Martin Scorsese's Jubilee
On November 17, 1942, in New York, in a very religious Catholic family of Charles (real name - Luciano) and Katarina Scorsese, garment workers, a second son was born, who was named Martin in honor of his grandfather, or rather Martin Marcantonio Luciano.
From an early age, Martin developed a passion for cinema. The fact is that since childhood, Martin suffered from asthma, which did not allow him to play with his peers in the usual boyish games. So he just had to watch movies.
After finishing school, and as a high school student (from 1956 to 1960) Martin attended Cardinal Hayes Catholic school for boys, and he, like all school leavers, was faced with the choice of the future path. There were two options: to continue religious education and become a priest, or to devote himself to film art.
Martin's first choice was the Church. He entered the preparatory courses at the Seminary. But very soon he realized that his real vocation is cinema. Realizing this, a year later Martin entered the New York College of Science and Art, graduating in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1966, Martin Scorsese received a Master of Arts degree from the New York University Film School.
While still a student, Martin Scorsese in 1963 made his first short film, lasting 9 minutes - "What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" 4 years later, in 1967, Martin Scorsese made his first full-length feature film - "I Call First". According to Roger Ebert,
"It was the semi-autobiographical story of an Italian-American youth coming of age; it won praise and prizes for Scorsese, but didn't do any business, and he supported himself with editing, teaching and odd jobs."
Martin Scorsese's first financial success came with his 1973 film "Mean Streets".
By his 80th birthday, Martin Scorsese has 25 full-length feature films and 1 segment for the film almanac in his filmography, not counting a large number of television and short films. 10 of these 25 films entered to Golden Thousand, including "Goodfellas", "Taxi Driver", "The Departed", "The Aviator", "After Hours", "Shutter Island", "Gangs of New York", "Casino", "Raging Bull", "The Wolf of Wall Street".
Based on the number of films entered to the Golden Thousand, Martin Scorsese is included in FilmGourmand's list of the 100 greatest directors of world cinema. Moreover, Scorsese has every chance to lead this list over time, since directors with higher performance - Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick - unfortunately, will no longer be able to please us with their new works. And this figure allows us to consider Martin Scorsese the greatest of the living film directors.
The creative activity of Martin Scorsese has been evaluated by 170 film awards, including the most prestigious 3 American Golden Globes, 2 Palme d'Ors of the Cannes Film Festival, 2 Danish Bodil Film Awards, BAFTA British Film Academy Award, Russian Golden Eagle Film Award, Oscar Award. At the same time, according to observers, Martin Scorsese, along with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, can be called the "unloved" of the American film Academy: since 1981, he was nominated for the Academy award for Best Director 6 times before winning this award for the film "The Departed" in 2007.
Martin Scorsese is sometimes called "the master of gangster films" by some critics and filmmakers. Although the share of gangster dramas in Scorsese's filmography, according to my calculations, does not exceed 25 percent.
Parallel to his truly legendary work as a director, Martin Scorsese has been working hard to preserve films for almost three decades. In particular, in order to attract public attention to the work of film archives, he, along with other filmmakers, founded the non-profit organization The Film Foundation. This organization regularly works with the American Film Archives to restore "lost" or endangered films. In particular, thanks to Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, it can be said that Mikhail Kalatozov's film "I am Cuba" was saved.
Special respect, at least from our side, Martin Scorsese deserves for the fact that, without closing purely on his own work, he has the courage to express his opinion about the processes taking place in the cinema, indicating the degradation of cinema. - https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/602457/martin-scorsese-says-marvel-movies-not-cinema
As usual, in connection with the 80th Anniversary of the great Master, I want to remind fans of his work of the best films included in the Golden Thousand.
