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Martin Scorsese (b. Nov 17, 1942) is an Italian-American filmmaker who, with the help of two gigantic eyebrows living on his forehead has been a driving force in Hollywood for nearly half a century.

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Thelma Schoonmaker wins Oscar for Best Editor (“Raging Bull’), pictured with presenters Richard Pryor and Jane Seymour at The 53rd Academy Awards.   

Thelma Schoonmaker wins Oscar for Best Editor (“Raging Bull’), pictured with presenters Richard Pryor and Jane Seymour at The 53rd Academy Awards. 

 

“We share a lot of the same passion for filmmaking. We love it deeply. It’s in our blood,” “He taught me everything I know, so his taste is my taste.” “I’m a calmer person.  He goes through very strong emotional moods because he’s constantly challenging himself, asking have I done right here? It’s good that I work more diligently and don’t go through the ups and downs that he does. It helps him calm down.” -Thelma Schoonmaker on her long-standing partnership with Scorsese

“We share a lot of the same passion for filmmaking. We love it deeply. It’s in our blood,” “He taught me everything I know, so his taste is my taste.”

“I’m a calmer person.  He goes through very strong emotional moods because he’s constantly challenging himself, asking have I done right here? It’s good that I work more diligently and don’t go through the ups and downs that he does. It helps him calm down.”

-Thelma Schoonmaker on her long-standing partnership with Scorsese

THE A-Z OF MARTIN SCORSESE T - THEMLA SCHOONMAKER Every great director needs a great editor to add rhythm and pace to their vision. Spielberg has Michael Kahn, Coppola has Walter Murch and Scorsese has Thelma Schoonmaker, his collaborator since their days at NYU together. She’s not just his editor but his friend, and, even including the likes of De Niro and DiCaprio, perhaps his greatest collaborator. Schoonmaker has won Oscars for her work on Raging Bull, The Aviator and The Departed, although she modestly gives credit for the first’s boxing scenes to her director: “Well, the beautiful fight sequences for which Raging Bull won the editing Oscar were really Marty,” she told Time Out in 2005. “I helped him pull it together, but he had designed them so beautifully.” There are plenty of other editing tours de force to pick from, though, like the famous - and largely improv-ed - exchange between De Niro and Pesci that turned into one of Raging Bull’s most memorable scenes. As if Scorsese and Schoonmaker weren’t already top of each others’ Christmas cards lists, the director introduced his editor to the great English filmmaker Michael Powell and the two were married four years later. That’s a wedding video we’d like to see. Empire Online

THE A-Z OF MARTIN SCORSESE

T - THEMLA SCHOONMAKER

Every great director needs a great editor to add rhythm and pace to their vision. Spielberg has Michael Kahn, Coppola has Walter Murch and Scorsese has Thelma Schoonmaker, his collaborator since their days at NYU together. She’s not just his editor but his friend, and, even including the likes of De Niro and DiCaprio, perhaps his greatest collaborator. Schoonmaker has won Oscars for her work on Raging Bull, The Aviator and The Departed, although she modestly gives credit for the first’s boxing scenes to her director: “Well, the beautiful fight sequences for which Raging Bull won the editing Oscar were really Marty,” she told Time Out in 2005. “I helped him pull it together, but he had designed them so beautifully.” There are plenty of other editing tours de force to pick from, though, like the famous - and largely improv-ed - exchange between De Niro and Pesci that turned into one of Raging Bull’s most memorable scenes. As if Scorsese and Schoonmaker weren’t already top of each others’ Christmas cards lists, the director introduced his editor to the great English filmmaker Michael Powell and the two were married four years later. That’s a wedding video we’d like to see.

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Editing The Last Waltz with Thelma Schoonmaker and Michael Wadleigh, 1970.

Editing The Last Waltz with Thelma Schoonmaker and Michael Wadleigh, 1970.

Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese's Favorite Editor

From NPR:

She won an Oscar for her editing work on Raging Bull and Thelma Schoonmaker has edited each of Martin Scorsese’s movies since. She also won the Oscar for The Aviator and was nominated for Gangs of New York and Goodfellas.. She talks about how film editing has changed over the past 30 years.

If you, like me, are a post-production geek or have 45 minutes, do listen to this awesome and very interesting Fresh Air interview with Marty’s longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker.

Quite possibly the most clever and bad ass stunt advertising in the history of stunt advertising, Marty does Hitchcock.

Although The Key To Reserva is implied to actually be a lost Hitchcock script, don’t be fooled. It’s a complex advertisement for a Catalan winery, an homage to the master of suspense, disguised as a short film based on lost Hitch material, starring Simon Baker and Michael Stuhlbarg. 

It’s 9-ish minutes long but as a bonus, we get to see inside of Marty’s memorabilia-packed office and a cameo by his longtime 3-time Academy Award-winning editor, Thelma Schoonmaker.

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