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Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
The latest news on Martin Scorsese, American filmmaker, including showbiz news and updates.
Born
17 Nov 1942
Industry
Entertainment, Film
Job Title
Filmmaker
The Mandalorian (left, played by Pedro Pascal) and Grogu in a still from Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (category IIA), directed by Jon Favreau. Sigourney Weaver and Jeremy Allen White co-star. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd
American cinema

Review | Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu plays like an extended TV episode

Star Wars fans may find The Mandalorian and Grogu an entertaining watch but it lacks real depth and feels more like a TV episode than a film.

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Asia travel

The quiet Japanese islands where Christians once hid their religion

Asian cinema: Chinese films

5 horse-themed Chinese-language movies for the coming Year of the Horse

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American cinema

How Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle is still terrifyingly relevant 50 years on

Taxi Driver remains an overwhelming experience and Robert De Niro’s career-kick-starting role continues to resonate in today’s society.

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Robert De Niro in a scene in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. We take a deep dive into the film’s cultural impact, De Niro’s role, and its chilling relevance today. Photo: Columbia/TriStar
Style Edit

Style Edit: Zendaya steps out as the latest face of Rolex in Hollywood

The Dune actress joins an elite group of Rolex Testimonees in the field of motion pictures, underscoring the brand’s long-time links with cinema.

Obituaries

US actress Diane Ladd, nominated for 3 Oscars, dies at 89

Ladd’s credits include Chinatown, Primary Colors and Wild at Heart, in which she co-starred with her daughter Laura Dern.

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Fame and celebrity

Severance and The Studio lead Emmy nominations as Apple TV+ dominates

The White Lotus got its usual flowering of acting nominations, including nods for Carrie Coon and Walton Goggins.

Adam Scott appears in a scene from “Severance”. Photo: Apple TV+ via AP
Fame and celebrity

Who is Spike Lee’s wife Tonya Lewis Lee, the ex-lawyer turned entertainment exec?

Stevie Wonder played at the Lees’ wedding and they now share 2 kids, who also work in entertainment; Lewis Lee dropped her law career to build 2 production companies and pursue projects in Hollywood.

Fame and celebrity

Who are Anora star Mikey Madison’s parents, Tracy and Michael Rosberg?

Madison just won the Oscar for best actress for her turn in independent film Anora, beating out Demi Moore and Fernanda Torres – here’s what we know about the rising star’s parents.

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American cinema

Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer dominates with 7 wins, including best picture

Christopher Nolan picked up best director and Cillian Murphy best actor, their first Oscars, for the blockbuster about the race to build the atomic bomb. Emma Stone and Hayao Miyazaki were among other winners.

Christopher Nolan accepts the Oscar for best director for Oppenheimer from presenter Steven Spielberg during the 96th Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood. The film went on to win best director, and earned five other Oscars. Photo: Reuters
Academy Awards

Oscars 2024: predictions for Oppenheimer, best actor and screenplay and more

Our 2024 Academy Awards predictions, from why Oppenheimer should and will win best picture, to how Ryan Gosling may be pipped at the post for best supporting actor.

Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt in a still from Oppenheimer.
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

10 of the best movies at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival

Kristen Stewart in lesbian crime flick Love Lies Bleeding, trans tale I Saw the TV Glow, and Min Bahadur Bham’s Himalayan film Shambhala all feature in our picks of the best movies at Berlin 2024.

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United States

Oppenheimer tops Oscar nominees, with Barbie, Poor Things also going for gold

Among Oppenheimer’s 13 nominations include best picture; best director; and acting nods for Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jnr and Emily Blunt.

Fame and celebrity

29 of the highest-paid film deals of all time, ranked – from Leo to Margot

Some of Hollywood’s greatest actors like Leo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp appear on this list multiple times, but who’s No 1? From Keanu Reeves’ The Matrix millions to Tom Cruise’ Top Gun dollars …

Margot Robbie, Will Smith and Tom Cruise all received huge pay cheques from the films Barbie, Men in Black 3 and Top Gun: Maverick, respectively. Photos: AFP, TNS, Reuters
American cinema

Oppenheimer leads nominations for SAG Awards, key Oscars predictors

For three of the past four years, the winner of the Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding performance by a cast has gone on to win the best film Oscar. Oppenheimer and Barbie are both nominated.

Cillian Murphy in a still from “Oppenheimer”, which has five nominations for Screen Actors Guild Awards - for Murphy, two fellow cast members, best director for Christopher Nolan and best cast. The winner of the latter is a hot tip for the best film Oscar. Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
American cinema

Golden Globes 2024: Oppenheimer, Poor Things win best film prizes

The first big entertainment awards of 2024 were billed as a contest between Oppenheimer and Barbie, and the latter came off worse. Emma Stone, Lily Gladstone, Paul Giamatti and Cillian Murphy take acting honours.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Eternal affair: Tony Leung and Andy Lau on their new movie, The Goldfinger

Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Andy Lau reveal what they like about working with each other, playing good and bad guys in The Goldfinger, and how to boost the city’s movie industry.

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Fame and celebrity

Who is Ree Drummond, aka The Pioneer Woman, in real life?

The beloved US food blogger and her husband Ladd Drummond recently spent Thanksgiving with their family at Drummond Ranch in Oklahoma – but how is that linked to Leonardo DiCaprio?

Food and rural lifestyle blogger The Pioneer Woman has crafted an idyllic life for herself on Oklahoma’s remote Drummond Ranch. Photo: The Pioneer Woman – Ree Drummond/Facebook
Celebrity children

Who is Jack Nicholson’s lookalike actor son, Ray – who’s dating a VS model?

Jack Nicholson’s 31-year-old son Ray goes to Guns N’ Roses concerts with his model girlfriend Sara Sampaio, stars in films with Carey Mulligan and Diane Kruger, and loves the LA Lakers

Celebrity children

Meet all 12 of Nick Cannon’s children – and their mums

He’s been married only once – to Mariah Carey – and co-parents with Selling Sunset’s Breana Tiesi, so who are The Masked Singer host’s other baby mamas?

Hollywood

5 of the longest movies ever – but are they worth it? From Lynch to MCU

After the double whammy of Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon, we’re getting a bit sick of posterior testing cinema marathons – but these epics are all hailed as classics

Lily Gladstone (left) and director Martin Scorsese on the set of Killers of the Flower Moon. Photo: Apple TV+ via AP
Celebrity children

‘TikTok’s Dynamic Duo’: Who is Martin Scorsese’s Gen Z daughter Francesca?

Martin Scorsese and his 23-year-old daughter went viral on TikTok for their comedic clip covering Gen Z slang – here’s what to know about the director-in-the-making

American filmmaker Martin Scorsese shares a close bond with his daughter Francesca. Photo: @francesca.scorsese/Instagram
American cinema

12 best blockbuster Hollywood movies coming in autumn 2023

From Disney’s Wish and Ridley Scott’s Napoleon to another edition in the Saw franchise and an Aquaman sequel, our pick of the 12 best new Hollywood films of autumn 2023.

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Fame and celebrity

The Exorcist director William Friedkin dies aged 87

The filmmaker burst on the scene in the early ’70s with cop drama The French Connection, which won five Oscars including for best director and best picture.

American cinema

‘You can hide in Hong Kong’: how city made Chris Evans movie Push feel real

Superhero movie Push, starring Chris Evans, harnesses Hong Kong’s unique energy to make the film feel more real than the fantastical Marvel films in which the actor would go on to play Captain America.

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Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning in a still from “Push”. Photo: Hirotake Okazaki/Summit Entertainment.
American cinema

How Disney got kicked out of China over Martin Scorsese’s movie Kundun

About the early life of the Dalai Lama, Martin Scorsese’s 1997 movie Kundun ripped a hole in US-China relations that took years to repair and saw Disney’s business in China stop overnight.

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Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin is bowed to in a scene from the film 'Kundun', 1997. (Photo by Buena Vista/Getty Images)
American cinema

10 of the best movies from Cannes Film Festival 2023

From Grand Jury prizewinner The Zone of Interest to Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, here are 10 of the best movies from the Cannes Film Festival 2023.

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Cannes Film Festival

France’s Justine Triet wins Cannes Film Festival’s top prize

Best actor went to Japan’s Koji Yakusho, who plays a toilet cleaner in Tokyo in director Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days.

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