Tag: Martin Scorsese
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Every Martin Scorsese Movie Ranked, from ‘Mean Streets’ to ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Is there a single director working today with a better track record than Martin Scorsese? Ever since breaking through with his gritty, scrappy crime drama “Mean Streets,” the Italian-American’s name has been synonymous with quality, and he’s kept that train going for several years. Some films were more acclaimed than others, but from the ’70s…
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Martin Scorsese Nominated for Record 10th Director Oscar, Passing Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese has now earned more Oscar nominations for best director than anyone alive.The Academy nominated the 81-year-old icon for his film Killers of the Flower Moon with Tuesday’s Oscar nominations.Scorsese now has 10 best director nominations, surpassing Steven Spielberg, who has nine. Scorsese has won the category just once — for 2006’s The Departed.…
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Lily Gladstone Is First Native American Oscar Nominee
Native American characters have been depicted in the movies since the dawn of Hollywood, but in 2024 an actual Native American actor has finally been nominated for an Academy Award.Lily Gladstone (Blackfeet/Nimiipuu) has been a frontrunner all season for her performance in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, and on Tuesday morning she officially…
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Freaks vs the Reich review – atrocious mash-up of circus fable and the Holocaust
Franz Rogowski plays a Nazi ringmaster in a deluded blend of magical realism, gratuitous violence and sentimentalityWhat better way to start the new year with what will surely be remembered as one of its worst films. This mashup of magical realism, gratuitous violence and sentimentality is an atrocity in filmic form. It’s only a bit…
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‘It opened a lot of old wounds’: Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone on Killers of the Flower Moon
The co-stars of Scorsese’s Oscar-tipped epic, based on the true story of murders of Native people in 1920s Oklahoma, talk about the key role of the Osage people in the film’s making, and the importance of supporting those closest to the landAs the race for the 2024 Oscars heats up, Martin Scorsese’s epic Killers of…
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Sets Apple TV+ Release Date
Killers of the Flower Moon will be added to Apple TV+’s catalog on January 12, after a theatrical run that allowed audiences to enjoy Martin Scorsese’s latest project on the big screen. The story about how Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and William King Hale (Robert DeNiro) made an elaborate plan to strip the Osage community…
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Every Main Character In ‘The Departed,’ Ranked By Power
The Departed was a major film within director Martin Scorsese’s career. A clever reimagining of the action film Infernal Affairs, The Departed changed the setting to modern-day Boston. The film finally earned Scorsese the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, which he had deserved for quite some time; it also became Scorsese’s highest-grossing…