Martin Scorsese
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Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Color of Money, GoodFellas, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, Casino. A list of films directed by Martin Scorsese is a roll call of some of the most exciting, powerful, personal motion pictures ever made. By his own account, Martin Scorsese was a "sickly kid" with asthma who watched the world unfold from the window of his parents' small apartment in New York's Little Italy. His parentws hoped he would become a priest, but he left the seminary for film school. Today, he is acclaimed as the most talented director in America. He received a long-awaited Best Director Oscar for his 2006 film The Departed. In 2011, his 3D extravaganza Hugo brought Scorsese's art to a new generation of moviegoers. In this audio podcast, recorded in at the Academy of Achievement's 1991 Summit in New York City, Martin Scorsese recounts his career in film and takes questions from the Academy's student delegates.
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