Nicholas Pileggi
American author and screenwriter
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association with Scorsese
- In Martin Scorsese: Films of the 1990s: GoodFellas, Cape Fear, and Casino
Adapted from Nicholas Pileggi’s nonfiction Wiseguy, this knowing portrait of small-time Brooklyn mobster Henry Hill’s life and crimes (scripted by Pileggi and Scorsese) was as authentic as any Scorsese film since Raging Bull. Ray Liotta played Hill, and Paul Sorvino, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, and De Niro…
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