Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio in 1920s crime drama inspired by true events marking their sixth collaboration
Killers of the Flower Moon is a Western crime-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese for Paramount Pictures and Apple TV+. It is based on David Grann’s best-selling non-fiction book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, released in 2017. The film marks the sixth time Academy Award winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese have worked together after Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island and The Wolf of Wall Street. DiCaprio starred in the 2006 crime thriller The Departed which earned Scorsese the Oscar for Best Director. DiCaprio, who is also an executive producer on Killers of the Flower Moon, previously won his Best Actor Oscar in 2016 for The Revenant. Rodrigo Prieto handles cinematography duties on the film after working with Scorsese on 2016’s Silence and The Irishman in 2019.
The film boasts an impressively talented cast including Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart, Academy Award winner Robert De Niro as William Hale and Jesse Plemons as Tom White. Lily Gladstone, Tantoo Cardinal, Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, William Belleau, Louis Cancelmi, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson and Tatanka Means round out the cast.