10 Current Directors Who Just Can't Seem To Miss
6. Martin Scorsese
Filmography: Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, The Irishman
To call Martin Scorsese a current director feels rather underselling just what an impact he has had on the cinematic landscape since his first feature hit screens in 1967 - but with five of the most acclaimed films of the last decade on his resume, it's hard to not include him on this list.
At the sprightly age of 77, the man affectionately known as Marty showed many whippersnappers just how it was done over the past ten years, vaulting from psychological noir territory with Shutter Island to religious epics in the shape of Silence, finding time to craft a wicked black-crime comedy with The Wolf of Wall Street and an enchanting family fantasy with Hugo.
His latest mob epic The Irishman picked up ten Oscar nominations earlier this year and Scorsese is now preparing to shoot an adaptation of the non-fiction novel Killers of the Flower Moon, about the murders of members of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe, after oil was found on their land in the 1920s, and the subsequent FBI investigation. It's set to bring together the director with both of his key muses for the first time in his career - Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio.