Is an American film
director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian.
In 1990 he
founded The Film Foundation, a non-profit
organization dedicated to film
preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation.
Scorsese's body of work
addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of
guilt and redemption, machismo,
modern crime, and violence.
Scorsese is hailed as one of
the most significant and influential filmmakers of all time, directing landmark
films such as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), and Goodfellas (1990) – all of which he collaborated
on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro.
He won the Academy
Award for Best Director for The Departed (2006), having been nominated a
previous five times.
Martin Scorsese grew up in
New York City.
Try to comment on - why you think that his films are popular? Why is he such an effective director?
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