A film review |url=http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Raging-Bull |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208084836/http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Raging-Bull |archive-date=December 8, 2007 |access-date=May 4, 2009 |publisher=Filmcritic.com}}{{cite web |author=Ingmar Bergman Foundation |title=Ingmar Bergman |url=http://193.10.144.136/page.asp?guid=65BFD29C-045F-4C51-88B1-1A50F6173D26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426013947/http://193.10.144.136/page.asp?guid=65BFD29C-045F-4C51-88B1-1A50F6173D26 |archive-date=April 26, 2012 |access-date=January 5, 2012 |publisher=193.10.144.136}} Andrzej Wajda,{{cite web |url=https://www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/214-martin-scorsese-s-top-10 |title=Martin Scorsese's Top 10 |date=January 29, 2014 |publisher=Criterion |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104181159/https://www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/214-martin-scorsese-s-top-10 |access-date=February 19, 2024 | archive-date=November 4, 2023}} Michelangelo Antonioni,{{cite web |author=Andre Soares |date=March 19, 2009 |title=Martin Scorsese on Michelangelo Antonioni |url=http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/martin-scorsese-on-michelangelo-antonioni/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708062952/http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/martin-scorsese-on-michelangelo-antonioni/ |archive-date=July 8, 2012 |access-date=January 5, 2012 |publisher=Altfg.com}} Federico Fellini,{{YouTube|id=uysS8EHrpB4|title=Martin Scorsese praises Federico Fellini and 'La Dolce Vita'}} Ishirō Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya{{cite book |last=Ragone |first=August |title=Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters |date=May 6, 2014 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=978-1-4521-3539-7 |edition=paperback |pages=180}} as major influences on his career. Although there was no habit of reading at home, towards the end of the 1950s, Scorsese began to approach literature, being marked in particular by Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground (1864), James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter (1948).{{cite book |last=Schickel |first=Richard |title=Conversations with Scorsese |date=2011 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0307595461 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JIbbzILVgrgC |pages=114–115}}

Scorsese attended the all-boys Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, graduating in 1960.{{Cite web |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/martin-scorsese |title=Scorsese, Martin |website=encyclopedia.com |url-status=live |access-date=January 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200108053117/https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/martin-scorsese |archive-date=January 8, 2020 }} He had initially desired to become a priest, attending a preparatory seminary, but failed after the first year and was unable to attend Fordham University.{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=28}}{{cite web |author1=Cindy Wooden |title=Filmmaker Martin Scorsese talks about his faith, upcoming movie 'Silence' |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/media/filmmaker-martin-scorsese-talks-about-his-faith-upcoming-movie-silence |website=National Catholic Reporter |access-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016014456/https://www.ncronline.org/news/media/filmmaker-martin-scorsese-talks-about-his-faith-upcoming-movie-silence |archive-date=October 16, 2017 |date=December 10, 2016 |url-status=dead}} This gave way to cinema and consequently Scorsese enrolled in New York University's Washington Square College (now known as the College of Arts and Science), where he earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1964.{{cite web |title=Martin Scorsese |url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/scorsese/ |work=sensesofcinema.com |first=Marc |last=Raymond |date=May 2002 |publisher=Senses of Cinema |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225033838/http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/scorsese/ |archive-date=December 25, 2010}} He went on to earn his Master of Arts from NYU's School of Education (now the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development) in 1968,{{cite web |title=NYU Tisch School of the Arts Receives Major Gift to Establish the Martin Scorsese Institute of Global Cinematic Arts |url=https://tisch.nyu.edu/scorsese-institute |website=NYU Tisch |access-date=February 11, 2022 |archive-date=February 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205002451/https://tisch.nyu.edu/scorsese-institute |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://tisch.nyu.edu/grad-film/alumni/martin-scorsese |title=Martin Scorsese |website=tisch.nyu.edu |access-date=January 9, 2020 |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045144/https://tisch.nyu.edu/grad-film/alumni/martin-scorsese |url-status=live }} a year after the school was founded.{{cite web |url=http://cas.nyu.edu/object/ug.alumni.pastrecipients |title=NYU College of Arts and Science |publisher=Cas.nyu.edu |access-date=January 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406192153/http://cas.nyu.edu/object/ug.alumni.pastrecipients |archive-date=April 6, 2012}}

While attending the Tisch School of the Arts, Scorsese made the short films What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Place like This? (1963) and It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964). His most famous short of the period is the darkly comic The Big Shave (1967), which features Peter Bernuth. The film is an indictment of America's involvement in Vietnam, suggested by its alternative title Viet '67.{{Cite news |title=Finding the boy again |newspaper=The Scotsman |author=Alistair Harkness |date=April 11, 2002}} Scorsese has mentioned on several occasions that he was greatly inspired in his early days at New York University by film professor Haig P. Manoogian.{{Cite web |url=https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/marchapril/feature/love-and-resolution-appreciation |title="With Love and Resolution": An Appreciation |website=neh.gov |url-status=live |access-date=January 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701161645/https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/marchapril/feature/love-and-resolution-appreciation |archive-date=July 1, 2019 }} Scorsese's first professional job was when he was at NYU he was the assistant cameraman to cinematographer Baird Bryant on the John G. Avildsen directed short film Smiles (1964). Scorsese stated: "It was really important because they were filming on 35mm". He stated he was terrible at the job because he could not judge the distance of the focus. He also worked as a gaffer for Albert and David Maysles and as an editor for CBS News, the later of whom offered him a full time position, but Scorsese declined due to his pursuit in film.{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ZTVNQTvvA|title= Martin Scorsese on His First Jobs and a Camera Skill He Never Mastered - The Job Interview|website= The Wall Street Journal|date= October 18, 2023|accessdate= October 22, 2023|archive-date= October 20, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231020010433/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ZTVNQTvvA&gl=US&hl=en|url-status= live}}

In 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film, the black and white I Call First, later retitled Who's That Knocking at My Door, with his fellow students actor Harvey Keitel and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, both of whom were to become long-term collaborators. Roger Ebert saw the film at the 1967 Chicago International Film Festival and wrote, in Scorsese's first published review: "it brings together two opposing worlds of American cinema. On the one hand, there have been traditional films like Marty, View from the Bridge, On the Waterfront and David and Lisa -- all sincere attempts to function at the level where real lives are led and all suffering to some degree from their makers' romantic and idealistic ideas, about such lives. On the other hand, there have been experimental films from Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke and other pioneers of the New York underground. In The Connection, Shadows and Guns of the Trees, they used improvised dialog and scenes and hidden and hand-held cameras in an attempt to capture the freshness of a spontaneous experience ... I Call First brings these two kinds of films together into a work that is absolutely genuine, artistically satisfying and technically comparable to the best films being made anywhere. I have no reservations in describing it as a great moment in American movies."{{cite news| last=Ebert| first=Roger| author-link=Roger Ebert| work=Chicago Sun-Times| date=November 17, 1967| url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-call-first--whos-that-knocking-at-my-door-1967|title= I Call First / Who's That Knocking at My Door?|access-date=November 15, 2020|archive-date= December 27, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045136/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-call-first--whos-that-knocking-at-my-door-1967|url-status= live}}

Scorsese became friends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.{{Cite web |url=https://bedfordandbowery.com/2016/06/brian-de-palma-shed-light-on-a-crazy-rumor-about-scorsese-and-taxi-driver/ |title=Brian De Palma Shed Light on a Crazy Rumor About Martin Scorsese and Taxi Driver |last=Maurer |first=Daniel |date=June 9, 2016 |website=bedfordandbowery.com |url-status=live |access-date=January 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111035443/http://bedfordandbowery.com/2016/06/brian-de-palma-shed-light-on-a-crazy-rumor-about-scorsese-and-taxi-driver/ |archive-date=November 11, 2018 }}{{cite book |title=Adams, Veronika Martin Scorsese Ebook.GD Publishing ISBN 1-61323-010-9 |isbn=9781613230107 |last1=Adams |first1=Veronika |date=January 27, 2011}} It was De Palma who introduced Scorsese to Robert De Niro. During this period, Scorsese worked as the assistant director and one of the editors on Michael Wadleigh's documentary Woodstock (1970) and met actor–director John Cassavetes, who became a close friend and mentor.{{cite news |work=The New York Times |title=The Screen: 'Boxcar Bertha' Tops Local Double Bill |first=Howard |last=Thompson |date=August 18, 1972 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/18/archives/the-screenboxcar-bertha-tops-local-double-bill.html|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029223024/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=980CE1DF1631E63BBC4052DFBE668389669EDE |archive-date=October 29, 2013}}

Scorsese met Roger Corman after coming to Hollywood to edit Medicine Ball Caravan and Corman, who had seen and liked Who's That Knocking at My Door, asked Scorsese to make a sequel to Bloody Mama (1970). This came to be Boxcar Bertha (1972).{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=33}} It was Corman who taught Scorsese that entertaining films could be shot with very little money or time, preparing the young director well for the challenges to come. Following the film's release, Cassavetes encouraged Scorsese to make the films that he wanted to make, rather than someone else's projects.

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Mean Streets was a breakthrough for Scorsese, Keitel and Robert De Niro. Pauline Kael wrote: "Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets is a true original of our time, a triumph of personal filmmaking. It has its own hallucinatory look; the characters live in the darkness of bars, with lighting and color just this shade of lurid ... It's about American life here and now, and it doesn't look like an American movie, or feel like one. If it were subtitled, we could hail a new European or South American talent — a new Buñuel steeped in Verdi, perhaps."{{cite magazine| last=Kael| first=Pauline| title=Everyday Inferno| date=October 8, 1973| magazine=The New Yorker| url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1973/10/08/everyday-inferno}} By now the signature Scorsese style was in place: macho posturing, bloody violence, Catholic guilt and redemption, gritty New York locale (though the majority of Mean Streets was shot in Los Angeles), rapid-fire editing, and a soundtrack with contemporary music. Although the film was innovative, its wired atmosphere, edgy documentary style, and gritty street-level direction owed a debt to Cassavetes, Samuel Fuller and early Jean-Luc Godard.{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A99967-1991Nov24.html |title=Scorsese, Master Of The Rage |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=November 24, 1991 |first=Hal |last=Hinson|access-date=September 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203140433/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A99967-1991Nov24.html|archive-date=December 3, 2017|url-status=live}} In 1974, actress Ellen Burstyn chose Scorsese to direct her in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Although well regarded, the film remains an anomaly in Scorsese's early career as it focuses on a central female character. Returning to Little Italy to explore his ethnic roots, Scorsese directed Italianamerican (1974), a documentary featuring his parents Charles and Catherine Scorsese.

Scorsese followed with Taxi Driver in 1976, which depicted a Vietnam veteran who takes the law into his own hands on New York's crime-ridden streets.{{Cite web|date=September 25, 2021|title=Retro-Cast: Casting Taxi Driver In The 1990s|url=https://screenrant.com/taxi-driver-recasting-nineties-actors/|website=Screen Rant|access-date=February 10, 2024|archive-date=April 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411062216/https://screenrant.com/taxi-driver-recasting-nineties-actors/|url-status=live}} The film established him as an accomplished filmmaker and also brought attention to cinematographer Michael Chapman, whose style tends towards high contrasts, strong colors, and complex camera movements. The film starred De Niro as the angry and alienated Travis Bickle, and co-starred Jodie Foster in a highly controversial role as an underage prostitute, with Harvey Keitel as her pimp.{{Cite web |title=Taxi Driver |url=https://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/titles/16448 |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=May 11, 2022 |archive-date=February 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220150508/https://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/titles/16448 |url-status=live }} Taxi Driver also marked the start of a series of collaborations between Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader, whose influences included the diary of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer, John Ford's The Searchers (1956), and Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1959).{{cite web |last=Thurman |first=John |url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2005/37/taxi_driver/ |title=Citizen Bickle, or the Allusive Taxi Driver: Uses of Intertextuality |publisher=Sensesofcinema.com |date=April 5, 1976 |access-date=January 5, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128221305/http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2005/37/taxi_driver/ |archive-date=January 28, 2012}} 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. He subsequently blamed his act on his obsession with Jodie Foster's Taxi Driver character (in the film, De Niro's character, Travis Bickle, makes an assassination attempt on a senator).{{cite news |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1813797,00.html |title=I was in a bad place |newspaper=The Guardian |date=July 6, 2006 |location=London |first=Geoffrey |last=MacNab |access-date=May 12, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720040533/http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0%2C%2C1813797%2C00.html |archive-date=July 20, 2008}}

Taxi Driver won the {{lang|fr|Palme d'Or|italic=no}} at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival,{{cite web |title=Festival Archives: Taxi Driver |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2123.html |publisher=Festival de Cannes |access-date=February 14, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614231841/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2123.html |archive-date=June 14, 2011}} also receiving four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. The critical and financial success of Taxi Driver encouraged Scorsese to move ahead with his first big-budget project: the highly stylized musical New York, New York. This tribute to Scorsese's home town and the classic Hollywood musical was a box-office failure. The film was the director's third collaboration with De Niro, co-starring with Liza Minnelli. The film is best remembered today for the title theme song, which was popularized by Frank Sinatra. Although possessing Scorsese's usual visual panache and stylistic bravura, many critics felt its enclosed studio-bound atmosphere left it leaden in comparison with his earlier work. Despite its weak reception, the film is regarded positively by some critics. Richard Brody wrote: {{blockquote|For Scorsese, a lifelong cinephile, the essence of New York could be found in its depiction in classic Hollywood movies. Remarkably, his backward-looking tribute to the golden age of musicals and noirish romantic melodramas turned out to be one of his most freewheeling and personal films.{{cite magazine |last=Brody |first=Richard |url=https://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/revivals/2008/01/28/080128gomo_GOAT_movies_brody |title=Top of the Heap |magazine=The New Yorker |at=DVD Notes (column) |date=January 28, 2008 |access-date=July 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124000216/http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/revivals/2008/01/28/080128gomo_GOAT_movies_brody|archive-date=January 24, 2008}}}}

In 1977, he directed the Broadway musical The Act, starring Minnelli.{{cite web |last1=Bailey |first1=Jason |title=Martin Scorsese's Weirdest Projects – Page 2 |url=http://flavorwire.com/475332/martin-scorseses-weirdest-projects/2 |website=Flavorwire |access-date=May 17, 2016 |date=September 3, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616190243/http://flavorwire.com/475332/martin-scorseses-weirdest-projects/2 |archive-date=June 16, 2016}} The disappointing reception of New York, New York drove Scorsese into depression. By this stage Scorsese had developed a serious cocaine addiction. However, he did find the creative drive to make the highly regarded The Last Waltz, documenting the final concert by The Band. It was held at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, and featured one of the most extensive lineups of prominent guest performers at a single concert, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Paul Butterfield, Neil Diamond, Ronnie Wood and Eric Clapton. However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delayed the release of the film until 1978. Another Scorsese-directed documentary, titled American Boy, also appeared in 1978, focusing on Steven Prince, the cocky gun salesman who appeared in Taxi Driver. A period of wild partying followed, damaging Scorsese's already fragile health. Scorsese helped provide footage for the documentary Elvis on Tour.

By several accounts (Scorsese's included), De Niro saved Scorsese's life when he persuaded him to kick his cocaine addiction to make his highly regarded film Raging Bull. Mark Singer summarized Scorsese's condition:

He (Scorsese) was more than mildly depressed. Drug abuse, and abuse of his body in general, culminated in a terrifying episode of internal bleeding. Robert De Niro came to see him in the hospital and asked, in so many words, whether he wanted to live or die. If you want to live, De Niro proposed, let's make this picture—referring to Raging Bull, an as-told-to book by Jake LaMotta, the former world middleweight boxing champion, that De Niro had given him to read years earlier.{{cite magazine| author=Singer, Mark| title=The Man Who Forgets Nothing.| magazine=The New Yorker| date= March 19, 2000| url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/03/27/the-man-who-forgets-nothing-2}}

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Although the screenplay for Raging Bull was credited to Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin (who earlier co-wrote Mean Streets), the finished script differed extensively from Schrader's original draft. It was rewritten several times by various writers including Jay Cocks. The final draft was largely written by Scorsese and De Niro.{{cite news |title=Ageing bulls return |newspaper=Observer |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/Feature_Story/feature_story/0,,98151,00.html |date=October 31, 1999 |first=Mark |last=Morris |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111064454/http://film.guardian.co.uk/Feature_Story/feature_story/0%2C%2C98151%2C00.html |archive-date=January 11, 2008}} In 1997, the American Film Institute ranked Raging Bull as the twenty-fourth greatest American film of all time on their AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list. In 2007, they ranked Raging Bull as the fourth American greatest film on their AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list.

Scorsese's next project was his fifth collaboration with De Niro, The King of Comedy (1982). It is a satire on the world of media and celebrity, whose central character is a troubled loner who ironically becomes famous through a criminal act (kidnapping).{{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/film/78730.html |title=The King of Comedy Film Review |work=Timeout.com |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080110220949/http://www.timeout.com/film/78730.html |archive-date=January 10, 2008}} The film was an obvious departure from the more emotionally committed films he had become associated with. Visually, it was far less kinetic than the style Scorsese had developed previously, often using a static camera and long takes.{{cite web |author=evil jimi |url=http://www.ehrensteinland.com/htmls/library/koc.html |title=The King of Comedy |publisher=Ehrensteinland.com |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326054035/http://www.ehrensteinland.com/htmls/library/koc.html |archive-date=March 26, 2009}} Here the expressionism of his previous work gave way to moments of almost total surrealism. It still bore many of Scorsese's trademarks, however. The King of Comedy failed at the box office, but has become increasingly well regarded by critics in the years since its release. German director Wim Wenders numbered it among his 15 favorite films.{{cite web |url=http://www.wim-wenders.com/news_reel/2002/apr02-directorsonfilm.htm |title=The Official Site |publisher=Wim Wenders |access-date=March 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020618113722/http://www.wim-wenders.com/news_reel/2002/apr02-directorsonfilm.htm|archive-date=June 18, 2002}} In 1983, Scorsese made a brief cameo appearance in Anna Pavlova (also known as A Woman for All Time), originally intended to be directed by one of his heroes, Michael Powell. This led to a more significant acting appearance in Bertrand Tavernier's jazz film Round Midnight. He also made a brief venture into television, directing an episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories.

With After Hours (1985), for which he won a Best Director Award at Cannes, Scorsese made an esthetic shift back to a pared-down, almost "underground" film-making style. Filmed on an extremely low budget, on location, and at night in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, the film is a black comedy about one increasingly misfortunate night for a mild New York word processor (Griffin Dunne) and features cameos by such disparate actors as Teri Garr and Cheech & Chong. Along with the 1987 Michael Jackson music video "Bad", in 1986 Scorsese made The Color of Money, a sequel to Robert Rossen's The Hustler (1961) with Paul Newman, which co-starred Tom Cruise. Although adhering to Scorsese's established style, The Color of Money was Scorsese's first official foray into mainstream film-making. The film finally won Newman an Oscar and gave Scorsese the clout to finally secure backing for a project that had been a longtime goal for him: The Last Temptation of Christ.

In 1983, Scorsese began work on this long-cherished personal project. The Last Temptation of Christ, based on the 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, retold the life of Christ in human rather than divine terms. Barbara Hershey recalls introducing Scorsese to the book while they were filming Boxcar Bertha.{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/194050 |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |title=Boxcar Bertha |access-date=November 17, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006002322/http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=194050 |archive-date=October 6, 2010}} The film was slated to shoot under the Paramount Pictures banner, but shortly before principal photography was to start, Paramount pulled the plug on the project, citing pressure from religious groups. In this aborted 1983 version, Aidan Quinn was cast as Jesus, and Sting was cast as Pontius Pilate. (In the 1988 version, these roles were played by Willem Dafoe and David Bowie respectively.) However, following his mid-1980s flirtation with commercial Hollywood, Scorsese made a major return to personal filmmaking with the project; Universal Pictures agreed to finance the film as Scorsese agreed to make a more mainstream film for the studio in the future (it eventually resulted in Cape Fear).{{cite web |url=https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/MIP_TomPollock_Interview.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003040133/https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/MIP_TomPollock_Interview.pdf |archive-date=October 3, 2021 |title=Tom Pollock, Montecito Picture Company |website=carseywolf.ucsb.edu |date=October 22, 2010 |access-date=November 12, 2021}} Even prior to its 1988 release, the film (adapted by Taxi Driver and Raging Bull veteran Paul Schrader) caused a massive furor, with worldwide protests against its perceived blasphemy effectively turning a low-budget independent film into a media sensation.{{cite news |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/theater/lasttemptation.html |title=Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ |publisher=Pbs.org |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830074627/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/theater/lasttemptation.html |archive-date=August 30, 2010}} Most of the controversy centered on the final passages of the film, which depicted Christ marrying and raising a family with Mary Magdalene in a Satan-induced hallucination while on the cross.

In 1986, Scorsese directed the 18-minute short film Bad featuring Michael Jackson and Wesley Snipes (in his film debut). The short also serves as a music video and was shot in the Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station in Brooklyn over a 6-week period during November and December 1986. Chapman was the film's cinematographer. The direction and choreography were heavily influenced by West Side Story (1961). Scorsese also noted the influence of Taxi Driver in Spike Lee's documentary Bad 25 (2012).{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA3TasRXh8U|title= Michael Jackson – Making Of Bad (BAD 25) Documentary|website= YouTube|access-date= November 26, 2020|archive-date= November 21, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201121011538/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA3TasRXh8U|url-status= live}} The short has been praised by critics as one of the greatest and most iconic videos of all time.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7949240/michael-jackson-bad-interviews-quincy-jones-welsey-snipes|title=Michael Jackson's 'Bad': Quincy Jones, Wesley Snipes & Other Collaborators Tell the Stories of the Album's Five No. 1 Singles|magazine=Billboard|access-date=November 6, 2019|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045128/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7949240/michael-jackson-bad-interviews-quincy-jones-welsey-snipes|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theyoungfolks.com/review/108840/from-the-record-crate-michael-jackson-bad-1987/|title=From the Record Crate: Michael Jackson – "Bad" (1987) |website=The Young Folks|date=August 31, 2017|access-date=November 6, 2019|archive-date=November 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101213023/https://www.theyoungfolks.com/review/108840/from-the-record-crate-michael-jackson-bad-1987/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.upscalehype.com/2018/09/how-michael-jacksons-bad-music-video-influenced-fashion/|title=How Michael Jackson's 'BAD' Music Video Influenced Fashion|date=September 5, 2018|website=UpscaleHype|access-date=November 6, 2019|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045131/http://www.upscalehype.com/2018/09/how-michael-jacksons-bad-music-video-influenced-fashion/|url-status=live}} That year, he had signed a deal with upstart major The Walt Disney Studios to produce and direct features, following the success of The Color of Money.{{Cite news|last=Galbraith|first=Jane|date=November 12, 1986|title=Scorsese In 2-Year Producing-Directing Deal At Walt Disney|pages=4, 23|work=Variety}}

Looking past the controversy, The Last Temptation of Christ gained critical acclaim and remains an important work in Scorsese's canon: an explicit attempt to wrestle with the spirituality underpinning his films up until that point. He received his second nomination for a Best Director Academy Award (again unsuccessfully, this time losing to Barry Levinson for Rain Man). Scorsese directed "Life Lessons", one of three segments in the anthology film New York Stories (1989). Ebert gave the film a mixed review, while praising Scorsese's short as "really successful".{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/new-york-stories-1989|title= New York Stories|website= Rogerebert.com|access-date= November 26, 2020|archive-date= December 27, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045146/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/new-york-stories-1989|url-status= live}}

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After a decade of films considered by critics to be mixed results, some considered Scorsese's gangster epic Goodfellas (1990) his return to directorial form, and his most confident and fully realized film since Raging Bull. De Niro and Joe Pesci offered a virtuoso display of Scorsese's bravura cinematic technique in the film and re-established, enhanced, and consolidated his reputation. After the film was released, Roger Ebert, a friend and supporter of Scorsese, named Goodfellas "the best mob movie ever". It is ranked No. 1 on Ebert's movie list for 1990, along with those of Gene Siskel and Peter Travers', and is widely considered one of the director's greatest achievements.{{Cite news |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19900902/REVIEWS/9020301/1023 |title=:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: GoodFellas (xhtml) |publisher=Rogerebert.suntimes.com |date=September 2, 1990 |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730045115/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19900902%2FREVIEWS%2F9020301%2F1023 |archive-date=July 30, 2010}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000623089 |title=GoodFellas |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=March 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050206091630/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000623089 |archive-date=February 6, 2005 |first=Stephen |last=Dalton |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/goodf.html |title=GoodFellas (1990) |publisher=Filmsite.org |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110122117/http://www.filmsite.org/goodf.html |archive-date=January 10, 2010}} The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and Scorsese earned his third Best Director nomination but again lost to a first-time director, Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves). Joe Pesci earned the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. Scorsese and the film also won many other awards, including five BAFTA Awards, a Silver Lion and more. The American Film Institute placed Goodfellas at No. 94 on the AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list. On the 2007 updated version, they moved Goodfellas up to No. 92 on the AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list (10th Anniversary Edition) and put Goodfellas at No. 2 on their list of the top 10 gangster films (after The Godfather).

In 1990, he released his only short-form documentary: Made in Milan about fashion designer Giorgio Armani. The following year brought Cape Fear, a remake of a cult 1962 movie of the same name and the director's seventh collaboration with De Niro. 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). Cape Fear received a mixed critical reception and was lambasted in many quarters for its scenes depicting misogynistic violence. However, the lurid subject matter gave Scorsese a chance to experiment with visual tricks and effects. The film garnered two Oscar nominations. Earning $80 million domestically, it stood as Scorsese's most commercially successful release until The Aviator (2004), and then The Departed (2006). The film also marked the first time Scorsese used wide-screen Panavision with an aspect ratio of 2.39:1.

In 1990, Scorsese acted in a small role as Vincent van Gogh in the film Dreams by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. Scorsese's 1994 cameo appearance in the Robert Redford film Quiz Show is remembered for the telling line: "You see, the audience didn't tune in to watch some amazing display of intellectual ability. They just wanted to watch the money."

In 1994, Scorsese and producer Barbara De Fina formed the production company

De Fina-Cappa.{{cite web |url=https://letterboxd.com/studio/de-fina-cappa |title=Films produced by De Fina-Cappa |work=Letterboxd |access-date=November 15, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903011625/http://letterboxd.com/studio/de-fina-cappa/ |archive-date=September 3, 2014}} In the early 1990s, Scorsese also expanded his role as a film producer. He produced a wide range of films, including major Hollywood studio productions (Mad Dog and Glory, Clockers), low-budget independent films (The Grifters, Naked in New York, Grace of My Heart, Search and Destroy, The Hi-Lo Country), and even the foreign film Con gli occhi chiusi (With Closed Eyes).

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The Age of Innocence (1993) was a significant departure for Scorsese, a period adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel about the constrictive high society of late-19th century New York. It was highly lauded by critics upon its original release but was a box office bomb, making an overall loss. As noted in Scorsese on Scorsese by editor–interviewer Ian Christie, the news that Scorsese wanted to make a film about a failed 19th-century romance raised many eyebrows among the film fraternity; all the more when Scorsese made it clear that it was a personal project and not a studio for-hire job.

Scorsese was interested in doing a "romantic piece", and he was strongly drawn to the characters and the story of Wharton's text. Scorsese wanted his film to be as rich an emotional experience as the book was to him rather than the traditional academic adaptations of literary works. To this end, Scorsese sought influence from diverse period films that had had an emotional impact on him. 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). 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. It came back into the public eye, especially in countries such as the UK and France, but still is largely neglected in North America. The film earned five Academy Award nominations (including Best Adapted Screenplay for Scorsese), winning the Costume Design Oscar. This was his first collaboration with the Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis, with whom he would work again on Gangs of New York. This was Scorsese's first film to be shot on Super 35 format.

Casino (1995), like The Age of Innocence before it, focused on a tightly wound male whose well-ordered life is disrupted by the arrival of unpredictable forces. 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. Casino was a box office success,{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/news/andrew-garfield-to-star-in-martin-scorseses-silence-exclusive-1200470625/ |work=Variety |first=Scott |last=Foundas |title=Andrew Garfield to Star in Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' (EXCLUSIVE) |date=May 7, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430081104/http://variety.com/2013/film/news/andrew-garfield-to-star-in-martin-scorseses-silence-exclusive-1200470625/ |archive-date=April 30, 2014}} and it received generally positive notices from critics. Comparisons were drawn to his earlier film Goodfellas, and Scorsese admitted Casino bore a superficial resemblance to it, but he maintained that the story was significantly larger in scope.{{Cite web|date=2016|title=Beyond The Frame: Casino|url=https://ascmag.com/articles/beyond-the-frame-casino-1995|access-date=November 1, 2020|website=American Cinematographer|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045146/https://ascmag.com/articles/beyond-the-frame-casino-1995|url-status=live}} Sharon Stone was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance. During the filming, Scorsese played a background part as a gambler at one of the tables.

Scorsese still found time for a four-hour documentary in 1995, titled A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, offering a thorough trek through American cinema. It covered the silent era to 1969, a year after which Scorsese began his feature career. He said, "I wouldn't feel right commenting on myself or my contemporaries." In the four-hour documentary, Scorsese lists the four aspects of the director he believes are the most important as (1) the director as storyteller; (2) the director as an illusionist: D. W. Griffith or F. W. Murnau, who created new editing techniques among other innovations that made the appearance of sound and color possible later on; (3) the director as a smuggler—filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk, Samuel Fuller, and Vincente Minnelli, who used to hide subversive messages in their films; and (4) the director as iconoclast. In the preface to this documentary, Scorsese states his commitment to the "Director's Dilemma", in which a successful contemporary director must be pragmatic about the realities of getting financing for films of personal esthetic interest by accepting the need of "making one film for the studio, and (then) making one for oneself."

If The Age of Innocence alienated and confused some fans, then Kundun (1997) went several steps further, offering an account of the early life of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, the People's Liberation Army's entry into Tibet, and the Dalai Lama's subsequent exile to India. Not only a departure in subject matter, Kundun saw Scorsese employing a fresh narrative and visual approach. Traditional dramatic devices were substituted for a trance-like meditation achieved through an elaborate tableau of colorful visual images.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.timeout.com/film/78857.html |title=Kundun |magazine=Time Out |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080110232624/http://www.timeout.com/film/78857.html |archive-date=January 10, 2008}} 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. Initially defiant in the face of pressure from Chinese officials, Disney has since distanced itself from the project, hurting Kundun{{'}}s commercial profile. In the short term, the sheer eclecticism in evidence enhanced the director's reputation. In the long term, however, it appears Kundun has been sidelined in most critical appraisals of the director, mostly noted as a stylistic and thematic detour. Kundun was Scorsese's second attempt to profile the life of a great religious leader, following The Last Temptation of Christ.

Bringing Out the Dead (1999) was a return to familiar territory, with the director and writer Paul Schrader constructing a pitch-black comic take on their own earlier Taxi Driver.{{cite web |title=New York Stories: A Complete Ranking of Martin Scorsese's Films Read More: Ranking Martin Scorsese's Movies From Best to Worst |date=December 20, 2013 |url=https://screencrush.com/scorsese-list/ |publisher=ScreenCrush |access-date=April 18, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428142744/http://screencrush.com/scorsese-list/ |archive-date=April 28, 2014}} Like earlier Scorsese-Schrader collaborations, its final scenes of spiritual redemption explicitly recall the films of Robert Bresson.{{cite web |url=http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol4-2000/n12reinert |title=Reinert on Bringing Out the Dead |publisher=Film-philosophy.com |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629174544/http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol4-2000/n12reinert |archive-date=June 29, 2011}} (It is also worth noting that the film's incident-filled nocturnal setting is reminiscent of After Hours.) It received generally positive reviews,{{cite web |website=rottentomatoes.com |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bringing_out_the_dead/ |title=Bringing Out the Dead |date=October 22, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070758/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bringing_out_the_dead/ |archive-date=March 5, 2010 |access-date=January 29, 2007}} although not the universal critical acclaim of some of his other films. It stars Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, Tom Sizemore, and Patricia Arquette.

On various occasions Scorsese has been asked to present the Honorary Academy Award during the Oscar telecast. In 1998, at the 70th Academy Awards, Scorsese presented the award to film legend Stanley Donen. When accepting the award Donen quipped, "Marty this is backwards, I should be giving this to you, believe me".{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/stanley-donen-oscar-speech-lifetime-achievement-1202046260/|title=Stanley Donen's Oscar Speech was an all time classic|website=IndieWire|date=February 23, 2019|access-date=March 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321064901/https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/stanley-donen-oscar-speech-lifetime-achievement-1202046260/|archive-date=March 21, 2020|url-status=live}} In 1999, at the 71st Academy Awards, Scorsese and De Niro presented the award to film director Elia Kazan. This was a controversial pick for the academy due to Kazan's involvement with the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/22/arts/amid-protests-elia-kazan-receives-his-oscar.html|title=Amid Protests Elia azan Receives His Oscar|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 22, 1999|access-date=March 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100411082939/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/22/arts/amid-protests-elia-kazan-receives-his-oscar.html|archive-date=April 11, 2010|url-status=live|last1=Weinraub|first1=Bernard}} Several members of the audience including Nick Nolte and Ed Harris refused to applaud Kazan when he received the award while others such as Warren Beatty, Meryl Streep, Kathy Bates, and Kurt Russell gave him a standing ovation.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/1999/mar/22/awardsandprizes|title=Praise and silent protest greet Kazan's Oscar|website=The Guardian|date=March 22, 1999|access-date=March 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321064859/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/1999/mar/22/awardsandprizes|archive-date=March 21, 2020|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-22-mn-19738-story.html|title=Many Refuse to Clap as Kazan Receives Oscar|website=The Los Angeles Times|date=March 22, 1999|access-date=March 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321064900/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-22-mn-19738-story.html|archive-date=March 21, 2020|url-status=live}}

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In 1999, Scorsese directed a documentary on Italian filmmakers titled Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, also known as My Voyage to Italy. The documentary foreshadowed Scorsese'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. With a production budget said to be in excess of $100 million, Gangs of New York was Scorsese's biggest and arguably most mainstream venture to date. Like The Age of Innocence, it was set in 19th-century New York, although focusing on the other end of the social scale (and like that film, also starring Daniel Day-Lewis). The film marked the first collaboration between Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who became a fixture in later Scorsese films. The production was highly troubled, with many rumors referring to the director's conflict with Miramax Films boss Harvey Weinstein.{{Cite news |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,860378,00.html |title=Gangs of Los Angeles |work=The Guardian |date=December 15, 2002 |access-date=March 3, 2010 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111091503/http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0%2C%2C860378%2C00.html |archive-date=January 11, 2008}} The final cut of the movie ran to 168 minutes, while Scorsese's original cut was over 180 minutes long.{{Cite news |author=Peter Bradshaw |date=January 10, 2003 |title=Gangs of New York |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,,871400,00.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111091432/http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0%2C%2C871400%2C00.html |archive-date=January 11, 2008 |access-date=March 3, 2010 |work=The Guardian |location=London}}

Despite denials of artistic compromise, some felt that Gangs of New York was Scorsese's most conventional film, featuring standard film tropes that Scorsese had traditionally avoided, such as characters existing purely for exposition purposes and explanatory flashbacks.{{cite web |date=July 1, 2003 |title=Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Gangs of New York at |url=http://www.epinions.com/content_136317079172 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012014134/http://epinions.com/content_136317079172 |archive-date=October 12, 2007 |access-date=March 3, 2010 |publisher=Epinions.com}}{{Cite news |author=Xan Brooks |date=January 9, 2003 |title=Past master |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,871715,00.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111091447/http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0%2C%2C871715%2C00.html |archive-date=January 11, 2008 |access-date=March 3, 2010 |work=The Guardian |location=London}} Even so, the film received generally positive reviews with the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reporting that 75 percent of the reviews for the film they tallied were positive and summarizing the critics writing, "Though flawed, the sprawling, messy Gangs of New York is redeemed by impressive production design and Day-Lewis's electrifying performance."{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gangs_of_new_york/ |title=Gangs of New York |website=Rotten Tomatoes |date=December 20, 2002 |access-date=January 5, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105013039/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gangs_of_new_york/ |archive-date=January 5, 2012}} The film's central themes are consistent with Scorsese's established concerns: New York, violence as culturally endemic, and subcultural divisions down ethnic lines. Originally filmed for a release in the winter of 2001 (to qualify for Academy Award nominations), Scorsese delayed the final production of the film until after the beginning of 2002; Miramax Films consequently delayed the film until its release in the Oscar season of late 2002.{{Cite news |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Exclusive/0,,680795,00.html |title=In briefs: Gangs of New York release delayed again |work=The Guardian |date=April 8, 2002 |access-date=March 3, 2010 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111064545/http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Exclusive/0%2C%2C680795%2C00.html |archive-date=January 11, 2008}} Gangs of New York earned Scorsese his first Golden Globe for Best Director. In February 2003, Gangs of New York received 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis; however, it did not win in any category.

The following year, Scorsese completed production of The Blues, an expansive seven-part documentary tracing the history of blues music from its African roots to the Mississippi Delta and beyond. Seven filmmakers including Wim Wenders, Clint Eastwood, Mike Figgis, and Scorsese himself each contributed a 90-minute film (Scorsese's entry was titled Feel Like Going Home). In the early 2000s, Scorsese produced several films for up-and-coming directors, such as You Can Count on Me (directed by Kenneth Lonergan), Rain (directed by Katherine Lindberg), Lymelife (directed by Derick Martini) and The Young Victoria (directed by Jean-Marc Vallée). At that time, he established Sikelia Productions.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/exec/martin-scorsese |title=Martin Scorsese |work=Variety |access-date=September 3, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111054732/http://variety.com/exec/martin-scorsese/ |archive-date=January 11, 2014}} In 2003, producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff joined the company.[http://www.screendaily.com/tillinger-named-production-president-at-scorseses-sikelia/4027253.article Tillinger named production president at Scorsese's Sikelia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224143634/http://www.screendaily.com/tillinger-named-production-president-at-scorseses-sikelia/4027253.article |date=February 24, 2014 }}, screendaily.com, retrieved February 19, 2014 Scorsese also produced several documentaries, such as The Soul of a Man (directed by Wim Wenders) and Lightning in a Bottle (directed by Antoine Fuqua).

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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. The film received highly positive reviews.{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/aviator/ |title=The Aviator |date=December 25, 2004 |publisher=Rottentomatoes.com |access-date=January 24, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928003516/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/aviator/ |archive-date=September 28, 2009}}{{Cite news |author=Brian Libby |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/salon/0,,1404293,00.html |title=Are you talking to me – again? |work=The Guardian |date=February 2, 2005 |access-date=March 3, 2010 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111091508/http://film.guardian.co.uk/salon/0%2C%2C1404293%2C00.html |archive-date=January 11, 2008}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/Film/Right-guy-wrong-film/2005/02/25/1109180100911.html |title=Right guy, wrong film |publisher=The Age |date=February 27, 2005 |access-date=March 3, 2010 |location=Melbourne |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119074237/http://www.theage.com.au/news/Film/Right-guy-wrong-film/2005/02/25/1109180100911.html |archive-date=January 19, 2010}}{{cite web |url=https://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?DVDID=10596 |title=Empire Reviews Central – Review of The Aviator |publisher=Empireonline.com |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118171316/http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?DVDID=10596 |archive-date=January 18, 2012}}{{cite magazine |author=Travers, Peter |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/6143001/review/6769078/the_aviator |title=Aviator: Review |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=December 15, 2004 |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421123728/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/6143001/review/6769078/the_aviator |archive-date=April 21, 2009}} The film was a widespread box office success and gained Academy recognition. The Aviator was nominated for six Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture-Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor-Motion Picture Drama for Leonardo DiCaprio. It won three, including Best Motion Picture-Drama and Best Actor-Motion Picture Drama. In January 2005 The Aviator became the most-nominated film of the 77th Academy Awards nominations, nominated in 11 categories including Best Picture. The film also garnered nominations in nearly all the other major categories, including a fifth Best Director nomination for Scorsese. Despite having the most nominations, the film won only five Oscars. Scorsese lost again, this time to director Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby (which also won Best Picture).

No Direction Home is a documentary film by Scorsese that tells of the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on American popular music and the culture of the 20th century. The film does not cover Dylan's entire career; it focuses on his beginnings, his rise to fame in the 1960s, his then-controversial transformation from an acoustic guitar-based musician and performer to an electric guitar-influenced sound and his "retirement" from touring in 1966 following an infamous motorcycle accident. The film was first presented on television in both the United States (as part of the PBS American Masters series) and the United Kingdom (as part of the BBC Two Arena series) on September 26 to 27, 2005. A DVD version of the film was released the same month. The film won a Peabody Award and the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video. In addition, Scorsese received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program, losing to Baghdad ER.

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Scorsese returned to the crime genre with the Boston-set thriller The Departed, based on the Hong Kong police drama Infernal Affairs (which is co-directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak). The film continued Scorsese's collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio and was the first time he worked with Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, and Martin Sheen. The Departed opened to widespread critical acclaim, with some proclaiming it as one of the best efforts Scorsese had brought to the screen since 1990's Goodfellas,{{cite web |url=http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=reviews&id=7778 |title=Review: Departed, The |publisher=Chud.com |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217030945/http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=reviews&id=7778 |archive-date=December 17, 2007}}{{cite web |url=http://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=15256&reviewer=198 |title=Movie Review – Departed, The |publisher=eFilmCritic |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228074450/http://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=15256&reviewer=198 |archive-date=February 28, 2010}} and still others putting it at the same level as Scorsese's most celebrated classics Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.{{cite web |url=http://www.reelviews.net/movies/d/departed.html |title=Reel Views |publisher=Reel Views |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707001223/http://www.reelviews.net/movies/d/departed.html |archive-date=July 7, 2010}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/work/the-departed-310756/review |title=All Movie – The Departed |publisher=Allmovie.com |date=October 6, 2006 |access-date=January 5, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124103211/http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-departed-310756/review |archive-date=January 24, 2010}} With domestic box office receipts surpassing {{US$|129.4{{nbsp}}|link=yes}}million, The Departed was Scorsese's highest-grossing film (not accounting for inflation) until 2010's Shutter Island. The Departed earned Scorsese a second Golden Globe for Best Director, as well as a Critics' Choice Award, his first Directors Guild of America Award, and the Academy Award for Best Director. Presented with the latter, Scorsese poked fun at his track record of nominations, asking, "Could you double-check the envelope?"{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/movies/awardsseason/26osca.html|title='The Departed' Wins Best Picture, Scorsese Best Director|work=The New York Times|date=February 26, 2007|access-date=February 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304193333/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/movies/awardsseason/26osca.html|archive-date=March 4, 2014|url-status=live}} The award was presented by his longtime friends and colleagues Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. The Departed also received the Academy Award for the Best Motion Picture of 2006, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing by longtime Scorsese editor Thelma Schoonmaker, her third win for a Scorsese film.

Shine a Light captures rock and roll band the Rolling Stones' performing at New York City's Beacon Theatre on October 29 and November 1, 2006, intercut with brief news and interview footage from throughout their career. The film was initially scheduled for release on September 21, 2007, but Paramount Classics postponed its general release until April 2008. Its world premiere was at the opening of the 58th Berlinale Film Festival on February 7, 2008. "Marty did an amazing job of making us look great{{nbsp}}..." observed drummer Charlie Watts. "It's all in the edits and the cuts. That's a movie maker rather than a guy just shooting a band onstage{{nbsp}}... It's not Casablanca, but it's a great thing to have from our point of view, not being egotistical. It's a document."{{cite magazine|first=Will|last=Lawrence|title=King Charles|magazine=Q|date=May 2008|issue=262|page=46}}

In 2009, Scorsese signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects."{{Cite web |date=June 4, 2012 |title=Le cinéma soutient Roman Polanski / Petition for Roman Polanski – SACD |url=http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322120027/http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 22, 2017 |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website=archive.ph }}{{cite news |last1=Shoard |first1=Catherine |author2=Agencies |date=September 29, 2009 |title=Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminaries |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |url-status=live |access-date=June 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628013652/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |archive-date=June 28, 2019}}

On October 22, 2007, Daily Variety reported that Scorsese would reunite with Leonardo DiCaprio on a fourth picture, Shutter Island. Principal photography on the Laeta Kalogridis screenplay, based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, began in Massachusetts in March 2008.{{Cite news |title=Scorsese, DiCaprio team for 'Island' |first=Michael|last= Fleming |url=https://www.variety.com/VR1117974525.html?query=shutter+island |work=Variety |date=October 22, 2007|access-date=October 28, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102084801/http://www.variety.com/VR1117974525.html?query=shutter+island|archive-date=November 2, 2007|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |title=Scorsese, Leo head to 'Shutter Island |year=2007 |url=http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2007/10/23/scorsese_leo_head_to_shutter_island/7373/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304081207/http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2007/10/23/scorsese_leo_head_to_shutter_island/7373/ |archive-date=March 4, 2009}} In December 2007, actors Mark Ruffalo, Max von Sydow, Ben Kingsley, and Michelle Williams joined the cast,{{cite magazine |author=Tatiana Siegel |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/kingsley-signs-on-to-shutter-island-2-1117976953/ |title=Kingsley signs on to 'Shutter Island' |magazine=Variety |date=December 3, 2007 |access-date=January 8, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106180051/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117976953.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1 |archive-date=January 6, 2008}}{{cite magazine |first=Michael|last= Fleming |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/features/michelle-williams-joins-island-2-1117977184/ |title=Michelle Williams joins 'Island' |magazine=Variety |date=December 6, 2007 |access-date=January 8, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080110042717/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117977184.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 |archive-date=January 10, 2008}} marking the first time these actors had worked with Scorsese. The film was released on February 19, 2010.{{cite magazine |first=Pamela|last= McClintock |url=https://www.variety.com/VR1117980912.html |title='Star Trek' pushed back to 2009 |magazine=Variety |date=February 13, 2008 |access-date=February 13, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215012143/http://www.variety.com/VR1117980912.html |archive-date=February 15, 2008}} On May 20, 2010, Shutter Island became Scorsese's highest-grossing film.{{cite web |last=Grey|first= Brandon|website=Box Office Mojo|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2783&p=.htm|title='Shutter Island' Is Scorsese's Top Movie Worldwide |access-date=May 21, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523072933/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2783&p=.htm |archive-date=May 23, 2010|date= May 21, 2010}} In 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported that Scorsese was supporting the David Lynch Foundation's initiative to help 10,000 military veterans overcome posttraumatic stress disorder through Transcendental Meditation;{{cite news |title=Filmmaker Introduces Veterans to Meditation |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704638304575636911988306800 |work=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=February 13, 2014 |date=November 26, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222141347/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704638304575636911988306800?mod=googlenews_wsj&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748704638304575636911988306800.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj |archive-date=February 22, 2014 |url-access=subscription}} Scorsese has publicly discussed his own practice of TM.{{cite news |title=David Lynch Is Back ... as a Guru of Transcendental Meditation |first=Claire |last=Hoffman |work=The New York Times |date=February 22, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/david-lynch-transcendental-meditation.html | access-date=December 17, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222211638/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/david-lynch-transcendental-meditation.html |archive-date=February 22, 2013 | url-status=live}}

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Scorsese directed a television commercial for Chanel's then-new men's fragrance, Bleu de Chanel, starring French actor Gaspard Ulliel. Filmed in New York City, it debuted online on August 25, 2010, and was released on TV in September 2010.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2010/08/scorsese-dons-chanel |title=Scorsese Dons Chanel |first1=SunHee |last1=Grinnell |date=August 23, 2010 |magazine=Vanity Fair |access-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515144601/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2010/08/scorsese-dons-chanel |url-status=live }} Scorsese directed the series premiere for Boardwalk Empire, an HBO drama series,{{Cite news |title=Michael Pitt set for Scorsese's HBO pilot |author=Nellie Andreeva |year=2008 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-pitt-set-scorseses-hbo-124985 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907195005/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-pitt-set-scorseses-hbo-124985 |archive-date=September 7, 2014 |work=The Hollywood Reporter}} starring Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt, based on Nelson Johnson's book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City.{{cite web |title=Boardwalk Empire website |url=http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire |access-date=February 6, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127091652/http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire |archive-date=January 27, 2010}} Terence Winter, who wrote for The Sopranos, created the series. In addition to directing the pilot (for which he won the 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing), Scorsese also served as an executive producer on the series. The series premiered on September 19, 2010, and ran for five seasons.

Scorsese directed the three-and-a-half-hour documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World about the life and music of former Beatles' member George Harrison, which premiered in the United States on HBO over two parts on October 5 and 6, 2011.{{YouTube |id=Xnx87LIDO9k |title=Trailer For Martin Scorsese's George Harrison: Living In The Material World }} His next film Hugo is a 3D adventure drama film based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The film stars Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, and Jude Law. The film has been met with critical acclaim{{cite news |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111121/REVIEWS/111119982 |work=Chicago Sun-Times |title=Hugo |date=November 21, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202030422/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20111121%2FREVIEWS%2F111119982 |archive-date=December 2, 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?FID=136891 |title=Empire's Hugo Movie Review |publisher=Empireonline.com |date=December 5, 2006 |access-date=January 5, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118173106/http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?FID=136891 |archive-date=January 18, 2012}} and earned Scorsese his third Golden Globe Award for Best Director. 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. Hugo also won two BAFTA awards, among numerous other awards and nominations. Hugo was Scorsese's first 3D film and was released in the United States on November 23, 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.hugomovie.com/intl/releasedates/release-dates.html |title=Global Sites & Release Dates |work=Paramount Pictures |access-date=August 11, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028143750/http://www.hugomovie.com/intl/releasedates/release-dates.html |archive-date=October 28, 2011}}

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Scorsese's 2013 film, The Wolf of Wall Street,{{cite web |last=Silver |first=Stephen |title=Scorsese, DiCaprio Team Again on 'Wolf of Wall Street' |url=http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/481/scorsese-dicaprio-team-again-on-wolf-of-wall-street/ |work=Entertainmenttell |publisher=Technologytell.com |access-date=April 24, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422200144/http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/481/scorsese-dicaprio-team-again-on-wolf-of-wall-street/ |archive-date=April 22, 2012}} is an American biographical black comedy based on Jordan Belfort's memoir of the same name. The screenplay was written by Terence Winter and starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort, along with Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, and others. The film marked the fifth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio and the second between Scorsese and Winter after Boardwalk Empire. It was released on December 25, 2013. The film tells the story of a New York stockbroker, played by DiCaprio, who engages in a large securities fraud case involving illicit stock manipulation, by way of the practice of "pump and dump". DiCaprio was given the award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards. The film was also nominated for Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy as well. The Wolf of Wall Street was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Supporting Actor for Jonah Hill, Best Director for Martin Scorsese, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Terence Winter but did not win in any category.{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Tracy |title=Oscars 2014: The complete list of nominees and winners |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-oscars-2014-nominations-winners-list,0,6878721.story#axzz2uuFYdmaS |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=March 3, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302210739/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-oscars-2014-nominations-winners-list%2C0%2C6878721.story |archive-date=March 2, 2014}} In a 2016 critics' poll conducted by the BBC, the film was ranked among the 100 greatest motion pictures since 2000.{{cite web |title=The 21st Century's 100 greatest films |url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films |publisher=BBC |access-date=January 31, 2017 |date=August 23, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131124228/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films |archive-date=January 31, 2017}}

Scorsese and David Tedeschi made a documentary about the history of The New York Review of Books, titled The 50 Year Argument. It screened as a work in progress at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2014 and premiered in June 2014 at the Sheffield DocFest.Barnes, Henry. [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/07/sheffield-doc-fest-2014-50-year-argument-martin-scorsese "Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 review: The 50 Year Argument – Scorsese's love letter to old media"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231042103/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/07/sheffield-doc-fest-2014-50-year-argument-martin-scorsese |date=December 31, 2016 }}, The Guardian, June 7, 2014[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27323501 "Martin Scorsese premiere for Sheffield Doc/Fest"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205213510/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27323501 |date=February 5, 2018 }}, BBC News Online, May 8, 2014; Roddy, Michael. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-berlin-scorsese-20140215,0,5134948.story "Scorsese says NY Review film meant as guide to young"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226231456/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-berlin-scorsese-20140215%2C0%2C5134948.story |date=February 26, 2014 }}, Chicago Tribune, February 15, 2014; and Han, Angie. [https://www.slashfilm.com/martin-scorsese-has-a-new-york-review-of-books-doc-premiering-in-berlin/ "Martin Scorsese Has a New York Review of Books Doc Premiering in Berlin"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417021420/http://www.slashfilm.com/martin-scorsese-has-a-new-york-review-of-books-doc-premiering-in-berlin/ |date=April 17, 2014 }}, Slashfilm.com, January 28, 2014 It was also screened in Oslo,Brady, M. Michael. [http://theforeigner.no/pages/columns/the-50-year-argument-premiere-in-scandinavia/ "The 50 Year Argument premiere in Scandinavia"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006123552/http://theforeigner.no/pages/columns/the-50-year-argument-premiere-in-scandinavia/ |date=October 6, 2014 }}, The Foreigner, June 12, 2014 and Jerusalem[http://www.jff.org.il/?CategoryID=1214&ArticleID=1813 "Masters: The 50 Year Argument"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810194540/http://www.jff.org.il/?CategoryID=1214&ArticleID=1813 |date=August 10, 2014 }}, Jerusalem Film Festival, accessed September 12, 2014 before being shown on the BBC's Arena series in JulyDalton, Stephen. [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/50-year-argument-sheffield-review-710080 "The 50 Year Argument: Sheffield Review"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140901151911/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/50-year-argument-sheffield-review-710080 |date=September 1, 2014 }}, The Hollywood Reporter, June 7, 2014 and at Telluride in August.Feinberg, Scott. [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/telluride-50-year-argument-continues-729394 "Telluride: The 50 Year Argument Continues In the Rockies"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905061440/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/telluride-50-year-argument-continues-729394 |date=September 5, 2014 }}, The Hollywood Reporter, September 2, 2014 In September, it was screened at the TorontoPowers, Thom. [http://www.tiff.net/festivals/thefestival/programmes/mavericks/50-year-argument "The 50 Year Argument"], TIFF.net, accessed September 3, 2014 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822025449/http://www.tiff.net/festivals/thefestival/programmes/mavericks/50-year-argument |date=August 22, 2014 }} and Calgary International Film Festivals,Volmers, Eric. [https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Around+world+with+Calgary+International+Film+Festival/10168366/story.html "Around the world with the Calgary International Film Festival: Full lineup announced"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006143006/http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Around+world+with+Calgary+International+Film+Festival/10168366/story.html |date=October 6, 2014 }}, The Calgary Herald, September 2, 2014 and the New York Film Festival.[http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-50-year-argument The 50 Year Argument] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140823054640/http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-50-year-argument |date=August 23, 2014 }}, Film Society of Lincoln Center, accessed September 9, 2014 It aired on HBO on September 29, 2014.Thompson, Anne. [http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/hbo-dates-scorsese-doc-on-new-york-review-of-books-the-50-year-argument-20140811 "HBO Dates Scorsese Doc on New York Review of Books, The 50 Year Argument"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814012647/http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/hbo-dates-scorsese-doc-on-new-york-review-of-books-the-50-year-argument-20140811 |date=August 14, 2014 }}, IndieWire.com, August 11, 2014

Scorsese directed the pilot for Vinyl written by Terence Winter and George Mastras, with Mick Jagger producing and Mastras as showrunner. The series stars Bobby Cannavale as Richie Finestra, founder and president of a top-tier record label, set in 1970s New York City's drug-and sex-fueled music business as punk and disco were breaking out, all told through the eyes of Finestra trying to resurrect his label and find the next new sound. Filming began on July 25, 2014.{{cite web |url=https://www.deadline.com/2014/07/mick-jagger-hbo-untitled-rock-n-roll-drama-martin-scorsese-tweet/ |title=Mick Jagger Tweets From Set Of HBO's Untitled Rock 'N' Roll Drama – Deadline |author=The Deadline Team |work=Deadline |date=July 25, 2014 |access-date=September 12, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808053144/http://www.deadline.com/2014/07/mick-jagger-hbo-untitled-rock-n-roll-drama-martin-scorsese-tweet/ |archive-date=August 8, 2014}} Co-stars include Ray Romano, Olivia Wilde, Juno Temple, Andrew Dice Clay, Ato Essandoh, Max Casella, and James Jagger. On December 2, 2014, Vinyl was picked up by HBO.{{cite web |title=Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, and Terence Winter's Rock 'N" Roll Drama Picked Up to Series by HBO |url=https://deadline.com/2014/12/martin-scorsese-mick-jagger-terence-winter-rock-n-roll-series-pickup-hbo-1201306279/ |author=Nellie Andreeva |date=December 2, 2014 |access-date=December 2, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203144415/http://deadline.com/2014/12/martin-scorsese-mick-jagger-terence-winter-rock-n-roll-series-pickup-hbo-1201306279/ |archive-date=December 3, 2014}} The series lasted one season. Scorsese has acted as executive producer of several indie films, like the 2014 The Third Side of the River (directed by his protege Celina Murga), another 2014 film Revenge of the Green Dragons (co-directed by Andrew Lau, whose film Infernal Affairs inspired The Departed),{{cite web |url=http://remezcla.com/film/meet-celina-murga-director-of-la-tercera-orilla-martin-scorseses-bff/ |title=Meet Celina Murga, Director of 'La Tercera Orilla' & Martin Scorsese's BFF |work=Remezcla |date=February 19, 2014 |access-date=September 12, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916181429/http://remezcla.com/film/meet-celina-murga-director-of-la-tercera-orilla-martin-scorseses-bff/ |archive-date=September 16, 2015}} as well as Bleed for This and Free Fire.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/martin-scorsese-and-ben-wheatley-on-free-fire-gunfights-and-crime-flicks-120766/ |title=Martin Scorsese and Ben Wheatley on 'Free Fire,' Gunfights and Crime Flicks |access-date=September 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919082315/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/martin-scorsese-and-ben-wheatley-on-free-fire-gunfights-and-crime-flicks-120766/ |archive-date=September 19, 2018 |url-status=live|magazine=Rolling Stone|first=Stephen|last= Garrett|date=April 24, 2017 }}

Scorsese directed The Audition, a short film that also served as a promotional piece for casinos Studio City in Macau and City of Dreams in Manila, Philippines. The short brought together Scorsese's long-time muses Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro for the first time under his direction. The short film featured the two actors, playing fictionalized versions of themselves, competing for a role in Scorsese's next film. It was Scorsese's first collaboration with De Niro in two decades.{{cite magazine |title=Watch De Niro and DiCaprio Square Off in Scorsese Short |first=Ryan |last=Reed |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/videos/martin-scorsese-reunites-robert-de-niro-leonardo-dicaprio-20150114 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=January 14, 2015 |access-date=January 18, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118060444/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/videos/martin-scorsese-reunites-robert-de-niro-leonardo-dicaprio-20150114 |archive-date=January 18, 2015}} The film premiered in October 2015 in conjunction with the grand opening of Studio City.{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-film-theaudition-idUSKCN0SL23U20151027 |title=De Niro, DiCaprio face off for role in Scorsese's "The Audition" |last=Gumuchian |first=Marie-Louise |date=October 27, 2015 |work=Reuters |access-date=November 12, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112204941/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-film-theaudition-idUSKCN0SL23U20151027 |archive-date=November 12, 2016}}

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Scorsese had long anticipated filming an adaptation of Shūsaku Endō's novel Silence, a drama about the lives of two Portuguese Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century. He had originally planned Silence as his next project following Shutter Island.{{Cite news |last=Fleming |first=Michael |title=Scorsese, King talking up 'Silence' – Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio Del Toro to star |url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/scorsese-king-talking-up-silence-1117999411/ |work=Variety |date=February 1, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101013085806/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117999411.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 |archive-date=October 13, 2010}} On April 19, 2013, financing was secured for Silence by Emmett/Furla Films,{{Cite news |last=Jagernauth |first=Kevin |title=Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' Gets Funding, Will Shoot In July 2014 |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/martin-scorseses-silence-gets-funding-will-shoot-in-july-2014-20130419 |date=April 19, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019102018/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/martin-scorseses-silence-gets-funding-will-shoot-in-july-2014-20130419 |archive-date=October 19, 2013 |access-date=December 4, 2018}} and filming began in January 2015. By November 2016, the film had completed post-production. It was written by Jay Cocks and Scorsese, based on the novel, and stars Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver.{{cite web |first=Dave |last=McNary |title=Martin Scorsese Locks Funding for 'Silence' |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/martin-scorsese-locks-funding-for-silence-1201412246/ |work=Variety |date=January 22, 2015 |access-date=February 26, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207163506/http://variety.com/2015/film/news/martin-scorsese-locks-funding-for-silence-1201412246/ |archive-date=February 7, 2016}} The film was released on December 23, 2016, to positive reviews from critics.{{cite web |last=Ford |first=Rebecca |title=Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' Gets December Release Date |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-scorseses-silence-gets-december-932451 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=September 26, 2016 |access-date=September 26, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160926192424/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-scorseses-silence-gets-december-932451 |archive-date=September 26, 2016}}{{cite web |first=Brent |last=Lang |title=Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' Lands Oscar-Season Release Date |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/silence-martin-scorsese-1201870272/ |date=September 26, 2016 |access-date=September 26, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927123220/http://variety.com/2016/film/news/silence-martin-scorsese-1201870272/ |archive-date=September 27, 2016}} Scorsese was recognized as an Italian citizen by jus sanguinis in 2018.{{cite web |url=http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2018/09/26/scorsese-cittadino-italiano_626557d5-addc-468e-aa8f-69e22f310b6f.html |title=Scorsese cittadino italiano |website=ANSA.it |language=it |date=September 26, 2018|access-date=September 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926200416/http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2018/09/26/scorsese-cittadino-italiano_626557d5-addc-468e-aa8f-69e22f310b6f.html|archive-date=September 26, 2018|url-status=live}}

On January 10, 2019, Variety{{'}}s Chris Willman reported that Scorsese's long-anticipated documentary of Bob Dylan's 1975 tour, the Rolling Thunder Revue, would be released by Netflix: "Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year. Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese."{{cite web |last1=Willman |first1=Chris |title=Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese Reunite for 'Rolling Thunder' Film, Coming to Netflix in 2019 (Exclusive) |url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/bob-dylan-martin-scorsese-rolling-thunder-film-netflix-1203104499/ |website=Variety |access-date=April 20, 2019 |date=January 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428140817/https://variety.com/2019/music/news/bob-dylan-martin-scorsese-rolling-thunder-film-netflix-1203104499/|archive-date=April 28, 2019|url-status=live}} On April 25, 2019, it was announced that the documentary would be released on Netflix on June 12, 2019, with a concurrent theatrical engagement in twenty American, European, and Australian cities the night before, and an extended theatrical schedule in Los Angeles and New York so that the film will qualify for award consideration.{{cite web |last1=Willman |first1=Chris |title=Martin Scorsese's 'Rolling Thunder' Bob Dylan Doc Hits Netflix June 12 (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://news.yahoo.com/martin-scorsese-rolling-thunder-bob-160036502.html |website=Variety |access-date=April 25, 2019 |date=April 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425162434/https://news.yahoo.com/martin-scorsese-rolling-thunder-bob-160036502.html|archive-date=April 25, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://mkefilm.org/oriental-theatre/events/rolling-thunder-revue-a-bob-dylan-story-by-martin |title=Rolling Thunder Review: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese |work=Milwaukee Film |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510114956/https://mkefilm.org/oriental-theatre/events/rolling-thunder-revue-a-bob-dylan-story-by-martin |archive-date=May 10, 2019 |access-date=May 7, 2019}} After years of development, principal photography on Scorsese's crime film The Irishman, based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt, began in August 2017, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/05/martin-scorsese-the-irishman-coming-together-deniro-pesci-pacino-paramount-1201749235/ |title=Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman' Coming Together Quickly: Could This Be The Hottest Title At Cannes? |last1=Tartaglione |first1=Nancy |last2=Busch |first2=Anita |last3=Jaafar |first3=Ali |date=May 6, 2016 |website=Deadline |access-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507055921/http://deadline.com/2016/05/martin-scorsese-the-irishman-coming-together-deniro-pesci-pacino-paramount-1201749235/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016}} The film had its world premiere at the 57th New York Film Festival on September 27, 2019.{{cite web |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/07/the-irishman-martin-scorsese-premiere-date.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819103424/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/07/the-irishman-martin-scorsese-premiere-date.html |title=Martin Scorsese's The Irishman Gets First-Look Photos, World Premiere Date |website=Paste |first=Harry |last=Todd |date=July 29, 2019 |access-date=August 19, 2019 |archive-date=August 19, 2019 |url-status=live}} It received a limited theatrical release on November 1, 2019, followed by digital streaming on November 27, 2019, on Netflix.{{cite web |first=Mike Jr. |last=Fleming |title=Netflix Sets November 1 Theatrical Bow For Martin Scorsese-Directed 'The Irishman:' 27 Day US & UK Rollout Comes Before Pic Streams For Thanksgiving Holiday |url=https://deadline.com/2019/08/the-irishman-netflix-november-1-theatrical-bow-martin-scorsese-robert-deniro-27-day-us-uk-rollout-stream-thanksgiving-holiday-1202704994/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827140928/https://deadline.com/2019/08/the-irishman-netflix-november-1-theatrical-bow-martin-scorsese-robert-deniro-27-day-us-uk-rollout-stream-thanksgiving-holiday-1202704994/ |website=Deadline |date=August 27, 2019 |access-date=August 27, 2019 |archive-date=August 27, 2019 |url-status=live}} In January 2020, The Irishman received ten Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Pacino and Pesci.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/netflix-oscar-nominations-2020-the-irishman-marriage-story-1203463792/|title=Netflix Leads Oscar Nominations for the First Time Behind 'Irishman,' 'Marriage Story'|last=Donnelly|first=Matt|date=January 13, 2020|website=Variety|url-status=live|access-date=January 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125204835/https://variety.com/2020/film/news/netflix-oscar-nominations-2020-the-irishman-marriage-story-1203463792/|archive-date=January 25, 2020}}

On December 29, 2020, the trailer for Scorsese's Netflix documentary series Pretend It's a City was released. The series features Fran Lebowitz and Scorsese as they delve into her personal beliefs and thoughts on New York City.{{cite magazine|title=Martin Scorsese Reveals New Fran Lebowitz Doc, 'Pretend It's a City'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/martin-scorsese-fran-lebowitz-doc-pretend-city-netflix-1107985/|access-date=December 30, 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=December 28, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229234523/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/martin-scorsese-fran-lebowitz-doc-pretend-city-netflix-1107985/|url-status=live}} The project was released January 8, 2021, on Netflix.{{cite web|title=Pretend It's a City Trailer: Martin Scorsese Presents Fran Lebowitz's New York|url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/pretend-its-a-city-trailer-martin-scorsese-fran-lebowitz.html|access-date=December 30, 2020|website=Vulture|date=December 28, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229224723/https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/pretend-its-a-city-trailer-martin-scorsese-fran-lebowitz.html|url-status=live}} This is Scorsese's second documentary featuring Lebowitz, the first being Public Speaking (2010), which was released on HBO.{{cite web|title=Fran Lebowitz vs. the World Talking (on a landline) with the star of Martin Scorsese's cranky, necessary love letter to New York, Pretend It's a City.|url=https://www.curbed.com/article/fran-lebowitz-pretend-its-a-city.html|access-date=December 30, 2020|website=Curbed|date=December 29, 2020|archive-date=December 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229190019/https://www.curbed.com/article/fran-lebowitz-pretend-its-a-city.html|url-status=live}} In October 2022, Scorsese and David Tedeschi premiered their collaborative film Personality Crisis: One Night Only, at the New York Film Festival. The film is a documentary about David Johansen, featuring both contemporary concert footage shot for the project as well as archival footage.{{Cite web |last1=Complex |first1=Valerie |date=October 16, 2022 |title='Personality Crisis: One Night Only' Review: Martin Scorsese And David Tedeschi Rock Out To The Music Of New York Legend David Johansen |url=https://deadline.com/2022/10/personality-crisis-one-night-only-review-martin-scorsese-and-david-tedeschi-1235146172/ |access-date=October 28, 2022 |website=Deadline |archive-date=October 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027142914/https://deadline.com/2022/10/personality-crisis-one-night-only-review-martin-scorsese-and-david-tedeschi-1235146172/ |url-status=live }}

File:ScorseseScreentalk071023 (6 of 27) (53241781347).jpg at the London Film Festival in 2023]]

In July 2019, Scorsese started scouting locations in preparation for the 2020 filming of his next film Killers of the Flower Moon, a film adaptation of the book of the same name by David Grann. Scorsese would team up with Leonardo DiCaprio for the sixth time and Robert De Niro for the tenth time.{{cite web|url=https://hnentertainment.co/robert-deniro-reportedly-joins-leonardo-dicaprio-in-martin-scorsese-crime-thriller-killers-of-the-flower-moon-begins-filming-next-spring-summer/|title=Robert De Niro Reportedly Joins Leonardo DiCaprio In Martin Scorsese's Crime Thriller 'Killers of The Flower Moon'|website=HN Entertainment|access-date=October 25, 2019|date=July 27, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022034909/https://hnentertainment.co/robert-deniro-reportedly-joins-leonardo-dicaprio-in-martin-scorsese-crime-thriller-killers-of-the-flower-moon-begins-filming-next-spring-summer/|archive-date=October 22, 2019}} 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 pandemic."Scorsese, DiCaprio's 'Flower Moon' Eyes March 2020 Start," by Zack Sharf. December 2, 2019, IndieWire. [https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/scorsese-dicaprio-killers-flower-moon-filming-march-2020-tone-1202193610/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227091805/https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/scorsese-dicaprio-killers-flower-moon-filming-march-2020-tone-1202193610/|date=December 27, 2019}} In April 2020, it was announced that filming for Killers of the Flower Moon had been postponed indefinitely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, that the potential cost of the film had ballooned to $200 million, and that Scorsese was in talks with Netflix or Apple to produce and distribute, with Paramount Pictures involved as a partner.{{cite web |last=Sharf |first=Zack |url=https://www.krmg.com/news/local/postponement-killers-the-august-moon-leads-chance-part-the-movie/7qBMQ9oXtIOxs0Ef18e8wN/ |title=Postponement of Killers of the Flower Moon leads to a chance to be in the movie |website=KRMG |date=April 16, 2020 |access-date=August 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811172746/https://www.krmg.com/news/local/postponement-killers-the-august-moon-leads-chance-part-the-movie/7qBMQ9oXtIOxs0Ef18e8wN/ |archive-date=August 11, 2020 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/04/martin-scorsese-talks-apple-netflix-distribute-killers-of-the-flower-moon-1202224149/ |title=Martin Scorsese Talking With Apple, Netflix to Distribute Next Film — Report |first=Tyler |last=Hersko |work=IndieWire |date=April 10, 2020 |access-date=April 10, 2020 |archive-date=April 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200410064800/https://www.indiewire.com/2020/04/martin-scorsese-talks-apple-netflix-distribute-killers-of-the-flower-moon-1202224149/ |url-status=live }} On May 27, 2020, Apple bought the production and distribution rights to the film, which was released theatrically by Paramount and streamed on Apple TV+.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2020/05/killers-of-the-flower-moon-martin-scorsese-leonardo-dicaprio-robert-de-niro-apple-paramount-1202904816/ |title=Apple Partners With Paramount on Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's 'Killers of the Flower Moon' |first=Mike Jr. |last=Fleming |work=Deadline Hollywood |date=May 27, 2020 |access-date=May 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528002737/https://deadline.com/2020/05/killers-of-the-flower-moon-martin-scorsese-leonardo-dicaprio-robert-de-niro-apple-paramount-1202904816/ |url-status=live }} Principal photography commenced in April 2021.{{Cite web|last=Sharf|first=Zack|date=February 18, 2021|title=Jesse Plemons Takes Over DiCaprio's Original Role in Scorsese's 'Flower Moon' After Script Changes|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/flower-moon-script-changes-jesse-plemons-dicaprio-role-1234617674/|access-date=February 23, 2021|website=IndieWire|archive-date=February 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228004955/https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/flower-moon-script-changes-jesse-plemons-dicaprio-role-1234617674/|url-status=live}} It premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2023, receiving a nine-minute standing ovation and was released theatrically on October 20, 2023.{{Cite web |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |date=March 31, 2023 |title=Martin Scorsese's 'Killers Of The Flower Moon' Officially Confirmed For Cannes Film Festival |url=https://deadline.com/2023/03/martin-scorsese-killers-flower-moon-cannes-film-festival-leonardo-dicaprio-debut-1235314406/ |access-date=April 27, 2023 |website=Deadline |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407092953/https://deadline.com/2023/03/martin-scorsese-killers-flower-moon-cannes-film-festival-leonardo-dicaprio-debut-1235314406/ |url-status=live }} On May 16, 2023, while promoting Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese spoke about his eagerness to continue working, stating: "I'm old. I read stuff. I see things. I want to tell stories, and there's no more time."{{Cite web |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr. |date=May 16, 2023 |title=Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio & Robert De Niro On How They Found The Emotional Handle For Their Cannes Epic 'Killers Of The Flower Moon' |url=https://deadline.com/2023/10/martin-scorsese-interview-killers-of-the-flower-moon-leonardo-dicaprio-robert-de-niro-1235359006/ |access-date=May 20, 2023 |website=Deadline |archive-date=May 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520221259/https://deadline.com/2023/05/martin-scorsese-interview-killers-of-the-flower-moon-leonardo-dicaprio-robert-de-niro-1235359006/ |url-status=live }} It was nominated for ten Oscars, and seven Golden Globes, winning one for Best Actress in a Drama Lily Gladstone. That same year, he directed a commercial for Bleu de Chanel starring Timothée Chalamet.{{cite web|url= https://www.avclub.com/martin-scorsese-timothee-chalamet-chanel-ad-1850978059|title= You won't even have time for a pee break during Martin Scorsese's 60-second perfume ad|website= AV Club|date= October 31, 2023|accessdate= November 1, 2023|archive-date= November 1, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231101013531/https://www.avclub.com/martin-scorsese-timothee-chalamet-chanel-ad-1850978059|url-status= live}}

In 2024, Scorsese narrated the documentary film Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger directed by David Hinton. Guy Lodge of Variety wrote: "Scorsese may not have directed this engaging tour through a vital filmography, but he narrates with palpable, personal devotion to his subject."{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/made-in-england-the-films-of-powell-and-pressburger-review-martin-scorsese-1235917890/|title= 'Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger' Review: Martin Scorsese Sends a Valentine to British Cinema's Great Dreamers|website= Variety|date= February 21, 2024|accessdate= April 27, 2024}} The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival where it was picked up for distribution by MUBI.{{cite web|url= https://deadline.com/2024/02/martin-scorsese-film-made-england-films-powell-pressburger-us-distribution-deals-berlin-1235832767/|title= Martin Scorsese-Narrated Documentary 'Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger' Gets U.S. Distribution Deals Ahead Of Berlin Premiere|website= Deadline Hollywood|date= February 21, 2024|accessdate= April 27, 2024}}

In November 2021, Scorsese was set to direct a biopic feature about rock band the Grateful Dead for Apple Studios featuring Jonah Hill.{{cite news|title=Jonah Hill To Play Jerry Garcia In Martin Scorsese-Directed Grateful Dead Pic For Apple|url=https://deadline.com/2021/11/jonah-hill-jerry-garcia-martin-scorsese-grateful-dead-pic-apple-1234875832/|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=November 18, 2021|first=Justin|last=Kroll|access-date=February 10, 2024|archive-date=November 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119040607/https://deadline.com/2021/11/jonah-hill-jerry-garcia-martin-scorsese-grateful-dead-pic-apple-1234875832/|url-status=live}} In July 2022, it was announced Scorsese would direct an adaptation of David Grann's non-fiction novel The Wager for Apple Studios, reteaming once again with DiCaprio.{{cite news|title=Leonardo DiCaprio & Martin Scorsese Reteam For Apple Film 'The Wager' Based On David Grann Book|url=https://deadline.com/2022/07/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-reteam-for-apple-film-the-wager-1235081275/|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=July 29, 2022|first=Matt|last=Grobar|access-date=August 4, 2022|archive-date=August 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804205539/https://deadline.com/2022/07/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-reteam-for-apple-film-the-wager-1235081275/|url-status=live}} In May 2023, after meeting with Pope Francis, Scorsese said he was considering writing and directing a new film about Jesus.{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2023/film/global/martin-scorsese-pope-francis-film-about-jesus-1235627620/|title=Martin Scorsese Meets Pope Francis, Announces Film About Jesus – Report|work=Variety|date=May 29, 2023|first=Nick|last=Vivarelli|access-date=May 29, 2023|archive-date=May 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529111935/https://variety.com/2023/film/global/martin-scorsese-pope-francis-film-about-jesus-1235627620/|url-status=live}} More details were revealed in January 2024, revealing that it would likely be Scorsese's next film and that he had co-written it with Kent Jones, based on the Shūsaku Endō novel A Life of Jesus.{{cite news|url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/martin-scorsese-confirms-a-life-of-jesus-script-finished-1234941542/|title=Martin Scorsese Confirms 'A Life of Jesus' Script Is Finished: 80-Minute Movie Will Not 'Proselytize'|work=Indiewire|date=January 8, 2024|first=Samantha|last=Bergeson|access-date=January 9, 2024|archive-date=January 8, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240108235951/https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/martin-scorsese-confirms-a-life-of-jesus-script-finished-1234941542/|url-status=live}} In 2023, during an interview with GQ, it was revealed that Scorsese was working on an adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's Home with Todd Field and Jones.{{cite web|url= https://www.gq.com/story/martin-scorsese-profile|title= Martin Scorsese: "I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am."|website= GQ|date= September 25, 2023|accessdate= September 25, 2023|archive-date= September 25, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230925132509/https://www.gq.com/story/martin-scorsese-profile|url-status= live}} It was reported in February 2025 that Scorsese would be directing a mob movie set in Hawaii, starring and being co-produced by Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt. Johnson and Blunt pitched the plot to Scorsese and DiCaprio, which was described as being "a cross between Goodfellas and The Departed", and Nick Bilton was hired as a screenwriter.{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/2025/film/news/martin-scorsese-dwayne-johnson-leonardo-dicaprio-emily-blunt-crime-movie-1236314279/|title= Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Attached to Hawaii-Set Crime Film From Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt|website= Variety|date= February 20, 2025|accessdate= February 20, 2025}} In March 2025, it was announced that he would be adapting Robinson's Home for Apple TV+ with DiCaprio starring.{{cite web|url=https://theplaylist.net/home-martin-scorsese-leo-dicaprio-marilynne-robinson-apple-todd-field-20250310/|title=Martin Scorsese's 'Home' Starring Leo DiCaprio Lands At Apple|website=ThePlaylist|date=March 10, 2025}}

Several recurring filmmaking techniques are identifiable in many of Scorsese's films. He has established a filmmaking history which involves repeat collaborations with actors, screenwriters, film editors, and cinematographers, sometimes extending over several decades, such as that with recurring cinematographers Michael Ballhaus, Robert Richardson, and Rodrigo Prieto.

Scorsese is known for his frequent use of slow motion, for example, in Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967) and Mean Streets (1973).[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/scorsese/ Martin Scorsese] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225033838/http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/scorsese/ |date=December 25, 2010 }} by Marc Raymond, Senses of Cinema (online), May 2002 He is also known for using freeze frames, such as: in the opening credits of The King of Comedy (1983), throughout Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), The Departed (2006), and in The Irishman (2019). His blonde leading ladies are usually seen through the eyes of the protagonist as angelic and ethereal; they wear white in their first scene and are photographed in slow motion—Cybill Shepherd in Taxi Driver; Cathy Moriarty's white bikini in Raging Bull; Sharon Stone's white minidress in Casino.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070513035400/http://www.frankiesfilms.com/html/martin_scorsese.html Martin Scorsese], Frankie's Films (online), January 2007 This may be a nod to director Alfred Hitchcock.{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tours/hitch/tour8.html |title=Hitchcock and Women |publisher=Screenonline.org.uk |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211013832/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tours/hitch/tour8.html |archive-date=February 11, 2010}} Scorsese often uses long tracking shots,{{Cite news |first=Jake |last=Coyle |url=https://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2007/12/29/atonement_brings_the_long_tracking_shot_back_into_focus/?page=1 |title="Atonement" brings the long tracking shot back into focus |work=Boston Globe |date=December 29, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203044006/http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2007/12/29/atonement_brings_the_long_tracking_shot_back_into_focus/?page=1 |archive-date=February 3, 2009}} as seen in Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York, and Hugo. MOS sequences set to popular music or voice-over are regularly seen in his films, often involving aggressive camera movement or rapid editing.[https://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/martin_scorseses_comfortable_state_of_anxiety_3290/ Martin Scorsese's Comfortable State of Anxiety] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121217163916/https://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/martin_scorseses_comfortable_state_of_anxiety_3290/ |date=December 17, 2012 }}, by Timothy Rhys, MovieMaker Magazine (online), October 16, 2002 Scorsese sometimes highlights characters in a scene with an iris, an homage to 1920s silent film cinema (as scenes at the time sometimes used this transition). This effect can be seen in Casino (it is used on Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci), Life Lessons, The Departed (on Matt Damon), and Hugo. Some of his films include references/allusions to Westerns, particularly Rio Bravo, The Great Train Robbery, Shane, The Searchers, and The Oklahoma Kid. Slow motion flashbulbs and accented camera/flash/shutter sounds are often used, as is the song "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones heard in several of Scorsese's films: Goodfellas, Casino, and The Departed.

Scorsese usually has a quick cameo in his films (Who's That Knocking at My Door, Boxcar Bertha, Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, After Hours, The Last Temptation of Christ (albeit hidden under a hood), The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York, Hugo, Killers of the Flower Moon), he is also known to contribute his voice to a film without appearing on screen (e.g. as in The Aviator and The Wolf of Wall Street). In The Age of Innocence, for example, he appears in the non-speaking role of a large format portrait photographer in one of the passing scenes of the film. He provides the opening voice-over narration in Mean Streets and The Color of Money; plays the off-screen dressing room attendant in the final scene of Raging Bull, and provides the voice of the unseen ambulance dispatcher in Bringing Out the Dead.[http://www.filmsite.org/directorcameos1.html Most Famous Film Director Cameos] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510072224/http://www.filmsite.org/directorcameos1.html |date=May 10, 2008 }} by Tim Dirks, Filmsite.org (online), 2008 He also appears as the director of fictional newly formed Vatican Television in the Italian comedy In the Pope's Eye.

Guilt is a prominent theme in many of his films, as is the role of Catholicism in creating and dealing with guilt (Who's That Knocking at My Door, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Bringing Out the Dead, The Departed, Shutter Island, and The Irishman). In a similar manner, Scorsese considered Silence a "passion project": it had been in development since 1990, two years after the release of his film The Last Temptation of Christ, which also contained strongly religious themes."[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/silence-release-date-us-uk-martin-scorsese-liam-neeson-oscars-2017-adam-driver-andrew-garfield-a7332221.html Silence release date sets Martin Scorsese's passion project up for Oscars] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201020834/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/silence-release-date-us-uk-martin-scorsese-liam-neeson-oscars-2017-adam-driver-andrew-garfield-a7332221.html |date=December 1, 2016 }}". The Independent. September 27, 2016. When asked why he retained interest in a project dealing with strong theological themes for over 26 years, Scorsese said,

As you get older, ideas go and come. Questions, answers, loss of the answer again and more questions, and this is what really interests me. Yes, the cinema and the people in my life and my family are most important, but ultimately as you get older, there's got to be more ... Silence is just something that I'm drawn to in that way. It's been an obsession, it has to be done ... it's a strong, wonderful true story, a thriller in a way, but it deals with those questions.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2013/04/martin-scorsese-to-make-noise-on-silence-at-cannes-emmettfurla-films-funding-the-film-479101 |title=Martin Scorsese to Make Noise on 'Silence' at Cannes; Emmett/Furla Funding The Film |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=April 19, 2013 |access-date=January 16, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160219231833/http://deadline.com/2013/04/martin-scorsese-to-make-noise-on-silence-at-cannes-emmettfurla-films-funding-the-film-479101/ |archive-date=February 19, 2016 }}

More recently, his films have featured corrupt authority figures, such as policemen in The Departed[https://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/10/11/revisiting_southies_culture_of_death/ "Revisiting Southie's culture of death"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202061132/http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/10/11/revisiting_southies_culture_of_death/ |date=February 2, 2009 }}, Michael Patrick MacDonald, The Boston Globe (online), October 11, 2006 and politicians in Gangs of New York[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021220/REVIEWS/212200304/1023 "Gangs of New York Review"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023005939/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20021220%2FREVIEWS%2F212200304%2F1023 |date=October 23, 2009 }}, Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (online), December 20, 2002 and The Aviator.[https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/12/20/041220crci_cinema "High Rollers"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080616114916/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/12/20/041220crci_cinema |date=June 16, 2008 }}, David Denby, The New Yorker (online), December 20, 2004 He is also known for his liberal usage of profanity, dark humor, and violence.{{cite web |last=Swindle |first=David |date=October 9, 2006 |title=Martin Scorsese Retrospective |url=http://www.wthr.com/story/5515074/martin-scorsese-retrospective |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429090833/http://www.wthr.com/story/5515074/martin-scorsese-retrospective |archive-date=April 29, 2016 |access-date=February 26, 2016 |work=wthr.com}}

Scorsese's interest in political corruption as depicted in his films was expanded further in his 2019 film The Irishman. Richard Brody writing for The New Yorker found the main interpretation of the film to be a dark allegory of a realist reading of American politics and American society stating:

The real-life Hoffa... (was) a crucial player in both gangland politics and the actual practical politics of the day, and the movie's key through line is the inseparability of those two realms. The Irishman is a sociopolitical horror story that views much of modern American history as a continuous crime in motion, in which every level of society—from domestic life through local business through big business through national and international politics—is poisoned by graft and bribery, shady deals and dirty money, threats of violence and its gruesome enactment, and the hard-baked impunity that keeps the entire system running."Watching The Irishman on Netflix Is the Best Way to See It." By Richard Brody. December 2, 2019. The New Yorker. [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/watching-the-irishman-on-netflix-is-the-best-way-to-see-it] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203115510/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/watching-the-irishman-on-netflix-is-the-best-way-to-see-it|date=December 3, 2019}}.

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{{See also|List of film director and actor collaborations}}

Scorsese often casts the same actors in his projects, particularly Robert De Niro, who has collaborated with Scorsese on ten feature films and one short film. Included are the three films (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas) that made AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list. Scorsese has often said he thinks De Niro's best work under his direction was Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy. After the turn of the century, Scorsese found a new muse with younger actor Leonardo DiCaprio, collaborating on six feature films and one short to date.{{cite web |url=http://movies.go.com/moviesproxy/tipster?id=922715 |title=Leo & Marty: Yes, Again! |publisher=Movies.go.com |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080401160435/http://movies.go.com/moviesproxy/tipster?id=922715 |archive-date=April 1, 2008}} Several critics have compared Scorsese's new partnership with DiCaprio with his previous one with De Niro.{{cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.net/martin-scorsese/news/martin-scorsese-robert-de-niro-introduced-me-to-leonardo-dicaprio_6275540 |title=Scorsese Likens DiCaprio To De Niro |access-date=June 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502000140/http://www.contactmusic.net/martin-scorsese/news/martin-scorsese-robert-de-niro-introduced-me-to-leonardo-dicaprio_6275540 |archive-date=May 2, 2019 |url-status=dead }}{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2007/11/30/successful-hollywood-duos/ |title=Successful Hollywood Duos |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=November 30, 2007 |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703225354/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C20164049%2C00.html |archive-date=July 3, 2009}} Frequent collaborators also include: Victor Argo (6), Harvey Keitel (6), Harry Northup (6), J. C. MacKenzie (5), Murray Moston (5), Illeana Douglas (4), Joe Pesci (4), Frank Vincent (3), Barry Primus (3), and Verna Bloom (3). Others who have appeared in multiple Scorsese projects include Daniel Day-Lewis, who had become very reclusive to the Hollywood scene, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Dick Miller, Liam Neeson, Emily Mortimer, Jesse Plemons, John C. Reilly, David Carradine, Barbara Hershey, Kevin Corrigan, Jake Hoffman, Frank Sivero, Ray Winstone and Nick Nolte. Before their deaths, Scorsese's parents, Charles Scorsese and Catherine Scorsese, appeared in bit parts, walk-ons or supporting roles, such as in Goodfellas.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H6FYOa4GLlUC&q=%22martin+scorsese%22+cappa&pg=PA3|chapter=The Immigrant Generations: Italianamerican|title=Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese|first=Robert|last=Casillo|publisher=University of Toronto Press|date=2006|isbn=9780802091130|access-date=January 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514223323/https://books.google.com/books?id=H6FYOa4GLlUC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=%22martin+scorsese%22+cappa&source=web&ots=XuM9FK0JmH&sig=y_dlnLLiNhkpzQDa1U1SITHmqNo|archive-date=May 14, 2019|url-status=live}}

For his crew, Scorsese frequently worked with editors Marcia Lucas{{Cite web|url=https://uproxx.com/hitfix/martin-scorsese-looks-at-the-changing-face-of-oscar-season-over-four-decades/|title=Martin Scorsese looks at the changing face of Oscar season over four decades|last=uproxx|date=February 25, 2014|website=UPROXX|access-date=December 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224193801/https://uproxx.com/hitfix/martin-scorsese-looks-at-the-changing-face-of-oscar-season-over-four-decades/|archive-date=December 24, 2019|url-status=live}} and Thelma Schoonmaker,{{cite magazine |last=Labrecque |first=Jeff |title='Wolf of Wall Street's Thelma Schoonmaker on her historic partnership with Martin Scorsese |url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/02/11/wolf-of-wall-street-dicaprio-scorsese-thelma-schoonmaker/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=February 11, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418234422/http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/02/11/wolf-of-wall-street-dicaprio-scorsese-thelma-schoonmaker/ |archive-date=April 18, 2014}} cinematographers Michael Ballhaus,{{cite web |last=Bosley |first=Rachael K. |url=http://www.theasc.com/magazine/jan03/native/index.html |title=Michael Ballhaus, ASC takes on Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, a 19th-century tale of vengeance and valor set in the city's most notorious neighborhood |publisher=Theasc.com |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018023027/http://www.theasc.com/magazine/jan03/native/index.html |archive-date=October 18, 2010}} Robert Richardson, Michael Chapman and Rodrigo Prieto, screenwriters Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin, Jay Cocks, Terrence Winter, John Logan and Steven Zaillian, costume designer Sandy Powell, production designers Dante Ferretti and Bob Shaw, music producer Robbie Robertson, and composers Howard Shore{{cite web |url=http://www.scorsesefilms.com/aviator.htm |title=The Aviator |publisher=Scorsese Films |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212233258/http://www.scorsesefilms.com/aviator.htm |archive-date=February 12, 2010}} and Elmer Bernstein.{{cite web |last=Jeffries |first=Stuart |url=http://www.elmerbernstein.com/news/haynes_scorsese.html |title=Some You Win |publisher=Elmerbernstein.com |date=January 6, 2003 |access-date=March 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721035752/http://www.elmerbernstein.com/news/haynes_scorsese.html |archive-date=July 21, 2009}} Schoonmaker, Richardson, Powell, and Ferretti have each won Academy Awards in their respective categories on collaborations with Scorsese. Elaine and Saul Bass, the latter being Hitchcock's frequent title designer, designed the opening credits for Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Casino and Cape Fear.

Scorsese has been married five times.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

In 1965, Scorsese married Laraine Marie Brennan. They have a daughter, Catherine, who was named after Scorsese's mother.{{cite web | url=https://sports.yahoo.com/martin-scorseses-life-photos-140500788.html | title=Martin Scorsese's Life in Photos | date=November 17, 2022 | access-date=June 18, 2023 | archive-date=June 18, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618185700/https://sports.yahoo.com/martin-scorseses-life-photos-140500788.html | url-status=live }} The couple remained together until 1971.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

In 1976, Scorsese married writer Julia Cameron. They have a daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese,{{cite web|title=He lowkey slayed. #fyp #martinscorsese #dadsoftiktok #dadguesses|url=https://www.tiktok.com/@francescascorsese/video/7286611789863980334|publisher=Francesca Scorsese is giving her father, Martin Scorsese, slang words to guess on TikTok. Published October 5, 2023|access-date=October 6, 2023|archive-date=October 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006083907/https://www.tiktok.com/@francescascorsese/video/7286611789863980334|url-status=live}} an actress who appeared in The Age of Innocence. After one year of marriage, the couple had an acrimonious divorce which served as the basis of Cameron's first feature, the dark comedy God's Will,{{cite news |title=God's Will (1989) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/163155/God-s-Will/overview |access-date=April 18, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423023314/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/163155/God-s-Will/overview |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Clarke Fountain |date=2014 |archive-date=April 23, 2014}} which also starred their daughter.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/martinscorsese0000keys/page/188 |author=Keyser, Les |title=Twayne's Filmmakers Series: Martin Scorsese |publisher=Twayne Publishers: New York |year=1998 |page=[https://archive.org/details/martinscorsese0000keys/page/188 188] |isbn=978-0-8057-9321-5 |access-date=February 27, 2016 }}{{Cite news |last=Piccalo |first=Gina |title=Agonizing success of 'Artist's Way' |work=Los Angeles Times |date=June 23, 2006 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-23-et-cameron23-story.html |access-date=June 1, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608122116/http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jun/23/entertainment/et-cameron23 |archive-date=June 8, 2016}} The latter had a small role in Cape Fear using the name Domenica Scorsese and has continued to act, write, direct and produce.{{cite web |last=Malkin |first=Marc |title=Scorsese's Family Business |url=http://www.eonline.com/news/59163/scorsese-s-family-business |publisher=E! |access-date=April 18, 2014 |date=April 16, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140420231140/http://www.eonline.com/news/59163/scorsese-s-family-business |archive-date=April 20, 2014}}

In 1979, Scorsese married actress Isabella Rossellini. The couple divorced in 1983.{{cite news |last=Halpern |first=Dan |title=Interview: Isabella Rossellini – Daddy's girl |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/may/01/features.features11 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=April 18, 2014 |date=April 30, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418234306/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/may/01/features.features11 |archive-date=April 18, 2014}}

In March 1983, Scorsese met Dawn Steel (then-junior executive at Paramount) at an annual ShoWest Convention (in Las Vegas, NV), after which the pair began a romantic relationship. Scorsese moved from New York to live in her Sunset Plaza residence while his Last Temptation of Christ was initially in development at Paramount (Steel reportedly recused herself from her boyfriend's passion project). In her 1993 memoir, Steel discussed their relationship, including attending the Cannes Film Festival premiere of The King of Comedy and later location scouting in Tunisia together. The two would reconnect professionally in 1987, jump-starting the restoration of Lawrence of Arabia (shortly after Steel's installation as president at Columbia Pictures).{{Cite book |last=Steel |first=Dawn |title=They Can Kill You... But They Can't Eat You: Lessons from the Front |date=October 1, 1993 |publisher=Pocket Books |isbn=9780671738327 |location=New York, NY |publication-date=October 1, 1993 |pages=167–179}}

In 1985, Scorsese married producer Barbara De Fina. The couple divorced in 1991.

From 1989 to 1997, Scorsese was romantically involved with actress Illeana Douglas.{{Cite web|last=Jewel|first=Dan|date=March 1, 1999|title=Note Worthy|url=https://people.com/archive/note-worthy-vol-51-no-8/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025225552/https://people.com/archive/note-worthy-vol-51-no-8/|archive-date=October 25, 2018|access-date=October 25, 2018|work=People}}

In 1999, Scorsese married Helen Schermerhorn Morris. They have a daughter, actress and filmmaker Francesca, who appeared in his films The Departed, Hugo, and The Aviator, and had a leading role in HBO/Sky's miniseries We Are Who We Are in 2020.{{Cite magazine|last=Miller|first=Julie|title=Read Martin Scorsese's Open Letter to His 14-Year-Old Daughter|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/01/martin-scorsese-open-letter-daughter|access-date=April 28, 2021|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=January 8, 2014|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112015345/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/01/martin-scorsese-open-letter-daughter|url-status=live}}{{Cite magazine|last=Gonzales|first=Erica|date=October 30, 2020|title=Francesca Scorsese Is Ready to Make a Name for Herself|url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a34534570/francesca-scorsese-interview/|access-date=April 28, 2021|magazine=Harper's BAZAAR|archive-date=April 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428054538/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a34534570/francesca-scorsese-interview/|url-status=live}}

Scorsese was an opponent of the Iraq War, wearing a white dove pin to the 75th Academy Awards in 2003 and clapping for Michael Moore's acceptance speech wherein he criticized President George W. Bush and the invasion.{{cite news |title=Stars Speak Against War At Oscars |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stars-speak-against-war-at-oscars/ |work=CBS |access-date=July 31, 2023 |archive-date=July 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230731122024/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stars-speak-against-war-at-oscars/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Stars split over Moore's speech |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-03-26-0303270371-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |access-date=July 31, 2023 |archive-date=July 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230731122024/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-03-26-0303270371-story.html |url-status=live }}

In March 2024, Scorsese settled a lawsuit with aspiring screenwriter Simon Afram.{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/martin-scorsese-lawsuit-settlement-1235858502/|title=Martin Scorsese Settles Lawsuit Over Claims He Reneged on Deal to Produce World War II Movie|first=Winston|last=Cho|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=March 22, 2024|accessdate=August 1, 2024}}{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/martin-scorsese-lawsuit-settles-operation-fortitude-1235949718/|title=Martin Scorsese Settles Lawsuit With Screenwriter Who Accused Him of Taking $500,000 to Do Nothing|first=Gene|last=Maddaus|work=Variety|date=March 22, 2024|accessdate=August 1, 2024}} Afram accused him of pocketing $500,000 to help handle casting, production and postproduction of his screenplay about World War II's Operation Fortitude, which was titled Operation Fortitude, only for Scorsese to then do nothing.

Scorsese previously identified as a lapsed Catholic, declaring "I'm a lapsed Catholic. But I am Roman Catholic; there's no way out of it."After Image: The Incredible Catholic Imagination of Six Catholic American Filmmakers, Robert A. Blake, Loyola Press, 2000, p. 25 In 2016, Scorsese identified himself as a Catholic again, saying, "my way has been, and is, Catholicism. After many years of thinking about other things, dabbling here and there, I am most comfortable as a Catholic. I believe in the tenets of Catholicism."

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{{as of|2023}}, Scorsese has directed 26 full-length narrative films and 16 full-length documentary films.

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Scorsese had been at the forefront in film preservation and restoration ever since 1990, when he created The Film Foundation, a non-profit film organization which collaborates with film studios to restore prints of old or damaged films. Scorsese launched the organization with Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford, and Steven Spielberg, who all sat on the foundation's original board of directors.Cruickshank, Douglas. [http://www.edutopia.org/martin-scorsese-teaching-visual-literacy "Martin Scorsese: Teaching Visual Literacy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204630/https://www.edutopia.org/martin-scorsese-teaching-visual-literacy |date=April 7, 2020 }}, edutopia.org, October 19, 2006, accessed November 3, 2014 In 2006, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Curtis Hanson, Peter Jackson, Ang Lee and Alexander Payne joined them.Pond, Steve. [http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/0701-Spring-2007/Features-Film-Preservation.aspx "Save the Day"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204620/http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/0701-Spring-2007/Features-Film-Preservation.aspx |date=April 7, 2020 }}, DGA Quarterly, Directors Guild of America, Spring 2007, accessed November 12, 2014 In 2015, Christopher Nolan also joined the board.Mike Fleming, Mike Jr. [https://deadline.com/2015/04/christopher-nolan-joins-film-foundation-board-1201414195 "Christopher Nolan Joins Film Foundation Board"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212135311/https://deadline.com/2015/04/christopher-nolan-joins-film-foundation-board-1201414195/ |date=December 12, 2019 }}, Deadline, April 22, 2015, accessed May 31, 2018 Recent members include Spike Lee, Sofia Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Barry Jenkins, Lynne Ramsay, Joanna Hogg and Kathryn Bigelow.{{cite web|url= https://www.film-foundation.org/board|title= Board of Directors|website= filmfoundation.org|accessdate= March 16, 2021|archive-date= June 28, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210628012452/http://www.film-foundation.org/board|url-status= live}}

The foundation has restored more than 800 films from around the world and conducts a free educational curriculum for young people on the language and history of film. Scorsese and the Foundation spearheaded fundraising for the film restoration of Michael Powell, and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes (1948).{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-may-17-ca-redshoes17-story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014004356/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/17/entertainment/ca-redshoes17|archive-date=October 14, 2018|title= 'The Red Shoes' shines anew|work=Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles, California | first=Kenneth | last=Turan |author-link=Kenneth Turan |date=May 17, 2009}} For his advocacy in film restoration he received the Robert Osborne Award at the 2018 TCM Film Festival. The award was given to Scorsese as "an individual who has significantly contributed to preserving the cultural heritage of classic films".{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/martin-scorsese-robert-osborne-award-1202714159/|title= Martin Scorsese Selected for Robert Osborne Award at TCM Festival|website= Variety|date= March 2018|access-date= April 7, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204621/https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/martin-scorsese-robert-osborne-award-1202714159/|archive-date= April 7, 2020|url-status= live}}

In November 2020, The Criterion Channel released a 30-minute video titled, 30 Years of The Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation, celebrating the "mission, evolution, and ongoing work of The Film Foundation". Scorsese stated as of 2020, the Foundation has helped restore 850 films.

On April 20, 2024, Scorsese partnered with Seth MacFarlane to showcase Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts at the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival. Macfarlane and Scorsese funded the restoration, and worked with the UCLA Film and Television Archive and The Film Foundation with Paramount Pictures Archives.{{Cite web |last=Helm |first=Douglas |date=2024-04-23 |title=Seth MacFarlane Teams With Martin Scorsese To Save Classic Cartoons |url=https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/?p=624413 |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT}}{{Cite web |last=Mendez |first=Gabriella |date=2024-04-18 |title=Seth MacFarlane and Martin Scorsese Team Up for Animation Restoration Project |url=https://www.cbr.com/seth-macfarlane-martin-scorsese-animation-restoration-project/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=CBR}}

In 2007, Scorsese established the World Cinema Project with the mission to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions generally ill-equipped to preserve their own cinema history.{{cite web|url=http://www.film-foundation.org/world-cinema|title=World Cinema Project|website=filmfoundation.org|access-date=April 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111152333/http://www.film-foundation.org/world-cinema|archive-date=November 11, 2019|url-status=live}} Scorsese's organization has worked with the Criterion Collection to not only preserve the films but to allow them to be released on DVD and Blu-ray boxsets and on streaming services such as The Criterion Channel.{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1021-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project|title=Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project|website=Criterion Collection|access-date=April 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211035657/https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1021-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project|archive-date=February 11, 2020|url-status=live}} Films in the WCP include Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl (1966), and Djibril Diop Mambéty's Touki Bouki (1973).

The Criterion Collection so far has released four Vol. boxsets on DVD and Blu-ray, titled, Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project. The first Volume includes 6 titles, Touki Bouki (1973), Redes (1936), A River Called Titas (1973), Dry Summer (1964), Trances (1981) and The Housemaid (1960).{{cite web|url= https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1021-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project|title= Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project|website= The Criterion Collection|access-date= April 7, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200211035657/https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1021-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project|archive-date= February 11, 2020|url-status= live}} The second volume also includes 6 titles, Insiang (1976), Mysterious Object at Noon (2000), Revenge (1989), Limite (1931), Law of the Border (1967), and Taipei Story (1985).{{cite web|url= https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1258-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-2|title= Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2|website= The Criterion Collection|access-date= April 7, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191020095337/https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1258-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-2|archive-date= October 20, 2019|url-status= live}} The third volume includes 6 titles as well: Lucía (1968), After the Curfew (1954), Pixote (1980), Dos monjes (1934), Soleil Ô (1970), and Downpour (1972). The 6 films included in the fourth set are Sambizanga (1972), Prisioneros de la tierra (1939), Chess of the Wind (1979), Muna Moto (1975), Two Girls on the Street (1939), and Kalpana (1948).

In 2017, Scorsese also introduced The African Film Heritage Project (AFHP), which is a joint initiative between Scorsese's non-profit The Film Foundation, UNESCO, Cineteca di Bologna, and the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI).{{cite web|url= https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/africa/martin-scorsese-african-film-heritage-project-unesco-fepaci/index.html|title= Martin Scorsese leads effort to save lost African cinema|website= CNN|date= November 10, 2017|access-date= April 7, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200229064144/https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/africa/martin-scorsese-african-film-heritage-project-unesco-fepaci/index.html|archive-date= February 29, 2020|url-status= live}} The project aims to locate and preserve 50 classic African films, some thought lost and others beyond repair, with hopes to make them available to audiences everywhere. In an interview with Cinema Escapist in 2018, Scorsese talked about the ambitious collaboration saying, "Our first goal is to launch and conduct a thorough investigation in film archives and laboratories around the world, in order to locate the best surviving elements—original negatives, we hope—for our first 50 titles."{{cite web|url= http://www.film-foundation.org/cinema-escapist|title= MARTIN SCORSESE ON THE AFRICAN FILM HERITAGE PROJECT|website= The Film Foundation|access-date= April 7, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200115165004/http://www.film-foundation.org/cinema-escapist|archive-date= January 15, 2020|url-status= live}} He also stated that "Restoration is always the primary goal, of course, but within the initiative, it's also a starting point of a process that follows through with exhibition and dissemination in Africa and abroad. And of course, our restoration process always includes the creation of preservation elements."

In 2019, the AFHP, announced that they would screen restorations of four African films on their home continent for the first time as part of the 50th anniversary of the Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou. The movies in question are Med Hondo's Soleil Ô (1970), Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina's Chronique des années de braise (1975), Timité Bassori's La Femme au couteau (1969), and Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa's Muna Moto (1975).{{cite web|url= https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/african-film-heritage-project-martin-scorsese-restorations-1202046208/|title= Martin Scorsese and the African Film Heritage Project Are Bringing Four Vital Films Home|website= IndieWire|date= February 23, 2019|access-date= April 7, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200118162740/https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/african-film-heritage-project-martin-scorsese-restorations-1202046208/|archive-date= January 18, 2020|url-status= live}}

Scorsese has mentioned his mentors being such filmmakers as John Cassavetes, Roger Corman, and Michael Powell.{{cite news|url= https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/martin-scorsese-and-me-mentored-by-a-master-cvrdnqfnhlf|title= Martin Scorsese mentored by masters|website= London Times|access-date= November 14, 2020|archive-date= December 27, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045209/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/martin-scorsese-and-me-mentored-by-a-master-cvrdnqfnhlf#:~:text=Scorsese%20says%20that%20his%20own,whom%20Raging%20Bull%20is%20dedicated)|url-status= live|last1= Maher|first1= Kevin}} In film critic Roger Ebert's book, Scorsese by Ebert, Ebert praised Scorsese for championing and supporting other filmmakers by serving as an executive producer on projects of filmmakers such as Antoine Fuqua, Wim Wenders, Kenneth Lonergan, Stephen Frears, Allison Anders, Spike Lee, and John McNaughton.{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/scorsese-by-ebert-introduction|title= Scorsese by Ebert: Introduction|website= Rogerebert.com|date= December 14, 2012|access-date= November 15, 2020|archive-date= September 22, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200922120559/https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/scorsese-by-ebert-introduction|url-status= live}} More recently he has executive produced the films of the Safdie Brothers, Joanna Hogg, Kornél Mundruczó, Josephine Decker, Danielle Lessovitz, Alice Rohrwacher, Jonas Carpignano, Amélie van Elmbt, and Celina Murga.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000217/|title=Martin Scorsese – IMDb|website=IMDb|access-date=November 14, 2020|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113055225/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000217/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url= https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/548002-scorsese-mentoring-argentinean-director-celina-murga|title= Scorsese Mentoring Argentinean Director Celina Murga|website= ComingSoon.com|date= November 29, 2010|access-date= November 14, 2020|archive-date= November 20, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201120081739/https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/548002-scorsese-mentoring-argentinean-director-celina-murga|url-status= live}} Scorsese has also chosen to name filmmakers throughout the years that he admires such as fellow New York City-based directors Woody Allen and Spike Lee, as well as other artists such as Wes Anderson, Bong Joon-ho, Greta Gerwig, Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Claire Denis, Noah Baumbach, Paul Thomas Anderson, Christopher Nolan, the Coen Brothers, and Kathryn Bigelow.{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/16/magazine/the-two-hollywoods-the-directors-woody-allen-martin-scorsese.html|title= The Two Hollywoods: The Directors; Woody Allen; Martin Scorsese|newspaper= The New York Times|date= November 16, 1997|access-date= November 16, 2020|archive-date= December 29, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171229120624/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/16/magazine/the-two-hollywoods-the-directors-woody-allen-martin-scorsese.html|url-status= live|last1= Hirschberg|first1= Lynn}}{{cite web|url= https://www.indiewire.com/2020/07/scorsese-champions-ari-aster-hereditary-midsommar-1234571523/|title= Scorsese Champions Ari Aster Movies: 'So Disturbing' They're 'Deeply Uncomfortable'|website= IndieWire|date= July 6, 2020|access-date= November 14, 2020|archive-date= December 27, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045209/https://www.indiewire.com/2020/07/scorsese-champions-ari-aster-hereditary-midsommar-1234571523/|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/martin-scorsese-bong-joon-ho-letter-parasite-oscar-wins-1202212336/|title= Scorsese Wrote Bong Joon Ho a Heartfelt Letter After Oscars: 'You've Done Well, Now Rest'|website= IndieWire|date= February 20, 2020|access-date= November 14, 2020|archive-date= February 21, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200221011553/https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/martin-scorsese-bong-joon-ho-letter-parasite-oscar-wins-1202212336/|url-status= live}}{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html|title= Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren't Cinema. Let Me Explain|newspaper= The New York Times|date= November 5, 2019|access-date= November 14, 2020|archive-date= November 16, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201116042951/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html|url-status= live|last1= Scorsese|first1= Martin}}{{cite web|url= https://www.thewrap.com/martin-scorsese-expands-on-marvel-movies/|title= Martin Scorsese Expands on Marvel Movies Comments: 'Theme Park Films' Are 'a New Art Form'|website= The Wrap|date= October 26, 2019|access-date= November 14, 2020|archive-date= August 5, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200805051248/https://www.thewrap.com/martin-scorsese-expands-on-marvel-movies/|url-status= live}}{{cite news |url=http://filmtalk.org/2015/10/26/martin-scorsese-theres-always-the-budget-but-i-am-more-concerned-about-the-creative-freedom/ |title=Martin Scorsese: There's always the budget, but I am more concerned about the creative freedom |date=October 26, 2015 |publisher=Filmtalk |access-date=February 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025044907/https://filmtalk.org/2015/10/26/martin-scorsese-theres-always-the-budget-but-i-am-more-concerned-about-the-creative-freedom/|archive-date=October 25, 2016|url-status=live}}

Scorsese listed Pickup on South Street as one of his favorite films.{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=111}} The Band Wagon is his favorite musical.{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=72}}

In 2012, Scorsese participated in the Sight & Sound film polls of that year. Held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary directors were asked to select ten films of their choice. Scorsese, however, picked 12, which are listed below in alphabetical order:{{cite web|title=Martin Scorsese's Picks for 2012 Sight and Sound Polls|url=http://bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/1058|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160223005206/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people//sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/1058|archive-date=February 23, 2016|access-date=August 22, 2012|website=Bfi.org.uk|publisher=British Film Institute}}

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• 2001: A Space Odyssey (US/UK,1968)
• 8½ (Italy, 1963)
• Ashes and Diamonds (Poland, 1958)
• Citizen Kane (US, 1941)
• The Leopard (Italy, 1963)
• Paisà (Italy, 1946)
• The Red Shoes (UK, 1948)
• The River (US, 1951)
• Salvatore Giuliano (Italy, 1962)
• The Searchers (US, 1956)
• Ugetsu (Japan, 1953)
• Vertigo (US, 1958)

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Ten years later, Scorsese participated again in the Sight & Sound polls, picking 15 films, the same 12 of the 2012 list, plus the following:{{cite web|title=Martin Scorsese and Bong Joon Ho's 2022 Lists of the Greatest Films of All-Time|date=December 2, 2022|url=https://thefilmstage.com/martin-scorsese-and-bong-joon-hos-2022-lists-of-the-greatest-films-of-all-time/|access-date=December 7, 2022|archive-date=December 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207201805/https://thefilmstage.com/martin-scorsese-and-bong-joon-hos-2022-lists-of-the-greatest-films-of-all-time/|url-status=live}}

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• Diary of a Country Priest (France, 1951)
• Ikiru (Japan, 1952)
• Ordet (Denmark, 1955)

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In 1999, after the death of Gene Siskel, Scorsese joined Roger Ebert as the guest co-host for an episode of Siskel & Ebert where they each stated their 10 favorite films of the 1990s.{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/ebert-and-scorsese-best-films-of-the-1990s|title= Ebert & Scorsese: Best Films of the 1990s|website= Rogerebert.com|date= December 19, 2012|access-date= November 15, 2020|archive-date= August 28, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180828102353/https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/ebert-and-scorsese-best-films-of-the-1990s|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://siskelebert.org/?p=7515|title= Ebert & Scorsese: Best Films of the 1990S|website= Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews|access-date= November 15, 2020|archive-date= October 23, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201023230522/https://siskelebert.org/?p=7515|url-status= live}} Scorsese's list numerically is:

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1. The Horse Thief (China, 1986)
2. The Thin Red Line (US, 1998)
3. A Borrowed Life (Taiwan, 1994)
4. Eyes Wide Shut (US/UK, 1999)
5. Bad Lieutenant (US, 1992)
6. Breaking the Waves (Denmark/UK, 1996)
7. Bottle Rocket (US, 1996)
8. Crash (Canada, 1996)
9. Fargo (US, 1996)
10. Malcolm X (US, 1992) and Heat (US, 1995) (tie)

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In 2012, Scorsese recommended 39 foreign films to Colin Levy.{{Cite web|last=Bell|first=Crystal|date=March 27, 2012|title=Martin Scorsese Foreign Film List: Director Recommends 39 Films To Young Filmmaker Colin Levy|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/martin-scorsese-foreign-film-list-colin-levy_n_1382131|access-date=January 14, 2021|website=Huffington Post|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115231856/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/martin-scorsese-foreign-film-list-colin-levy_n_1382131|url-status=live}}

In 2019, Martin Scorsese contributed his list of favorite films to LaCinetek, a streaming platform that compiles film lists from filmmakers worldwide.{{Cite news |last=Vincentelli |first=Elisabeth |date=2020-07-29 |title=The World's Greatest Directors Have Their Own Streaming Lists |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/movies/la-cinetek-streaming.html |access-date=2024-06-03 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} As a tireless cinephile, Scorsese submitted two lists: one featuring 73 "founding" films and another "alternative list" with 106 films.{{Cite web |title=Martin Scorsese's list |url=https://www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/director-list/martin-scorsese-5 |access-date=2024-06-03 |website=LaCinetek}} He also included a letter to Cédric Klapisch, one of LaCinetek's founders, explaining his selections and noting that many filmmakers and films he admires are not included in these lists.{{Cite web| title=Letter by Martin Scorsese to Cédric Klapisch and LaCinetek | url=https://www.ens.psl.eu/sites/default/files/etudes-cinematographiques-cnel2019.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303234733/http://www.ens.psl.eu/sites/default/files/etudes-cinematographiques-cnel2019.pdf | archive-date=2022-03-03}}

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Scorsese's films have been nominated for numerous awards both nationally and internationally, with an Academy Award win for The Departed. In 1991, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.{{cite web|title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement|website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/|access-date=September 18, 2020|archive-date=December 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215023909/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/|url-status=live}} In 1997, Scorsese received the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed three Scorsese films on their list of the greatest American movies: Raging Bull at No. 24, Taxi Driver at No. 47, and Goodfellas at No. 94. For the tenth-anniversary edition of their list, Raging Bull was moved to No. 4, Taxi Driver was moved to No. 52, and Goodfellas was moved to No. 92.[http://www.afi.com/100Years/movies10.aspx AFI's 100 Greatest American Films of All Time] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109230331/http://www.afi.com/100years/movies10.aspx |date=January 9, 2014 }} American Film Institute. Retrieved February 26, 2017. In 2001, the American Film Institute placed two Scorsese films on their list of the most "heart-pounding movies" in American cinema: Taxi Driver at No. 22 and Raging Bull at No. 51. At a ceremony in Paris, France, on January 5, 2005, Martin Scorsese was awarded the French Legion of Honour in recognition of his contribution to cinema. On February 8, 2006, at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, Scorsese was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for No Direction Home.

Lynda Myles organized a retrospective of Scorsese's work at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1975.{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=50}}

In 2007, Scorsese was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World.{{cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/completelist/0,29569,1595326,00.html |title=Complete List – The 2007 TIME 100 |magazine=Time |date=January 13, 2014 |access-date=January 24, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211031402/http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/completelist/0%2C29569%2C1595326%2C00.html |archive-date=December 11, 2013}} In August 2007, Scorsese was named the second-greatest director of all time in a poll by Total Film magazine, in front of Steven Spielberg and behind Alfred Hitchcock.{{cite web |url=http://www.totalfilm.com/features/greatest-directors-ever-part-2 |title=Greatest Directors Ever – Part 2 |publisher=Total Film |date=March 5, 2010 |access-date=January 24, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410003629/http://www.totalfilm.com/features/greatest-directors-ever-part-2 |archive-date=April 10, 2014}} In 2007, Scorsese was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (N.I.A.F.) at the nonprofit's thirty-second Anniversary Gala. During the ceremony, Scorsese helped launch N.I.A.F.'s Jack Valenti Institute in memory of former foundation board member and past president of the Motion Picture Association of America (M.P.A.A.) Jack Valenti. The Institute provides support to Italian film students in the U.S. Scorsese received his award from Mary Margaret Valenti, Jack Valenti's widow. Certain pieces of Scorsese's film-related material and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives, to which scholars and media experts from around the world may have full access.{{cite web |url=http://www.wesleyan.edu/cinema/ |title=Wesleyan University: The Wesleyan Cinema Archives |publisher=Wesleyan.edu |access-date=April 11, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100425075221/http://www.wesleyan.edu/cinema/ |archive-date=April 25, 2010}} 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 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. In 2013, the staff of Entertainment Weekly voted Mean Streets the seventh greatest film ever made.{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/gallery/movies-10-all-time-greatest/7-mean-streets-1973 |title=Movies: 10 All-Time Greatest – 7. Mean Streets (1973) |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=June 27, 2013 |access-date=February 23, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211080817/http://ew.com/gallery/movies-10-all-time-greatest/7-mean-streets-1973/ |archive-date=February 11, 2017}}

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On January 17, 2010, at the 67th Golden Globe Awards, Scorsese was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. On September 18, 2011, at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, Scorsese won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for his work on the series premiere of Boardwalk Empire. In 2011, Scorsese received an honorary doctorate from the National Film School in Lodz. At the awards ceremony he said, "I feel like I'm a part of this school and that I attended it," paying tribute to the films of Wajda, Munk, Has, Polanski and Skolimowski.{{cite web |url=http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/80316,Scorsese-comes-home-to-Poland |title=Scorsese 'comes home' to Poland – Thenews.pl :: News from Poland |publisher=Thenews.pl |access-date=January 5, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406144628/http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/80316%2CScorsese-comes-home-to-Poland |archive-date=April 6, 2012}} King Missile wrote "Martin Scorsese" in his honor. On February 12, 2012, at the 65th British Academy Film Awards, Scorsese was the recipient of the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award.

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On September 16, 2012, Scorsese won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Nonfiction Special for his work on the documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World.{{cite web |url=http://www.emmys.com/nominations/2012/Outstanding%20Directing%20For%20Nonfiction%20Programming |title=Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming 2012 |date=September 16, 2012 |work=emmys.com |access-date=September 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907002614/http://www.emmys.com/nominations/2012/Outstanding%20Directing%20For%20Nonfiction%20Programming|archive-date=September 7, 2012}} In 2013, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Scorsese for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. He was the first filmmaker chosen for the honor.{{cite news |last=Itzkoff |first=Dave |title=He's Talking to You: Scorsese to Give Jefferson Lecture for National Endowment for the Humanities |work=The New York Times |date=February 19, 2013 |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/hes-talking-to-you-scorsese-to-give-jefferson-lecture-for-national-endowment-for-the-humanities/ | access-date=September 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222200118/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/hes-talking-to-you-scorsese-to-give-jefferson-lecture-for-national-endowment-for-the-humanities/ |archive-date=February 22, 2014}} His lecture, delivered on April 1, 2013, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, was titled "Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema".[https://www.npr.org/2013/05/07/181692145/scorsese-talks-the-language-of-cinema "Scorsese Talks 'The Language Of Cinema'"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217061513/http://www.npr.org/2013/05/07/181692145/scorsese-talks-the-language-of-cinema |date=February 17, 2014 }}, NPR, May 7, 2013. Scorsese was awarded the Polish Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis on April 11, 2017, in recognition of his contribution to Polish cinema.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/pages/strona-glowna/ministerstwo/odznaczenia/medal-zasluzony-kulturze---gloria-artis.php |title=MKiDN – Medal Zasłużony Kulturze – Gloria Artis |website=www.mkidn.gov.pl |language=pl|access-date=October 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101054035/http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/pages/strona-glowna/ministerstwo/odznaczenia/medal-zasluzony-kulturze---gloria-artis.php|archive-date=November 1, 2017|url-status=live}}

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Scorsese has also garnered favorable responses from numerous film giants including Ingmar Bergman,{{cite web |title=EuroScreenwriters – Interviews with European Film Directors – Ingmar Bergman |url=http://zakka.dk/euroscreenwriters/interviews/ingmar_bergman_03.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826082557/http://zakka.dk/euroscreenwriters/interviews/ingmar_bergman_03.htm |archive-date=August 26, 2016 |access-date=March 5, 2017}} Frank Capra,{{Cite book |title=Frank Capra: interviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_-o2HI26KIC&q=scorsese |isbn=978-1-57806-617-9 |author1=Capra, Frank |author2=Poague, Leland A |date=March 2004| publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |access-date=January 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506191213/https://books.google.com/books?id=1_-o2HI26KIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Frank+Capra+interviews#v=onepage&q=scorsese&f=false|archive-date=May 6, 2016|url-status=live}} Jean-Luc Godard,{{Cite book |title=Jean-Luc Godard: interviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_Bf0RGzkJEC&q=Scorsese&pg=PA128 |isbn=978-1-57806-081-8 |author1=Godard, Jean Luc |author2=Sterritt, David |year=1998 | publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |access-date=February 27, 2016 |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045147/https://books.google.com/books?id=H_Bf0RGzkJEC&q=Scorsese&pg=PA128 |url-status=live }} Werner Herzog,{{cite web |title=Werner Herzog Interview – UGO.com |url=http://www.ugo.com/movies/werner-herzog-interview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202091653/http://www.ugo.com/movies/werner-herzog-interview|archive-date=February 2, 2010}} Elia Kazan,{{cite web |url=http://www.uff.br/peteconomia/pages/textospage/cinema/scorcese/taxidriverframe004.htm |title=Programa de Educação Tutorial da Faculdade de Economia da UFF |access-date=September 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718183841/http://www.uff.br/peteconomia/pages/textospage/cinema/scorcese/taxidriverframe004.htm|archive-date=July 18, 2010}} Akira Kurosawa,{{Cite book |title=Akira Kurosawa: interviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eVs7KxKpWeEC&q=SCORSESE&pg=PA145 |isbn=978-1-57806-997-2 |author1=Kurosawa, Akira |author2=Cardullo, Bert |year=2008 | publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |access-date=February 27, 2016 |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045153/https://books.google.com/books?id=eVs7KxKpWeEC&q=SCORSESE&pg=PA145 |url-status=live }} David Lean,{{Cite book |title=David Lean:interviews |last=Organ |first=Steven |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-60473-235-1 |pages=110, 154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kzVEXi4Plw0C&q=Martin+Scorsese&pg=PR1 |access-date=September 1, 2010}} Michael Powell,{{Cite book |title=Michael Powell: interviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHnZZcgztgwC&q=Scorsese |isbn=978-1-57806-498-4 |author1=Lazar, David |date=April 2003| publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi }} Satyajit Ray,{{Cite book |title=Satyajit Ray: interviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fQYs4X5d9WAC&q=Scorsese |isbn=978-1-57806-937-8 |author1=Ray, Satyajit |author2=Cardullo, Bert |date=January 2007 | publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |access-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227045144/https://books.google.com/books?id=fQYs4X5d9WAC&q=Scorsese |url-status=live }} and François Truffaut.{{Cite book |title=François Truffaut: interviews |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |url=https://archive.org/details/franoistruffauti0000truf |url-access=registration |quote=Scorsese. |isbn=978-1-934110-14-0 |author1=Truffaut, François |author2=Bergan, Ronald |date=January 2008}} He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2008.{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Martin+Scorsese&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=May 3, 2021|website=search.amphilsoc.org|archive-date=October 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030173248/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Martin+Scorsese&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|url-status=live}} He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oxford on June 20, 2018.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-44548704 |title=Martin Scorsese and Mary Beard receive Oxford degrees |publisher=BBC News Online |date=June 20, 2018|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622192116/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-44548704|archive-date=June 22, 2018|url-status=live}} As of 2021, four of Scorsese's films (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas) have been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing|website=Library of Congress|access-date=February 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507094100/https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|archive-date=May 7, 2016|url-status=live}} In commenting on Scorsese's 2019 film The Irishman, Guillermo del Toro cited Scorsese's ability as a director for the depiction of character development comparable to the films of "Renoir, Bresson, Bergman, Oliveira or Kurosawa".Guillermo del Toro. "Del Toro Pens Seeping Tribute". December 18, 2019. Variety magazine. [https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/guillermo-del-toro-martin-scorseses-the-irishman-1203446159/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227230254/https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/guillermo-del-toro-martin-scorseses-the-irishman-1203446159/|date=December 27, 2019}} Sam Mendes, in his acceptance speech after winning the 2020 Golden Globe Award for Best Director for 1917, praised Scorsese's contribution to cinema, stating, "There's not one director in this room, not one director in the world, that is not in the shadow of Martin Scorsese... I just have to say that."{{cite web|title=Sam Mendes Surprises With Golden Globe Win For Best Director, Saluting Martin Scorsese & Grandfather Who Inspired His World War I Drama '1917|first=Matt|last=Grobar|date=January 5, 2020|work=Deadline|url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/sam-mendes-wins-best-director-golden-globe-1917-universal-pictures-news-1202821055/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106165123/https://deadline.com/2020/01/sam-mendes-wins-best-director-golden-globe-1917-universal-pictures-news-1202821055/|archive-date=January 6, 2020}} Bong Joon-ho, in his acceptance speech for the 2020 Academy Award for Best Director for Parasite, said, "When I was young and studying cinema, there was a saying that I carved deep into my heart, which is, the most personal is the most creative." He then said that this quote had come from Scorsese, which prompted the audience to give Scorsese a standing ovation.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/02/bong-joon-ho-parasite-wins-oscar-best-director-1202855170/|title='Parasite's Bong Joon Ho Praises Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino Upon Accepting Oscar For Best Director|publisher=Deadline|date=February 9, 2020|access-date=February 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210182024/https://deadline.com/2020/02/bong-joon-ho-parasite-wins-oscar-best-director-1202855170/|archive-date=February 10, 2020|url-status=live}}

In 2021, lifelong friend George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson through the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation made a donation to NYU to establish the Martin Scorsese Institute of Global Cinematic Arts.{{Cite web |title=NYU Tisch School of the Arts Receives Major Gift to Establish the Martin Scorsese Institute of Global Cinematic Arts |url=http://www.nyu.edu/content/nyu/en/about/news-publications/news/2021/december/nyu-tisch-school-of-the-arts-receives-major-gift-to-establish-th |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=NYU Web}}

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