Tag: The Departed
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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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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…
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The Leonardo DiCaprio & Martin Scorsese Thriller That’s Basically a Horror
Since 2002, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio have collaborated on multiple feature films. With the hotly anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon on the horizon–– which will also bring frequent Scorsese mainstay Robert De Niro into the fold alongside Lily Gladstone and Jesse Plemons–– now is a great time to revisit Scorsese and DiCaprio’s past…
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What ‘The Departed’ Franchise Could Have Looked like
Even though his resume of all-time classics spans longer than most directors’ entire careers, Martin Scorsese had to wait until relatively recently to take home his first Academy Award wins for Best Director and Best Picture for the 2006 action crime thriller The Departed. It couldn’t have been a more deserving victory; with its genuine…
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Warner Bros Wanted to Make ‘The Departed’ a Franchise, Says Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese, the nine-time Academy Award-nominated director, is unimpressed with Hollywood’s current tendency to rely on franchises. In a recent interview with GQ, Scorsese revealed that Warner Bros. asked him if one of the two leads in The Departed, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, could survive the events of the movie. “What they…
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‘The Departed’: Martin Scorsese Says The Studio Wanted To Keep The Main Characters Alive & Create A Franchise
When you are a legendary filmmaker with a career that spans six decades, there are inevitably people who are going to argue about which films are best. In the discussion surrounding Martin Scorsese’s career, narrowing it down is difficult enough, with many people having an issue trying to pinpoint which of his crime thrillers are…
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Martin Scorsese Wanted To Direct a DiCaprio/De Niro Movie a Long Time Ago
In an interview with Deadline, Martin Scorsese was asked why, up until the upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, he had never paired his two historic muses (Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio) together, only for the cinematic icon to reveal that he had tried to make the exact thing happen for The Departed, along…
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Martin Scorsese: ‘I’m Always Sort of Against’ Lists of 10 Best Movies
A lot of articles exist on the internet listing the movies Martin Scorsese considers to be the best films of all time, but he’s not actually in favor of such rankings. Speaking to Time magazine for a video interview (see below), the “Taxi Driver” and “The Departed” icon said he is generally against top 10…
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How A Series Of Gory B-Horror Films Led To Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
When Martin Scorsese set to work making “Hugo,” a film based on Brian Selznick’s children’s book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” it immediately got tongues wagging. What on Earth was the director behind films like “Taxi Driver,” “Goodfellas,” and “The Departed” doing helming a whimsical kids’ adventure? At the time, his youngest daughter, Francesca (who’s…