Question 1

True or false: Scorsese has never won an Academy Award for Best Director.

Accepted Answer

False. He finally won Best Director for 'The Departed' in 2007 after multiple nominations.

Question 2

True or false: Scorsese's mother Catherine appears as a cameo in several of his films, including 'Goodfellas'.

Accepted Answer

True. She played Tommy's mother in 'Goodfellas' and also appeared in 'Casino' and 'The Age of Innocence'.

Question 3

True or false: Scorsese originally wanted to be a priest before becoming a filmmaker.

Accepted Answer

True. He studied for the priesthood at a seminary in New York but left after a year to pursue film at NYU.

Question 4

True or false: Scorsese's film 'The Wolf of Wall Street' holds the record for most uses of the F-word in a non-documentary film.

Accepted Answer

True. It has 506 F-words, averaging about 2.8 per minute, surpassing other profanity-heavy films.

Question 5

True or false: Scorsese helped restore and preserve classic films through his nonprofit The Film Foundation.

Accepted Answer

True. Founded in 1990, it has restored over 1,000 films, including works by Hitchcock and Kurosawa.

Question 6

True or false: Scorsese's film 'Silence' was shot entirely on location in Japan using only local actors.

Accepted Answer

False. It was filmed in Taiwan, not Japan, and starred Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, and Liam Neeson.

Question 7

True or false: Scorsese directed a commercial for Apple's iPhone in 2008.

Accepted Answer

False. He has never directed an iPhone commercial. Ridley Scott directed the famous 1984 Macintosh ad.

Question 8

True or false: Scorsese once directed a music video for Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'.

Accepted Answer

False. John Landis directed 'Thriller'. Scorsese did direct Michael Jackson's 'Bad' music video, not 'Thriller'.

Martin Scorsese Trivia Questions