It was the only Martin Scorsese film not to receive an Oscar nomination.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are one of the most sought-after artistic couples. Infiltrators, Shutter Island, The wolf of Wall Street, The Moon Killers…The duo forms a dream team, but the filmmaker is not very happy to have made one of the films starring the actor. And the project is one of his fans’ favorites.
In 2010, after winning the oscar to best director by InfiltratorsScorsese released Shutter IslandThe story, a Psychological thriller considered a masterpiece of the genre, is set in 1954 and follows two agents sent to the island that gives its name to the film to investigate a psychiatric hospital where dangerous criminals are hospitalized. In this place nothing is what it seems.
Shutter Island It was a setback in Scorsese’s career: it was his first film in more than 20 years not to get an Oscar nomination. In September 2023, Scorsese acknowledged that he regretted having directed this ‘thriller’ and not having opted for another more personal project..
There is a detail in ‘Shutter Island’ that keeps repeating itself and that warns us of the final twist
Scorsese stated in GQ that the Oscar he won for Infiltrators encouraged him “to make another film with Shutter Island“. “It turns out that I should have probably chosen to do Silence“he added.
The director made this last film in 2016. The film, starring Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver, was not a great success, but it was the project that the director had wanted to do for a long time.
Silence received better reviews than Shutter Island, but at the Oscars it only received one nomination: Best Cinematography. He didn’t take it. Silence cost about $50 million and only raised more than 23 million dollars Worldwide. Shutter Islandon the other hand, cost 80 million dollars and added more than 294 million dollars Worldwide.
Shutter Island is available on Prime Video. If you feel like comparing this film with Silenceyou can find the latter in Filmin.
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