Who directed the 1990 drama, "Goodfellas"?

Martin Scorsese directed the 1990 drama film Goodfellas. The movie adapts the true-crime book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi and follows Henry Hill’s rise through, and eventual break from, New York’s organized-crime world.

Scorsese co-wrote the screenplay with Pileggi. The film stars Ray Liotta as Hill, Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway, and Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito. Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his volatile performance as Tommy.

Goodfellas is frequently compared with The Godfather, but the films differ in style and subject. Scorsese’s movie emphasizes the fast, seductive everyday life of gangsters before showing its violence, paranoia, and collapse. Its kinetic editing, voice-over narration, freeze-frames, and long Copacabana tracking shot became especially influential in crime cinema.