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Martin Charles Scorsese Italian (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker and actor, whose career spans more than 50 years. Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinematic history. Scorsese's body of work explores such themes as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption? faith, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict. Many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and Directors Guild of America Awards.
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Kent Wakeford Dies: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Mean Streets’ Director Of Photography Was 92

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Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticKent L. Wakeford, a cinematographer who served as Martin Scorsese’s director of photographer on the groundbreaking 1973 film Mean Streets and the following year’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, died Oct.

10 at Motion Picture Film & Television Fund’s Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills, California. He was 92.His death was announced by his family, who noted that he died peacefully.

No cause of death was specified.Wakeford began his career in the 1950s, working as a freelance cameraman for the 1958 TV series Danger is My Business.

Continuing his work in TV and film, Wakeford made his major impact when Scorsese hired him on Mean Streets, the gritty, groundbreaking drama about small-time hoods in Lower.

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