Martin Scorsese
Directed 5 Oscar Winners
From the gangster dramas that he’s best known for to more subdued and spiritual features like Silence, Scorsese can usually be counted on to deliver a great, well-acted movie.
Scorsese has led five actors to Oscar gold.
These are among the all-time best Oscar winners in their respective winners, especially Robert De Niro in the 1980 sports biopic, Raging Bull, one of Hollywood’s iconic classic, past and present.
The other thespians include:
Ellen Burstyn in the old-fashioned 1974 woman’s movie, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore;
Paul Newman in the 1986 The Color of Money, an inferior sequel to the superb 1961 The Hustler, which in my view boasts Newman’s all-time best work (alongside the 1963 Hud).
Joe Pesci in the darkly funny gangster Goodfellas, in my view Scorsese’s best film to date;
Most recently, Cate Blanchett in the glitzy but shallow Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator, in which the Aussie actress mimicked the great Katharine Hepburn
If Lily Gladstone joined this prestigious group, for her role in Killers of the Full Moon (also not a great epic), it would have been another feather in Scorsese’s cap.
