Martin Scorsese

Known for: Goodfellas (1990), Taxi Driver (1976)

Martin Scorsese grew up in Little Italy in New York and has spent more than five decades directing films that draw on Italian-American culture, film history, and the formal possibilities of montage and pop music. Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), and Goodfellas (1990) are among the most studied American films of the postwar period. He received the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed (2006).