Name Mardik Martin Role Screenwriter | Education New York University | |
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Nominations Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture Movies Raging Bull, The Cut, Mean Streets, New York - New York, The Last Waltz Similar People Martin Scorsese, Fatih Akin, Robert Chartoff, Cathy Moriarty, Jake LaMotta | ||
Screenwriter mardik martin on writing raging bull
Mardik Martin (born September 16, 1936), is an American screenwriter of Armenian descent. He was born in Iran and raised in Iraq.
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- Screenwriter mardik martin on writing raging bull
- Road to cinema 9 mardik martin screenwriter raging bull mean streets
- Biography
- Awards
- References
Road to cinema 9 mardik martin screenwriter raging bull mean streets
Biography
Although his family in Iraq was wealthy, he fled the country to avoid the draft and arrived in New York in a penniless state. In his book on the New Hollywood, Peter Biskind states that Martin had to wash dishes to pay his way through NYU, where he met fellow student Martin Scorsese in 1961. The two formed a close friendship and worked together on Scorsese's early projects such as It's Not Just You, Murray! and the semi-autobiographical Season of the Witch which ultimately became Mean Streets. According to Biskind, "The two young men sat in Martin's Valiant and wrote. In the winter, in the cold and snow."
Martin also shared writing credits on acclaimed Scorsese films such as New York, New York and Raging Bull.
In 2014, Mardik Martin wrote the screenplay of the German film "The Cut" which won at the Venice Film Festival (La Biennale), the world's oldest film festival
Awards
2012 Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award honored Mardik Martin "for the mastery of his pen on iconic American films" Mean Streets and Raging Bull.