His 1973 crime film Mean Streets was a blueprint for his filmmaking styles. His trademark styles include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity. In the 1970s and 1980s decades, Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, center on macho-posturing men and explore crime, machismo, nihilism, and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. Scorsese received a Master of Arts degree from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant'. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. He has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B.

Scorsese has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards.

He emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. Martin Charles Scorsese ( / s k ɔːr ˈ s ɛ s i/ skor- SESS-ee, Italian: born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker and actor who holds both American and Italian citizenship.

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