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November 20 2018 (XXXVII:13) Martin Scorsese: THE DEPARTED (2006, 151 min.) Online versions of The Goldenrod Handouts have color images & hot links: http://csac.buffalo.edu/goldenrodhandouts.html DIRECTED BY Martin Scorsese WRITING William Monahan (screenplay), Alan Mak (2002 screenplay Mou gaan dou) and Felix Chong (2002 screenplay Mou gaan dou) PRODUCED BY Brad Grey, Graham King, Gianni Nunnari, and Brad Pitt MUSIC Howard Shore CINEMATOGRAPHY Michael Ballhaus FILM EDITING Thelma Schoonmaker PRODUCTION DESIGN Kristi Zea ART DIRECTION Teresa Carriker-Thayer SET DECORATION Leslie E. Rollins Academy Awards, USA 2007 The film won Best Motion Picture of the Year: Graham King; Best Achievement in Directing: Martin Scorsese; Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan; and Best Achievement in Film Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker; and was nominated for Gurdeep Singh...Pakistani Proprietor Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Mark Armen Garo...Providence Gangster #1 Wahlberg. John Cenatiempo...Providence Gangster #2 Joseph Riccobene...Kneecapped Bankrobber CAST Leonardo DiCaprio...Billy MARTIN SCORSESE (b. November 17, 1942 in Queens, New Matt Damon...Colin Sullivan York City, New York) is distinct among American filmmakers in Jack Nicholson...Frank Costello that he is also a film scholar. He has been involved in film Mark Wahlberg...Dignam preservation efforts, made films about film history, and he has Martin Sheen...Queenan taught film history (one of his notable former students at NYU is Ray Winstone...Mr. French Spike Lee). He has frequently made documentaries about various Vera Farmiga...Madolyn topics: Italianamerican (1974), about his parents; The Last Waltz Anthony Anderson...Trooper Brown (1978), documenting the 1970s rock outfit The Band’s farewell Alec Baldwin...Ellerby concert, including a performance by Bob Dylan that the 2016 Kevin Corrigan...Cousin Sean Nobel Laureate requested Scorsese not to shoot; years after going James Badge Dale...Trooper Barrigan against Dylan’s wishes, he was recruited to direct and produce David O'Hara...Fitzy (as David Patrick O'Hara) No Direction Home: Bob Dylan* for PBS’s American Masters Mark Rolston...Delahunt series in 2005; he also directed and produced The 50 Year Robert Wahlberg...Lazio - FBI Argument (2014),* about the New York Review of Books. A Kristen Dalton...Gwen recurring theme in many of his films is the human capacity for Thomas B. Duffy...Governor violence. He made the definitive film about the lone wolf bent on J.C. MacKenzie...Realtor acting out on his rage in the 1976 film Taxi Driver, for which he Mary Klug...Billy's Aunt won the elite Palm d’Or at Cannes that year. He had been Peg Holzemer...Mrs. Kennefick (as Peg Saurman Holzemer) nominated for the same award in 1974 for Alice Doesn't Live Robert 'Toshi' Kar Yuen Chan...Triad Boss (as Robert Chan) Here Anymore (1974). He examined the intersection of violence Scorsese: THE DEPARTED—2 and rage as sport and in the Short),** Who's That Knocking domestic sphere in 1980’s at My Door (1967),** Boxcar Raging Bull, for which he was Bertha (1972), Mean Streets nominated for an Academy (1973),** New York, New York Award for Best Director in (1977), The Color of Money 1981. In 1983, he was once (1986), Michael Jackson: Bad again nominated at Cannes for (1987 Video short), Cape Fear the Palm d’Or for The King of (1991), Casino (1995),** A Comedy (1982). In 1986, he Personal Journey with Martin won Best Director and was Scorsese Through American nominated for the Palm d’Or Movies (1995 TV Movie for After Hours (1985) at documentary),*** Kundun Cannes. His eye for violence (1997), Bringing Out the Dead (and perhaps his early intention (1999), The Blues (2003 TV to become a priest) has also Series documentary),* The Key to been directed at religious Reserva (2007 Short), Shine a themes. In 1989, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Light (2008 Documentary), George Harrison: Living in the Best Director for The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), an Material World (2011 Documentary),* and The Irishman (2019 adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s 1955 novel. In 2016, Scorsese post-production).* He has produced 70 films, written for 17 returned to religious themes, exploring colonial cruelty films, and has acted in 33 films and television series. intersecting with the aims of seventeenth-century Jesuit *Producer missionaries in Silence.*** In 1990, he turned his critique of **Writer violence onto organized crime and its theater of cruelty in ***Producer and writer Goodfellas,** for which he was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director and for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on WILLIAM MONAHAN (Born: November 3, 1960 in Boston, Material from Another Medium in 1991. He also has a flair for a Massachusetts) won an Academy Award for Best Writing, sober American nostalgia, adapting Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel Adapted Screenplay in 2007 for The Departed (2006). He has The Age of Innocence (1993),** for which he was nominated for written for 6 other films: Kingdom of Heaven (2005 written by), an Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Body of Lies (2008 screenplay), Edge of Darkness (2010 Material Previously Produced or Published in 1994. In 2002, his screenplay), London Boulevard (2010 screenplay),** The interest in violence, crime, and American nostalgia led to an Gambler (2014 screenplay),* and Mojave (2015 screenplay).** examination of Irish immigrant life in Gangs of New York, for *Produced which he was, again nominated for an Academy Award for Best **Produced and Directed Director in 2003. While in the 1970s to the 1990s, he was known to frequently make use of Robert De Niro, making some of his HOWARD SHORE (October 18, 1946 in Toronto, Ontario) most iconic work, in the 2000s and 2010s, he has frequently won Academy Awards: in 2002 for Best Music, Original Score made use of actor Leonardo DiCaprio: in the The Aviator for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and (2004),* a film that turned the sober nostalgic gaze to the early in 2004 for Best Music, Original Score and Best Music, Original Hollywood studio system of film production and a film for which Song (shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox) for The Lord Scorsese was nominated in 2005 for an Academy Award for Best of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). He has consistently Achievement in Directing, The Departed (2006),* Shutter Island worked on David Cronenberg films, starting with The Brood (2010),* and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).* He finally won his (1979). In 2014, he won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for the long-awaited Academy Award for Best Achievement in Cronenberg film Maps to the Stars (2014). He has also Directing in 2007 for The Departed. In 2012, he was nominated consistently worked with Martin Scorsese, beginning with Gangs for Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Directing and for of New York (2002). In 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Best Motion Picture of the Year for Hugo (2011), and he was Award for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion nominated in 2014 for Academy Awards for Best Achievement Pictures, Original Score for Scorsese’s Hugo (2011). He has in Directing and for Best Motion Picture of the Year for Wolf of composed for 93 films, including: Drop Dead, Dearest (1978), Wall Street. His penchant for sober nostalgia has also perhaps Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), After Hours (1985), The guided his forays into television production: producing and Fly (1986), Big (1988), Dead Ringers (1988), The Lemon Sisters directing for television series documenting the rise of corrupt (1989), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), A Kiss Before Dying American institutions, such as the rise of Atlantic City as a (1991), Naked Lunch (1991), M. Butterfly (1993), Mrs. Doubtfire casino district in Boardwalk Empire (2010)* and, more recently, (1993), Philadelphia (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Nobody's Fool the 1970s recording industry in Vinyl (2016).* This year (2018), (1994), Se7en (1995), Moonlight and Valentino (1995), White he won the Carosse d'Or at Cannes, an award honoring a lifetime Man's Burden (1995), Looking for Richard (1996 Documentary), of distinguished filmmaking recognized “for the innovative Crash (1996), Striptease (1996), Cop Land (1997), Gloria qualities of his films, for his audacity and independence” (pour (1999), Analyze This (1999), Dogma (1999), High Fidelity les qualités novatrices de ses films, pour son audace et son (2000), The Yards (2000), The Score (2001), Panic Room (2002), indépendance). Here are some of the other films he has directed: Spider (2002), The Lord of the Rings Symphony (2003), The Vesuvius VI (1959 Short),* It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964 Aviator (2004), A History of Violence (2005), The Departed Scorsese: THE DEPARTED—3 (2006), The Last Mimzy (2007), Doubt (2008), Edge of Darkness Gangs of New York (2002).* She took home Academy Awards (2010), Cosmopolis (2012), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey for Best Achievement in Film Editing in 2005 for The Aviator (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), The (2004)* and in 2007 for The Departed (2006).* She was, once Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), Spotlight (2015), again, nominated for Best Achievement in Film Editing in 2012 and The Catcher Was a Spy (2018). for her work on Hugo (2011).* She has 38 editing credits. These are some of the other projects she has edited: Who's That MICHAEL BALLHAUS (b. August 5, 1935 in Berlin, Knocking at My Door (1967), The King of Comedy (1982),* Germany—d. April 11, 2017 (age 81) in Berlin, Germany) was After Hours (1985),* The Color of Money (1986),* Michael nominated for Academy Awards for Best Cinematography in Jackson: Bad (1987 Video short),* The Last Temptation of 1988 for Broadcast News (1987), in 1990 for The Fabulous Christ (1988),* Cape Fear (1991),* The Age of Innocence Baker Boys (1989), and in 2003 for Gangs of New York (2002).