Gangs of New York and The Aviator proved Scorsese/DiCaprio was serious business, leading the way for the 2000s masterpiece The Departed, which won Best Picture and, at last, got Scorsese the Best Director Oscar. Scorsese found his man in Leonardo DiCaprio, himself looking to shed his Titanic heartthrob image. Scorsese’s post- Casino material was not warmly received by audiences, and by the 2000s he was on the lookout for a new actor-collaborator in the same vein as De Niro for a comeback. While 1995’s Casino works as a companion piece to Goodfellas, Scorsese films also began to have a more specific otherworldly aura, like in the romantic The Age of Innocence and the religious Tibetan biopic Kundun he then returned to a more hazy, hard-edged spirituality with Bringing Out the Dead, starring Nicolas Cage. With the 1990s, Scorsese did it again, releasing beloved mob epic Goodfellas in the first year of that decade. Scorsese subsequently showed off his lighter side with the media satire The King of Comedy, the Kafka-esque comedy After Hours, and, um, The Last Temptation of Christ. He made the 1980s a wash for other directors by releasing his masterpiece as early as possible in the decade, with the transformative Raging Bull, netting star Robert De Niro his second acting Oscar. When you think of that decade, what better captures its grit, grime, and freewheeling cynicism than Taxi Driver?

Along with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese was among the rabble-rousers who shook filmmaking to its core in the 1970s, when all conventional wisdom (and filming permits) were thrown out the window for a more dangerous yet personal style of cinema. Pick any decade since the 1970s American New Wave, reach in to grab some of the best movies of those years, and chances are you’ll be pulling out some Martin Scorsese pictures. Thumbnail: Stephane Cardinale - Corbis) All Martin Scorsese Movies Ranked by Tomatometer

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