The great addiction to cocaine developed by Martin Scorsese in the late 70s made the first movie of the 80s shoot as if it were his last tape. He invested all his energy in shooting "Wild bull”Getting a masterpiece, but contrary to what I thought, he had many years of cinema ahead of him.
"Raging Bull" is a sports drama about the life of Jake la Motta. The story tells of the boxer's rise to become a middleweight champion and his subsequent decline. The tape won two Oscar awards, Best Editing and Best Actor, for a Robert De Niro who makes an excellent performance and thus obtains his second Oscar.
In 1983, the filmmaker failed with his film "The King of Comedy." Scorsese had Jerry Lewis and, again, with Robert De Niro, his fetish actor at the time, for a black comedy that may be one of the director's least remembered films.
The strange and endless night through the worst neighborhoods of New York of a computer yuppie in “Jo, que noche!”, Brought him back to box office success in 1985. With this film, he won the award for best director in Cannes and at the Spirit Awards.
After this film, he shoots for TV one of the self-concluding chapters of the series "Amazing Stories", in which some of the best directors of the time participated. His episode is entitled “Camera… Action!”.
In 1986 Scorsese filmed "The Color of Money", with which Paul Newman wins the Oscar for best supporting actor. This film is a sequel to Robert Rossen's film "The Go-getter", in which Newman already appeared playing the same role.
In '87 he shot the video clip of the song by Michael Jackson that got to be number one of the Billboard Hot of the USA "Bad", a musical short film of 18 minutes.
After five years with the project in mind, Scorsese shot in 1988 “The last temptation of Christ”. The film earned him the second Oscar nomination, despite protests from various religious groups that burned down movie theaters led to the film being banned for several years in some countries.
To end the 80s he shot a chapter of the triptych "New York Stories" called "Natural Notes", the other two episodes were shot by Francis F Coppola y Woody Allen.