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...
Read MoreAn Oscar Education – Predictions Updated
A funny thing happened when I finally saw An Education. I realized that the film, with some of the strongest female characters your likely to see on film this or any year, was going to be a hard sell to the Academy. Carey Mulligan’s role doesn’t fit the mold that Oscar has developed: either deglam or play a famous female figure. If you do both (see: Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose) you get the gold. If you do neither, well, you’re Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. At least that’s how it used to be. When I wrote my first Oscar post of the season, I mentioned that this year we could finally see a female director win the Best Director statue. I was talking about The Hurt Locker‘s Kathryn Bigelow, who I have since removed...
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