Movies trivia | 100 facts about famous directors (part 4)

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!

1. Martin Scorcese’s whole name is Martin Charles Scorsese.
2. He is American-Italian.
3. He was born on the 17th of November in 1946, and his zodiac sign is Scorpio.
4. He was born in Queen’s, New York City.
5. His father was a clothes presser and an actor.
6. His mother was a seamstress and an actress.
7. He was raised in a Catholic family.
8. As a boy, he had asthma and could not play sports or do any activities with other children.
9. So his parents and his older brother would often take him to movie theaters.
10. At this time of his life, he developed a passion for cinema.
11. His favorite actors when he was at a young age were Sabu and Victor Mature.
12. At a young age, he was fond of neorealist cinema.
13. He earned a B.A. in English in 1964.
14. 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.
15. There he created short films.
16. 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).
17. His film professor Haig P. Manoogian was a great inspiration for him.
18. In 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film.
19. The movie was black and white and its name was I Call First.
20. It was later retitled Who’s That Knocking at My Door with his fellow students actor Harvey Keitel and editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
21. Later both of them became long-term collaborators.
22. 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.
23. Brian de Palma introduced him to Robert De Niro.
24. Robert De Niro is the protagonist in the new Scorsese’s film-the Irishman.
25. In 1974, actress Ellen Burstyn chose Scorsese to direct her in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.
26. Later she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for that movie.
27. Taxi Driver established Martin Scorsese as a director.
28. It was released in 1976.
29. At the ’80s Scorsese was addicted in cocaine.
30. Robert De Niro saved his life by persuading him to quit cocaine and create the movie, Raging Bull.
31. This movie was nominated for 8 Oscars.
32. Martin Scorses received his first Oscar as Best Director with this movie.
33. Robert De Niro also won an Oscar as Best Actor.
34. The rest of the decade his movie results were mixed and Oscar-worthy.
35. Then he had his great comeback with the movie Goodfellas in 1990.
36. Scorsese acted in a small role as Vincent van Gogh in the film Dreams by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
37. Since the 1990s, Scorsese has increased his role as a film producer. Scorsese produced a wide range of films including major Hollywood studio productions.
38. In 1999, Scorsese also produced a documentary on Italian filmmakers titled Il Mio Viaggio in Italia (My Voyage in Italy).
39. Gangs of New York was Scorsese’s biggest and arguably most mainstream venture to date.
40. It was released in 2002, and its budget was over 100 million$
41. This was his first collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio.
42. In 2004 he created the movie “The Aviator”, that was nominated for 6 Golden Globe awards.
43. In January 2005 The Aviator became the most-nominated film of the 77th Academy Awards nominations.
44. It was nominated in 11 categories.
45. It won 5 Oscars.
46. Neither was for direction.
47. But Scorsese was nominated as the Best Director.
48. Scorsese has been married five times.
49. His first wife was Laraine Marie Brennan.
50. Together they have a daughter, Catherine.
51. Then he married the writer Julia Cameron in 1976.
52. The marriage lasted only 1 year.
53. Together they have a daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese.
54. She is an actress and appeared in The Age of Innocence.
55. Scorsese was married to actress Isabella Rossellini in 1979.
56. They got divorced in 1983.
57. He then married producer Barbara De Fina in 1985.
58. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1991, as well.
59. From 1989 until 1997, he dated actress Illeana Douglas.
60. Scorsese has been married to Helen Schermerhorn Morris since 1999
61. . They have a daughter, Francesca.
62. She appeared in The Departed and The Aviator.
63. Today Martin Scorsese lives and works in New York City.
64. Because of his religion, he believes he’s going to hell due to all of his divorces.
65. Scorsese was recognized as an Italian citizen by jus sanguinis in 2018.
66. In 2019, after a long time, he created a movie where his long-time partner Robert De Niro is starring.
67. The movie’s name is The Irishman.
68. The movie is available in the cinemas since November 1st.
69. It will be available on Netflix on November 27th.
70. Netflix was the platform that “gave birth” to the movie.
71. James Mangold was born on December 16, 1963
72. He is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer
73. 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)
74. Mangold directed two superhero films based on the Marvel Comics character Wolverine
75. These are The Wolverine (2013) and Logan (2017)
76. His writing work on Logan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
77. He also produced and directed pilots for the television series Men in Trees (2006–2008), NYC 22 (2011–2012), and Vegas (2012–2013)
78. Mangold was born in New York City in 1963
79. He is the son of artists Robert Mangold and Sylvia Plimack Mangold
80. His mother is Jewish and he describes himself as “half-Jewish”
81. He was raised in New York State’s Hudson River Valley
82. He graduated from Washingtonville High School
83. He was admitted into and later attended the California Institute of the Arts film/video program
84. While there, he mentored under Alexander Mackendrick
85. During Mangold’s third year, Mackendrick suggested that he should study at CalArts School of Theater as an actor
86. Alongside his regular film studies
87. In 1985, Mangold secured a writer/director deal at Disney
88. He wrote a television movie and co-wrote the animated feature Oliver and Company
89. A few years later, Mangold moved to New York and applied to Columbia University’s film school
90. There he graduated with an MFA in film
91. While there, he studied under Miloš Forman and developed both Heavy and Cop Land
92. He has worked as a feature writer and director since 1995
93. His first feature is the independent film Heavy
94. Heavy won the best directing prize at the Sundance Film Festival
95. Mangold subsequently wrote and directed Cop Land (1997)
96. In the film stars Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, and Ray Liotta
97. Girl, Interrupted, which won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1999 for Angelina Jolie
98. Kate & Leopold, starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman
99. For this film Jackman was nominated for a Golden Globe as best actor in a musical or comedy in 2001
100. And the 2003 thriller Identity which starred John Cusack

Movies trivia | 100 facts about famous film directors (part 3)