| Martin Scorsese | |
| Wins: | 12 |
| Nominations: | 60 |
The following article is a List of awards and nominations received by Martin Scorsese.
Martin Scorsese is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He has had a distinguished career and over his six decade long career has received an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award.
Chronicling his achievements in the film industry, the acclaimed filmmaker has received ten nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director, one more than Steven Spielberg, making him the most-nominated living director, second all-time only to William Wyler (12 nominations). He has won the Academy Award once, for the crime thriller The Departed (2006).[1] Ten of Scorsese's films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: the psychological drama Taxi Driver (1976), the sports drama Raging Bull (1980), the mobster film Goodfellas (1990), the drama Gangs of New York (2002), the historical epic The Aviator (2004), the crime thriller The Departed (2006), the children's adventure Hugo (2011), the crime comedy-dramaThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013), the mobster epic The Irishman (2019), and the western crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
For his work on television, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the HBO crime drama series Boardwalk Empire (2011) as well as Emmy Awards for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special and Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program for HBO documentary (2012). He was Emmy-nominated for directing the documentaries, No Direction Home (2005) about Bob Dylan and A Letter to Elia (2011) about Elia Kazan as well as the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021) starring Fran Lebowitz. He also produced the Blues doc The Soul of a Man (2004), and the Roger Ebert doc Life Itself (2014).
Scorsese has earned top awards in film (Academy Award), music (Grammy Award), and television (Primetime Emmy Award). He also won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for Taxi Driver and a Best Director Award for After Hours as well as the Venice International Film Festival's Silver Lion for Goodfellas. He has received numerous honorary awards including the BFI Fellowship in 1995, a Career Golden Lion in 1995, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Honorary César in 2000, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012, as well as the Honorary Golden Bear and the David O. Selznick Achievement Award both in 2024.
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Outstanding Cultural Program | Eric Clapton: Nothing But the Blues | [24] | ||
| 2004 | Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming | AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Robert De Niro | [25] | ||
| Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series | The Soul of a Man | ||||
| 2006 | American Masters | [26] | |||
| Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming | No Direction Home | ||||
| 2011 | A Letter to Elia | [27] | |||
| Outstanding Drama Series | Boardwalk Empire (season one) | ||||
| Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series | Boardwalk Empire (episode: "Boardwalk Empire") | ||||
| 2012 | Outstanding Drama Series | Boardwalk Empire (season two) | [28] | ||
| Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special | |||||
| Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming | |||||
| 2021 | Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series | Pretend It's a City | [29] | ||
| News and Documentary Emmy Awards | |||||
| 2014 | Best Documentary | Life Itself | |||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Best Director – Motion Picture | Raging Bull | [30] | ||
| 1990 | Goodfellas | [31] | |||
| Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | |||||
| 1993 | Best Director – Motion Picture | The Age of Innocence | [32] | ||
| 1995 | Casino | [33] | |||
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | [34] | |||
| 2004 | The Aviator | [35] | |||
| 2006 | The Departed | [36] | |||
| 2011 | Hugo | [37] | |||
| 2019 | The Irishman | [38] | |||
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | [39] | |||
| Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | |||||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media | Gangs of New York | [40] | ||
| 2005 | Best Music Film | ||||
| 2006 | No Direction Home |
| Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Golden Bear | Cape Fear | |||
| 1974 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | ||||
| 1976 | Taxi Driver | ||||
| 1983 | The King of Comedy | ||||
| 1986 | After Hours | ||||
| 2018 | |||||
| 1986 | Best Foreign Film | After Hours | |||
| 1990 | Goodfellas | ||||
| 1999 | |||||
| 2002 | Best Foreign Film | Gangs of New York | |||
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2002 | Best Director | Gangs of New York | ||
| 2004 | The Aviator | ||||
| 2006 | The Departed | ||||
| 2011 | Hugo | ||||
| George Harrison: Living in the Material World | |||||
| 2013 | Best Director | The Wolf of Wall Street | |||
| 2019 | The Irishman | ||||
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | ||||
| Best Adapted Screenplay | |||||
| 1976 | Taxi Driver | ||||
| 1980 | Raging Bull | ||||
| 1990 | Goodfellas | ||||
| 1993 | The Age of Innocence | ||||
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | ||||
| 2004 | The Aviator | ||||
| 2006 | The Departed | ||||
| 2010 | Boardwalk Empire (episode: "Boardwalk Empire") | ||||
| 2011 | |||||
| Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Hugo | ||||
| 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street | ||||
| 2019 | The Irishman | ||||
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | ||||
| Public Speaking | |||||
| 1985 | Best Director | After Hours | |||
| 1990 | Best Feature | The Grifters | |||
| 2000 | Best Documentary | My Voyage to Italy | |||
| 2000 | William K. Everson Film History Award | My Voyage to Italy | |||
| 2000 | Special Award | My Voyage to Italy | |||
| 2011 | Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama | Boardwalk Empire | |||
| Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | Hugo | ||||
| 2019 | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | The Irishman | |||
| 2023 | |||||
| Killers of the Flower Moon | [41] | ||||
| My Voyage to Italy | |||||
| Venice International Film Festival | 1988 | Bastone Bianco Award | The Last Temptation of Christ | ||
| 1990 | Goodfellas | ||||
| Audience Award | |||||
| Bastone Bianco Award | |||||
| 1993 | Elvira Notari Award | The Age of Innocence | |||
| 1995 | |||||
| Writers Guild of America Award | 1973 | Best Drama Written for the Screen | Mean Streets | ||
| 1990 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Goodfellas | |||
| 2002 | Evelyn F. Burkey Award | ||||
| 2023 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Killers of the Flower Moon | |||
| Organizations | Year | Award | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Britannia Award | 1993 | Excellence in Film | [42] | |
| 1995 | BFI Fellowship | [43] | ||
| 1995 | Career Golden Lion | [44] | ||
| 1997 | AFI Life Achievement Award | [45] | ||
| Film Society at Lincoln Center | 1998 | Chaplin Gala Tribute | [46] | |
| César Awards | 2000 | Honorary César | [47] | |
| Directors Guild of America | 2003 | Lifetime Achievement Award | [48] | |
| Hollywood Walk of Fame | 2003 | Motion Picture Star | [49] | |
| Kennedy Center Honors | 2007 | Medal and inductee | [50] | |
| Golden Globe Awards | 2010 | Cecil B. DeMille Award | [51] | |
| 2012 | BAFTA Fellowship | [52] | ||
| 2020 | Lifetime Achievement Award | |||
| Santa Barbara International Film Festival | 2020 | Kirk Douglas Award | [53] | |
| International Film Festival of India | 2021 | Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award | [54] | |
| Berlin International Film Festival | 2024 | [55] | ||
| 2024 | David O. Selznick Achievement Award | [56] | ||
Under Scorsese's direction, actors have continually received nominations from the major competitive acting awards (the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Golden Globe Award). 28 actors have received nominations, including actors such as Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jodie Foster, Barbara Hershey, Ellen Burstyn, and Miriam Margolyes. 13 actors received awards, including Ellen Burstyn, Diane Ladd, Jodie Foster, Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Joe Pesci, Winona Ryder, Miriam Margolyes, Sharon Stone, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cate Blanchett, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Academy Awards