Apple is placing legendary director Martin Scorsese in entrance of the digicam for a change, due to an upcoming five-part documentary sequence that can present an in-depth portrait of his 60-year legacy.
Award-winning filmmaker Rebecca Miller, identified for 2002’s Private Velocity: Three Portraits and 2023’s She Got here To Me, has been given the respect and super accountability of chronicling Scorsese’s life and work for the brand new docuseries, which is titled merely Mr. Scorsese.
I’m so grateful to have been given the creative freedom and entry to create a cinematic portrait of certainly one of our biggest residing artists, Martin Scorsese. His work and life are so huge and so compelling that the piece developed from one to 5 components over a five-year interval; crafting this documentary alongside my longtime collaborators has been one of many defining experiences of my life as a filmmaker.
Rebecca Miller
The sequence will take a look at Scorsese “by way of the lens of his work,” from his first 1967 function movie, Who’s That Knocking at My Door by way of to 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which was produced for Apple TV+. Nevertheless, these two bookend a way more illustrious physique of labor, beginning with 1974’s Alice Doesn’t Dwell Right here Anymore, which received lead Ellen Burstyn an Oscar for Greatest Actress, adopted by two nominations on the 1977 Academy Awards for Greatest Image and Greatest Actor (for Robert De Niro) in Taxi Driver.
De Niro would later go on to win the Oscar for Greatest Actor for 1980’s Raging Bull, which additionally received an Academy Award for Greatest Modifying and gave Scorsese his second nomination for Greatest Image and his first for Greatest Director. Paul Newman additionally took away the Oscar for Greatest Actor in 1987 for The Shade of Cash, Scorsese’s tenth movie, which obtained nominations for Greatest Supporting Actress (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), Greatest Screenplay, and Greatest Artwork Course.
Sadly, whereas Martin Scorsese obtained a number of extra nominations for The Final Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Gangs of New York (2002), and The Aviator (2004), it wasn’t till 2007 that he obtained his first Oscar win, when The Departed scored him Academy Awards for each Greatest Image and Greatest Director.
These turned out to be the filmmaker’s sole Academy Awards. Nevertheless, he nonetheless went on to provide Oscar-nominated hits comparable to Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Avenue, The Irishman, and Killers of the Flower Moon, two of which additionally included Greatest Actor nominations for Leonardo DiCaprio and Greatest Actress for Lily Gladstone, plus quite a few different nominations and even a number of wins in numerous classes.
For instance, whereas Scorsese was shut out for Greatest Director for Hugo, it nonetheless swept the ground with 5 extra Oscars: Greatest Artwork Course, Greatest Cinematography, Greatest Sound Modifying, Greatest Sound Mixing, and Greatest Visible Results. 2004’s The Aviator additionally had 5 wins: Greatest Cinematography, Greatest Movie Modifying, Greatest Costume Design, Greatest Artwork Course, and Greatest Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett.
Mr. Scorsese will take a fair deeper dive, that includes “in depth conversations with the filmmaker himself and never-before-seen interviews with pals, household and inventive collaborators,” together with Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, who’ve a protracted historical past with Scorsese and most lately labored collectively on Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon, plus many extra, together with Daniel Day-Lewis, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, and fellow filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
Along with the cavalcade of stars sharing their experiences with Mr. Scorsese, Miller has been given “unique, unrestricted entry to Scorsese’s non-public archives,” gaining perception into a few of his colourful life experiences and his early creative work on his New York College scholar movies, beginning together with his six-minute quick, The Large Shave and his first feature-length work produced whereas nonetheless attending NYU, Who’s That Knocking at My Door.
This documentary explores the themes which have fascinated Scorsese and knowledgeable his work, together with the place of fine and evil within the basic nature of humankind.
Apple
Apple hasn’t introduced a launch date for Mr. Scorsese, however it should be a part of an upcoming and as-yet-untitled Fleetwood Mac documentary, plus a number of different latest high-profile initiatives, together with STILL: A Michael J. Fox Film, Selena Gomez: My Thoughts & Me, and STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 items.