A film director is someone who controls a film’s artistic and dramatic aspects by visualizing how the script will be actually on screen.
So, the film director is very important about a movie, and this is why one of the most important categories in the Oscar Awards is the directors. So, let’s find out more about some of the most famous!
- Martin Scorcese’s whole name is Martin Charles Scorsese.
- He is American-Italian.
- He was born on the 17th of November in 1946, and his zodiac sign is Scorpio.
- He was born in Queen’s, New York City.
- His father was a clothes presser and an actor.
- His mother was a seamstress and an actress.
- He was raised in a Catholic family.
- As a boy, he had asthma and could not play sports or do any activities with other children.
- So his parents and his older brother would often take him to movie theaters.
- At this time of his life, he developed a passion for cinema.
- His favorite actors when he was at a young age were Sabu and Victor Mature.
- At a young age, he was fond of neorealist cinema.
- He earned a B.A. in English in 1964.
- He went on to earn his M.F.A. from NYU’s School of the Arts (now known as the Tisch School of the Arts) in 1966, a year after the school was founded.
- There he created short films.
- Two of them were the What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963) and It’s Not Just You, Murray! (1964).
- His film professor Haig P. Manoogian was a great inspiration for him.
- In 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film.
- The movie was black and white and its name was I Call First.
- It was later retitled Who’s That Knocking at My Door with his fellow students actor Harvey Keitel and editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
- Later both of them became long-term collaborators.
- During the ’70s, Scorsese became friends with the influential “movie brats” of the era: Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg.
- Brian de Palma introduced him to Robert De Niro.
- Robert De Niro is the protagonist in the new Scorsese’s film-the Irishman.
- In 1974, actress Ellen Burstyn chose Scorsese to direct her in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.
- Later she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for that movie.
- Taxi Driver established Martin Scorsese as a director.
- It was released in 1976.
- At the ’80s Scorsese was addicted in cocaine.
- Robert De Niro saved his life by persuading him to quit cocaine and create the movie, Raging Bull.
- This movie was nominated for 8 Oscars.
- Martin Scorses received his first Oscar as Best Director with this movie.
- Robert De Niro also won an Oscar as Best Actor.
- The rest of the decade his movie results were mixed and Oscar-worthy.
- Then he had his great comeback with the movie Goodfellas in 1990.
- Scorsese acted in a small role as Vincent van Gogh in the film Dreams by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
- Since the 1990s, Scorsese has increased his role as a film producer. Scorsese produced a wide range of films including major Hollywood studio productions.
- In 1999, Scorsese also produced a documentary on Italian filmmakers titled Il Mio Viaggio in Italia (My Voyage in Italy).
- Gangs of New York was Scorsese’s biggest and arguably most mainstream venture to date.
- It was released in 2002, and its budget was over 100 million$
- This was his first collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio.
- In 2004 he created the movie “The Aviator”, that was nominated for 6 Golden Globe awards.
- In January 2005 The Aviator became the most-nominated film of the 77th Academy Awards nominations.
- It was nominated in 11 categories.
- It won 5 Oscars.
- Neither was for direction.
- But Scorsese was nominated as the Best Director.
- Scorsese has been married five times.
- His first wife was Laraine Marie Brennan.
- Together they have a daughter, Catherine.
- Then he married the writer Julia Cameron in 1976.
- The marriage lasted only 1 year.
- Together they have a daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese.
- She is an actress and appeared in The Age of Innocence.
- Scorsese was married to actress Isabella Rossellini in 1979.
- They got divorced in 1983.
- He then married producer Barbara De Fina in 1985.
- Their marriage ended in divorce in 1991, as well.
- From 1989 until 1997, he dated actress Illeana Douglas.
- Scorsese has been married to Helen Schermerhorn Morris since 1999
- . They have a daughter, Francesca.
- She appeared in The Departed and The Aviator.
- Today Martin Scorsese lives and works in New York City.
- Because of his religion, he believes he’s going to hell due to all of his divorces.
- Scorsese was recognized as an Italian citizen by jus sanguinis in 2018.
- In 2019, after a long time, he created a movie where his long-time partner Robert De Niro is starring.
- The movie’s name is The Irishman.
- The movie is available in the cinemas since November 1st.
- It will be available on Netflix on November 27th.
- Netflix was the platform that “gave birth” to the movie.
- James Mangold was born on December 16, 1963
- He is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer
- He is best known for directing the films Logan (2017, for which he wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay), Cop Land (1997, which he also wrote), Girl, Interrupted (1999, co-written), Kate & Leopold (2001, co-written), Walk the Line (2005, co-written), and 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
- Mangold directed two superhero films based on the Marvel Comics character Wolverine
- These are The Wolverine (2013) and Logan (2017)
- His writing work on Logan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
- He also produced and directed pilots for the television series Men in Trees (2006–2008), NYC 22 (2011–2012), and Vegas (2012–2013)
- Mangold was born in New York City in 1963
- He is the son of artists Robert Mangold and Sylvia Plimack Mangold
- His mother is Jewish and he describes himself as “half-Jewish”
- He was raised in New York State’s Hudson River Valley
- He graduated from Washingtonville High School
- He was admitted into and later attended the California Institute of the Arts film/video program
- While there, he mentored under Alexander Mackendrick
- During Mangold’s third year, Mackendrick suggested that he should study at CalArts School of Theater as an actor
- Alongside his regular film studies
- In 1985, Mangold secured a writer/director deal at Disney
- He wrote a television movie and co-wrote the animated feature Oliver and Company
- A few years later, Mangold moved to New York and applied to Columbia University’s film school
- There he graduated with an MFA in film
- While there, he studied under Miloš Forman and developed both Heavy and Cop Land
- He has worked as a feature writer and director since 1995
- His first feature is the independent film Heavy
- Heavy won the best directing prize at the Sundance Film Festival
- Mangold subsequently wrote and directed Cop Land (1997)
- In the film stars Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, and Ray Liotta
- Girl, Interrupted, which won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1999 for Angelina Jolie
- Kate & Leopold, starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman
- For this film Jackman was nominated for a Golden Globe as best actor in a musical or comedy in 2001
- And the 2003 thriller Identity which starred John Cusack
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