Marty to receive Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Globes
Before Martin Scorsese won his Oscar for directing The Departed, the iconic director came close to winning for 2002’s The Gangs of New York. (The directing Oscar went to Roman Polanski for The Pianist that year instead.) The buzz for a GONY Oscar win was in no small part to his Best Director trophy from the Golden Globes. Now the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is bestowing its highest honor, the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, on Martin Scorsese.
From the HFPA:
Martin Scorsese will be honored at “The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards” on January 17 with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his “outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.” The award, voted by the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was announced by Vera Farmiga at a morning press conference. The show, hosted by Ricky Gervais, will be broadcast live coast to coast Sunday, January 17 on NBC (5 to 8 pm PT, 8 to 11 pm ET) from The Beverly Hilton.
Scorsese received two Golden Globe Awards for “Best Director of a Motion Picture”; for “The Departed” and “Gangs of New York.” He received five additional Golden Globe nominations, including four as Best Director (“Casino,” “Age of Innocence,” “Goodfellas,” and Raging Bull”) and one for Best Screenplay for “Goodfellas” (with Nicolas Pileggi).
If you remember Marty’s adorable rambling Oscar speech, you’ll probably agree when I say, “At last, a reason to watch the Globes.” Other than to see how drunk Jack Nicolson will get, of course.
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