![]() Pileggi also wrote the screenplay for the film City Hall (1996), starring Al Pacino. ![]() The movie versions of both were directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese. ![]() He is best known for writing Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (1985), which he adapted into the movie Goodfellas (1990), and for writing Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas and the subsequent screenplay for Casino (1995). Pileggi began his career as a journalist and had a profound interest in the Mafia. In the 1950s, he worked as a journalist for Associated Press and New York magazine, specializing in crime reporting for more than three decades. Nicola "Nick" Pileggi was a musician who played slide trombone in a cinema orchestra for silent films he subsequently also owned shoe stores. Pileggi was born and raised in Brooklyn, the elder son of an Italian immigrant father, Nicola ("Nick") Pileggi from Calabria and an American-born mother, Susie. He wrote the non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, its 1990 film adaptation, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. ![]() Nicholas Pileggi ( / p ɪ ˈ l ɛ dʒ i/, Italian: born February 22, 1933) is an American author, producer and screenwriter. ![]()
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