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Oral History: Martin Scorsese and the Real GoodFellas

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actors, actresses and filmmakers. The world’s largest collection of its kind – over  10,000  items- is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts &  Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.In this excerpt from our archives, multiple Golden Globe winner and Cecil B. deMille recipient Martin Scorsese talks about the connection between fact and fiction that created the mafioso icon.“I grew up in  a neighborhood like the one we see in my film GoodFellas.