Ahead of the Golden Globes kicking the final full month of awards season into overdrive, The New York Times has published a lengthy profile of Martin Scorsese, a Globe nominee for Best Director and a near-lock to earn a nomination in the same category at the Academy Awards.
Scorsese is a contender this year for “The Irishman,” his $160 million crime epic that was produced and distributed by Netflix.
The director chose the streaming platform because no Hollywood studio would give him the budget required to make “The Irishman,” but it’s not as if Scorsese was eager to make his latest film under the watchful eye of studio heads.New York Times reporter Dave Itzkoff writes that in the decade that followed “Casino,” Scorsese became “drained” by working for Hollywood studios because the director “inevitably found himself butting heads with studio executives who wanted the running times shortened.” It appears
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