1. With a record eight nominations for Best Director Academy Awards, Scorsese has received the award only once, for The Departed in 2007.
2. The same year, he appeared in a Time Magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
3. Also in 2007, Scorsese came second in a poll for all-time best director, behind Alfred Hitchcock.
4. Scorsese’s favourite pet dog Zoë (1985-1997) used to sit on his knee while he directed. Zoë also played herself in his The Age Of Innocence (1993).
5. In a Vanity Fair interview in 2010, when asked what was his greatest achievement, Scorsese said: “Putting eardrops in my dog Zoë’s ears.”
6. Scorsese personally tied Ray Liotta’s tie every day on the set of Goodfellas.
7. Scorsese was reported to have a phobia of the number 11, never travelling on November 11 or staying on the 11th floor of a hotel.
8. When one actor was off sick, Scorsese stepped in to play the role of a disturbed passenger in Travis Bickle’s taxi in the 1976 film Taxi Driver.
9. He also appeared as a gambler at one of the tables in his 1995 film Casino.
10. Since 1974, Scorsese’s films have won 20 Oscars. The Aviator and Hugo won five each.