Martin Scorsese

 Martin Charles Scorsese (/sko/r'sesi/skor-SESSee; Italian: [skor:ze, –e:se]) is an American film director and producer screenwriter, actor and screenwriter. He was born on 17 November, 1942. Many significant awards have been awarded to him including the Academy Award, the Grammy Award and four British Academy Film Awards and two Directors Guild of America Awards. He also won the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007 as well as an AFI Life Achievement Award. Five of his movies were inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally significant in terms of historical or aesthetic significance". Scorsese received an MA from the New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. The director's debut film, "Who's That Knocking At My Door" (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. Through the 1970s and 1980s decades, Scorsese emerged as one among the leading actors of the New Hollywood era. Scorsese's films, heavily inspired by his Italian-American heritage and his upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing insecure men and investigate machismo, crime the nihilism of his time, as well as Catholic notions of redemption and guilt.