Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese will
receive the Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival on February 20,
reported Variety.
Festival directors Carlo Chatrian and
Mariette Rissenbeek said Scorsese is “an unmatched role model” for “anyone who
considers cinema as the art of shaping a story in such a way that is both
completely personal and universal, as per Variety.
“His films have accompanied our history
as spectators and human beings, his characters have lived and grown within us,
his view of history and mankind has helped us to understand and question who we
are and where we come from,” continued Chatrian and Rissenbeek.
Scorsese recently helmed ‘Killers of the
Flower Moon’ which starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone
in the lead roles.
The film received a nine-minute-long
standing ovation at its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Scorsese has a long history with the
Berlin festival, including the 2008 Rolling Stones concert film ‘Shine a Light,’
which played as the event’s opening title.
His iconic ‘Raging Bull’ played in
Berlin out of competition. ‘Cape Fear’ was in competition in 1992. ‘Gangs of
New York’ played twice: out of competition in 2003 and in the 2010
retrospective section.
‘Shutter Island’ also played out of
competition in 2010. Another presentation at the Berlinale was the work in
progress “Untitled New York Review of Books Documentary” in 2014, which was
later launched by HBO as ‘The 50 Year Argument,’ Variety reported.
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