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Martin Scorsese

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Martin Charles Scorsese ( skor-SESS-ee, Italian: [skorˈseːze, -se]; born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Scorsese is the 2nd most popular film director, the 40th most popular biography from United States (down from 19th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Film Director.

Martin Scorsese is most famous for his movies like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Martin Scorsese ranks 2 out of 2,041. Before him are Steven Spielberg. After him are Hayao Miyazaki, Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, and D. W. Griffith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Martin Scorsese ranks 5. Before him are Muhammad Ali, Stephen Hawking, Joe Biden, and Muammar Gaddafi. After him are Aretha Franklin, Amitabh Bachchan, Eusébio, Hu Jintao, Calvin Klein, Ratko Mladić, and Paul McCartney.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Scorsese ranks 40 out of 20,380. Before him are Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), Benjamin Franklin (1706), John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928), Cher (1946), Madonna (1958), and Pocahontas (1595). After him are Joseph Smith (1805), Emily Dickinson (1830), Michael Jackson (1958), Ernest Hemingway (1899), Al Gore (1948), and George W. Bush (1946).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Martin Scorsese ranks 2. Before him are Steven Spielberg (1946). After him are David Lynch (1946), Stanley Kubrick (1928), D. W. Griffith (1875), Woody Allen (1935), Francis Ford Coppola (1939), Cecil B. DeMille (1881), George Lucas (1944), Michael Mann (1943), Quentin Tarantino (1963), and John Ford (1894).

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