Gangs of New York Articles

Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York GANGS OF NEW YORK Review Part I Keeping things moving are the director's own fluid camera work and Thelma Schoonmaker's concise editing skills (at times concise to the point of abruptness, considering that Miramax ordered Martin Scorsese's 3-hour-plus final cut pared down to 168 minutes). The opening sequence, in particular, is a magnificent example of bravura [...]

GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002) Direction: Martin Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, Henry Thomas, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, John C. Reilly, Gary Lewis, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan, Alec McCowen, David Hemmings Screenplay: Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, from a story by Cocks. (Herbert Asbury's Gangs of New York treads on some of the same territory shown in the [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Oscar Campaign Scandal: Robert Wise, Miramax & GANGS OF NEW YORK Part I Back to Robert Wise (right) and Gangs of New York: The plot got even thicker when Murray Weissman and others later claimed that Wise himself had approached Miramax after reading another Op-Ed piece, this one published in Variety (Feb. 3, 2003) and penned [...]

Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Nicolas Chartier, one of the four Oscar-nominated producers of The Hurt Locker, has been penalized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because of e-mails he sent out a couple of weeks ago asking various Academy members to vote for his low-budgeted Iraq War drama and not for "a $500M film" — [...]